Sunday, June 22, 2008

wine country

after the vegas trip, we picked up my sister in oakland and headed to my parents timeshare in napa. i'm not a huge fan of wine, but i'm trying. we went for a tour/wine tasting in a castle!!
i learned how wine is made... but i've forgotten already. at least i have a picture of the machines they use to make it...
the castle had endless hallways stacked with wine barrels...
and they even had a torture chamber. hmmm, i wonder what this was used for...hint... it went up your ass. ouch.
really old wine bottles.
a giant awesome roomwith suits of armor and cool art.
yay for castles.

on sunday we went to santa rosa for the harmony festival. i had a blast.
here's the happy fam...everyone there was super chill and it was a totally environmentally conscious event, everyone was cleaning up after everyone else. this dude was dressed entirely in plastic bags...we saw the jerry garcia band, jefferson starship, and what i'm happy to say is my new favorite band, arrested development.
amazing.

and i'll leave you with this... when my sister was in charge of the camera, she only took pictures of my butt. not sure what's up with that

Thursday, June 12, 2008

dell is back from rehab... i am back from vegas

met up with my parents for a little vacay in vegas... we would have had to pay lots of $ for internet there, so i wrote my blogs then, and i'm posting them now.

tuesday june 3rd

vegas baby!!!

met my parents at the airport, it was so good to see them, it had been 6 months since the last time. my mom had won a free stay at the wynn hotel/resort... the only 5 star, 5 diamond hotel in vegas. woohoo! fanciest hotel i've ever stayed at. we signed up for our "red club" gambling cards, which come with a free spin to win lots of stuff. my dad won $10 in free slot money, and i won 2 tickets to see spamalot on wednesday night! since there were 3 of us, mom & dad had to duke it out to see who was going to be my guest. dad won, but only because my mother would rather gamble than do anything else.

i lost all of my gambling money on tuesday. it sure went fast... i had planned to spend most of the trip by the pool anyway.

the bathtub in the room was sooooooo amazing! it was so deep that it came up past my shoulders. i had a really great relaxing bath.


when i got in bed, it was soooo comfy!! the wynn is AWESOME!

this is the floor of the hotel. BEAUTIFUL!

wednesday june 4th

this morning, we went to the hooters casino (tee hee) because we had heard that they give you $100 free slot money when you sign up for their card. yeah, well, it sucked! the only way you could win anything off of that $ was if you could get 1700 credits. then you would get $50. let me tell you, it would have taken hours to get that many credits.... so we left and went to new york new york.
i rode on the rollercoaster there, which i had been really excited for... and it was a little disappointing. it cost $14 for a ride that consisted of one big drop, one upside-down loop, and one corkscrew. it was fun, but not worth the money. what made it worth the $ though was the fact that my dad had to hold my bag while i was on the ride. if you haven't seen my bag, it's covered in pink, yellow, and blue hearts and lightening bolts. super gay. i also have a pin on there that says 'i <3 pro choice boys' and one that says 'trans as fuck'. it brought me so much pleasure to watch my dad with that bag on his arm. to die for.

after nyny, we went to the stratosphere... A-MAZ-ING! to get to the top, you ride in what the elevator operator said was the fastest elevator in the world. 109 floors in 37 seconds. my ears popped! great views of the entire city from the tallest point there. i got a ticket for a ride on top of the stratosphere called 'the big drop'
that basically shoots you up to the top of the needles and then you freefall. i wanted to do it so bad, but they had to close the ride due to high winds. they kept one ride open called 'X-SCREAM'. that ride brought you over the side of the building and suspended you 850 feet above las vegas. crazy! it was so awesome.

it rained today, so no pool for me. my mom kept feeding me money, so i went ahead and lost it for her so she wouldn't have to.

i inexplicably lost my cell phone. i took it out of my pocket to check the time, and specifically remember putting it back in my pocket and commenting on the time to my mother. i never moved from my one spot, but 20 minutes later, my phone was gone. i'm at a total loss as to how it could have happened. went to lost and found and filled out an inquiry. i've already stopped back in and called, but no luck yet :(

saw monty python's spamalot... super funny. john o'hurley played king arthur, lancelot turned out to be gay, there was lots of singing and dancing, and fun was had by all.

took another bath... can NOT get enough of the giant tub.

hopefully there'll be good weather on thursday so i can finally get some poolside time in.

