*831 - :)

Besame.

*830 - on a special day

An impromptu midnight Weggies run was long overdue. There's something quite thrilling about skidding happily down empty aisles and taking your time to sniff the cheese, peruse the cereal, and prod the avocados to your heart's content.

What began as a let's swing by Wegmans for some cheese and crackers to go with the wine became a full-blown $70 grocery trip! Which culminated in ...

A fruit-cheese-fondue platter with strawberries, grapes, crackers, brie, cute little marshies, and oozy melty chocolate



Mango salsa and guacamole dip: sweet, salty, and tangy all at once



Bruschetta with toasted tomatoes, a splash of balsamic vinegar and basil, and a generous grating of cheese



A pat of cream cheese covered with smoked salmon and topped with capers on a cracker



With some French chardonnay.

Decadent, really, for a 2 am snack. But everyone deserves a little indulgence on a special occasion, yes? :)

Results: round happy tummies, leftover ingredients for a ridiculously complex Sunday brunch, and a hankering for a better camera that would capture my culinary delights. Now for some more of those chocolate-dipped strawberries ...

*829 - rulloff was a murderer!

This made getting up worth it:





Eggs Alaska (i.e. Benedict plus salmon and bacon) with home fries on a sunny weekend morning (well, afternoon). Mmm.

*828 - what a baby!

So annoyed adsfjkl;adfs;fadkjl@! Seriously. You are a walking caricature of Immaturity.

*827 - handmade ravioli

Joining the ranks of "Interesting Things To Make From Scratch Once In Your Lifetime But Never Again" is ...





Homemade shrimp ricotta asiago ravioli--that is, if you don't have a pasta machine. (It's pretty fun otherwise!)

Delicious though; watching N gobble it up in pure bliss was almost worth it. Kinda. Maybe. Well. Anything to make A happy :)

Handmade-ravioli-sans-pasta-machine is right up there alongside donuts-sans-someone-to-mop-up-an-oily-kitchen-after-you-make-a-mess, though also undeniably delicious. Mmm.

*826 - any recommendations?

Canon G11?

*825 - i miss you

Come back!!!

-

Also, ever since I checked out Steve Madden men's loafers online a few weeks ago to update myself with what is chic and what is not in the Men's World, ads have been popping up incessantly in all manner of places. Creepy. This is the type of marketing we talk about in IMC class.

*824 - someone tell me why

Sometimes I just want to
Get away
Far far away
Far far far away
But then I always come back
Because it is never anyone's fault
But mine
Because all I want
Is for things to be the way they
Once were
Once upon a time
It feels so long ago
It feels too long ago
It has been too long
Why has it been so long
Why is it so hard
To just be happy?

*823 - soon

3.5 hours from now and one of the craziest weeks of my life will taper off nicely into a soothing weekend doing little else but catching up on all the work I have missed out on the past weeks. Just fantastic. I don't even know if I'm being sarcastic or not.

Now, to put on my suit and heels and drag a giant poster board up the slope ...

*822 - a haircut is in order.

Time to swing by NYC one of these weekends.

*821 - hungry

All I've had to eat today is half a half portion of pasta and an iced coffee. Add that to 4 hours of classes, 4.5 hours of dance, 2.5 hours of standing around collecting restaurant data = a very grumpy Evelyn.

Mexican chips and jellybeans aren't particularly satisfying; in fact, they are making me even unhappier.

*820 - hyperventilate

Want ... to ... make ... bread ... but ... out of FLOUR ...

Noooo!

*819 - tacos and beer

My souvenir: 40 itchy bug bites (from a combination of critters). Lovely trip, nonetheless :)

*818 - spring is here!!

Off to Mexico for the ... fourth time. I should get a loyalty card.

Puerto Vallarta, here we come :D

*817 - fake oyako-don

My version of oyako-don that included a mishmash of everything Asian in my kitchen (oyster sauce, soy sauce, sesame oil, unagi sauce, etc). Completely non-authentic, especially with the brown rice (healthy, pls) but it looked real enough. About its taste though ... haha. Tasted like a (delicious) Asian-flavored chicken omelette.



Oh well, what is one to do when one has sudden Asian food cravings in the middle of the night? At least it looked cute--that's half the victory won in my opinion.

*817 - best utensil

Eating lunch with a most classy utensil: the plastic spork.

*816 - asdfjkl;

I am certainly a fool sometimes:

Skipping an entire 20% of my exam because I thought it was an optional choice between questions;
Skipping the first lecture of a course that began today because I thought it began after spring break;
And venting all of it on the person who deserves it the least.

Frustrated.

Many things looming on my mind. All those informational interviews I have yet to schedule, case study tomorrow, presentation on Wednesday, two more midterms on Thursday, churning out my thesis experiment before break begins, writing two papers due in the middle of break (so I should do them now), having to go to dance classes when all my body wants to do is to take time off to recover from the painful 4 nights of performances--basically getting my life in order.

I enjoy challenge; I constantly inundate myself with work and busy-ness and I love it; I bring everything voluntarily upon myself; I know that everything is going to be okay in the end and I'll come out stronger and happier-

But I am just frustrated for now. At myself.

*815 - cute food

These are so cute they are melting me into a puddle of goo :)









I have come to (perhaps falsely) expect things like cupcakes and cakes to be cute (or, at least, prettily done) but what overwhelms and paralyzes me with cuteness-related fuzzy feelings is unexpected cuteness like PANDAS FLOATING IN CUP NOODLES (!!!).

From Epicute!

*814 - what i lose sleep over

For once (kind of), I know what I want to do with my life
I'm trying my best; I want to get there (badly)

*813 - (but i'm still happy)

So many things to worry about
that there's no time to worry