And The World Spins Madly On

This song goes to a guy i call a friend. please click here for the video!

Yet another hot day in the city. although today was not as bad as yesterday, the heat stills sucks.

so, today i entered a contest for thrift town to potentially win an iMac. the rules were simple, wear a used, vintage gown to prom? enter to win! all i had to do was provide a picture and a quick essay. i hope i win:)
For the fourth of July weekend i am going to dog-sit for my aunt. yay! Extra money! (something tells me this is going to be my only source of income this summer) i took two pages of notes whilst my aunt was explaining things. did i mention these dogs don't eat dog food? yeah, i have to be their personal chef, feeding them stew meat and chicken. *sigh* It's a small price to pay, and i really don't mind. i think my cat is one step from making me cook her Filet Mignon myself. which makes me think about all the stuff us humans do for our furry companions. it's a lot! did you know Americans spend about 75 billion dollars a year on pets? it's a bit crazy. i suppose it makes sense though. they deserve it.

I just realized that a bunch of my favorite movies are set in New Mexico....

Happy first day of summer! (Although summer began about three weeks ago for me)

On Saturday, I hit the wall. The wisdom tooth wall that is. I woke up feeling like I had splinters on my jaw. The pain was excruciating. I could not open wide enough for a spoon to go in my mouth, I couldn’t laugh, nothing. I suppose it had to hit sometime, didn’t it? Prior to Saturday, I didn’t think it would be that bad. Boy; was I wrong. It made me so mad! Because I was all drugged up and shit, it ruined my day! The room was spinning even when I was sitting down! I was pretty dope up all day. But that didn’t help the pain much. Hmmm… if I had 3 wishes then….

1. Make the pain go away
2. Give me a case of Lay’s Potato Chips and Oreos
3. Make humans evolve so we don’t grow pointless teeth in our faces. Period.

So, for father’s day I decided that my present would be to make my dad some curry for dinner. So this is what I came up with.

¼ c. of julienned fresh ginger
1 ½ lb. pork loin, cubed
2 tbsp. of red curry paste (you can make your own, but store-bought is so much easier)
¼ c. of brown sugar (I prefer the richer taste of dark brown)
2 c. water
½ c. of cooking wine/hard liquor/rice beer
2 tsp. ground turmeric
1/4tsp. ground cardamom
1 tbsp. light soy sauce
Hearty pinch of salt
¼ c. of minced onion
3 large cloves of garlic, minced fine
1/4c. of lime juice
Peeled strips of carrots (optional)
Combine ½ the water and all the alcohol with ginger (and carrots, if using). Set aside for later.
Combine brown sugar, pork cubes and curry paste in a large wok or saucepan. Cook on med-low heat for about 15min. stir occasionally.
Stir together rest of water, soy, turmeric, cardamom, and salt. Pour over pork. Bring to a nice rolling boil then bring down to a simmer for 45 - 50 min. or until the sauce is nice n’ thick.
Add the ginger stuff to the pork stuff and simmer for another 5 – 10 min. serve warm over a bed of jasmine/saffron rice with some naan.

This is my first day post-surgery! yay! (i think...) And i have to admit, it does not hurt as much as i thought it was going to. Sure, my jaw hurts to open and i can really chew, but from seeing my siblings suffer over winter beak last year, i was freaking out.
Whilst sitting in the waiting room of Wisdom Teeth only, which was the closest place to my house and the people were nice, there was one girl in the room with me. It didn't help her much to hear about the other patients' having to wheeled out in a wheelchair or that they needed assitance being taken out by way of "the back door."The whole time her face was pulled into an semi-permanent look of terror and anxiety. i was afraid she wouldn't go in when they called her name!

I suppose she didn't have it too bad. in the room next to was a little girl of twelve. Just think of it! getting your wisdom teeth out at the age of 12! and i thought i had it bad!
Trust me, i certainly do not. I've got all the soup i would ever want to eat, gelato, and my family basically waits on my every command. but all i really want to is to move on with my life. i feel like some fat, lazy person sitting around all the time! it's not like my legs are broken or anything!
But do you know what i really miss? FOOD! i can't eat what i cook! hmmm... maybe i could brush up on my mousse skills....

Whoever said, "Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened," never had their teeth pulled.

I finally have some pictures of the meringues to show you! Instead of using the powdered form of the instant coffee (which I used 1 packet of VIA Colombia roast, by Starbucks), I dissolved about a tablespoon of coffee to the instant. (That’s only because the powder sort of melted. Long story…) when I added it along with the fresh egg whites, it gave them a nice caramel color and another layer of flavor than if I mixed them with the cocoa powder. So here’s a lovely picture I took on my phone of them.

To celebrate the 50^th anniversary of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic, Psycho, I have a list of five things you probably didn’t know about Psycho:

5 Things You Didn’t Know About Psycho

1. Anthony Perkins, who played Norman Bates, was gay.
2. Janet Leigh’s body wasn’t used in the famous shower scene, it was actually Marli Renfro. Janet Leigh had a hard time admitting this, and even in her memoirs she falsely described her memories of the scene.
3. Watered down chocolate syrup was used for the blood
4. Every time a driver exits a vehicle in the film, he/she does so via the passenger side door.
5. Hitchcock originally wanted the shower scene to be silent, but after hearing Bernard Herrmann's musical score, he had a change of heart. Hitchcock credits one-third of the film's success to the brilliant and compelling musical score and doubled Herrmann's salary.

So, I got a little bit of a shock this morning. My mom reminded me that I have an appointment on Thursday to get my wisdom teeth out. Here’s my reaction:

WHAT?!?!

I had no idea that it was in two days!!! What kind of warning is that, mom?! She wasn’t even sure that was the date. She had to ask me! I think I (wisely) forced that out of my brain. My siblings just recently had theirs out and it did not look fun. Ahhh! Why? Why can’t we have already evolved so we don’t have to remove useless teeth? NOO! You can’t take me alive!!

So, until later! :)

What to do this summer

• Cook something new (almost) every day
• Get a job
• Become tan
• Read at least 3 books a month
• Hang out with friends a ton
• Get a job
• Learn how to do something you’ve never done before
• Make a movie
• Watch more movies than is natural for someone
• Stay active!
• Get a job
• Go to Lagoon
• See someone you haven’t seen in a long time
• Go swimming
• Go to the Drive - In
• Go camping
• Get a job
• Don’t go crazy
• Do not injure yourself too badly
• Rave in basement with cat.
• Write one story a week
• Take everyday as a gift, don’t you dare waste a beautiful day!

Wow, it's cold. What i hate most about June in Utah is the weather. We usually have 2 options: