cards and cheesecake

It seems like life has been slow around here but it hasn’t. I just haven’t had much time or energy to keep up my writings. In any case, feast your eyes on this:

Coconut Cheesecake from Tartine

Julia and I checked out this place in Coronado called Tartine – its a European style cafe with outdoor and indoor seating. They sell plenty of baked goods and leave out water bowls for the dogs passing by the cafe. Julia and I each shared the “Brie Wheel” – it came with a warm plate of brie with fruits and nuts and bread along with the mixed green salad which had sliced pears, Gorgonzola cheese, caramelized walnuts and a champagne vinaigrette. Afterwards we had the above coconut cheesecake and each tried a Mexican wedding cookies. The cookies were really excellent, salty, sweet and crunchy and at 50 cents each, I got a half dozen to go.

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Tartine
1106 1st St
Coronado, CA 92118
619-435-4323
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I also headed up to Long Beach, dragging my boyfriend along for company, and hung up with some fantastic people (including Alyssa, who I always miss!). It was a birthday type celebration and I made this cute card and bought these felt gift card sleeves from an Etsy shop to hold the gift card I bought. Sweet.

Yesterday I of course saw the Harry Potter movie, again dragging said boyfriend. Luckily he seems to willingly come along to things I ask him to go to with me. I thought the movie was good though not as good as the book as it left out things and redid parts and basically makes the movie seem squished to those of us who read the books. I am patiently waiting for Book 7 to come out, which is to say that I can hardly wait for it! Mmm.

Also, today, I got my own DVR. I loves it. the end.