pun-tacular

a feast fit for royalty.

it’s okay, because i’m working out. just kidding, that doesn’t make it really okay. but it’s soooo goooood.

i’ve been trying all the different machines (i always have to concentrate when i type the word ‘machine’ because my hands or my mind or both want to type ‘maching’ or ‘machings’).

i’m learning a lot.

it’s great. going to the gym is the best thing for me at this time.
it is a good thing.

i have a round face and a not-so-strong chin plus this taken using flash from a low angle does not work well for my look.
but i still think it’s worth blogging.

i’m looking better, tho. i mainly need to continue to burn off fat and work my muscles to make them stronger. it’s a great and worthy way to spend one’s time and truly beneficial. almost really we should feel an obligation to (with pleasure) work our bodies and focus on them and mold them into the best that they can be.

right?

it increases quality of life, mood, posture, mobility, etc. and when zombies attack, YOU’LL be READY! RAWR!!!!!

put it into context

these scallops were insanely delicious.
sweet, firm and scrumptious with an amazing sauce.

so that movie wouldn’t play correctly, Mangus? was it called? and what i did see of it didn’t interest me that much, but it could have also been because it wouldn’t play right.

so i took it back and rented the Rum Diary.

thank you for your concern

right now i am putting dark brown henna on just the roots area, like the top four inches of my hair.
people might find that strange to do since red is so pretty why would i want to darken it? well. a few reasons. one: i have free henna which happens to be dark brown. i am too lazy and cheap to get a different one. but i also enjoy the look of dark roots fading to light tips so booyah. heheh. jk.

i dunno, it’s just something to do plus i have gray hairs and they bug me. i have actually pulled a few out, they are all curly and short and they stick out from my head. i’m gonna have einstein hair when i grow up. haha
i mean old.

i’ve been renting movies lately and not liking them and wondering why people put so much money into these movies and the movies just suck. blah. so what did i rent today? let me see…

oh yeah, a movie called Mangus. i remember now, i was feeling pressured at the redbox machine like the person behind me was scrutinizing my every move. i had to hurry up and pick somemthing so that is what i picked. it almost looked like it wasn’t going to play and i was going to be so so sad.

my back has been so jacked now for about a week. i mean, it’s always jacked but it’s way down in my pelvic area somewhere, i don’t know. in my hip. maybe it’s from moving. i hope it will settle down. it makes everything difficult except for lying down.

apparently this movie is aimed at ‘the gays’
lol.
well, it is!
i’m just saying.
time to rinse my hair and take a shower.
be back soon with more.

i just ate a huge burrito.
i cannot control myself around food.
i have a problem.

tacos

i’ve been trying to get back into my old ‘whole body’ mentality and trying to remember to take all my supplements. especially since i have really been unpacking. in the last place i lived, i never really unpacked my boxes. i just put them in the garage and lived in denial about them.  i have SO much stuff and a lot of it is supplements and body care products from my last ‘job position’ in reno.

i am starting to use progesterone cream. i’m gonna try it out for the next two weeks before aunt flo comes to visit. we’ll see if that helps my rage-a-holism this month. it got kind of out of hand last month, mostly just at work.

i’ve been doing well since then because i am happier, now that i live in a better place and have a wonderful man in my life, plus a couple of really great friends. and a new-to-me car, now. things are looking up, for sure.

all the blossoms are out on the trees and that means time for carrie to sneeze. so i’m taking a Gaia Herbs supplement called Aller-Leaf.

ate this on haight. i’m still trying to use up all the pics i took in the city.

the bar.

okay now to the good stuff!

we ate at this wonderful place called the Alembic.

 

there was this guy sitting outside our window on the planter box. he was ‘sleeping’. our waitress went out and asked him to leave. she seemed pretty perturbed.

 

i could eat a whole jar of these! pickled quail eggs. yum yum!

i still have those little ‘skewer’ things in my purse. HA. i am weird like that. i hold onto strange little souvenirs and that is why i am a hoarder.

i had a drink which contained absinthe. it was good.

 

jerk spiced duck hearts with pickled pineapple. too good. gone in a flash!

 

and the bone marrow money shot! it was very fatty. is bone marrow fatty?

it was great.

 

that was all we had that time but we went back later for a hot dog.

 

a really yummy hot dog.

 

jason is a foodie, too. YAY!

 

one evening we found this wonderful situation of world class food carts called OFF THE GRID

 

def the place to be.

 

one of everything, please!

 

we had asian asada (my fave), roast duck, and wu shu char shui.

they were all wonderful but i think we were just totally over-stimulated by this point! i don’t know how bourdain and zimmern do it without getting burnt out and having everything start tasting the same.

i know bourdain starves himself before he goes on a shoot. like, he doesn’t eat until he does the scene. know what i mean?

 

i found these two tarot cards on the sidewalk while we were out walking.

i assumed they must have been a message to me from the universe.

 

that car is exactly what my first car was. an old BMW from the 1970′s. maybe it IS my old car?

