Hanging Out With The Parents And V-Day

 

Wow, it is supper sunny here in Seattle. I wish we got some snow this year, supper jealous of you east coasters. Last week I visited my parents, my dad came home for retirement and I wanted to say hi. But I was mainly over there since I had a dermatologist appointment. My mother made the appointment for me due to my stupidity many years ago in my teen years of sitting out in the sun and getting really bad burns. The good news is my sink looks great and don’t need a follow up appointment any time soon. The bad is I have a few moles that I didn’t know about on my back but they look ok. While I was there I was treated to very delicious meals from Port Gamble and over here in Seattle.

This past weekend was Valentines day weekend and everyone decided to invade downtown. So I thought I would avoid everyone and go up to Capitol Hill and checkout the Starbucks Roastery cafe. But all the tourist decided to invade, so we just went into the Serious pie restaurant which is attached to the roastery for some lunch. After lunch we went to the comic book shop to pick up our comics and went home to relax. I asked for nothing on V-day because my couch I'm count as my x-mas/anniversary/valentines gift since it was an expensive couch. But I did get my man a Life Aquatic themed gifts, which included a steve shirt and a Kingsly red hat.

Quick work update: still waiting for the documentary trailer, final got the absent director to sign the contract but now waiting for him to send me the money so I can start. Going to have to send him an email tomorrow if he doesn’t send it soon. And finally I was contacted by a recurter for Holo Lens, I talked to them and said I would be interested but I have my doubts of getting the job since the recurter said they were looking for some one with game audio experience. And this morning I revived an email from the recurter saying they’re going to hire people with game audio experience. Called it.

Have a good week little bots, I will be working very hard on finishing the sheer top part of my ivy costume, and start working on the embroidery for the top as well. See you all friday for a bitch out session on probably the absent director.

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New Year And Some Work

 

Welcome to a new year little bots, hope you all are sobering up and getting back into the swing of things after the holiday madness. If you have read Friday's blog you would know that I had posted my New Year resolutions, well more like taking a few 30 day workout challenges and not have to worry about completing anything else for the rest of the year. Just about every day I've been posting my progress and thoughts on these challenges and all I can say is that I like rest days.

For New Year's eve our friend and the infamous girl friend of horrors was to join us in watching the fireworks show at the needle. They were suppose to come over at 8pm after dinner with some other friends, but after 2 and a half hours and nota single phone call it appeared they were not coming over. To my surprise my man also seemed to happy about this which I can not blame him since he had work the next day. So we enjoyed some homemade stuffed meat balls and chicken and planed to go to bed right after the fireworks.

All that was foiled by a phone call 20 minutes before 11pm from the friend stating they found parking and will be at our apartment in a few minutes. This pissed me off, if you are going to be late have the curtsy of calling and letting us know. And when they did arrive the girl was drunk and high as a kite, and pretty much couldn’t walk on her own. She slept on our couch until we all left for the firework. After the show my man and I both hoped they would leave after 30 minutes once the traffic was better but as usual they stayed until 2am. She slept on the couch while he chatted away.

I found out a few days later that when asking my man why he invited his friend over for New Years, he said that he didn't. His friend asked if he and his girl could stop by since they were going to be down in the area. Lesson learned for my man, if you have work early the next day don’t let people stop by and stay late. Next New Years no one is coming over.

After a few days of trying to get my sleep schedule back, I meet up with my director buddy to pick up some files and money so I can start work of her project. These files I was only asked to do a light clean up and to be done around March. So much time and she always gives me extra leeway to work. Love this lady!

So far so good with this new year, fingers crossed I find more work and a great part time job. See you bots Friday for another blog rant or something.

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New Restaurant Tastings

I'll make this brief for you lovely bots with your work pilling up and school thinking it's time to up the ante in your academic career. So glad I don’t have to go to school anymore. When you are finished with schooling all you want to do is flip desks and say “I'm out bitches!”

This past week my back has been killing me. I don’t know if I slept on it wrong or tweaked it by moving weird, but the pain sucks ass. It's finally manageable but still hurts if I move a certain way. I wish I had some pain killers, like the strong shit you can only get from the doctor, so all this can go away. Or at least the illusion of it being gone.

To ease my pain my man and I went out to a new restaurant called Bell+Whete. It's old world food with a modern twist. I had many of their cocktails, all of which were delicious. There food played on savory with some hint of sweet carmalization. We are defiantly going back to try their happy hour menu and beer selection. You can check out there website here: Bell+Whete

Well my lovely enjoy your week, if it's sunny go outside. If it's rainy stay in and catch up on gaming.