thursday june 5th

went down to the casino with my mom while my dad was golfing. again, she kept feeding me money. but this time, i actually won something!!! turns out i'm pretty good at video poker. i got a royal flush and won 750 quarters! that's 187.50! woo hoo! it's gone now, but it was fun while it lasted. spent the rest of the day by the pool drinking coronas and swimming. fun times.

called my cell in the afternoon to see if anyone would pick up and someone did. he told me he was at the bellagio and that i should meet him there at 9pm that night. yeah, so i went to the bellagio at 9... my phone was off, couldn't get a hold of anyone. fucking douche bag. i've spent a good 15% of my vacation calling lost and found, visiting lost and found, and calling my phone. it's been extremely frustrating and has made my vacay less than fun :(

took another bath. it was good. we're waking up at 5:30 tomorrow to catch our flight to oakland. i can't wait to have free internet access again so i can let the world know i lost my phone.

since i wrote this weeks ago, i have since gotten a new phone and all is well and harmonious again ;)

Thursday, May 15, 2008

rehab

so i had an intervention. i finally confronted my computer about it's drinking problem. that last vodka cran went way over the line. thankfully, dell has agreed to enter rehab! i dropped dell off on tuesday at the rehab center. dell will be living there full time for 7-10 days, however long it takes to get clean and sober and get all that vodka out of it's system. expect to see me blogging like crazy in 7-10 days. i'll be $400 poorer, but dell's sobriety is worth it to me.

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

st. patty's day

so this is a really quick update that i shouldn't even be doing from work... but oh well.

so last night i went to this irish bar called cassidy's after work. well who did i run into at cassidy's? cindy sheehan, of course!! my coworker tricked me into going to talk to her by myself (which is huge for me, being the shyest person ever), i got several big hugs from cindy, we had our pic taken together, and it was yay! so fun.

girl can drink, too. she was more drunk than me!! of course, i kept drinking at the gay bar afterwards... if only to see the hottie bartender ;)

Thursday, March 6, 2008

my apologies

good afternoon, fans. i want to send my sincere apologies to all of the dedicated, hard working people that use this blog to stalk me. i have received your messages, and am using this post to let everyone know that while i am still dedicated to the blog, my laptop is currently incapacitated. once i can scrounge up the dough to fix it, the blog will be back up and running. i have some great pics to post, and i have lots of stories saved up for you all.

just so you know, i miss you too.

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

lollipop girls

went to mika last night with jenn ... aMAZing! loved it! we smoked beforehand and then went out for some lychee martini's (delish!). we each got a drink at the show, but then we found out we couldn't have drinks on the balcony :(

so we just drank them fast.

jenn went to go meet fun new people while i just chilled and checked out the scene. i have to say i was very surprised by the crowd. many many many underage girls were there in groups or with their moms. there were also a lot of older people there. and by older i mean 35-50. and a lot of them were straight. so it was a very different crowd than when i saw mika in boston, but sold out nonetheless.

the show itself was awesome. mika was dressed in all whites and some silver, very sleek. he totally rocked out the whole time, even on the slow songs. there were some great blow up doll thingys on stage for big girl you are beautiful and lollipop, but i couldn't really see them that well based on where we were sitting . oh! and for big girls, there were these 2 great full-figured burlesque dancers that came out and danced. so hot! and of course there were lollipop girls dancing on stage during lollipop, but they weren't in the crowd like they were in boston (unless they were on the lower level, which i couldn't see very well).

they kept bringing out the piano and then taking it away, and then bringing it back. it was really fun. we smoked during the show with the guys sitting in front of us. that was fun.

the encore was amazing... confetti and streamers everywhere, totally candy. (i just used candy as an adjective... i should coin that! ex. "girl, you lookin' candy today!")

after the show jenn convinced me to go out (as she had been trying to do all evening), and we went to the badlands. so. much. fun. it's an awesome video bar with the greatest music. the music was so great, here's a small recap:
britney
britney
janet
janet
christina
pink

all in a row. which meant we didn't leave the dance floor for a looong time. but that was just right before we left. they played great music earlier too, and jenn and i stole away to smoke some more outside the club. it was great fun. we got some mexican food and watched some bad tv, and i slept over jenns. that means that right now, i'm wearing the exact same outfit that i saw mika in and went dancing in. but at least i showered!!! and we both made it to work on time today. go us.

update: as promised, some pics of us before the show, smoking at the show, and some blurry ones of the show





i know most of them didn't come out well, but oh well!

Sunday, February 10, 2008

wolverine

i decided to shave!! not everything though, just a little. i want to be like wolverine, except without the violence.







thoughts? comments, questions, concerns?

