Building an army, but rest assured, I will win even with the lack of one. It's that easy.
Love Always,
Me
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Monday, January 24, 2011
Yeah, We're Hella Stupid
Me: yeah well forget it, the little people in my mind are already filing the paperwork for why I hate you... oh wait they're done.
Him: whaaatt... nooooo (he's making this face, I assure you, -__-)
Me: yeah so YOU hang up now
Him: but you always hang up... it's gonna be weird
(after some more debate)
Him: okay fine...... (he hangs up)
(hang up spiel)
(45 seconds later I call back)
Me: you're right, that was weird. Okay I'll hang up.
Love Always,
Me
Him: whaaatt... nooooo (he's making this face, I assure you, -__-)
Me: yeah so YOU hang up now
Him: but you always hang up... it's gonna be weird
(after some more debate)
Him: okay fine...... (he hangs up)
(hang up spiel)
(45 seconds later I call back)
Me: you're right, that was weird. Okay I'll hang up.
Love Always,
Me
Girls Night Out
Lancy, Kristina, and I went on a much needed bonding night that involved about three different meals. Why yes, all in ONE night.
The first stop is at Little Star, which (according to Yelp) is in the "Western Addition/NOPA" district of San Francisco (I've lived here my whole life and have never heard anyone use those words to describe that area). The place has a pretty good vibe. Specials are written in chalk on boards at the top of the walls, there's a juke box, and the whole place is completely dimmed to the point where we could not determine Lancy's new hair color.
We started with a caprese salad.
It's pretty hard to mess this up. Needless to say, it's delicious if you're into this type of salad. I will say those tomatoes were particularly fresh!
This was their special for the night: meatballs with spinach, roasted bell peppers, ricotta, mushrooms, and spinach.
You have the option of choosing the deep dish option or the thin crust. We went with the thin crust. Let me tell you this pizza was pretty darn amazing! (I'm not sure if you know, but pizza is on the bottom of the list for me when it comes to good food.) What totally won me over were definitely the meatballs. They were just perfectly delicious. The crust could have used some more "thin" if you know what I mean.
After dinner, we made our way to a dessert&wine bar called Candy Bar (clever, no?). They have happy hour from 6pm-8pm, where certain drinks on the menu are around $3.
Here's our $2 sangria.
Bottom line: I do not recommend this. It was not chilled enough, but it was refreshing. It just lacked so much of what sangria is.
We had the Japanese cheesecake to much on. It was yums! For those of you who have never tried Japanese cheesecake, it's actually a cake and not a pie.
It is served with bread crumbs, guava sorbet, and honeydew pieces. The white chunky stuff on the top of the honeydew is some sort of frozen vodka concoction laced with sugar syrup and was presented in a smooth, shaved ice consistency. The best part is definitely the guava sorbet! I have never had guava flavored sorbet, but it was so smooth and not icy like typical sorbets. The cake is nothing special, if you've had your share of Japanese cheesecakes.
We each ordered a sparkling wine (which really means champagne haha) cocktail. I had a passion fruit one, Lancy a lavender(I think... I can't remember), and Kristina a strawberry one.
I think my passion fruit one was the best, hands down. The lavender one was light on flavor and the strawberry one tasted like someone spiked a strawberry Fanta.
We then headed to the Marina district and found ourselves at a place called Tacolicious. We chose this place based on two reasons (to be blamed on me). I was craving tacos and I noticed that this place happened to be really crowded (in my world, crowded = good restaurant... I think it's a good way to judge haha).
Here's the several sauces that were served! All yummy!
All the chips and salsa you can eat. Also yummy!
The amazing fish tacos and margarita! This was definitely the best part. They were super crispy and nothing but rainbows in your mouth. The margaritas were amazing as well.
The only thing about Tacolicious is that it's a little on the expensive side, but it was totally worth it.
