Yesterday Food

Breakfast: Quaker Oats Cereal and 1% milk

Lunch: Peanut butter and jelly sandwich on Whole Wheat bread, Apple, Tortilla Chips, and carrots. I usually eat lunch at my desk for two reasons: (1) because I'm a sad and lonely person and no one wants to eat lunch with me and (2) I work through lunch so I can leave earlier!

Dinner: Leftover spaghetti with firm tofu added on top and some Romano cheese. The tofu added a bitter taste which wasn't so good, but the cheese made up for it. I mainly wanted the protein from the tofu. From counting calories in the past, I find that I don't get enough protein or Fiber in my diet on a regular basis.

Snack: I only had a snack after Hula class which consisted of a handful of tortilla chips and a handful of Spicy Doritos. Alma was right, I should have resisted...

Exercise: Hula dancing! My shirt was SOAKED with sweat at this class for some reason. I was super sweaty, but so were my hula sisters. We practiced our kahiko over and over and over. I meant to take a picture of my class (with my phone!) so everyone could see, but I forgot on the account that I was too sweaty :) We also practiced our otea -- which is looking pretty good so far! -- and I'm finally getting the jumping thing down. It's going to look AWESOME in July, I can't wait for Ho'ike!

Messing around

I'm still having fun uploading things from my phone! Wheee!

Here's Spooky cuddling with her blanket. It's cold in the house since the door was open for the Clippy-miester.

Here's Spooky being suspicious of the new neighbors who were (are) making loud noises. They still aren't as bad as the 2 year old...ugh!

Shipping Spooky to Korea

This was taken a while ago. She crawled in the box AND buried herself under all the packing material. Crazy girl...

Mobile Blogging is FUN!

Testing 123...Mobile Blogging is FUN! Get ready for a lot more food pictures. I'm trying to lose weight for my next Hula show -- and to just look sexy -- so I figure a good way to do that is keep track of what I eat via pictures.

This is what I had for lunch today! $5 lunch special at Novellus: Mongolian beef with steamed vegetables, white rice, 1 chocolate chip cookie, and 1 Peanut butter cookie. (actually, this is ALL I ate today so far...I didn't wake up in time to eat breakfast)

Here's dinner. Alma made some yummy taco salad: pinto beans (they're at the bottom, I made this taco salad upside down) + taco seasoning, Mexican mozzarella cheese, spinach (we didn't have lettuce), tomatoes, Tapatio sauce, and tortilla chips. I had 2 bowls like this, then ate the rest of the tomatoes and spinach plus beans, cheese, and a couple handful of chips. Sooo good.

Here's dessert (and my mail -- sorry for the crappy picture!). I only ate a handful of chocolate chips! Not the whole bag. That's non-caffeinated Chai tea with milk and a little bit of sugar.

I don't know how "un-caffeinated" the Chai actually is... I ended up staying up kind of late. But maybe that was due to the workout I had: 40min Aerobics on Netflix.

All and all, I think my protein intake was good with the Beef & beans. I think whole wheat / whole grain intake could have been better. I got probably 3-4 servings of vegetables and maybe 2 servings of fruit with the cranberry juice I was drinking (not shown). Calories might have been in range -- but I'm not counting at this point. I used to count, but it makes me feel OCD and anxious. I definitely don't like that, since anxiety makes me eat more. Plus, taking pics with my phone is still fun!!

The Spooky and Clippy Show! EPISODE 1: The Secret

CLIPPY:Hey, Spooky! Where you at?

SPOOKY:Dude, I told you not to call me here.
My people might see you and start going "awww."
You KNOW I hate it when they do that. It's so annoying...

CLIPPY:Yeah...Why do they do that?...
SPOOKY:Nevermind! Listen, I don't have all day.
I have sticks to chase and whatnot. Whadidya want to tell me, huh?

CLIPPY:It's a secret! You can't tell anyone but yesterday ...*whisper**whisper*... I saw *whisper*...and I was like *whisper**whisper*


SPOOKY:WHAT?! Wow....I can't believe it. Tommy Tabby isn't clipped??? He still has his "buttons"???
CLIPPY:SHHHH!!! Someone might hear you!!


CLIPPY:Hey! Whereya goin?!
SPOOKY:Um...nowhere! Sorry, gotta go! Busy busy day ahead of me! Better get started!
(...I have to tell Squeeky Squirrel, she's going to get a kick out of this!! I wonder what they look like?...)


CLIPPY:Aw crap.
I hope she doesn't tell Squeeky. That Squirrel squeaks her big fat mouth to everyone.
Tommy Tabby's gonna kick me in the "buttons"...

the end

Case of the Mondays, er Saturdays...

Today sucked hard.  

Yeah, it's Monday after the week-long shutdown, that could be the main reason why I felt so sorry for myself all day. But I really think my crappy mood was caused by the events of this past Saturday:

After dutifully feeding the cats in the morning, I decided to go get the mail.  Once I stepped outside the building, I heard meowing -- above my head.  Curious, I looked up above the door to see where the kitty was -- only to realize it was my very own Spooky on top of the roof, meowing at our upstairs neighbor and her cats!! Stupid Spooky!

She somehow managed to climb up there -- but didn't know how to get down.  The very nice neighbor-lady popped out her window-screen to save naughty Spooky for me (I was ready to leave the little brat up there).  Of course, Spooky was all too willing to shred her rescuer to ribbons, but the cat-lady-neighbor deftly and firmly grabbed Spooky by the scruff of her neck, keeping her somewhat subdued.

As punishment, we grounded Spooky (she's not allowed to go outside) and ignored her for a while.  She couldn't handle the silent treatment, so she started biting Alma and sitting on me:

That evening, I watched The Dark Knight and was horribly disappointed.  That was a really dumb movie.  Barely any dialogue, no in-depth story lines (although there was so much there to work with!), and too many explosions/car chases/gadgets.  It was obviously made for male audiences.

The night was then rounded out with my friends telling me I look old and have ugly hair. What great friends I have! Thanks a lot.

As a result, all I could do at work today was worry that the cat-lady-neighbor must be pissed at us since her window-screen isn't popping back into place correctly (this morning I noticed it wasn't in all the way) and worry that my face and hair are as disappointing as my friends think they are.

:(

Hopefully tomorrow will be better...

Work Art of 2008

For some reason, I get most inspired to do artwork when I'm either listening to a lecture or doing math... therefore, my work notebook is full of random doodles. Here are a few pieces from last years' notebook. I scanned them in with the work scanner -- which doesn't do color for some reason. Most of my drawings were done in blue ink. The last girl (to the right) was inspired by Leslie from Pancake Meow. The girl in my doodle has a white cap on -- she reminds me of a mischievous milk-maid or something. The rest feature girl faces, shoes, hair, and clothing. Overall, I'd say I'm obsessed with drawing women in a fashionable way. I'm hoping that one day, I'll get my wits together, and maybe acquire a drafting table, to make some decent large pieces like Johanna. Maybe one day!