me?
any free time from now until after xmas will be spent studying for the GRE, attempting to write a college essay, and figuring out my life goals. that leaves little time for miscellaneous crafties. fortunately, the holidays will be here and gone before we know it. until then, maybe outfit posts. but that's probably it.
happy hiatus.
Monday, November 23, 2009
the "im wearing pants!" clothing post
- shirt: urban outfitters [and its a nice green. not a washed-out black]
- black jeans: pacsun
- shoes: old navy
- earrings: handmade
- coat: dillards [mom was buying me calvin klein long before i became obsessed]
- pin: target
- dress: h&m
- leggings: unknown [and yes not pants i know]
- boots: target
- scarf: some shop downport [pj village]
- sweater: dkny
- long black tank: h&m
- shiny opaque leggings: forever 21 [yes leggings as pants. for shame. BUT MY ASS WAS NOT HANGING OUT]
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
blond restaurant
for my birthday [and cos amazing long island restaurant week falls on my birthday], my sister took me to blond restaurant of miller place. their website is a little dumpy looking, but their prixe fixe menu for restaurant week was pretty effing amazing.
i started with the crispy calamari with asian vegetable slaw and wasabi aioli. in retrospect i should have ordered the wasabi on the side. i really really do not like the weird not quite spicy burning numbing feel of horseradish. but the rest of the salad was perfect and i even ate some of the tentacley parts. crunchy and fried deliciousness with just a hint of spice.
for the main course i ordered the braised short rib on mashed potato followed by a slice of raspberry cheesecake. never have i had both dinner and dessert melt in my mouth. and i will leave the description at that. AMAZING.
leah ordered the house salad, mushroom risotto [that i actually tried and liked even though i abhor the idea of eating fungi..the great recyclers of the forest floor], and chocolate mousse.
the decor of blond was a bit odd. i felt a little awkward trying to take pics besides the ridiculously dark photo of my fried salad so no documentation. it looked a bit like they had finished remodeling the restaurant [we were told under new management] and then taken random bits of half dried latex paint and thrown it at the walls. perhaps in a style that jackson pollock would have come to at the ripe old age of 98 with cataracts and palsy, had he not died an untimely death.
like the previous sentence, it tried, and failed.
but umm given the givens, i would recommend blond to anyone looking for a delicious but overpriced dinner in a rather snooty-but-trying-to-be-more-bourgoise atmosphere.
and a week late [def not complaining] the guys at work bought me gigantic belated birthday cupcakes!
my hand is there for scale. and as kt can tell you i have gigantic man hands to match my monkey arms. each cupcake [out of a box of 20] weighs .4 pounds. put that in your pipe and smoke it.
closeup of chocolatey swirly goodness. the orange frosting was actually orange flavored too! delish.
i started with the crispy calamari with asian vegetable slaw and wasabi aioli. in retrospect i should have ordered the wasabi on the side. i really really do not like the weird not quite spicy burning numbing feel of horseradish. but the rest of the salad was perfect and i even ate some of the tentacley parts. crunchy and fried deliciousness with just a hint of spice.
for the main course i ordered the braised short rib on mashed potato followed by a slice of raspberry cheesecake. never have i had both dinner and dessert melt in my mouth. and i will leave the description at that. AMAZING.
leah ordered the house salad, mushroom risotto [that i actually tried and liked even though i abhor the idea of eating fungi..the great recyclers of the forest floor], and chocolate mousse.
the decor of blond was a bit odd. i felt a little awkward trying to take pics besides the ridiculously dark photo of my fried salad so no documentation. it looked a bit like they had finished remodeling the restaurant [we were told under new management] and then taken random bits of half dried latex paint and thrown it at the walls. perhaps in a style that jackson pollock would have come to at the ripe old age of 98 with cataracts and palsy, had he not died an untimely death.
like the previous sentence, it tried, and failed.
but umm given the givens, i would recommend blond to anyone looking for a delicious but overpriced dinner in a rather snooty-but-trying-to-be-more-bourgoise atmosphere.
and a week late [def not complaining] the guys at work bought me gigantic belated birthday cupcakes!
my hand is there for scale. and as kt can tell you i have gigantic man hands to match my monkey arms. each cupcake [out of a box of 20] weighs .4 pounds. put that in your pipe and smoke it.
closeup of chocolatey swirly goodness. the orange frosting was actually orange flavored too! delish.
crochet inspirations
when we unceremoniously ripped out the remnants of my dead garden..toni saved the green tomatoes which have since been slowly ripening on our front porch.
she also pointed out the ANGRY TOMATOOO
they inspired more autumny crochetage
closeup of eggplant's old man pooch
and this little doggy that has kind of creepy archie-like eyes. no pupils. oh well. he stands up atleast!
she also pointed out the ANGRY TOMATOOO
they inspired more autumny crochetage
closeup of eggplant's old man pooch
and this little doggy that has kind of creepy archie-like eyes. no pupils. oh well. he stands up atleast!