Love Always,
Me
The first stop is at Little Star, which (according to Yelp) is in the "Western Addition/NOPA" district of San Francisco (I've lived here my whole life and have never heard anyone use those words to describe that area). The place has a pretty good vibe. Specials are written in chalk on boards at the top of the walls, there's a juke box, and the whole place is completely dimmed to the point where we could not determine Lancy's new hair color.
We started with a caprese salad.
It's pretty hard to mess this up. Needless to say, it's delicious if you're into this type of salad. I will say those tomatoes were particularly fresh!
This was their special for the night: meatballs with spinach, roasted bell peppers, ricotta, mushrooms, and spinach.
You have the option of choosing the deep dish option or the thin crust. We went with the thin crust. Let me tell you this pizza was pretty darn amazing! (I'm not sure if you know, but pizza is on the bottom of the list for me when it comes to good food.) What totally won me over were definitely the meatballs. They were just perfectly delicious. The crust could have used some more "thin" if you know what I mean.
After dinner, we made our way to a dessert&wine bar called Candy Bar (clever, no?). They have happy hour from 6pm-8pm, where certain drinks on the menu are around $3.
Here's our $2 sangria.
Bottom line: I do not recommend this. It was not chilled enough, but it was refreshing. It just lacked so much of what sangria is.
We had the Japanese cheesecake to much on. It was yums! For those of you who have never tried Japanese cheesecake, it's actually a cake and not a pie.
It is served with bread crumbs, guava sorbet, and honeydew pieces. The white chunky stuff on the top of the honeydew is some sort of frozen vodka concoction laced with sugar syrup and was presented in a smooth, shaved ice consistency. The best part is definitely the guava sorbet! I have never had guava flavored sorbet, but it was so smooth and not icy like typical sorbets. The cake is nothing special, if you've had your share of Japanese cheesecakes.
We each ordered a sparkling wine (which really means champagne haha) cocktail. I had a passion fruit one, Lancy a lavender(I think... I can't remember), and Kristina a strawberry one.
I think my passion fruit one was the best, hands down. The lavender one was light on flavor and the strawberry one tasted like someone spiked a strawberry Fanta.
We then headed to the Marina district and found ourselves at a place called Tacolicious. We chose this place based on two reasons (to be blamed on me). I was craving tacos and I noticed that this place happened to be really crowded (in my world, crowded = good restaurant... I think it's a good way to judge haha).
Here's the several sauces that were served! All yummy!
All the chips and salsa you can eat. Also yummy!
The amazing fish tacos and margarita! This was definitely the best part. They were super crispy and nothing but rainbows in your mouth. The margaritas were amazing as well.
The only thing about Tacolicious is that it's a little on the expensive side, but it was totally worth it.
Love Always,
Me
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Resolution
I will change my spending habits so that I am never forced to move back home to live with her. PERIOD.
Love Always,
Me
Love Always,
Me
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Donde Esta El Bano?
Be warned, there aren't that many pictures in this entry, because it's pretty much the same pictures of the same fabulous scenes haha.
My trip began at Oakland Airport where I met a woman with her four-year-old daughter. She whispered to me, "We're going to a magical place in Anaheim, but she (points to daughter) doesn't know yet." How do you beat that?
My 1.5 hour plane ride to Ontario consisted of two flamboyant men and a cup of spilled ice water everywhere -_-. Exciting, yes.
The plane landed at around 6:30, Rayland was late, and Southwest presented me with a slightly damaged suitcase.
Ojiya was our dinner destination! I was too excited to take pictures, but it's nothing you haven't seen before :). This restaurant is probably the best thing about Chino Hills.
There was a lot of rushing and packing for his family after that, a 2 hour nap, and off to the airport at 3AM. By the way, LA is freezing at this hour.
There was some sitting, a stop in Houston, and BAM! Welcome to San Jose, Costa Rica. We went to grab the rental.
Even though we were all exhausted, his father was ready to take on 50 adventures lol. He really wanted to see this volcano, so we began the drive (on many unpaved roads). The city is really poor, the streets barely paved, and it resembled something like the streets of China.
