Cool Stuff

12.18.11

Yesterday after our dive, one of our dive buddies introduced me and Lawrence to this quaint coffee shop in Redondo Beach. All we can say is thank you because after a taste of their cappuccino we knew we would keep coming back to this place. And so today we did.

Let me give you a little premise about this post: our dive (our first beach dive) consisted of a California sea lion play "biting" on my fins. My girlish reaction kicked in and I get freaked out a bit. Anyway, my cousin hears of this incident and says that he admires (or was it envies?) how despite school and our beloved photography business I have free time to do "all this cool stuff" (his words). I read this over breakfast and 2 cups of cappuccino with the husband this morning.

I try to make the most out of life: every minute spent doing what me and Lawrence both love to do is something I feel so blessed with. The fact that me and Lawrence can share and enjoy certain hobbies is actually a blessing in itself. So while there are the big moments and even the small ones that grace our lives, be it taking an after dinner stroll along the block, movie nights or sitting in coffee shops having breakfast over great conversations, I think we're in a very good position to say that whatever we do...it's all cool stuff because it makes us happy and appreciative of life.

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Love Stirred

"There is no us until we understand we
And I understand you and you understand me
Whether I'm from Mars and you from Venus
Let's sit on a pear and dip our feet in the sea
And agree that sometimes we disagree ya see

Love, it ain't absolute we know how we do
So the question is moved to the strength of the brew
The power of our kiss is how we get stirred
Love is when the line between me and you gets blurred
And the coffee tastes just right

The perfect amount of sugar and cream
How I like my coffee? Light brown
You know what I mean?
I hear a deep brown voice speaking softly saying
Let's make our coffee sweet and us

Got love like sleeping late on Saturdays
Like slipping into old slippers on Sunday Morning
We got love like French toast and Mondays off
All I need is promises you can keep
I don't need nothing deep

All the fancy things I can give myself

We be all we need, like, like coffee
I hear a deep brown voice speaking softly
Saying, "Don't ever leave"."

- Koffee Brown (Mars/Venus Interlude)

It's been gloomy around the neighborhood so Lawrence and I decided to make the most out of a chilly weather by visiting Downtown El Segundo. We stopped by a local coffee shop Blue Butterfly Coffee Co. and this awesome spoon caught my eye! All I can say is...we definitely agree.