Retro Santa Monica Farmers Market

I hope you had a wonderful Labor Day weekend. Mine was spent getting to know my new Los Angeles surroundings and spending the day with my father who's birthday is today. So this weekend we went down to the Santa Monica Farmers Market. The weather was overcast, but the people were still smiling. I loved being outdoors and discovering the new produce, flowers, merchants and fruit. So come along with me on this retro Farmers Market day...

First stop, let's grab this adorable bag, some cash and sunglasses.

Who says you have to grab any old bag to go to the Farmers Market? Try one of these stylish Audrey Reusable Bag. And she has sisters!

The Santa Monica Farmers' Market Cookbook

I would love to get this book as a house warming present because of it's wonderful recipe ideas. I just feel better when eating more fruits and veggies...don't you?



I can't wait to get a bicycle with a basket so I can ride to the beach on Saturday mornings. All I need now is a flowy dress and some flip flops to match my fashion ride.





I'm pretty sure that butter lettuce is my favorite in a salad. It brings something unique to the flavor of the salad and I seem to only find it at a Farmers Market.

Oh that was a fun retro Santa Monica Farmers Market day. I wish I could be there right now. Farmers Market have become so popular over the past years. And I think its a great place to bring children. Tell me, are you as addicted to your local Farmers Market as I am sweetie?

Our love story: Moving Day!

Our move to Los Angeles is finished, but not without some great stories for you sweetie. Right now I’m sitting in my new family room that has a serene shady feel from the ocean breeze. Mission complete! Our move began with a goodbye party where my extended family and friends made us feel like we’ll be missed in San Francisco. Nick's Crispy Taco's hosted us with great food, red walls and full on chandeliers. That restaurant couldn't be anymore city funky.

I spent the next two days packing and preparing for our Saturday and Sunday move. Our U-haul was packed by 1:00PM and then we spent the rest of the day spackling the holes in the walls, meeting our landlord for a final walk through, handing in our cable box etc. But then the unfair thing happened! You see, it looked like the San Francisco parking attendants also didn't want us to move away. We parked our U-haul in the driveway while I was upstairs with a couple of boxes when Honey's family ran up to tell me we were getting a ticket.

You can get a ticket on a U-haul parked in a driveway I had no idea! I felt like I was in a movie.

Our moving movie continued when we drove the U-haul at 5:30AM from San Francisco to L.A. I had a blast while Honey drove. I got to play DJ, set the right temperature in the truck and encourage Honey to stay in the moment.

I could feel our chapter turning as we got closer and closer to L.A. I was excited and nervous for him to see our new home as I had found it a couple of weeks before. We pulled into our driveway and I felt peaceful.

So forgive me as I stop writing and go outside to experience more. I can’t wait to tell you about our L.A. adventure. Do you enjoy moving and is it OK that I’m still tired?

Under the Sheets~shhh is moving to Los Angeles!

Sweetie it’s true! After living in the incredible city of San Francisco (click here for some old Cable Car Confession posts), we are moving back to Los Angeles for Honey's MBA program and a new lifestyle. I’m excited about moving back and looking forward to starting our new married life in L.A. I spent my high school years there with my family and best friend and they’re super excited we’re coming back. Getting married in San Francisco was the best thing we could have done as we met and fell in love here, but somehow moving to L.A. has been clicking left and right.

So three months to the day of our wedding, we’ll be in a Uhaul moving cities.

This will bring exciting change to Under the Sheets~shhh because my experiences will be new. New lifestyle, beachy weather, MBA students, travel, closer to family and we’re renting a sweet little house. I promise sweetie to bring to L.A. my retro, vintage, inspirational, witty writing and San Francisco style. I guess I’ll just have to leave all of my scarves in boxes.

Stay tuned for my/our new adventures in L.A. and I can’t wait to meet some new blogging friends.

Older women with a younger man?

Do older women and younger men relationships work? Trust me they do. In fact, I'm marrying a younger man as Honey (click here to read more about our love story) and I are one of those couples. Shocked? Sometimes it's hard to not care what others think of our age difference. Sure I've seen the raised eyebrows, but I am happy and that's all that matters to me!

In every relationship we ask ourselves about the deal breakers. I had to ask myself if I was ready to be with someone that wasn't established in life yet and be there as he goes to Business school. Honey had to ask himself if he wanted to be a young father as I/we want to have children.

Picture from CBS show Accidentally on Purpose

Do we notice the age difference? I notice how much we laugh together. Yes sometimes it's funny when I quote a movie and Honey has no idea what I'm talking about. But we teach each other so much. Plus we have so much in common. We want to travel the world, spend time with our family and friends, cook together, become a family and continue to always learn.

I ask you, why it looks like older women with younger men know a secret that others don't. There seems to be a twinkle in their eyes. A twinkle that many of us wish we could bottle. When I was last in L.A. visiting my family, we went to the beach for my father's birthday. A woman from the party walked up to me to congratulate the engagement. She asked me how many years apart we were. I told her 7 1/2. She laughed because she was 13 years older then her husband. And she had such a twinkle in her eye...

Picture from ABC show Cougar Town

Am I attracted to his energy or his hopefulness for the future. I think it's a little of both. So now its your turn to weigh in. Do you think a relationship between an older woman and a younger man can work?

And the winner of the book giveaway is...

Drum roll please!...Char from Ramblins and the lovely Miss Anne. Congrats ladies! You will both receive the Ask Me About My Divorce: Women Opening Up About Moving On book. I loved this book and I hope you do too. I'm spending my Labor Day on a L.A beach with my family. What time can you meet me there?

Top ten reasons you’ve lived in Los Angeles for too long…

I am excited today to reveal a new series to you. I like to call them the top ten reasons why…. The first few will focus on how I knew I’ve been in a city for too long, i.e. San Francisco, Toronto, New York and London.

And now for Los Angeles my home for twelve years…drum roll please.

10) You are at LAX airport and all of the cars have changed from Prius’ (very common in San Francisco) to Hummers, BMW’s and limos. And you get offered a ride in the limo. (Maybe I should have gone!)

9) After you hear the forecast, saying it’s 72 degrees with some clouds, you think, ”it’s freezing outside. I have to put on another sweater.”

8) As the credits roll, at the end of the movie, the local movie theatre is still full. Viewers are staying to see if they know anyone that worked on the movie i.e. makeup artist, grip, assistant etc.

7) After being invited to a formal dinner party, you go to your closet and try to decide which pair of flip-flops is appropriate for the formal event.

6) At a family event, you overhear the children discussing cell phone options; the children are only ages seven, nine, twelve and thirteen.

5) While driving on the 405 Freeway you pull up next to a very famous basketball player driving a Rolls Royce and it doesn’t even phase you… You just saw Tom Cruise at Starbucks five minutes ago.

4) Your hairdresser, mailman, bank teller, teacher, therapist, waiter, bartender are all working on a ‘promising’ screenplay.

3) You drive your car to the gym even though it’s only a couple of blocks away from your home. You would never be seen walking in L.A.

2) When running late, you tell the white lie, “I’m only twenty minutes away.” You really have twenty miles and two freeways to go.

And the number one reason you know you have lived in Los Angeles too long….

1) You have chosen your ‘Circle of Five’ on your cell phone as your therapist, plastic surgeon, hair stylist, agent and mother (God help us all!).

How do you know if you’ve been in a city for too long? What else would you add to my L.A. list? Go on you can tell me..I won’t tell anyone! And please vote on this list at toptentopten.com