After 2 hours of driving, we arrive at a locked gate with a local trying really hard to tell us it will open manana. So we drove another 2 hours to the hotel, had dinner, and called it a night. The next day, we made the trek again. It was decided that Volcano Arenal would be the new destination.
For lunch, we stopped by a small town for lunch. This is volcano rice and it's served with a salad and fries haha.
Let me tell you something about both Costa Rica AND Panama... their beef is the best meat EVER and their vegetables are so bad (not fresh, not tasty, etc.) that you are crawling back to the states begging for some broccoli.
Another long car ride and $10/person later, we arrived to the observation point faced with this fabulous view of the volcano:
LOL. The weather is apparently crazy unpredictable over there (so says the guard at the watch point), and they never talk about it.
After, we got on our way to the fabulous Riu Guanacaste. The majority of this trip revolves around sitting in the car lol.
We finally arrive at the wonderful Riu Guanacaste after what seems like an eternity!
Calling the hotel amazing is a HUGE understatement. See for yourself here. The beach was amazing, except the sand is a tad on the dirty side.
I think the calming breezes of Hawaii is a good comparison :). It was pretty awesome. There was food all day long. When you get tired of the sand, you can hang by the pool or dip into the jacuzzi. All inclusive also means open bar all day long and a whole bunch of water activities (Rayland and I kayaked... well... I kayaked (I know... amazing!) and he enjoyed the ride). The only downside really is that there's nothing to do at night unless you want to "disco" with the old people or drop some dollars in the casino.
So after my suitcase got tossed around through several airports, it was pretty much destroyed. Right before we flew to Panama, I had it plastic wrapped.
It was pretty whacked -__-. I mean, it was $12 to throw my suitcase on a machine to get plastic wrapped. On top of that, there was a tax for tourists to leave the country.
Anyway, we flew first class to Panama and it was only an hour, but they served what they called a snack anyway. Voila! Check out the smoked salmon salad with refreshing orange juice :).
Here's the view from my hotel room at the Sheraton in Panama.
We arrived at night and pretty much just knocked out.
The next day we went to the Panama Canal and paid $5/person to pretty much stand for 30 minutes waiting for a boat to go through locks and then watch water drain slowly for another 30 minutes.
The rest of the trip consisted of a lot more sightseeing that isn't all that interesting. We did go to this mini zoo in a crater at the bottom of a volcano, but you all know how I feel about animals and nature... I was clearly too preoccupied with not touching anything to take pictures. :)
Panama is pretty much this tiny little country with nothing to see but the canal. They did have an enormous mall with every brand you can name. I was not allowed to buy anything because Rayland was convinced that all the products were questionable (he saw some special on TV about the sale of fake Bulgari jewelry (in supposedly legit Bulgari stores in several countries).
It was all relaxing and tiring. His mother claims that only vacations planned by his dad are so exhausting haha.
Love Always,
Me
My trip began at Oakland Airport where I met a woman with her four-year-old daughter. She whispered to me, "We're going to a magical place in Anaheim, but she (points to daughter) doesn't know yet." How do you beat that?
My 1.5 hour plane ride to Ontario consisted of two flamboyant men and a cup of spilled ice water everywhere -_-. Exciting, yes.
The plane landed at around 6:30, Rayland was late, and Southwest presented me with a slightly damaged suitcase.
Ojiya was our dinner destination! I was too excited to take pictures, but it's nothing you haven't seen before :). This restaurant is probably the best thing about Chino Hills.
There was a lot of rushing and packing for his family after that, a 2 hour nap, and off to the airport at 3AM. By the way, LA is freezing at this hour.
There was some sitting, a stop in Houston, and BAM! Welcome to San Jose, Costa Rica. We went to grab the rental.
Even though we were all exhausted, his father was ready to take on 50 adventures lol. He really wanted to see this volcano, so we began the drive (on many unpaved roads). The city is really poor, the streets barely paved, and it resembled something like the streets of China.
