I leave food out for my dwarf hamster Pixel on Friday afternoons for the weekend.  Like every day, he loves food and comes scurrying out . . . but not today.  I saw him yesterday and he was hyper and has been running in his wheel for the past 3-5 days in the mornings, I gave him treats, petted him (which he never let me do before).

I found him in a little nest of fluff and paper on his side.  He’s so peaceful and cute looking, but it’s so sad and . . . blah

I don’t want to talk about it (mom, please don’t call) I’ll just get all cry-ey and sad again.  I think I’m going to look for a little box and Gary and I are going to bury him.

Here’s what he looked like when I first got him about 1 year and 8 months ago.

Alice in Wonderland is the theme for the season with the new movie out, though if you’re a prestidigitator, a card shark, or just want to send some love, these stamps are perfect for mailing your notes out.

I picked up a book or two at my local post office. They’re going to be cute on my easter cards 🙂

Yesterday I dropped off our Valentine’s Day cards in the mail . . . I only sent out 8 to our closest family members, like the grandparents and great aunts and uncles.

I found these ADOrable stickers to add a lil something extra at acmoore (www.acmoore.com) by Mrs. Grossman’s (www.mrsgrossmans.com)

Cuuuuutes!

On Saturday, we took a drive along the pacific coast highway with a great view of . . . well, the pacific coast (through Malibu).

Then we drove up through the mountains and stopped along the Mulholland Senic Parkway, which was gorgeous, especially seeing the ocean from the mountains. The photo with this post was taken at one of the lookout points.

We also drove through Beverly Hills, and saw the very well known Hollywood sign – that isn’t as big as it appears in movies, but I heard there was a trail that brings you closer to the sign. Next time I’ll bring sneakers 🙂

No rain on the weekend, sunny but still cool. I’m looking forward to going back and hopefully do more in better weather. There were a lot of things we had planned on doing that were outdoor activities that wouldn’t have been much fun in the rain.

Of all the types of museums, I usually enjoy going to natural history museums.  I don’t know if its the animals, or the environment, but they are usually interesting to me. 

We went to the one in LA yesterday in the morning since it was a bit cold to do anything outside yet.  The main focus was dinosaurs, gems and minerals, birds, and insects.  There were also pieces of pottery, and really nice mammal exhibits.

Parking was $8 and the tickets were $9/adult but we spent an hour, maybe two there and it was interesting.

http://www.nhm.org/site/

We just drove along the pacific coast highway and into the mountains on the pacific canyon road, which had some really great views. Especially viewing the ocean from above.

Last Friday, we went to Redondo Beach Pier.  It had been raining pretty much all morning, and was only sprinkling, but sunny at 4:00-ish when we arrived and then went away.  Parking was only $1 (with a $4 max) for us since we didn’t stay too long.

Of course there was only an hour or so of daylight left, but there wasn’t a lot going on, and most of the food stands and shops were closed since its not the summer, and on top of that it was pretty friggen cold.  I felt like I brought the weather back from Raleigh -haha

I’m sure its one of those piers that is nice in the summer and where there are events going on.  It’s small, but it was nice to see the ocean and all the birds on the rocks were cool.

I did a little shopping at the Pavillion Mall in LA and one of the places I went to was a BCBG store.

They have these awesome bubble like balls hanging from the ceiling . . . prolly annoying to clean, but looks purrrty anyway.

I might do something on a much smaller scale in a window at some point.

Frozen yogurt is pretty popular in LA, and last night we went to Yogurtland.

Basically you get a cup, put your choice of frozen yogurt in, add whatever toppings, and they weigh how much you have. Pay and enjoy!

The cups are fairly ginormous (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ginormous) so I put a little chocolate on one side and cheesecake on the other. Toppings were strawberries for the cheesecake, and butterfinger for the chocolate. Delish 🙂

I think their cups were from halloween?