bulldogs!

i'm super excited to see my newly remodeled highschool. i am especially excited about the performing arts center, having played in the orchestra. this is one school that deserves it.... and i'm not saying that cause i'm biased, ok well maybe i am.




i think i may want to posse up and go check out the celebrations on the 26th/27th... POSSSE UP!

and maybe grab some ezells while i am in the hood. ha. ha.

http://celebrategarfield.org/celebration.html

a gaggle

phrase of the day:

"a gaggle of booty hoes" : what ones co-worker sees on the bus to safeco field. typical conversations include, what store retail store ranks higher on the list of the mall, where they got their nails did, what constitutes good head and the look of a junior high aged prostitute in the making.....

inspired

i have been inspired by this video.....




to install a pole.
seriously?
seriously.
seriously?
mehbbe.

self inflictions...oh brazilians.

so if you are boy. you may not want to read any further....i'm just saying, consider yourself warned for an extremely girly topic below....

so recently i decided to bite the bullet and learn how to be my own estetician.... i bought the hard wax not the soft kind.

my first attempt was to do my armpits. i followed all the directions and i couldn't believe how simple it was! there was no pain and it came off easily.
i decided i was ready to try the "other" area. i didn't take any aspirin or any liquid courage but just went rouge. as i started waxing the "outskirts" ... it seemed like a cinch! no pain! well a little but for the most part nothing i couldn't handle...i was 98% done. THEN i decided that i would like to take off just a wee bit more..... so i'm not sure what i did wrong here but things went wrong.... i breathed and pulled and breathed and pulled and these suckers would not budge without EXCRUTIATING pain.... i think i lied on my floor for half an hour trying to build up the courage to rip the entire thing away... and as i am lying on my floor... SWEATING BULLETS and yelling PROFANITIES in my head and breathing heavily.... i wondered what i am going to do if i can't get this off... do i have to WALK AROUND with wax chunks?!?! should i call one of my girlfriends to come over to do the deed?!? or can i just rip this away?!?.....

instead, i chickened out and warmed it up with hot water and washed it off.

case in point: shelling out $75 may be worth it.


p.s. for those keeping up (all 3 of you!) i helped bag 2103 pds of sliced almonds... woot.

once in a long while

After work today, i am volunteering at Food Life Line, thanks to my dear friend a. Its amazing the volume they do, if you ever get the itch, its pretty easy to sign up with many options to help. Last time we volunteered we bagged about 3000 pds of FROZEN carrots in a couple of hours. It required a shovel and lots of arm work. Luckily I was on rebagging duty. I don't know whats on the plate tonight but it will be interesting to see...

hopefully i won't fall asleep in a flat of frozen carrots, since I am surprisingly awake right now for not going to bed until 330ish am. After lying in bed until 1:30am I got up and watched the last of the Grey's Anatomy series... in which I have totally become addicted too. And besides I have heard first hand some great real life healthcare stories, probably not as well enacted as the series but just as juicy. Like people doing naughty things in bushes! Physician and staff caught in broom closets! Employees behaving badly and visitors doing naughty things in the chapel!!!

like, seriously.

thigh highs and poached fish

it sucks when you are at a bar and the quality of your drink varies vastly.... like canyons of difference vast. last thursday a friend and i ordered a grape nehi and it was delicious. it reminded me of a grape soda. well we set down our drinks to check out something outside and by the time we got back our drinks had dissapeared. so we went to the next bar and ordered ourselves another. this time it tasted like cough syrup.... so much so we gagged and choked and then decided to give it a new name "grape thigh high".

do NOT ever order a grape thigh hi. its highly disgusting.

on a better note, i decided to have some people over for dinner and thought it was good enough to share, so here it is for you:



Rasberry Vodka Lemonade:
-1 Can Frozen Rasberry Lemonade
-1 Can Water
- 1 Can Vodka
- A glug of cranberry
- A spalsh of Contreau
Mix, pour over a ice and float rasberries in drinks.

Lemon Miso Poached Fish
from whole foods.
* 4 black cod fillets or halibut fillets, about 4 ounces each
* 4 cups vegetable broth
* 1 leek, white and light green parts only, thinly sliced and rinsed thoroughly
* sea salt, to taste
* ground pepper, to taste
* 1/3 cup plus 1 tablespoon mellow white miso (light white miso)
* 2 cups warm water
* juice of 2 lemons

Prepare poaching liquid by bringing vegetable broth and leeks to a simmer in a pot large enough to accommodate the 4 fish fillets. Meanwhile, sprinkle fillets with salt and pepper on both sides and set aside. Fillets may have their skin on or off. Once poached, the skin will easily come off.

In a small bowl, whisk the miso paste with the warm water until miso is fully dissolved. Add miso to simmering poaching liquid, and bring mixture back to a simmer. Add fish, wait until mixture returns to a gentle simmer and add half of the lemon juice. Cook for about 5 to 7 minutes or until fish is cooked through and starts to flake. Serve immediately with some of the poaching liquid, including leeks, as a sauce.

Roasted Cauliflower
Take a head of cauliflower and break it up into bits in a baking dish. Spray Olive oil (or sesanme oil!), salt and pepper. Broil until browned and tender.

weekend update

well well well, i must really be getting old.

despite purchasing a new floatie bed, i decided to bail out on boating for seafair on saturday. Theres just something where you have to be committed to being on a boat ALL DAY, surrounded by lots of drunkies was somewhere i didn't feel like being this past weekend.

instead i watched the dark knight, wandered around the kubota gardens (amazing and FREE japanese gardens) and i managed to catch a WINNING mariners game, what?!?!?! i wish the blue angels had done an aerial performance above the stadium but oh well. i also rented the diving bell and the butterfly, which was an incredibly moving storyline and a cannes film festival winner for 2007, you should watch it if you like kind artsy movies.

Other then that I've been day dreaming of going to the French Riviera or Croatia or anywhere mediterraneanish.....OH and i've just found this great charity that you should contribute to! Its for the "chira goes on vacation trust fund" ... any monies will be used a 100% percent towards the cause, it is such a good cause....... promise. ha.

hope you didn't have a case of the mondays.

dork.