Food, glorious food!

Whenever I get excited about food (which is often) I think of that scene in Extras when that poor girl sings "Food, glorious food!" and her dad berates her about singing "custard" wrong. I wish I could find that clip, but the original song will have to suffice.



Yesterday I decided I need to use the food I had sitting around in the fridge, before I let it go bad like a few other things in there. I bought a bunch of celery last week. I'm sure I had plans for it but I don't know what. So last night I made myself celery soup. I got the basic idea from this recipe, but I just used what I had. No added cream, no celery root, red potato, etc. It turned out pretty tasty, and because I was kinda bored, I documented the creation in photos:













And last, but not least, the tasty final product:



Now, that I have that settled, I have all sorts of plans for today, including searching for wedding shoes, going to Dixieline Lumber (I have handy home decoration projects in mind), and then to Henry's.

I'm collecting recipes now because I would like to do a mass amount of cooking this afternoon/evening, leaving the rest of my week free to be totally lazy. And I've been craving MaPo Dofu lately - I know I haven't had it since leaving San Francisco and that's now been over a year! - so that will be first on my list. Yay food!

Boredom => Creation

So work is ok and all, but some days when it gets really slow in the office...this happens:


I was doodling and made a moustache. So I had to build a face. But I ran out of room, and so I started drawing some hats to cover the misshapen form of his head.

The first one was too small. The second one was too big. I moved onto his need for a toupee. The first one was a little short on hair. But this one, this one is just right.


I wanted to share him with my coworker, Carlos. Usually I just throw it over the top of the cube, but since he had two pieces and was no longer attached to the page (I cut him out with my swiss army knife scissors) I came up with the brilliant idea of attaching him and his toupee to a pencil. Soon I'll be adding a body so I can make him dance at the top of the cube whenever Carlos is bored :)

I also sent over a drawing of Carlos "pompading"* his hair, but that one is for him to keep.

Carlos and I also decided today that we will be going into business together very soon, and we will become rich. I can't give away too many details, but it will be a book that he is writing and I am illustrating. And it's about a little boy named Dick...


*pompading is the act of coiffing one's hair into a pompadour. Something Carlos vows never to do...but he will make up verbs about it.

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Blogs are cool, right?

I have an issue with blogging. I think it sounds good, but then I'm embarrassed and don't know if I want people reading about my life. And what a big dork I am.

But eff it. I am what I am.

I'm about to upload some photos. I'll be back.

If I blog more than 3 times this year I will beat last year...


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