Detox

Sorry for not updating as much girlies! I was actually stressed for time right after my last post. I have now learned my lesson and not to procrastinate anymore (or as much).

Reno was fun and I didn't take any pictures. There wasn't any snowboarding either since the weather was terrible.

I have been eating horribly throughout my whole weekend but I mean that's what vacations are for right? Let's just say there was more than overindulging and gluttony involved. The effects of doing so led me to have an unbelievably swollen face and bloated stomach in the morning. This definitely screams detox! Although my definition of a detox is probably a bit skewed.

I don't mean drinking a drink of cayenne pepper and lemonade but basically try and not eat out and eat more veggies.

My plan:

-80% of my meals should have veggies.

-No sauce as possible meaning it should be "clean."

-No more bleached flour (ate WAAAAY too much bread).

I'm still not going to deprive myself but I feel antsy in a way since I feel like I have too much sodium and crap in my blood.

Only pictures I took was the Whole Foods we ate at after driving for hours on 50 since I-80 was closed all weekend!

 The biggest Whole Foods I have seen yet.

Whole Foods hot bar is like CRACK. I had a little bit of everything: autumn salad, chicken tikka masala, madras potatoes, basmati rice, brown rice with veggies, Szechuan green beans, a crapload of my favorite: cabbage crunch, garlic noodles, penne primavera, chicken cacciatore, one hot wing and steamed veggies.

Everything was delish especially the Indian food because Whole Foods does Indian food RIGHT!

It was also snowing half the time we were there.

It was beautiful

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Traveling: Part 1

Richard and I have been travelling on weekends together and it's nice. Richard works a million hours a week so it's a nice way to relax for him and just fun for me!

We are going to Reno this weekend to hit the slopes one last time of the season and it's suppose to be both of our birthday presents to each other.

I love our weekends but....

I hate to pack. I loathe unpacking even more. Since we want to keep travelling on weekends together I just decided that I have my stuff packed already.

 The Vera Wang dustbag has all my toiletries and the little beauty bag is my makeup bag and can just be zipped and put in my bag.

 My Wang bag has Clinique night cream, Kiehl's sample moisturizer, MAC oil cleanse (great to take off waterproof and is cheaper than Lancome and Shu Uemura) and Clinique non-aerosol hairspray.

 The ziploc bag contains a small mouthwash, traveling toothpaste, small solution, small Clinique soap, extra contacts and some cotton pads.

I don't know if it's lazy or neurotic but I have doubles so that way I can have my stuff ready and I won't feel like I forgot something like a toothbrush. I used to take my toothbrush from home but most of those times I would forget it and would have to buy one at a local walgreens and they ain't cheap people! The Clinique traveling soap is a great deal because you get 3 little soaps for about $15 and it comes with a traveling case.

Although the soap (I keep typing soup!!) is not really great for people with dry skin but it's awesome for super oily people like me.

I also got tagged this weekend!

By the lovely Emily at TheEmmiFace!

The Writings on the Wall: 

Get a piece of paper and write the answers to the following questions:

1. What's your name/your blogger name?

2. What's your blog's name/URL?

3. Write "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."

4. Favorite quote?

5. Your Favorite song?

6. Your favorite band/singers?

7. Anything else you want to say?

8. Tag three to five other people 

Excuse my messy writing and the boring paper.

Have a great Tuesday lovers!

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Pretty Girl Rock

Anyone heard of that song? It is seriously stuck in my head! However, it is pretty catchy and it has somewhat of a good message?

Anywho, lately I've still been consuming lots of these:

 c o f f e e

Why is it so addicting? I seriously want to cut back but my mornings seem so unfinished without these. I need to trick my brain into thinking that tea is a worthy component.

I also have been feeling pretty weak after just consuming just coffee and I keep thinking that I am allergic to caffeine but I also think it has to do with my weird scheduling of eating. I go hours without eating and it's not healthy.

Richard and I went to the gym the other day and I couldn't keep up because I just felt so weak and tired. So weak, that we immediately got food after.

We went to a place in Pacifica called The Green Enchilada and I thought it was a chain until I googled it and realized there is one in Pacifica?

It's a Mexican restaurant that also sells rotisserie chicken but everything is organic and all their meat is from Niman Ranch.

 I had water but Richard got fresh-squeezed pineapple juice. It was alright but not sweet enough!

 We shared a taco plate

and these awesome nachos. The chips were baked, not fried and it was crispier. There wasn't a lot of cheese though and sometimes I get nachos just for that cheez whiz!

I realized I have to run a lot of errands that I don't want to do (like closing accounts at banks) and returning stuff but I must perservere!

Happy Sunday lovers!

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Night Vision

My house went without ONE hour without power and it was the longest hour of my life. In times like these, I wish I followed through with my ukelele dreams so at least I could've played in the candlelight.

That's settled then. I need to buy a uekelele and learn to play it ASAP.

However, during that one hour in complete darkness I decided to use the night view on my camera. My camera is FAMOUS for being able to capture everything in night as you would view during the day without the use of flash.