Probably not going to do a Friday blog this week, but on the slim chance that I do please keep a look out on Twitter for my posting.

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Hair Change

Good Monday little bots, hope you are all enjoying this Labor Day weekend before you go back to school or work. Both PAX and Bumpershoot is wrapping up today, so no more obnoxious teens and young 20 passing by my apartment coming to/from Bumpershoot! With the kids going back to school and summer winding down I can finally relax and not yell at people to move away from my window at 1 in the morning.

This past week has been uneventful, mostly been working on vamping up my resume and cover letters. Since it was so boring I decided to change up my hair. On Wednesday I decided to do the hair color my mom has been wanting me to do for the past two years... ombre hair... in green... so I would look like a tree. I had to go to two different stores, both of which were on the opposite ends of town for the bleach kit that I have used in the past. To achieve a true ombre hair I should have gone to a professional but fuck it I was on a budget of under 30 dollars. Over all I was pleased with my outcome.

I ordered the green dye online so I had to wait two days before I could dye the ends green. The dye I used was Manic Panic Green Envy, it was the darkest green I could find with out it being to turquoise. Once it arrived on Friday I immediately put it on the ends of my hair and a little bit into the brown parts as well. I usually leave bright colored dyes in for at least two hours on dry hair so it can absorb into the strands of hair. Washing it out in a cold shower, I was afraid it would all wash out, but to my amazement it stayed in! And now I have this fabulous shade of green in my hair. I love putting it up, it does resemble a tree.

For the rest of the weekend, my man and I stayed in avoiding the crowds of people and the hassle to get any where in the city. I did make these amazing doughnuts that are doughnut muffins! They are so good and addicting, you can find the recipe here: Doughnut Puffs

While I was a little sad not attending to PAX Prime this year, I am looking froward to Emerald City Comic Con next year. I really need to start working out hard core again, starting now. Those doughnut muffins were my last temptation! See you guys Friday for a rant or something.

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Hauling 4 Tons and Waffles

 

Good Monday little bots. This past week was filled with gaming, shopping, hauling, being creeped out, and waffles. Hoping this week will be boring and I can relax a little bit before I have to deal with the Bumbershoot/Pax/Labor day crowds.

In the first half of the week I played the new expansion from Diablo 3 called Reaper of souls on the Xbox One. I finished the main story and loved it! I really liked how they added some more character development to the side characters and even your own character. I still need to play adventure mode and try out the Crusader character that they have added. This past weekend all I played was playing Diablo with my boyfriend and friends.

I took a break from playing Diablo to go shopping with my mom and to comfort her as she gets a new load of hay. The shopping aspect was fine, I love shopping with my mom, but she needs to get over her anxiety over hay delivery. She has been getting hay delivered for over 18 years now and nothing has gone wrong. Usually I just have to make sure the horses are put away and secured and hold my mothers hand when they bring the trailer up to the barn. Now the barn is up on a hill and usually the guy can make it up and just have to stack the hay. Unfortunately he couldn’t make it up the hill, my mother and I had to drag 4tons.... let me repeat that... 4 MOTHER FUCKING TONS OF HAY EACH BALE WEIGHING 100 POUNDS!

I love my mother very much but between hauling that hay and the creepy delivery guy checking me out I told her I'm never hauling hay again. And she agreed with me. I told her next time they couldn’t make it up the hill for some reason, they should park the trailer down the hill and make trips with the pickup truck until the job is done. I'm not throwing my back out and being so sore it hurts to sleep because the driver couldn’t make it up the hill.

I returned home bruised, sore, and tired. So as a result of being an out of shaped pig; I dedicated the weekend to laziness. Mostly it was for recovering my mussel from pulling 4 tons of hay that I did not stretch out before hand. So thus I played the shit out of Diablo with my man on hard difficulty. I also made waffled cinnamon rolls. They were so good! I highly recommend doing this with the pre-made dough that you buy in the supper market. The waffling make a great catcher for the icing.

This week is back to job hunting. This weekend is not only Labor day but also PAX. And while I may not be in attendance this year, I do hope to catch up with some out of town friends over dinner. See you little bots on Friday for a rant I promise I will make one.

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Bug Bites Everywhere!

I'm melting little bots. I'm becoming a puddle of flesh and sweat. To it is suppose to get up to 90 something today and if you know me at all I hate the heat. Fans are blasting on high right now, the windows a re closed to keep the heat out, and the cat don’t look like they have heat stork so I should be good until the thunder storm hits tomorrow. Until that happens I'm not going to do anything strenuous or cook anything in my apartment.

