... about the things that can be seen in San Francisco while outside during business hours.





They got goats to mow the Presidio!

"All the pretty ladies are livin' out here," Hefner said. "They've been coming here since the early twentieth century. And when they didn't get into movies they became shopgirls and waitresses and they got married and had beautiful children, so you have this per-capita beauty phenomenon going on here that is second to none."

From a fun, short interview with Hugh Hefner in the May 10 New Yorker. I'm not the biggest fan of the present-day Playboy persona, but I do kind of dig the Playboy vibe of the 1960's (which was, incidentally, when Hefner first moved to the Golden State.)

"A happy marriage is simply a series of successful dinners."

-the aforementioned Mme. Genevieve Antoine Dariaux, in her very fun to read book The Men in Your Life: Timeless Advice and Wisdom on Managing the Opposite Sex

In the months leading up to my wedding, I really wanted to have a pedicure be my traditional "something blue," and was searching high and low for a tasteful blue nail polish (which is, not surprisingly, a very difficult thing to find.) I wasn't able to find anything remotely acceptable, so my mom and sister ended up putting a blue ribbon in my homemade flower bouquet and calling it a day.

But now, just about 6 months after my nuptials, pretty blue nail polishes are en vogue and everywhere!  Current brides-to-be should definitely take note:

Essie Summer 2010 resort collection,"Lapis of Luxury" (here is the cheapest place I've found it)


Essie "St. Barth's Blue" (also can be found here)