well, i have tried and tried and tried, but for some reason i just cannot post pictures on my blog. :( so instead, here is what i've been trying to share with you all. it's a gingerbread rendering of my workplace, the place i spend the majority of my waking hours. it took our pastry and culinary teams 4 days, 3 nights to complete. it is a spitting image of the actual hotel. it was originally supposed to be big enough for a small child to fit in, but i guess the chefs changed their minds. :) can you imagine? a life-size gingerbread house?? holy crap.

i contemplate leaving california all the time. like picking up my bags and moving away somewhere, anywhere. but truthfully, i'm such a wimp when it comes to extreme cold or extreme heat, i wouldn't last a day anywhere else. sad, isn't it? w and i talk about it all the time, where we would go, when it would be feasible, but i don't know if it'll ever happen. it seems the longer i wait, the harder it gets for me. i'm not as young as i used to be, you know. and plus, i don't know if i could stand to be so far away from my parents. they're not getting any younger either. my dad is turning 64 tomorrow. 64! he doesn't seem that old. he seems more like 46.