Musician of the Day

DAVID BOWIE

He scared the shit out of me after watching Labyrinth as a seven-year-old. Then I watched it a few years later and laughed my booty off. And my goodness, his music is just brilliant. 

This Week's Hero

Elvis Presley, you sexy manbeast.

Maybe it's the pouty lips? Or his perfect hair? Or those dreamy blue eyes? I'm actually somewhat creeped out by how flawless his skin is, kinda makes him look like Barbie. But I can look past it.

In Preparation for Sunny Days...

My friend showed me the Beach Boys vocal harmonies and I remember him saying that the vocals are all done by Brian Wilson. I don't know if that second part is true, but listen to how great it sounds. (p.s. I normally despise the Beach Boys)







makes me want to join an a cappella group... 


in fact....

Belly Talk

So, I don't know the first thing about proper cooking etiquette, but that doesn't matter... today I made the best salad ever.

I'll tell you what I did...I sauteed a ton of mushrooms and onions together with some salt and pepper. While that was cooking I cut up some iceberg lettuce (I recently realized that I really don't like spinach, which I was sad about because it's the healthier option) tomato,  and red and green bell pepper. Then I sprinkled on some goat cheese, added the cooked mushrooms and onions and drizzled balsamic vinegar on top of it all! hahaha, I took a picture of it, but it didn't do any justice so I'm not going to show it to you.

BUT, I will show you my other creations:

Veggie sandwich with goat cheese and grilled eggplant, onion, and bell pepper. 

Homemade pizza bagels! 

I basically use the same ingredients for everything I make (because I'm a poor college student). But it's crazy what sauteed veggies can do for any meal. I have a theory that they make everything automatically classy (and we all know how important it is to look classy). Oh, and the same goes for goat cheese. But since it's expensive I usually never buy it. 

and, if you were wondering....Yes, I do realize how lame this post is 

Loving the Uke

The weather has been beautiful in Portland for the past two days; sunny and warm. It's making me really sleepy and surprisingly homesick. I'm really excited to go back for summer, mainly because I'm soooo over of not having a job. I'm planning on working ALOT this summer. That is, if I can get a job. I'm not coming back until mid-June so who knows what will be available. But it would be ideal if I could cocktail again and train to bartend, but the chances of that happening seem slim for some reason. I would go back to the Flame but it seems sketchy.

I have a few major goals this summer:

1. Learn to play the Ukulele. Reasons being:










2. Learn to sew. Both Allison and Taylor are fashion majors, so I'm gonna hop on the bandwagon. Plus, I have sooo many cute shirts and jeans that would be sooo much cuter if I could alter them. 


3. Write a creative-nonfiction book


4. Read the Lord of the Rings Trilogy 


5. Work at least 25 hrs a week and do well in my summer school class =) 


I guess all my "major" goals are pretty trivial, haha. But, I'm really looking forward to the free time. I've never felt more burnt out with school. I honestly don't know how I'm going to do another year. (dreading it). hmm, it'd be pretty great to take a year off and maybe gain residency and pay waaay less for school. But knowing that I would have to go back after that year sounds absolutely painful. I probably wouldn't go back. Plus, I want to graduate before I'm 23. That's a valid major goal, I think. But it's a very irritating one. 


Well, if I took a year off and gained residency that would mean that I would be an Oregon resident. Which would be cool, I guess. But I'd probably move back to Cali after that year and then have to become a California resident again. And, it's kinda a breach in my pride...I love being a native Californian =)

Choking

I'm at Stumptown on 10th and Stark and I just had a terrible coughing attack. It's awful when those happen.  There was a pinching itch in the back of my throat that wouldn't go away and water wasn't helping. So, my face started to get bright red and I was tearing up and looked like I was crying. And then I started to have a panic attack because it wouldn't stop and I think that made it worse. And everyone was just staring...hahaha.

I used to get crazy coughing attacks like that all the time in high school. I remember in Spanish one day (sophomore year) it was so bad and I could barely talk and I went up to the teacher and managed to spit out "Can..I....go..WATER" and she ushered me out real quick cuz it looked like I was dying. On the way out, some kid was like "Oh shit, look how red her face is!" Yea, I was extremely embarrassed. I was convinced that something was wrong with my tonsils, and I tried to convince my mom to let me get my tonsils taken out, but she wouldn't have it. I think that was around the time that she started to realize that I am a hypochondriac.