HAMMER & NAILS

SOMETIMES LIFE IS ANNOYING!  It's almost like... life wants to beat me in the head with a hammer.

SOMETIMES MY NAILS ARE PRETTY!

Like right now.

This picture is NOT supposed to be upside-down, stupid
technological failures

• Orly in Liquid Vinyl
• OPI in De-Signer De Better (base color under the glitter)
• Glitter = loose glitter I bought on EBAY!

Coming eventually:  I take off glitter nail polish with the smoothest of ease, because all you chicas who have put ze glitter on your nails know that you basically need a chisel to remove it.

You need a chisel to remove it unless you're smart like that Maddy Varno.

Junk Food Detox

When I am in charge of the world,
all meals will be french fries and
ice cream cones.

At one point last week, I planned to write a blog post about frosting lumps.

I LIED.

Not really, I just ate like an 8 year old who was in charge of the world would eat, and now I feel like my body wants vegetables.

So, I am officially launching my junk food detox. I am hoping this lasts longer than 20 minutes.  I did hit rock bottom yesterday though when I was having a pity party for myself and went to CVS to buy a box of Fun Dip valentines.

JUST DO IT

I ate 24 dip-a-sticks.  I don't even want the powder... I just wanted the dip-a-sticks! UGH It's like they're made of compressed crack, I couldn't stop!!

So now I'm just going to try toooo... I don't know.  Eat an avocado or something.  I'm gonna try to feel this one out.

Quinoa Says: It's cool, the frosting's with me!

sup, buns

My day yesterday was spent eating cinnamon buns, quinoa, and sesame chicken.  Quinoa is so healthy, it was probably ashamed to sit next to the several other trough-like dishes I spent my day hovering over.  But, with the distant hope of accomplishing a cardio kickboxing workout before the end of the day, I ate dutifully ate my quinoa as this fantastic grain is high in protein.

Waking up this morning, I reached for another cinnamon bun.  Making a cinnamon bun your breakfast is probably on the same plane as sitting on the floor and pouring a 1-lb bag of sugar on your face.  Look, for your visual enjoyment I have included a picture of the bun before I ate it.

Frosting bowl, part of a
complete breakfast

After I finished it, I had a sugar headache.  It's completely possible that the sugar headache has something to do with this:

If only I could eat some quinoa for breakfast and it could cover for the sugar and butter in the cinnamon bun, a concept that Mitch Hedberg once shared with the world.

"That would be cool if you could eat a good food with a bad food and the good food would cover for the bad food when it got to your stomach. Like, you could eat a carrot with an onion ring and they would travel down to your stomach, then they would get there, and the carrot would say, 'It's cool, he's with me'."

 Foreshadowing next blog post: Frosting lumps

PS: The bread mix I used to make the cinnamon buns, The Gluten-Free Pantry Favorite Sandwich Bread Mix

Fun with Nail Paint

Liquid Vinyl from Orly

Trying to get back into writing blogs!  I've been posting pictures to Pinterest and Facebook, and I think there's probably a better way to post those online than throwing them in a facebook album. 

Leopard!

Lately I've been into nail polish a lot; I have ginormous nails so each time I paint them, it's like an art project.  I seem to paint my nails a lot on Sunday afternoons, mainly because it tends to be a time I'm home and sitting.  The last two nail projects have been black curtain tips, and crazy grey leopard print!

As another note, today as I was painting my nails, I was also eating GF cinnamon buns and sesame chicken.  I made both late last night because my boyfriend is about to start his 2nd semester at Cornell Law school, so I'm a little bummed about him being eaten by Cornellmonster again. Booooooo!

Random note to end on: Netflix really needs to get some sort of continuous play up in that bitch.

BLOG = BACK!

I'm really gonna try to post more....... honest.

I also might rename my blog the pizza, cookies, and manicure factory.

(Try to figure out whether I'm kidding or not on that one!)

I dedicate this post to everyone who has told me "You're not a nerd"

This week, much like every other week, I have consumed a lot of bagels. I prefer my bagel-per-day rate to be at least one. I think it's important to note that I hate Udi's bagels and the more I think about it, most their products aren't that great. They make a good sandwich bread. The rest is just marketing and you're all shmucks for falling for it. I prefer either Kinnikinnickinickicnicnikinckindcick (Kinnikinnick) bagels or Glutino because I think they taste the best.

Why I like bagels

• Glutino bagels are delicious
• You can slice them up and make GF bagel chips (8 mins at 425)
• They make a perfectly acceptable breakfast, lunch or dinner, lupper, brunch or snack
• When I was little, we would get (gluten) bagels from this place called Bagel Land and I'd eat like 10 for breakfast
• Bagel Land still exists and if any gluten-eaters in Rochester wanted to get Bagel Land bagels, I would like to watch you eat ten bagels from there for my vicarious enjoyment

On another note:

Mrs. Beast (my car) needs repair. The check engine light came on for the first time since I obtained the car in December. This startled me for two reasons.

1) The last time I was driving and the check engine light came on was in my old car when the head gasket blew and I had to hitch a ride home with someone from New Jersey
2) Unlike my old car's "CHECK ENGINE SOON" warning, this car illuminates a yellow engine icon.

On the illuminated engine icon: Is that really what the engine looks like?! I prefer to imagine my car's engine looking all shiny and cool, like the one Danny Zuco rides on while singing Greased Lighning in my top-10 favorite movie of all time, Grease. I prefer to imagine my car at all times having a young John Travolta under the hood, clad in tight leather pants sitting on top of the engine surrounded by other singing and dancing men. Unfortunately, my imagined perception has been altered by this engine icon.

Help castle.

Why, do you ask? Becasue the check engine burns images of Super Mario 3 (NES game) into my brain. AHH! No! I was immediately flooded with memories of trying to beat the "Help" castle at the end of each land and failing miserably by something stupid like accidentally getting smooshed between the Koopa and the wall right before I was about to jump on him the 3rd time and win. Nooooo I have died! Cue the "fail" music, Mario's neck dissapears into the rest of his body and he flies off the screen, then the game returns to the main world where all the boards are shown.  What happens next? The ship FLIES AWAY, ZOoooooooooooooooom and does something stupid like land between two boards that I need to beat all over again because I died all the way or found a different route to the castle. 

Where am I going with this?

My check engine light looks exactly like the ship after it flies out of the castle.

End guy in Bubble Bobble. Leprechaun that
hurls whiskey bottles.

What other awesome games have I beat before on NES? Bubble Bobble. The end guy was a giant leprechaun that hurled whiskey bottles. I feel this is relevant to mention because St. Patrick's Day is next week.

Making Tracks for Celiacs in 2011

QUICK UPDATE! I know I promised to discuss bagels, but I'm going to do that later this week.

Right now I am working on an internet marketing proposal for the Rochester Celiac Support Group to help with the 2011 walk.  This is very exciting for me because it combines the two things I love most in the world: social media and the internet, and gluten-free food!

I hope to have a lot more to say about this project after I present my proposal to the walk committee and have a sense of whether or not they would like to move forward with my ideas.  I am kind of excited that I actually have time do this this.  I have completed all of the academic coursework for my bachelor's degree and am finishing up the remaining portion of my degree by working part-time.  I finish my co-op in May, and I graduate! Holla.

I have a collection of pictures I take of my food from my intentions to blog about it.  I should upload that too, sometime. Hmmmm.

By the end of the week, my friends.  By the end of the week!