coffee and cool location
January 7, 2009 
Two of my neighbors and I went to try out this place because I wanted to do an article on it. It’s a unique home that is a cafe and a coffee house located on Commonwealth in Fullerton. It’s unique. That’s the best word to describe it.
Talk about a cool place! It’s just so unique! The house is 95 years old.
The inside is just gorgeous. Beautiful hardwood floors line the inside of the house. The furniture is very cozy and comfortable. And then you enter the backyard. I loved it!!!
(Wow, this is small!)
We had our drinks, which were waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay overpriced (I ordered hot chocolate. FIVE BUCKS FOR A CUP OF HOR CHOCOLATE!!!!)
but were still in awe with how nice the backyard was. I’m sorry though, if my hot chocolate is five bucks it had better sing to me or be orgasm giving!! (Where in the world did that come from?? LOL.) I don’t care how pretty the location is.
Did I mention that they also have a room where you can draw on paper and staple it to the wall?
That’s nice, but like I care if it’s an overly priced place.
Nice backyard though!
(You may read all about my adventure here.)
I see wooden dead people figurines….
January 6, 2009 
My museum series of articles brought me to Cal State Fullerton’s Anthropology department teaching museum the other day. My friend Debra suggested it, and I think I said something like, “What? That exists there?” It got put in around the time I graduated, so I of course had either heard about it and did not care or was too busy to care when I did hear about it. To get to the museum itself is an interesting trek.
I parked on the street because I did not want to pay for parking. (this would be next to impossible during a regular semester, so i’m glad that i went to this during intersession)
Trek, trek, trek across the street, through the lab building to this ’60s looking monstrosity, otherwise known as McCarthy Hall.
”Where’s the elevator? Oh that’s right! There are escalators in this building!” (You don’t know how cool I thought that was when I first started going there. Escalators at school! 
In all fairness, I was a kid just out of high school.)
They really need to replace their ceiling panels in this building. The stains only got worse with each higher floor… Do you remember it looking so nasty when you went there, Arnold?
And finally, I arrived.
It was an interesting exhibit about Vigangos, which are basically Kenyan memorial markers-or, wooden dead people figurines in Kimspeak…
These were apparently sold as artwork until a few years ago, when it became documented that these were stolen from graves in Africa. Now Cal State Fullerton is going to send these suckers back to a museum in Africa that will hopefully give these back to the families that rightfully own these.
I like art, so looking at these unique figures was interesting. It is apparently ran by students taking a museum class each semester who put the whole thing together from start to finish.
If you would like to read my article about it, go here. (Please. I get paid per hit.)
If only this job paid more. It would be fun to do this for a full-time job. (I know what you smart folks must be thinking. Reporters are being laid off by the truck load lately.)
Tomorrow will be all about my trek to the coffee house/art gallery. I know you all are thrilled.
I need a job and other stories of the day…
January 4, 2009
Filed under Personal, unemployment
Tags: trusting the Lord, unemployment
Unemployment messed up on something and so therefore did not send my check. Lovely. So, I have to brave the unemployment office on Monday to see what in the world is going on. Sigh….. I was so pissed off in fact that I cleaned my kitchen. It looks good! I just need a job again so that I don’t have to deal with that BS. Sigh….I need prayer. Please pray for my job search. I know that God is bringing me through this for a reason. That I know for certain. Without a doubt. And I welcome it. More money would be nice though….
I went to the Fullerton Arboretum today to see the Japanese/Farming Museum there. Very kid friendly exhibits, such as this one.
I just love the scenery there also. How can you not resist this?
Or this?
Or this also?
Or even this?
This last photo is my favorite. It used to be more shaded when I went to CSUF, where the arboretum is located, and that’s how I liked it. It’s still beautiful though. Go here to read my article please. I get paid by hits, so HEEEEEEEEEEEELP. thanks……
I need to go to bed.
Woo Hoo! It’s 2009!
The doctor was pretty good in my opinion, so I’m glad to have found a doctor who won’t let me crack a rib from coughing so hard (unlike the last num-num!). It’s amazing how certain foods contribute to our sickness, such as sugar. For example, the doctor told me to give up sugary drinks while sick. Diet Pepsi too (my vice), I guess, even though I don’t consider that sugary. I guess that sugar makes mucous thicker. He was absolutely right. My cough is much better. I have to also admit that I feel a little bit better without drinking so much of it. I guess this means no more of that stuff in my home, except on special occasions. Sigh……
I went to the Fullerton Museum today because I am writing a series of articles about museums in the great city of Fullerton. Please click here to read. (I would sooo appreciate it as I get paid per page hit. Thanks!) I went here once before either in the late ’70s or early ’80s with my aunt, uncle, sister and cousins when there was a giant Tinker Toy exhibit there that was hands on. It’s a cool building that the WPA built in the 1940s that has gorgeous columns, a tiled dome and stained glass windows. Here is the front of the building (a portion of it anyway):
And here is one of their windows. (LOL! Yes, I am a nut… I just like the uniqueness of it)
And I liked the inside arches too.
I wish that those windows were more visible to the public. How beautiful!
Did I mention what the exhibit was about?
Purses and the contents in them during the 20th century…. Boring subject, I know, but some of the purses were cute. The reason why I took a picture of this display, even though the hideous huge rims of those Liz Claiborne glasses made me shudder, is because of the book shown, Passages. Apparently one of my aunts thought it was the best book that ever was or would be and my dad called it the affair book. (????? The only way I could gather that one would be from the title. Y’all can figure that one out on your own…..) To this day he jokes that whenever someone has an affair it’s a Passages moment. Was the book really that controversial that conservative Republicans didn’t like it?
So anyway, did I mention that the museum also has this?
”This” would be a Fender Gallery. Leo Fender of Fender Guitar fame began his business in Fullerton, so it only seems fitting to have a Fender section in the museum. Right by this:
A time capsule to be opened in 30 years…….
I overall liked the museum for a few reasons. The prices are great (four bucks for an adult and kids five and under get in FREE) and the architecture interests me.
Tomorrow is the Japanese American museum. I’ll picture you some more!!
with a hack hack here and a hack hack there…
One of my neighbors who is a nurse told me about an osteopathic doctor around here who she says is the best. Since he is on my insurance, I’m going to have to call in the morning. This coughing is driving me crazy!
I’m glad Christmas is over, but it was nice-despite me being sick. This was the scene of a tent on our church grounds.
This is the fellowship area, but wow…I love how they decorated the ceiling of this tent! They also had a sleigh right next to the tent and families could take pictures on the sleigh. They did a Christmas play this year that I personally believe rivals Crystal Cathedral. There was a woman doing acrobatics and they hoisted her high above the stage as she twirled and acrobatted herself (LOL… I can’t think of another word to use!). She was supposed to symbolize an angel. She did the trick!
I’m thinking of an idea to do an article series around Valentine’s Day about places to get engaged in the North Orange County, CA, area . If anyone knows of any good spots, please let me know! Robyn, you had a good idea! I may dramatize it a bit though.
And now, to hack myself to death again…..