So last week I had to do adult things... managing stocks. The details are so boring I was even falling asleep, but hopefully now I can have my stocks make me money instead of staying at one level. I seriously need a retirement fund that is huge so I can retire at 60 and not 80.

Also last week I ran away to my parents house and had the most amazing meal. We all went to Pikes Market and at at a french restaurant called Maximilien. We sat outside, the view of the ferrys And West Seattle couldn’t be beat. The food was wonderful, well seasoned, and not to heavy for a warm day. The down side for me to go there every week is the pricy. At the end of the meal the bill for 3 people was well over $200, but we did have cocktails, 3 course meal, and a bottle of wine. I would go back for a special occasion or if I saved up some money.

While at my parents house my sister and her family came down for a visit. It's so weird to see children growing up. Last time I saw them was 4 months ago and from that to now they have all grown so much, one of them is almost as tall as my mom. It creeps me the fuck out. Aside form that It was a pretty relaxing weekend aside from all the bug bits that I revived. My legs look as though they have some weird disease on them. So I left Sunday morning to return to the city where the bugs don’t bite me.

So not much happened this past week, skipped seeing the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie due to the fact that I do not want my childhood to be ruined. I'm getting my costume ready for a friends party that is 80s-90s themed. With a simple costume I kinda wish I was going at least another convention so I could make an awesome costume. But I have to save money and properly plan out my costumes for Emerald City Comic Con. On that note of cosplay, wanted to show you a video of what cosplayers need to stop doing, and it is not what you think. Have a great week little bots and fingers crossed I don’t turn into a puddle of human flesh.

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Food and Cosplay

            Good Monday morning to you little bots.  Hope this past week was as productive for you as it was for me.  So what did I accomplish this past week?  Well a little bit of this and a little bit of that.

            On Tuesday I went out to the University of Washington to view the film I worked on at the school of law.  Listening to it seemed a little low, but I noticed that the speaker level was low when I went up to the podium after the show.  It was well received by law students but I don’t know how well it will do in the festival circuit.  I have a feeling the director will not be able to play the promotional role for this film, but at least she is passionate and gets shit done.

            The rest of the week was dedicated to rewriting my resume and figuring out my cosplay for ECCC.  I am happy to report that my website is nearly done I just need to finish my new version of my demo reel and then I should be set. 

            For my cosplay I now have all my bottom pieces for both costumes, top to one, and the fabric for the other top.  My list of things to do is to add the details to all the bottoms (which I have to decorate the boots and add stars to the pants), make the top for rock star wonder woman, make the accessories for both, and styles my wig.  It may seem like a lot but I still have a month and at least the top that I have to make should be relatively easy just need to go to a friends house to use a sewing machine.

            This past Saturday was a culinary adventure and I only hope I didn’t gain too much weight.  To start off my man and I had brunch with friends at Lola’s.  They are known for theirs doughnuts but what I love is the pork apple sausage, the right amount of sweetness and pork.   After that we had some down time and were going to meet up with a friend at a cosplay event but they were running late and we had errands to run to we missed each other.  Next up we meet up with another couple to have cocktails and dinner.  We had cocktails at my favorite spot The Cannon.  It is up on Capitol Hill, small little speak easy/ prohibition style bar.  The best place to grab the best cocktails, they are smooth and the flavors palette lingers on you tongue giving you an experience long after your fist and last sip.  Afterwards we drove up to Kingfish Café for some good old southern food.  I had the fried catfish and it was so delicious, it had this spicy sauce accompany it that was wonderful.  Everyone else had the fried chicken, holy cow this chicken is the real deal.  So moist and crunch, and even the collard greens were good.  The deserts were huge and so good.  I highly recommend going there for some comfort food fix!

            This week is taxes, and heading to my parent’s house to raid my mom’s house for some cosplay supplies.  Keep safe this week my little bots and I will see you on Friday.

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Party Wednesday: Hobbit Feast

            This time of year, many of us indulge in feasts and bounty of the year.  For some we look forward to eating our selves out of our pants.  Hobbits are the same way, but year round.  With the latest Hobbit movie out what better time to celebrate Tolkien’s epic novels that feature one of your favorite mythical creatures.

Décor

            I originally wanted to set the party in the Shire but with it being winter it would be very uncomfortable for the guests to stand out in the cold.  So we will take it indoors, while we can’t completely redesign the interior of your home into a hobbit hole.  Instead you think you are stepping into a hobbit home but instead stepping into a little journey to get to your table at the Prancing Pony.  I would highly encourage your guests to dress up as there favorite characters.