Friday, February 8, 2008

swedish pop!!

i just got back from seeing robyn at popscene!!! aMAZing!



price of admission: $10
1 jack on the rocks: $8+tip
seeing robyn (gorgeous) and hearing her sing (gorgeous voice): priceless

there's some things money can't buy... for everything else, there's the cash i scrounged up last minute.




i got to popscene around 9:45, stood in line for about 20 minutes, and i was in! tickets were at the door only, so i had no idea if i'd get in or not. i met a girl in line who, like me, was there alone. she was a bit odd, a trait i like in people, and after we chatted for a few minutes she leaned in really close to me and whisper-yelled "sweeeeeedes!!" it was interesting. robyn didn't go on until 11:27, and she sang for approximately 40 minutes, encore included. it was so worth it though.

a few things about the other club/concert goers: either i was too sober or everyone else was really drunk. true, i had only one drink and was definitely closer to sober than anything else, but these people were really obnoxious and pushy. i thought boston was the city of (m)assholes, but these people took the cake.
i must have forgotten about the giant sign i was holding that read : please: if you tower over me, stand directly in front of me! if you're a drunk straight girl, fall into me! if you're holding a drink, by all means, spill it on me! and please, please, please, remember to elbow me in the face multiple times! if you're feeling a bit randy, hump me!! thanks!!

seriously, if i had a dollar for every time i was unwillingly humped by older, unattractive men, i could have been drunk by the end of the show. my personal favorite (aka. douchebag) was the frat guy who elbowed me out of his way so he could stand directly in front of me, then turned around and gave me double thumbs up. if i had a death list, he would be #1. thank goodness i'm a peaceful, calm person. and tiny.

but anyway, ROBYN!!!!



she sang konichiwa bitches, with every heartbeat (my favorite), jack you off (teehee), and she even sang show me love!!! you remember that one from the 90's, don'tcha kids!? she did it very different, with only the drum synthesizers. it was lovely and everyone sang along. she also sang other songs that i don't know the names of, but they were all great.



i have battle wounds too!! at one point during the show, someone pushed me pretty hard from behind and i felt what i thought was someones beer bottle rub against my elbow. it hurt a tiny bit and i figured that i probably had a little scratch. when i looked at it later on the muni ride home, it's anything but little.



i'd say its about 6 inches long, and it curves around my arm. the picture is a little blurry, but it's on my inner arm! i have no idea what caused it. hope i don't get tetanus!

it's super late and i have to work in 6 hours!! woohooooo!!! fun times! i hope i dream about robyn tonight!!

Thursday, February 7, 2008

i love my job

i'm doing less work than i've ever done, and making waaaay more money than i've ever made. yay! my coworkers are awesome and super positive all the time, totally an environment to thrive in. and the union! yay union! yay plenty of room for advancement!! woohoooooooooo!!!

Saturday, February 2, 2008

i'm fucking matt damon

for those of you that haven't seen it... sarah silverman is fucking matt damon, and not afraid to let her boytoy jimmy kimmel know. this is fucking hilarious.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnVJZkDuVBM


watch it and cry for the funniness.

Friday, February 1, 2008

dear andrea,

dear andrea,

you win the prize for leaving comments!! i like getting comments!! and i like you.

here's your award:





i bet everyone else wishes they had an award, huh?

margaret cho!!

i love margaret cho! i mean, come on who doesn't?!? (well lots of people, probably... but i don't know them) i'm really excited that my friend mark was able to do an exclusive interview with cho on queertoday.com .

read it here : exclusive! 5 questions for margaret cho!

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

i might be in a movie!!

... and not the one filming in taunton, either.

next friday, february 8th, i am going to be an extra in a film about harvey milk, starring sean penn. as far as i know, jenn is doing it too!

it's filming in the castro. i get to wear 70's clothing and participate in a "candlelight vigil" for harvey milk. i'm keeping my fingies (yes, i spelled fingies, sound it out) crossed that i'll be close enough to a camera to be caught on film. i'm hoping that my fabulous 70's-esque wardrobe and my beard that looks like the one my dad had in the 70's will make me more camera friendly. i'm gonna be famous!! or at least have fun trying to be!

what i'm reading

so i went to the library tonight and went with 3 (hopefully) fabulous non-fiction choices, and i'm super excited to read my new books:

my first five husbands... and the ones who got away by rue mcclanahan
yes, that's right. i'm currently reading the blanch devereaux auto-bio, and then i cannot wait to emulate her! love her. my favorite golden girl ever.