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
ungardening
saturday [unlike 65 degree sunday] was perfect for doing yard work. 50, sunny, and just breezy enough to not get too hot but not too much as to blow leaves around. so i delegated toni and jason to yard-help-duty. we cleared out the garden in preparation for next year, toni and jason raked the front yard, and i reorganized the garage for storage, access to stuff in storage, and potential future beer pongage.
150 daffodil bulbs [25 tulips elsewhere]
flower bed minus dead flowers
dun dunnn. mixture of daffodils and tulips waiting to be planted
brussels sprout plant enjoying its last few moments in the sun. they were planted waaaay too late and mostly just sat around being cabbagey instead of sprouty.
daffodils are a member of the onion family. i prefer to eat neither. squirrels on the other hand have since dug up a few as a tasty treat.
that's a cat butt. presumably of the momma frank.
150 daffodil bulbs [25 tulips elsewhere]
flower bed minus dead flowers
dun dunnn. mixture of daffodils and tulips waiting to be planted
brussels sprout plant enjoying its last few moments in the sun. they were planted waaaay too late and mostly just sat around being cabbagey instead of sprouty.
daffodils are a member of the onion family. i prefer to eat neither. squirrels on the other hand have since dug up a few as a tasty treat.
that's a cat butt. presumably of the momma frank.
clothes
my "i actually have a meeting with a client about an engineering project before the asshole stood me up!" outfit
- necklace: ny&co
- cardigan: ann taylor
- tshirt: calvin klein [has weird blue stains from being washed and then dried with jeans ::ahem::]
- belt: glassons
- skirt: theory [neiman marcus last call outlet]
- footless tights: macys
- shoes: kenneth cole
- shirt: old navy
- necklace: steve & barry [sarah jessica parker line, believe it or not]
- dress: gap outlet
- leggings: uniqlo
- boots: clarks
Monday, November 2, 2009
how to make homemade pasta
step 1: be inspired by distant relative [jim this is all your fault]
step 2: wait 3-4 years
step 3: buy pasta machine
step 4: wait another 2 months
step 5: find a table/counter in the kitchen the vise will actually grab onto
step 6: mix 2 C flour, 2 eggs, and pinch o' salt in kitchenaid to avoid floury kitchen explosion
step 7: promptly overmix first batch
step 8: knead first batch into blobby mess
step 9: let dough rest [nearly 1 pound] for an hour while repeating steps 6-9 minus the overmixing step
step 10: roll and cut pasta
step 11: test boil
step 12: admire lengths of spaghetti
step 13: admire and eat cooked pasta
step 14: repeat steps 10-13 until full to bursting
step 15: clean up pasta remnant graveyard and remainder of floury kitchen explosion.
step 16: realize why jim started this process at 1pm...instead of 730pm.
step 2: wait 3-4 years
step 3: buy pasta machine
step 4: wait another 2 months
step 5: find a table/counter in the kitchen the vise will actually grab onto
step 6: mix 2 C flour, 2 eggs, and pinch o' salt in kitchenaid to avoid floury kitchen explosion
step 7: promptly overmix first batch
step 8: knead first batch into blobby mess
step 9: let dough rest [nearly 1 pound] for an hour while repeating steps 6-9 minus the overmixing step
step 10: roll and cut pasta
step 11: test boil
step 12: admire lengths of spaghetti
step 13: admire and eat cooked pasta
step 14: repeat steps 10-13 until full to bursting
step 15: clean up pasta remnant graveyard and remainder of floury kitchen explosion.
step 16: realize why jim started this process at 1pm...instead of 730pm.
Sunday, November 1, 2009
hello halloween!
our fb party invite [badtz maru, chococat, keroppi, hello kitty]
close up
full costume regalia, made from scratch for under $20 a person.
originally i was going to be the angry penguin and leah was going to be hello kitty. unfortunately, while veeeeery easy to sew polartech is impossibly unforgiving. and i was sick on friday which even after copious amounts of water, ibuprofen, coffee and 13 hours of sleep continued into saturday. and sick + bloaty + bleeh = not fitting into costume. so we switched. and i ended up wearing pink tulle. eep. the end.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
