Hi Vox friends! Just stopping by this holiday season to wish you all a Merry Christmas! Guess what! I graduated yesterday! And I got tiramisu and diamonds. And it snowed (weak, melted from the sun today).
Just wanted to say hello and send some smiles your way... take care <3
and now am in the holiday spirit!
I had breakfast with MisterJT and mentioned that my volunteering to gift wrap for the animal shelter really did fill me with holiday cheer. Mellemusic helped out and we were pretty slammed from the moment we sat down. We made $120+ dollars during out shift and everyone was just great. The shift was for 4 hours and I swear, I have never wrapped that many presents in one sitting. We joked around with everyone and people were just in fantastic moods.
Also, I met some more awesome people who volunteer at the shelter and they had the best stories ever. I love that place! One of the volunteers, Scott, is actually part of the Happy Tails program, where they give the dogs obedience training to prepare them for life with a family. He was so interesting and I swear, he and his wife have had about 20 million different jobs - one included making ice cream, another graphic design, another dog trainer..so you really can do anything you want :)
Now, I'm back at BPL and I am happy to say that I was able to make some little gifts for all the kids in my life. There are 15 of them total. 1 high schooler, 3 itty bitty ones and 11 elementary school and toddler age. I made little grab stockings of the 11 and then since 1 is in high school, I'll get her something different and the 3 little ones need something different too. I really didn't think I could afford presents with all the car trouble I experienced but you know, for little kids, I thought it was important to get them some thing even if it isn't a giant toy.
I finally picked up some holiday cards as well. But you know, I never send those out in a timely fashion anyway so as long as it arrives before new years it's ok, right?
Hope everyone is having a great holiday season and if you are traveling - safe travels! Happy holidays to you and yours!!!
No, I can't read anything written in Cyrillic alphabet. No, I'm not telling you who the hell I'm voting for because hello! Voting season has passed idiot! No, that picture of a bunch of boxed up books isn't cute...it's a picture of boxed up books!!!! GO AWAY!
My student was sharing with me a cool search tip with google & bing and from a picture of a happy box of french fries or something..I found this. What What on flickr takes a lot of pictures of signage & statues & a lot of them are from Japan..this one..well..seriously, what is going on here? I don't want to know....HA!
So, my family can up to visit this weekend and I was super excited about it. I didn't even realize how much I missed them all. 8 kids and 8 adults spent the better part of the weekend in my apartment because of all the rain that was coming down in L.A. It was still super fun. I even got to cook a meal - Asian Short Ribs (recipe from Real Simple) in a slow cooker and baked lots of cookies for them.
It was great seeing all the kids and having them giggling and having fun even though I live in a studio and we were all super cramped. My nieces and nephews are all really well mannered children. I took them to my favorite restaurant and the waitress was so impressed. I should have taken all the credit since she thanked me...but I didn't...and ok, why was i seated at the kids table?!? It was fine because I played some weird connect the dot game with Jaiden so that was good. He's usually so quiet and shy...
Ok, the title of this post..
So we were driving to the hotel and my nephew Micah, the one in the blue sweater, starts asking for a song and he keeps saying, "Little Big Time." His older brother, Noah, asks him "Little Big Planet?" And he's getting frustrated and keeps saying "No. Little Big Time" in his little 2 year old voice. I ask him "Micah, sing the song.."
So he starts kind of singing "Little..big.. time. doo doo do" And I'm thinking, "what's that?"
Noah says "he wants to hear "Sweet Carolline." " Because they really love that Glee soundtrack and that's one of the songs!!!
Oh my gosh! I almost died from the cute! So now every time I hear that song I'll think "Little Big Time!" HA HA HA!!!
Here are those cookies I made today. Not sure they look as good as they taste but here you go...
Delicious!
Anyway, here's my family...And the closest we got to seeing the Hollywood sign! LOL!
More puppy picks! I love them!
And yes, it belongs in all CAPS!
so, back at the library because it's sunday. I was supposed to run this morning but it was ice cold and pitch black at 6am so I stayed curled up in bed dreaming of baking and all the things I need to get done today.
I spent the morning watching "The Big Bang Theory" Season 1.
I love Sheldon! This show had me laughing so much and maybe it's a little sad that I can understand a lot of the nerdy references. But this show is so great and the characters are awesome and I love everyone in it.
Also, I continued my winter holiday baking extravaganza!!!! extravaganza!!!!! EXTRAVAGANZA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My house smells like chocolate cookies. Last night, I started making ginger cookies and I wanted to throw in some crystallized ginger candies in there but I had to drive all over the Valley to find crystallized ginger. Someone totally was thinking the same thing and bought it all up in every store within a 5 mile radius!!! Do you believe that??!??? ugh! But, after an hour of driving, I finally found some at the store closest to my studio! Double GAH!!! But they add a nice little ginger pop so I'm happy even though I totally wasted gas...oh well. So I finished that up this morning and then started what has to be my best cookie EVER!