death in the pot: the impact of food poisoning on history by morton satin
from athens, to the middle ages, to witch trials, food poisoning may be responsible for more deaths than we know! can't wait to read it and then eat tainted spinach!

crashing through: a true story of risk, adventure, and the man who dares to see by robert kurson
the true story of mike may, blinded at age three. this man broke world records in downhill speed skiing, joined the cia, and was a successful entrepreneur, inventor and family man. in 1999, a revolutionary stem cell transplant surgery could restore his vision. this is the story of the choices he made. can't wait to read this!

i also recently finished haunted and stranger than fiction by chuck palahniuk. i recommend both, unless you have a weak stomach.

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

please make all my dreams come true

so by now i'm sure many of you have read on perez about a possible new kids on the block reunion. i am just hoping against all hopes that this dream of mine will someday come true. soon. omg i would just die. die. seriously.

my roommate was watching tmz tv tonight and they were talking about the possibility of a reunion, so of course i had to gush about how i really wished it would happen. the conversation went a little something like this:

me: oh my gawd, i really hope they get back together, that would be A-MAZ-ing!!!
roomie: are you serious?
me: um, yeah, i love new kids!
roomie: oh jake...

i encourage everyone to check out the crazy nkotb fan pages that some people crazier than me have set up on myspace. i even saw a girl with NKOTB tattooed on her arm. for reals.

Sunday, January 27, 2008

anticipation

i start my new job in the morning! i'm a little nervous but i think it will be fun, and i look forward to getting to know my new officemates better. i'm wondering how i'll adjust to a desk job. i've never had one before, i'm a little nervous that all that sitting around will tire me out in the 'i'm yawning a lot because i've been sitting in this same spot all day' kind of way. i guess i'll just have to wait and see, and start moving around a lot more outside of work. if the damn rain would let up i could ride my bike, but i haven't seen a dry day in quite some time.

yay for income!

Saturday, January 26, 2008

hungover but loving dinos

i went out to jade bar last night to celebrate my roommates boyfriends 30th birthday. we had the whole mezzanine for the party, and monica is awesome so it was open bar. i had a ton of fun and made a new friend named alice. since it was open bar i obviously drank more than someone my size should ever drink in a night, and people just kept handing me shots. how could i say no? well now i wish i had said no to at least a few of the drinks since its 7pm and i'm still wicked hungover.

oh! another reason monica is awesome: goody bags! filled with candy, stickers, and dinosaur-related items! which prompted me to have an entire conversation with my new friend alice about how much i love dinosaurs and how t-rex may have actually been a scavenger and not the predator you see in jurassic park and about dinosaurs relation to birds. i really love dinosaurs.

one more thing. alice thought my accent was canadian. i don't know what that's aboot.

oh taunton!

remember the taunton dam crisis a few years back? taunton is about to be famous again! oh my hometown...

martin scorsese has chosen taunton, boston, and medfield for the settings of his newest film "ashecliffe", starring leonardo dicaprio, michelle williams, ben kingsley, and michael ruffalo (who i have an unexplained mini-crush on). the movie is based on dennis lehane's (who wrote mystic river) novel "shutter island".


according to the mayor of taunton, "shooting in Taunton will take place in the Whittenton Mills buildings, owned by the same developer as the Whittenton Mills dam that was at the heart of the dam crisis in 2005."

love it.

read more about it here.

Friday, January 25, 2008

i have a job!

i just accepted a job here. what's especially awesome is that they were my #1 job choice!

i'm going to be a case manager with 55 clients. i'm basically a rep payee, even though it's not my job title. for those that don't know a rep payee receives social security and/or SSI payments for peole who can not directly manage their own money. i'll make sure their rent gets paid every month and then work on a weekly budget with them.

i'll be in a union too!! seiu local 1021. they support edwards for president. i'm in love with them already.

i start this monday. i'm extremely excited. i really liked the atmosphere, the vibe and the people in the office. i think this will be really good for me :)

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

attacked by boba

so sunday night i was in berkeley, walking to the bart station. i crossed the street halfway and stood on the median, and a big silver pickup truck stopped to let me cross the rest of the way. i wish i had let the truck go because after i crossed in front of it, the person in the passenger seat started pelting me. at first i thought that i was being hit by tiny rocks in my back and side, but when one of the tiny rocks stuck to me i realized that i was being assaulted with boba.




boba is the new spitball, apparently. watch your backs, you never know if you'll be the next victim of a boba attack. and honestly, picking sticky boba that's been in someone else's mouth off of your jacket while the truck-drivin' offenders speed away laughing at you is not fun. stop the madness!