           

            Front Door

  

http://mandyandshomik.blogspot.com/2011/10/one-party-to-rule-them-all.html

            Once threw, create an entryway using dead wood and “spider webs” to symbolize Mirkwood.  

  

http://sonyanimri.blogspot.com/2010/11/halloween-haunted-house.html

            Once threw the woods your guests will enter the Prancing Pony.  In most inns and taverns there are barrels of wine ling about.  If you can’t get barrels, then stacking wooden boxes on top of each other will work.  On top of your barrels or boxes place candles and some wild flowers.

  

http://rivernorthlove.blogspot.com/2013/06/vintage-rustic-rehearsal-dinner.html

            Low lighting is key if you can only use candles to light up the entire room.  If you cant use a dimmer to turn the lights low.   Have a large chandelier made out of antler to enhance that rustic feel.

 

http://www.wdwmagic.com/dining/gastons-tavern/gallery/12oct2012-gaston's-tavern-soft-opening/17222.htm

            For a few more decorations, add Tavern signs from other taverns or liquor brands from Middle Earth.  You can also add some animal heads to give it that cozy feel.

  

http://www.wdwmagic.com/dining/gastons-tavern/gallery/12oct2012-gaston's-tavern-soft-opening/17221.htm

            Your food will be served family style, no need to do a center piece your food is the star.  What you will need is a large wooden table big enough to hold both your food and guests.

  

http://www.farmhouseurban.com/food/page/3/

As for the flatware and utensils here are some examples on what you could use.

  

http://cathiefilian.blogspot.com/2012/01/weddings-rustic-bridal-brunch-wood.html

  

http://www.flickr.com/photos/skeffto/5856196025/

  

http://srinteriors.wordpress.com/tag/west-elm/

  

http://www.townandcountryshuffle.com/2013/03/in-the-market-for-rustic-silverware/.html

  

http://tikkido.com/node/848

  

http://www.sfgate.com/homeandgarden/article/Give-guests-a-personalized-place-at-the-table-2634020.php

           

           

Food

Pork Pie

  

http://www.cookingchanneltv.com/recipes/pork-pies.html

Roasted Chicken

  

http://www.steamykitchen.com/126-szechuan-peppercorn-roasted-chicken.html

Cheese Plate

  

http://blog.pennlive.com/life/2011/11/tips_on_building_a_better_chee.html

Mushroom Soup

  

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/4756/cream-of-wild-mushroom-soup

Eleven Lembas Bread Recipe

  

http://everything-is-poetry.blogspot.com/2012/06/lembas-bread.html

Seed Cake

  

http://simplythisandthat.blogspot.com/2012/06/glazed-lemon-poppy-seed-cake.html

Drink

Sparkling Cider

  

http://bakingdom.com/2011/11/thanksgiving-sparkling-spiced-apple-cider-cocktail.html

Smaug’s Breath

  

http://www.thedrunkenmoogle.com/

Mulled Wine

  

http://www.thegoodwineguru.com/mulled-wine/

            And here is your Hobbit Feast.  Hope you and your guest will fill up on this part to hold you over until the next movie comes out.  Like always I would love to hear from you if you have any suggestions on what I should do for the next Party Wednesday; or have pics you would like to share just send them my way.  See you Friday for some ranting or whatever. 

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Party Wednesday: Last Minute Halloween Party

            So you waited until the last possible second to throw a Halloween party.  You have less than a day to throw something together to make this a decent party.  I have included quick decorating, food, and costume ideas for you to do in a few hours.  But let’s face the facts, you are just going to sit around and watch scary films, drink beer, and hand out candy to trick-or-treaters.

Décor

                        We have to keep this quick so run down to the store (target, Wal-Mart, some place) and buy up all the spider webbing/cobwebs you can find.  Also buy cheese cloth, black table cloth, black construction paper, black paint, and a lot of pumpkins.

            When you get home, string up the spider cobwebs all around your house, place the table cloth on the table (duh) and down the middle of the table make a runner out of the cheese cloth.  If you have extra cheese cloth you can hang them around your house as well.

 

http://www.marthastewart.com/853609/decrepit-dwelling?czone=holiday%2Fhalloween-center%2Fhalloween-center-decor&gallery=275513&slide=853609&center=276965

            With the pumpkins if you don’t have time to carve them out you can always paint faces on them or paint them entirely black.  It is also good to have pumpkins ranging in different sizes so you can stack them on top of each other for a center piece.

            Have a lamp shade, well with that construction paper you can cut out and tape on bats, cats, what ever scares you on to your lamp shade.