 

i know i should smile when i am doing this but i usually feel really awkward and self-conscious when i am taking my picture in a public place like that, so it shows. heh.

so, that is pretty much all of the haight street adventure photos.

there might be a few stragglers coming up but not many.

phewf.

onto something new, eh!?

yah.

mustard ‘n mashed potatoes

omg. everyone is in a conspiracy to make me gain 1200 lbs.

no’m sayin’?

nobody likes that as much as i do.
oh well. i can’t get enough of it for the time being.
no’m sayin’?
haha
sorry

heirloom ‘maters.

so, this lovely smoothie was for breakfast, to balance out the delightfully sinful dinner.

homemade smoothie all fruit: strawberry, mango, pineapple, banana, orange… plus coconut milk and almond milk mostly because it was too thick and needed to be smoothed out.

yellow.
the freesia will smell wonderful soon.

couldn’t resist.

my sister found this in a thrift store.
wow.

i really should stop going to frozen yogurt.
it’s time to reign in my eating situation!

time to go

going to see my friend’s new apartment.
inspiration for me to move!
i can get a place that’s cheaper than what i am paying now and is WAY better.

a place with a locking door, a place with a community kitchen, a place in a cool, old area of downtown sac… a place where i am not watched with an eagle eye every second.

i don’t really like having other people take my photo.
it’s always such an awkward experience.
and “oh no!” the dreaded water bottle.

all i ever do is go out to eat.

durrrrr

spying on the kitchen.

good. thank you.

a wise guy, eh?

this is my friend’s bird, Josie.
he’s a boy bird.

he’s not a big fan of me, tho.

see his crazy bird eye?

my friend went on a little trip to new mexico and she brought me back this balinese horse/donkey/pegasus. he has both wings, but they are not pictured here.

since i’m all about going for walks in nature these days, we did.

this reminded me of morrissey.

lots of bridges ’round here.

after our walk, we went to her place.

she has this really cool snow globe. her place is really cool and i wish it were my place.

here is what she made for dinner. very nice.

salmon, garlicky greens & sweet potatoes.

sea urchin!

went out for some of the best sushi i’ve yet to have (had) lol.

a very hopping joint.

that guy was cute.
just an observation.

oh my goodness.

sea urchin, uni. like having the actual living sea burst into your mouth i envisioned tide pools, ernest hemingway. the works.

unbelievable.

quails eggs and salmon roe.
tasty.
salty.
divine!

the black and white.
outstanding!

pepparkaka

went over to my friend Gisela’s house after work. she has this tree on her wall. so cool. her little place is really neat!
and she has a parrot. he’s cool. his name is Josie.
i didn’t get any photos of him because he is skittish about photos.

her eensy weensy little kitchen

she asked me if i like bacon on my burgers. i said yes.
she fried it, chopped it up and put it IN the hamburger patty.
innovative.

aw, i’ve never seen anyone temp a hamburger after they cook it at home. cute. she went to culinary school, you see.

pardon me, but do you happen to have any grey poupon? hahaha
not really that funny, but still.
she said this is homemade mustard.
to be honest with you, i only like yellow mustard, not so much the fancier stuff. but it’s good, too.

what’s the lemon for, you may wonder.

why, for the tequila, of course. bahaha. i didn’t really drink it out of the bottle. just kidding. no, i was just kidding but then she said it looked like i was doing something naughty to the bottle.
anyway, it’s just a joke! relax.

$200 for this bed. i kind of want it.

so, i was decorating the one gingerbread house, but i had not yet started on decorating the second house and because of the moisture in the air, that un-decorated house just collapsed. it got all soft. i guess the glue and added decorations on the decorated house are holding it together somehow. psh. i’d better hurry up and finish decorating the good one before it collapses, too!

abundance

ok so this one is called the Johnny Cash sandwich. sliced sourdough.
very tasty. that was my lunch yesterday.

i went to the Folsom Market Street Fair yesterday after eating half my sandwich. uh-oh. tons of stuff to taste. fun! those cheeses were delish. nice neckerchief.

omg their krauts were amazing. i thought my photo would help me remember the name. i don’t. but they will be in our store’s pickle bar and believe you me, i will be buying their stuff. the curry one and the dill one? so good. i love me some kraut.

he was just setting up. i wasn’t able to stay to hear his performance.

BEEKEEPING IS FUN!

these things are incredible. raw macaroons. so yum!! made with cold-pressed extra virgin coconut oil so they actually BURN fat!

they took a break right before i was trying to take a photo of them carving it.

the cracker has Ancho Chili jelly with cream cheese. mmmmmm.
and the cup is an apple pie.

jujubees. they taste like a really dry apple that also tastes like a pear.

i made a really cool video of myself in the photo booth. you can watch it here.
i’m such a dork. seriously. it’s embarrassing.

work has been interesting lately.
so has my life.

my horrorscopes have been so great lately, too.

today:

“You feel increasing pressure to make a decision, and romance or finances are feeling the intensity of this focus. What to do! Follow your instincts on this one, not what appears on the surface as you know the true path. Fear of the unknown is no excuse to ignore the inevitable. Loss only opens brand new doors.”

so apt. every day, too.