Monday, January 21, 2008

i can't even begin...



i have no words for this horrific crime. i'm lucky to have met dan, and to have bonded with him over hair. he was so positive and caring and did not deserve what happened to him. you can read what i cannot express here. hopefully, the bpd will do their fucking jobs and find the person who took dan's life, though i've never been sure that they even know what their jobs are.

A memorial service for Daniel Yakovleff is scheduled for 5 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the Knowlton Memorial Hall on Route 44, next to Ashford Town Hall. The family has asked that donations in Daniel's name be made to Joshua's Trust Gifts and Contributions, P.O. Box 4, Mansfield Center, CT 06250.

Friday, January 18, 2008

never believe anything you hear on fox

it's no secret that bill o'reilly is a douchebag. now you can do something about it! go here and demand that bill-o stop insisting homeless veterans don't exist. as if john edwards was lying about the homelessness epidemic hundreds of thousands of veterans are faced with.

read more about it here.

and really, sign the letter to bill.

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

the man we call burning

i'm going to burning man. i bought my ticket today. i had to wait in an electronic "line" for 4.5 hours today. which basically means i kept the burning man ticket window open while i job searched and emailed resumes. i've wanted to do this since i can't even remember when, and now i am. yay! and yay for credit cards!

job search

i am so tired of looking for a job. will someone please hire me already? i'm adorable, i can make people smile, and i think i'm pretty good at some other things, too. now i just need someone to realize this and pay me for it. any takers?

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

librarians

i got a library card today!! now, i have a request for the several people i know that are studying to become future librarians: please don't treat your library customers like they are idiots whose only purpose is to ruin your life.

i was treated this way today by the woman sitting behind the information desk. silly me, i thought the information desk was where you went to get information, not a bad attitude from someone who could barely bother to look away from the computer screen.

but anyway, i am really excited to have a library card. screw netflix, free dvd rentals, here i come!

insomnia

ah, insomnia my old frienemy.

so i know that i have sleep disorders, i've been diagnosed with sleep apnea and often will only be able to sleep around 4 hours a night. what i sort of forgot about though, since it hadn't happened for a loooong time, was my insomnia. see, before i moved here to sf and didn't have a job (which, not surprisingly, leads to not having money), there was a certain herb smoked on a nightly basis that relaxed the body and the mind, allowing sleep to happen. now that i haven't had the dough to support my habit, i remember why i felt like i needed to smoke every night. because i do need to. since being here, every night that i don't smoke... i don't really fall asleep. sometimes i do in the wee hours, right before the sun comes up, but that leads to me sleeping in for most of the day and frankly, i have better things to do.

while i'm spending all this time not sleeping though, i've been having flashbacks of other times when i wasn't sleeping. i can remember being in middle school, it seems like every time i slept at my nana's house, i would be awake for hours, sometimes falling asleep a hour before it was time to wake up. sometimes i would sneak into her bathroom and steal her tylenol pm. other times i would just stare at the red numbers on the digital clock and make up math games with the numbers (nerdy, i know). sometimes i have these 'flashbacks' of lying awake in my bedroom at my parents house. i'd stare at this one glow-in-the-dark star that was above one of my windows and try to focus my thoughts on it as a way to make myself fall asleep.

in college, i tried so many different medications for sleep. some made me really mean and i still wasn't sleeping. i tried ambien. it was magnificent. at first. then i needed to take more and more pills to fall asleep. it got to a point where i was taking 4 pills before bed and not sleeping, which really messes you up, if you've heard those ambien stories. luckily, unlike some people i know, i did not get behind the wheel of a car or chat online with someone else's friends and have my child find me at the computer at ridiculous hours and have to put me to bed.

once i started smoking herb on a regular basis, i had no trouble falling and staying asleep. sure, the sleep was interrupted due to the sleep apnea, but i didn't know because i was sleeping. which i'm not doing now. i've been trying this homeopathic pill called calm's forte but i'd probably be better off just banging my head against the wall until i pass out. the bottle recommends taking 1-3 pills 1/2-1 hour before bedtime. so i took 4. i took them 5 hours ago. then i tried to sleep and couldn't. so i read a bit. then i took 3 more. then i tried to sleep again. not happening.

i think the most serious side effect of insomnia may be that it leads to ridiculously long, rambling blog posts that don;t get proofread before being posted. so, yeah. insomnia.