I took this Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe from the Food Network and tweeked it a bit. I added toffee bits, more chocolate chips, and melted a cup of chocolate (I kind of had stuff lying around so I just threw them in the bowl). Let me tell you! YUM! My mouth is watering thinking about it. I need to make more because this recipe is a winner! I could eat a whole batch of them by myself. When I get home I'll post some pictures but they might not look as delicious as they taste. I need to send these up to Felicious and my new penpal.
Things that I should write more about:
Penpal Party - i got my first letter today! and sent out one last week! I love it :) Letters are so fun! I have to send my new penpal some stuff...
Family visiting days - my family was here...I miss them...
Annoying Patron - um. there is 1 woman who annoys the crap out of me every Sunday. I can't deal with her and it's like she's a cat and can sense it, You know, I have a mild cat allergy and cats know and they are always making a b-line towards me...this woman is the same way. She just needs to not come to my station at the reference desk. She got on my bad side and for some reason I'm not letting it go with her. Most of the time I just forget people but she was that awful. I think I kind of tick her off on purpose. I know, that's mean but I can't help it----she's evil!
Alright, that's all for now. Happy Sunday from the Reference Desk!!!
Did you see this? Someone posted it on Friendfeed and then I followed the boingboing link and then I followed that link... Here it is
http://www.nakedapartments.com/blog/creepy-creeper/#
Oh my gosh! oh my gosh! that is the so scary!! And I really shouldn't have watched this at 6:45am!!! The hairs on the back of my neck went up! And she lived there for weeks!!! weeks!!!! Ok, and it's over the news now too!
Yes, I do not have cable tv. And after this weekend of dogwatching and having cable, I realized this is the best possible thing for me. I would be seriously broke!
They sure do show a whole lotta informercials in the wee hours of the morning and damn, those products sure look good.AND in my half-awake state, if I had my phone and credit card conveniently placed by my bed, I would probably have ordered these products:
- The YUDU! What can You Do?!?! - it's a screenprinting machine...all in one and even professional screenprinters are using it!!! OMG!
- The Slice - it's digital, it's cordless, it slices stuff oh so nicely!
- P90x - It's a gym..in my house! it's extreme! That guy's like 80 years old and he looks like he's 40! This one just sucks me in because I'm addicted to fitness...kind of...
- The Principal Secret - Reclaim - I know this will probably burn my skin off but it's Victoria Principal people! Does anyone even remember her?!?!
So, yes, i should not have cable tv because everything in my house would be a tv product....
And also this morning I caught the most hilarious episode of Supernanny EVER! It was the British one too on Style TV. Seriously, if Supernanny doesn't stop people from having children I don't know what will! It's more powerful than birth control! Anyway, so in this episode, which I really wish there was a clip for, Supernanny has to deal with the most evil little 9 year old I've ever seen! And hello, aren't British children supposed to be super proper and respectful? This completely shattered my view..but then again there is Amy Winehouse and Lily Allen so there...
This girl was 9 with 2 younger sisters. Her sisters were super cute and it came to the part where Supernanny has to lay down the rules and also the consequences. The oldest girl, who sounded like she was 16, starts screaming "That's for sissies! That's stupid! Big Babies!" and then gets sent into the Reflection Room. Ok, there were no g.d. reflection rooms, my parents spanked me and honestly, thank god because I would have been a monster! So, they send the girl to the Reflection Room and she is just raging. Her dad walks in and asks for an apology and Supernanny is standing there. The girl starts yelling "She's not even a member of this family!" Then climbs over the table and attacks the Supernanny, literally kicking and punching and then takes Supernanny's arm and starts scratching up and down it like a cat and then ..get this..the monster BITES her! BITES!!!! Then Supernanny is remaining calm and saying in the most soothing tones "This is just [monster] being angry. She's just angry." WTH?!?!?!?! OH! NO! Later in the episode, she ends up calling Supernanny at B*(&(! and then also walks over to her sister and just smacks her in the arm for no reason. Oh my gosh she was awful! Her mom grabs her and then says "you pinched [your sister]" and the monster says "I didn't pinch her. I punched her." La la la.
Seriously, if that isn't a demon spawn I don't know what is. Awful and yet, pretty hilarious because it was so appalling.
See, I don't want to know this about British and/or American families. No thank you. and no thank you cable tv. I'd be broke and I'd think everyone had bad parenting skills...and children are monsters...
I'll stay uninformed in those areas thank you very much.
Finally got my camera back from my dad, whom I let him borrow my camera to for his Asia trip. Ever since then 99.9% of my pictures have been of food! So are you ready to get hungry? Food overload ahead!
Went to my favorite sushi joint. Surprisingly not crowded that night. Only the second time ever did we not have to wait for our favorite sushi chef. He made us all kinds of goodies!
My sister and I treated my dad to Capital Seafood for his birthday. We ordered a fixed dinner set plus Peking duck. The waiter was sort of shocked with all the food we ordered but we assured him we wanted it all. Yum! Such good food!
I can always count on my sister to go on food adventures with me. Yum was craving so good BBQ and what better place than all you can eat.