After 2 hours of driving, we arrive at a locked gate with a local trying really hard to tell us it will open manana. So we drove another 2 hours to the hotel, had dinner, and called it a night. The next day, we made the trek again. It was decided that Volcano Arenal would be the new destination.
For lunch, we stopped by a small town for lunch. This is volcano rice and it's served with a salad and fries haha.
Let me tell you something about both Costa Rica AND Panama... their beef is the best meat EVER and their vegetables are so bad (not fresh, not tasty, etc.) that you are crawling back to the states begging for some broccoli.
Another long car ride and $10/person later, we arrived to the observation point faced with this fabulous view of the volcano:
LOL. The weather is apparently crazy unpredictable over there (so says the guard at the watch point), and they never talk about it.
After, we got on our way to the fabulous Riu Guanacaste. The majority of this trip revolves around sitting in the car lol.
We finally arrive at the wonderful Riu Guanacaste after what seems like an eternity!
Calling the hotel amazing is a HUGE understatement. See for yourself here. The beach was amazing, except the sand is a tad on the dirty side.
I think the calming breezes of Hawaii is a good comparison :). It was pretty awesome. There was food all day long. When you get tired of the sand, you can hang by the pool or dip into the jacuzzi. All inclusive also means open bar all day long and a whole bunch of water activities (Rayland and I kayaked... well... I kayaked (I know... amazing!) and he enjoyed the ride). The only downside really is that there's nothing to do at night unless you want to "disco" with the old people or drop some dollars in the casino.
So after my suitcase got tossed around through several airports, it was pretty much destroyed. Right before we flew to Panama, I had it plastic wrapped.
It was pretty whacked -__-. I mean, it was $12 to throw my suitcase on a machine to get plastic wrapped. On top of that, there was a tax for tourists to leave the country.
Anyway, we flew first class to Panama and it was only an hour, but they served what they called a snack anyway. Voila! Check out the smoked salmon salad with refreshing orange juice :).
Here's the view from my hotel room at the Sheraton in Panama.
We arrived at night and pretty much just knocked out.
The next day we went to the Panama Canal and paid $5/person to pretty much stand for 30 minutes waiting for a boat to go through locks and then watch water drain slowly for another 30 minutes.
The rest of the trip consisted of a lot more sightseeing that isn't all that interesting. We did go to this mini zoo in a crater at the bottom of a volcano, but you all know how I feel about animals and nature... I was clearly too preoccupied with not touching anything to take pictures. :)
Panama is pretty much this tiny little country with nothing to see but the canal. They did have an enormous mall with every brand you can name. I was not allowed to buy anything because Rayland was convinced that all the products were questionable (he saw some special on TV about the sale of fake Bulgari jewelry (in supposedly legit Bulgari stores in several countries).
It was all relaxing and tiring. His mother claims that only vacations planned by his dad are so exhausting haha.
Love Always,
Me
Monday, January 3, 2011
Update
I'm back from my cool trip to Costa Rica and Panama :).
It's a new year.... did you know?
Friday turned 1 on the 30th!
Things I will do:
- Find a way to pull it together, fix this blog's appearance, and finally tell you guys about the trip and more cosmetic goodness.
- DRINK MORE WATER. OMGAH.
- Find a way to squeeze Friday into my house, because mother won't be happy with squeezing in an apartment's amount of stuff into my room haha.
- Yeah, I'm really going to drink more water I swear!
To conclude the random vomit of words, I... am something else about this year.
Love Always,
Me
It's a new year.... did you know?
Friday turned 1 on the 30th!
Things I will do:
- Find a way to pull it together, fix this blog's appearance, and finally tell you guys about the trip and more cosmetic goodness.
- DRINK MORE WATER. OMGAH.
- Find a way to squeeze Friday into my house, because mother won't be happy with squeezing in an apartment's amount of stuff into my room haha.
- Yeah, I'm really going to drink more water I swear!
To conclude the random vomit of words, I... am something else about this year.
Love Always,
Me
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