Monday, January 14, 2008

note to self

don't ever drink alcoholic beverages while on your laptop, lest the beverage end up in your laptop and then you need to borrow your old laptop back from your sister. yeah, don't do that.




damn.

Thursday, January 10, 2008

the silly's

so i've learned something about myself since moving here, and it's probably something that was present in my life before moving to sf, but i've just really started noticing it since i've been here. it is this : i heart giggling.

i don't know if it's living where i'm living, with who i'm living with, but i feel like i've giggled more here than i've ever giggled in my life.

and i like it.



Tuesday, January 8, 2008

balls

you know who has some serious balls? this guy:



89% of precincts reporting in new hampshire... gravel has 357 votes, and pledges to keep on keepin' on. balls. not even enough votes to get any percentage points and he's going to keep campaining, taking only enough time off to recover from a respiratory infection. balls. old balls, 77 year old balls, to be exact. i do like gravel, but the man is going to kill himself campaigning.

he did kick dodd's ass, as far as i'm concerned.


Monday, January 7, 2008

yoko makes me cry

i'm kind of an emotional person, in a way that i find to be very strange. i find that my emotions like to creep up on me and take me by surprise... and they're never around when i want them to be. for example, i didn't cry at my nana's funeral. i fully expected to, i had tissues ready in my pocket... just didn't happen. it doesn't mean that i didn't love my nana or that i'm not experiencing a huge void in my life since she's been gone. all it means is that i didn't cry.

as for my emotions sneaking up on me here's today's example ... just sitting on the muni looking through this week's guardian, i turned to page 3 and my heart jumped in my throat, my eyes filled with tears, and i had to shut the newspaper to stop from doing that sobbing noise that happens when you get all ferklempt but you're still trying to breathe. all because of this...



i guess peace really gets my emotions all worked up. or the thought of peace actually happening just evokes such strong feelings in me that i have to start crying on the muni.

when i finally pulled myself back together, i reopened the guardian to page 3 and saw this at the bottom...



it just figures, though. of all the people i admire that i've never met and will probably never meet, yoko has always elicited the most emotional response from me. well, specifically, the dynamic relationship that was john and yoko has always gotten me a bit choked up. i've stopped trying to understand it, and nowadays i just roll with the yoko tears. it makes me happy to know that if i ever need to release something and i can't do it on my own, all i have to do is watch some yoko videos online and i can cry like a baby. i kind of love it, now that i've accepted it. i urge everyone to imagine peace in 2008... and get in touch with those emotions, it helps.

good day sunshine



the weather was gorgeous today. it rained for four days straight but when i woke up today it was beautiful and sunny, so i decided to take a bike ride along ocean beach. best idea i've had all week. i was getting so stir crazy from the weather. sure, i went to berkeley last night but it was dark out. today i got my first dose of vitamin d from the sun in a while, and it felt sooo good.


i stopped about here to turn around because the road was getting sandy, i was riding toward the highway, and i thought there was no more bike path. turns out there was a path about 1/4 mile up the road, i'll have to do that next time. i looked across the road and realized where i was and contemplated getting mauled by a tiger, but decided against it for today.



anyhoo... it was an awesome 7.5 mi bike ride with spectacular views. i felt so lucky to be able to do that, i'm so happy to be here. i probably looked a little silly on my bike with a huge grin, talking to myself about how gorgeous the views were. yay san francisco.



i did kind of forget that getting back home was uphill for quite a stretch, which left my legs a little rubbery for a few minutes. i hope to get more and more used to the hills on my bike, as i get used to using those muscles and they get stronger.


Saturday, January 5, 2008

biggest sandwich ever



so i hadn't really planned on blogging about food. that was until i made this ginormous delicious sandwich today for lunch. i took one look at it and thought, "gawd, people have to see this thing". it was rather difficult to eat, but so yummy and well worth it. if you would like to enjoy your own ginormous sandwich, follow these simple layers, in order:

1 slice toasted sprouted whole wheat bread
1 slice almond cheese
sautéed green peppers and onions with s&p
1 slice toasted sprouted whole wheat bread
alfalfa sprouts
plum tomatoes, sliced with s&p
garden vegan gardenburger
ketchup / catsup
1 slice toasted sprouted whole wheat bread
plate

i suggest doing simple stretching exercises with your mouth before attempting to fit the sandwich in, as pulled muscles or cramping may occur.

dessert suggestion (what i had): good karma vegan chocolate peanut butter fudge rice cream.
yum.