Past Halloween Costumes.

Preschool: Fancy Cat?

I had told everyone I was going to dress up as

Snow White (which was my favorite movie at the time)

but my mother had trouble doing snow white make up.

Or just didn't care what I wanted!

-Longview, WA-

I wore that same "Black Widow" Costume 2 years in a row

(I had to justify paying $30 for the hat alone, on a college student

budget!) This was just after a trip back from Europe.

2004, Seattle, WA

PIMP. L.A., CA 2005

Better shot of my "outfit."

This was taken in Hollywood.

Las Vegas 2006.

Retro Girl? (make shift costume!)

2007 Longview.

Old School Tennis Player.

2008, Longview.

The Unabomber.

2010. Longview

Sexy Librarian.

*Childhood photos are missing because my baby albums are with my parents....in Sacramento. I did dress up every year as a child too. Korean Ghost, Angel, Witch...

THIS YEAR...is a surprise. ;)

yesterday.

I spent how many hours decorating cookies?

today.

today, I saw a man with a cat on a leash, walk out of a pot-dispensary near our neighborhood.

today, the neighbors informed me that there was another shooting last night (2 in 1 week!)

today, as I was outside, washing the car, on this beautiful, sunny, glorious fall day, 3 thuggish teens walked by and my ferocious 7lb dog barked at them. Those boys told me they liked our pumpkins and smiled as they walked on.

I have to go wash the car as fast as possible, in case there are stray bullets.

Sinus Headache? Tip:

I woke up with the gnarliest sinus headache this morning. The sudden drop in temp. combined with dry air always causes sinus headaches for me. I took Sudafed first thing this morning, and later ibuprofin (out of desperation) when my headache would not cease. I just had lunch....leftover pineapple-chicken curry (with extra spice) and feel INSTANTLY better. I had forgotten that eating spicy foods cause sinus headaches (caused by dryness) gets the juices flowing and relieves the headache instantly! <3

Here are some other benefits of eating spicy foods.

I am rarely without a bottle of Sriracha OR jar of jalepenos at the dinner table. :)

weekend Project.

I purchased a vintage card table that looked VERY similar to

the one shown above, for $8. Except MINE had a big

slash in the vinyl.

So I cut the vinyl off (which was kind of gross anyway).

And painted the board that was underneath. 

It was a long project, mostly bc of the mishap I had to start.

(I didn't like the original design that I started painting).

"Finished" product up close. The colors are actually gray & Purple.

This photo washes out both those colors.

There were a few mishaps with the tape not sticking down...

as you can see, where the paint seeped under.

So today I will be touching up with gray paint and calling it good!

We already have a dining room table....but there have been so many times where I needed a light weight folding table. I'm very happy to be the owner of a (new?) folding table. :)

Confession:

I'm not even going to pretend I liked this guy in the past, because I always found him to be a bit obnoxious. BUT I decided that I can handle this sort of thing for the holidays (aren't the holidays obnoxious?). I could always use another Christmas CD. ;) I feel so dirty admitting this.

What I made today.

When I first awoke this morning, I thought that I would take it easy today.

I ended up cooking for 6 hours today. Ha. HA.

Home-made Pita Bread. 

Let dough rise.

Bake 2 at a time (total of 8).

Korean steamed pork buns. 

Which entails chopping various veggies into teeny-tiny pieces,

cooking the meet/veggies. Squeezing out alll the liquid from the

meat/veggie mixture. Letting the dough rise twice.

Rolling the dough out into 16 equal pieces, stuffing them.

Steaming in 3 separate batches (since I do not

have giant steamer). 

tzatziki sauce.

No, I don't plan to eat all that today! Tomorrow will be an easy day when I cook up chicken pitas. Yum. :)