More food

Spicy spicy, yummy yummy at Banana Leaf.

Happiest tummy of all time!

Currently, making a few of my long and life-saving lists and preparing for a ten-day adventure starting on Sunday! Oh my gosh.

Food tour of Los Angeles

Chewing, chewing, chewing




Cheesy mac and rib melt, and brie melt, from the Grilled Cheese Truck.



Paulette macarons: earl gray tea, caramel, passionfruit, caribbean chocolate, violet cassis, and rose.

I have been eating so many amazing things since coming down to visit, and it's only been three days!  We've also had pastor burritos with avocado from Cactus, guava cream cheese pie at Cafe Tropical, little tastes of four unbelievable burgers from Umami Burger (plus some superb sides), and a trip down memory lane at Clifton's.  And we've still got plans for the rest of the week: Singaporean food, frozen yogurt, french dips, bacon donuts, more burgers, Brazilian beef served on swords, and a chili dog burrito concoction that will evoke thirteen years old.  Currently in the middle of a never-ending food coma combined with some serious nostalgia, but that may be a good thing.  I have a ridiculously long plane flight in my very near future, and sleeping off a week of delicious food may be just the way to spend it.

Winter breaked

I have been, admittedly, very lazy lost in recuperation efforts since end of finals Thursday, to sleepy and heavy and light and laughter and latke Friday, in bed all day Saturday not even unpacked just curled in long johns and bloomers all Sunday, but Sunday night's to-do list becomes Monday afternoon's to-dos now that I'm out of bed.

But first, last night's leftover creme brulee breakfast.

Digital hibernation

I haven't been feeling too Internet-drawn lately, just doing the basic check email, check blogs, check my bank balance, and that's usually when I've checked out at work. Once I get home from a day of classes and world travels in scanning and staring at a computer screen, all I want to do is eat and finish homework and curl up until eight the next morning. But at least I have a camera:

Too much of a slump to type, suffice it to say doing well despite darkening days tinged with nostalgia. I've been missing a lot lately, and I guess my web-avoidance is an attempt to make a little more tolerable my "reminiscences of the day mixed with some memories from the past." I'm looking forward too some sort of return bumbling through this big world, dreaming of certain people and certain places and certain times in my life while acting out adolescently in the dark on the bridge and getting much too wibbly and excited by movies I watched when I was six.

Halloweenie

Winding down after a weekend of being wild, pumpkin patching and pumpkin carving and pumpkin seed roasting, free tacos and not-free Thai food, splicers and lots of Maxies but no monsters but nonetheless downtown in the most popular costume, long bus waits, big birthday cardigan-and-steak celebrations and lots of cheesecake, hurtling into another week of entropy.

Good weekend

As can probably be guessed, this last weekend was spent lolling doing very little but though we're back to our weekend routine of repose and whatever strikes, some things were a little out of the ordinarily. First, I spent a little Friday night alone time downtown running secret errands that I won't discuss at this venture because of a possible lurking someone with a looming birthday who every so often is reading this very blog when I lurkily peek over to see what he's doing on the computer. But I will say that my unpublishable activities downtown were quite successful.

For our second not-so-usual phenomena of a weekend, Pup planned our Saturday (whereas leaving the apartment is usually on a whim of mine). The next morning (or afternoon) when we rolled out of bed, a mushroom and slug hunt on the path below the apartments. Very good!

Very successful! Copious mushrooms and three whole banana slugs, two were even munchin' on a banana peel! Da doon, chuh. Unreal.

So, then, with mushrooms in tow (but banana slugs left right where they were), we thought it only fit to make spore prints... and pizza. Not mushroom pizza, though! We are only weekend mushroom hunters, and I have a lot of schooling to do before I'd feel confident enough to harvest my own mushrooms. But we did make pizza: fig, arugula, prosciutto, goat cheese on herb garlic crust, minus figs for picky Pup. But he will eat green beans, so small victory.

Then, in a completely unprecedented turn of events, we went out again on Sunday. Maybe struck with the urge to do somethings after our packed weekend in Davis, we ended up on two adventurscursions last weekend where we'd normally settle for one before dragging ourselves back to the apartment pooped and ready for some Food Network. But it was two this time--three, if you count our Friday night every other week excuse of grocery shopping to go treat ourselves to very cheap and very greasy Costco hot dogs. True, all we did was roam our way downtown to buy spices and butter and a large piece of heavy yellow paper so I could make green lentil soup with coconut and warm spices (with some chicken and chard and cumin and chili added to the recipe then topped with Greek yogurt and my first time making clarified butter! but no pictures because it is a little less than pretty) and the very last little bits of Halloween costumes.

All in all, a welcome respite and recharge, now ready to tackle this week of midterms, birthdays, and bumps in the night.

That I was planning, uh, I mean wishing, uh

Talking about funny cycles and life's continuing and puzzling serendipity--thinking about braids and how they never work right suddenly years of willing makes them happen very simply and easily one morning at work without washing hair and the warm weather outfit I thought out last cold night could actually be worn on sunny today or ending explosions to fall into Faint nostalgia in the music project with songs about babies while learning about pregnancy when I get a text from Ted (hi Ted!) asking how my alphabet's progressing or calling about my veggie box at the same time being called about my veggie box and retrieval with no camera but Pup's which doesn't have its couple cord so I had to take a picture of a picture just to say we got

gala apples

black mission figs

starkrimson pears

black grapes

green chard

napa cabbage

sugarpie pumpkin

green beans

summer squash

sweet peppers

red radishes and

garlic in our next two week's box! Things are working out quite all right today.

Catching up: at home

Catching up: on sleep, on homework, on eating apples and carrots and salads and water, on work, on would I like to draw clover leaf patterns (yes!), on would I like to meet sometime next week (yes! yes!), and on blogging.

Catching up: at my "first art show," and eating buffalo wings