            Now you yourself need to be in costume, but what do you wear?  Well if you have an expansive closet and some imagination you can figure something out.  If not then here are some easy quick examples that will help you for 2013:

The Bum

Sexy Ghost

Miley Cyrus

Zombie

Food

            Pizza Mummies

http://spoonful.com/recipes/pizza-mummies

Spider Dip

http://blog.eventup.com/halloween-appetizers/

Erie Empanadas

http://www.divinedinnerparty.com/halloween-party-appetizers.html

Crispy Candy Corn

http://www.marthastewart.com/933581/crisp-candy-corn-treats?czone=holiday%2Fhalloween-center%2Fhalloween-center-pumpkins&gallery=923430&slide=933581&center=276965

Drink

Pumpkin Ale

Hard Cider

Pumpkin Pie Spice Punch

http://www.hgtv.com/entertaining/pumpkin-spice-halloween-punch-recipe/index.html

            This is just for the last minute blog… I mean last minute Halloween party.  Chances are you and your buddies are going to sit around and drink so why not look like you put some effort into your house for them.  Like always I would love to hear from you if you have any suggestions on what I should do for the next Party Wednesday; or have pics you would like to share just send them my way.  See you Friday for some ranting or whatever. 

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Party Wednesday: 50’s Halloween Party

             I just want to bring back some good old family Halloween.  Back to when times were simpler and the decorations were cheesy.  Let’s step back in time, grab your poodle skirts and sweater vests and swing back in time.

Décor

                        I just wanted to keep it simple and feel like you have walked threw your parents or grandparents house.  Halloween back in this period wasn’t as big as it is today.  People were more likely to dress up than to go all out on decorating, but it is important to decorate for this theme. 

            Using paper cut outs of black cats, pumpkins, and witches.  I would tape them all around the room you are hosting in, you can never have enough.  You can also make a daisy chain of paper pumpkins or bats along the walls as well.

  

http://gliha.blogs.com/materialarchive/2009/10/vintage-halloween-decorations.html

How can you go wrong with carved pumpkins?  I say buy a lot since your décor is very minimal and place them outside, on a window sill, floor, table, you name it there is a carved pumpkin.

  

http://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/holiday---celebration-recipes/halloween-recipes/how-to-carve-a-pumpkin

Next step is a game section.  You can do pin the tail on the cat (really fun when you are drunk), some ring toss, or you can do a bobbing for apples.  Just be sure to have some towels lying around incase your guests get a little to wet.

  

http://streetscenevintage.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-best-kind-of-halloween-costume.html

For your table you can either do a simple black or orange table cloth or you can go a little bit chees…err….festive with a pumpkin or more themed table cloth.  For your centerpiece pile on those carved pumpkins or add more paper craft black cats or skulls. 

  

http://www.topdreamer.com/20-ideas-halloween-table-decoration/

Flatware use Halloween themed paper plates, cups, and black plastic utensils.

 

http://www.vintagehalloween.com/vintagebeistle.html

Top off the evening with some vintage Halloween music.  I found a site that has a YouTube links to various 1950’s Halloween songs: http://my50syear.blogspot.com/2011/10/14-october-1957-halloween-songs.html#/

And how can we forget about the appropriate costumes to wear to our 1950’s Halloween party:

For the girls:

  

http://midcenturyliving.blogspot.com/2010/10/halloween-costumes-1950-1969.html

For Boys:

Food

            Mummy Wraps

  

http://www.tastebook.com/recipes/2383540-Pigs-in-a-blanket-Halloween-mummy-wrap-

Dead Man (Rumaki)

http://www.thenakedkitchen.com/holiday-rumaki/

Black Cat Cheese Ball

  

http://www.hungryhappenings.com/2011/10/i-created-this-recipe-last-halloween.html

Candy Apples

  

http://www.justataste.com/2011/10/candy-apples/

Big Bowl of candy from the 50’s

Drink

Apple Pie Martini

  

http://celebrationsathomeblog.com/2010/11/autumn-cocktails.html

Tom Collins

  

http://www.delish.com/recipefinder/tom-collins-drink-recipe

Sinner (Gin and Sin)

http://www.in-the-spirit.co.uk/cocktails/view_cocktail.php?id=126

Big Mac Daddy

http://www.in-the-spirit.co.uk/cocktails/view_cocktail.php?id=31

            With this party you should return to your youth or your parent’s youth of joy and whimsy with out the entire scary adult world to hinder you.  I just want to take a moment and say THIS IS MY 100 POST HERE!  I have been posting since January and it has been an interesting experience thus far.  Thank you readers or bots that come to my page regularly.  You all have helped me get up to a little over 1300 views as of now; lets see if we can break 1800 before the end of the year.

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