Willo O'Brien

I am alive, I really am. Frankly, I’m more than alive lately – I’m on fire! heee!

haha.

Seriously.

Ali & I have an inside joke now from when she called me a few weeks back. I told her I was going to take a nap, and when called me and asked if I did, I shrieked, “No! I couldn’t sleep because my life is so awesome!” And it’s true. it really is.

See, we’d had an insanely fun night before (read: I should have been super tired, hungover & out of it the entire next day), but instead I felt great all day. And because we had yet another show that night, I thought I’d take a little disco nap to recharge. But turned out I was feeling so great that I couldn’t sleep!

I could go more into this… but I can’t right now. I actually wanted to instead fill this space with other random tidbits of my life, and I promise I’ll come back to this juicy life altering stuff later.

I finished Tender Bar and loved it so much, I was almost depressed when it was over. You know how that is? It was SOO good. I was like “what reason do I have to go to the gym now that it’s over!?” Luckily I borrowed Million Little Pieces from my workout buddy/neighbor, Annie, and therefore I’m revived (aka absorbed in another heart wrenching page turner). aaaaah.

Tonite I went into Green Apple Books for the first time. I KNOW! Can you believe it (Darren)?! I couldn’t either. How could that be possible? Well, I’m hardly over in that hood, so that might explain it. But tonite I ate at the oh so yummy Burma Superstar with my friend Kristin, and my car was conveniently parked just a few doors down from this lovely bookstore. I feasted at dinner, and then feasted again on all the eye candy shelves of books, books and more books.

I almost bought Diary (has anyone read that?), but only went home with Lucky. I figure, Christmas is coming. Well, that & honestly I know so many friends with stacks of books they’re prepared to lend me, I thought I’d exhaust those channels first. Anyway… it was nice to wander around a book store. Frankly I really haven’t done that in quite some time.

OK, I’m going to get off the computer now… but remember: Tomorrow is the first day of the rest of your life! :)

now with some sean action
Originally uploaded by Willo.

So as you may have noticed, I am FINALLY catching up after being severely behind on posting my photos. This month has been really busy with lots of fun events & this one was possibly one of the “funner” ones.

View all the photos from MNDC Girls dinner @ Esperpento + Drinks at LAC ( w/ the whole crew). Note, this night happened 2 weeks ago, way back on Monday, October 9th! :p

the girls post dinner w/ some scary boys on the street (I think Aubrey’s in love)

You may recall a few blog posts back, I also linked to Aubrey’s hilarious set from this night.

Danzig, PJ Harvey & Madonna (“cowboy madonna”, from her 2000 music album)
(aka Darren, Misty & I)

Madonna & Karen O.

Slash (aka Holly) arrives with beer

Jack & Meg White (aka Lane & Courtney) of The White Stripes

View the ROCKtoberfest photo album!

Our friend Jordan put together an awesome competition for us to all taste & vote on the best burrito in town. Each of us named our favorite taqueria, teams were assigned and we all met at Dolores Park for a day of drinking beer, eating chips & salsa and carefully evaluating every delicious burrito brought to the table in a quest to find the best!

Jordan’s dog Luka gazes in awe thinking, “wow, you’re the best dad EVAR!”

professional burrito eaters

yay! me & ali!

And because I know you all are dying to know…The winner was La Taqueria, followed closely by my favorite and Ali & I’s team choice: Papalote! After that it was Gordos (sorry, not sure which location), then Taqueria Cancun (which is a favorite of mine and in the taste testing I chose it as my #2 fav), Taqueria San Francisco, “Someplace in Marin” (hah), and lastly Nick’s Crispy Taco’s (rule of thumb there obviously being get their tacos instead).

SO yes, in summary – this idea & the eating & drinking in the park day it inspired was SUPER FUN! Next up we’re having a sushi off! yumm. My friends rule.

View all my photos from the Burrito Off & Aubrey has a few more here.

Ev & Sara have an awesome place in Russian Hill that looks out over the entire bay. Needless to say it’s the perfect vantage point to watch the planes of Fleet Week go buzzing around! Plus, it was great to see that set of friends again.

so close you could touch ’em. (well not really, but you get the idea)

it’s not every day you’re entertained by planes

jeff was loving it! :)

View all the photos here.

Willo & Ryan
Originally uploaded by Aubs.

Aubrey just posted all her photos from last week’s super fun events: Monday night out w/ Lele (a friend of ours was in town for one night only!) & from Friday night’s ROCKtober party & Sunday’s Burrito Off in the park!

There’s some hysterical ones…I am getting REALLY good at making funny faces at the camera. As you can see here, here and here. hehee.

I think my gravestone is going to read something like, “She sure knew how to have a good time!” haha.