80s club

temperatures that is, not age!
We've had unbelievable weather this past week, making me feel hot at times. Sierra has especially enjoyed being outside when I see her at lunch and after work as the light of day dwindles. It's pretty hard to enjoy the weather completely when you think about how large of a drought we are in and that this is technically our rainy season (supposedly going through March). As much as I enjoy the warm weather and sun, I would be happier overall if we would have at least two days of rain in the week.


Despite the drought, we still have quite a bit of green from the moisture we got before the new year. The wilderness park is quite green as well as the mountain outside our window. It is a nice change from the brown we see most of the year.
This past weekend was uneventful as I have been reading several articles in preparation for a class I'm going to in Salt Lake City. I am going to a continuing education class in pelvic physical therapy/incontinence management with another therapist from our clinic. It is the first in a series of three, which I tentatively plan to complete to get my certificate in pelvic physical therapy. Our boss wants to beef up our women's health program and get some concrete education behind a few of us. It should be an interesting class, but I'm not looking forward to the COLD temperatures! Think of me freezing in SLC next weekend! =)

Zodiac

Has anyone seen this movie? We watched it last night and enjoyed it, but it was pretty long (almost 3 hours!) A lot of the locations in the movie where they were investigating murders have actually been places in California that we have lived or been close to living. A few of the murders were in Vallejo, which was just south of us in Napa, another in Napa County at Lake Berryessa, and a possible one in Riverside. CREEPY!
Luckily, it seems the guy that they are pretty sure did it is now dead-so I'm safe. But still-pretty scary!

Mission Inn: To see the Lights

So it must be pretty sad that this was our second Christmas in Riverside and we still haven't gone to see the Christmas lights at the historic Mission Inn in downtown Riverside. Sure, we've been down there and we've driven past, but we have never gone down to see their lights in all their glory. Thus, Saturday night we set off with friends Josh and Erin to the lights...who cares if it's January right?
We headed downtown and we searched for a place to eat. Since we rarely go downtown, it took us quite a while until we found somewhere suitable where we didn't need a reservation. We ended up at a sports bar (Chargers to be exact, which we witnessed first hand due to the game Saturday night) and had very good food. We then headed over to the Inn and saw the great lights. The large Christmas tree was already down due to fire safety, but there were still lots of twinkling lights to see! The main lobby was gorgeous as well, but my photos did not turn out very well, so the plethora of photos are all from outside.
It was nice to see the lights finally and it is always a pleasure to go to the Mission Inn. I can finally say that I am a real Riversidian now that I've toured the lights!

To be a better blogger...

...is my new year's resolution!
The last month and a half of 2008 has flown by and now we are already in 2009! I am utterly exhausted from working long hours, traveling, and getting "ready" for the holidays. The new year brings getting "unready" from the holidays, which will take a while, as I still have Thanksgiving things out! I thought I would post some photos from the last month or so that I never got around to posting!
Happy New Year!