 Can you tell it was pitch-black when I had taken it?

AH-MAZING.

Another amazing find:

Panera Bread Broccoli Cheddar soup from Costco. There were two tubs of this delicious artery-clogging creamy soup.

I die.

Does anyone watch 30 rock? Unless you live under a rock I am hoping you are religiously watching this show like I am.

The weird thing is, I have a crush on this guy:

Pete Hornberger. I think he is charming and I love his smile! I am a total creeper I know.



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Spring Cleaning

Spring is almost here and I have this urge to clean and re-organize and re-decorate my room. You see I still live in the bedroom I grew up in. I lived by myself in San Jose for almost two years and decided that I needed to move back home and now that I have accepted that I will be here for awhile I want to keep up to date with my room.

 These Chanel symbols were actually made by Richard when I was 16 (I know he's a sweetie!) and he knew how much I loved Chanel, fashion and France that he made it for one of our anniversaries or my birthday. Whatever, you know when you were teenagers you were celebrating monthiversaries!

My headboard wall

 Posters from Ikea that were bought with my own allowance and when I was very young.

 This poster has been crooked since it was put on.

 My biggest challenge is to make this look more presentable. I used to have this whole bookshelf dedicated to my Vogue magazines that I have collected over the years but downsized. However I have other crab on there like thermoses, lunch bag, clorox wipes, an espresso pot, sketchbooks, cups and the list goes on.

Another place I need to reorganize is my beauty shelf on top of my dresser. I need to find a way to put my headbands in a better more organized fashion.

I want my room to be girly now. I've always been such a tomboy and those few pieces of those wall ornaments were to girlify myself and I need something better and more appropriate. I just need to think of ideas and will share it with you girlies!!

So I have been tagged by Lene and show you what I was like Through the years:

 I'm a girl! Born on March 11, 1988 and born around 2 in the afternoon. I don't know how they measured the weight but I am pretty sure I was a pretty plump baby from what my mama said.

 I'm wearing blue and looking like a little boy because they were expecting twin boys and instead got another princess =)

 My professional baby pics with my awesome popcorn sweater!

 My first birthday with the traditional Korean dress.

 I think my 3rd birthday? I had to take this picture because I used to always tippy toe around the house pretending to wear heels like my grandma and mama.

 My sister and me.

My 8th grade graduation. This picture makes me laugh. I was so awkward in a skirt because I was such a tomboy and I had braces. I was also skinny like a twig: 5'0 and 95lbs.

My senior portrait. I thought I was so hot back then but I can tell you 5 years later wiser and with more fashion sense that this picture makes me cringe. This is before I heard of blush, lipstick and straightening iron.

Well that is pretty much I am willing to show and embarass myself! The recent pictures you've seen on this blog

I think I just had a great idea on what to put on my walls so have a great night ladies!

Happy St. Patrick's day and be careful of them popos!

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Fringed

Sorry I didn't do my post yesterday. My plan was to do it after dinner but dinner ran late and I just went to sleep instead.

I finally redid my hair couple days ago! I did my bangs two months back but they were too short and too blunt so I tried to make it look a bit piecey.

 I think my hair is a bit too coarse for bangs but whatever I'm going to rock it!!

Last night, my bestie Jena took me out for a late birthday dinner at the Outerlands.

 This was the best meal of the night and I want to recreate this at home. This was a savory bread pudding with Gruyere and mushrooms.

 Then we had a salad of greens, endive, some Japanese orange that tasted very tart like grapefruit, sliced almonds and dates with vinaigrette. I made sure I had each item in every bite because it was such a good combination.

 Then for dinner we had a chocolate tart

 and butterscotch panna cotta.

I die.

So delicious and fresh. This restaurant uses organic and local items so the menu is literally on a 5x7 card and it changes weekly.

Then we had a chitchat while netflixing back at her place. Her boyfriend's kitty was so intrigued that she sat perfectly on the edge of the chair and watched me. She also came over and sat on my lap and sniffed me. I think she smelled the doggies.

I am deathly tired and I need to get ready for work while watching Jersey Shore.

Have a great Wednesday lovers!

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Java my Beach Please!

Most of you don't know but Richard lives RIGHT next to the beach. Plus, he lives two blocks away from this piece of heaven:



(image taken from http://www.google.com/)



Java Beach. It is a hangout spot for surfers and they serve awesome coffee and baked goods. All organic as well.

On Sunday, Richard and I met at Java Beach and got some organic coffee. I got a buttered bagel as well and it was heaven. I still have mind-shattering dreams about it. It had a chewy crispy crust and so bready and soft on the inside.

We decided we will always meet Saturday mornings so I can always have a buttered bagel and organic coffee =)

We then hiked along the trail at Trails End.

We were basically on the other side of the bridge from Saturday.

Then we came across this creepy maze.

That pink hat was freaking me out.

I've also decided I am the worst mama in the world because not only did I forget to mention Maximus' birthday but also Titan's!

His was yesterdays. We're all 2 days apart.

Titan is my first puppy ever and he changed my world.

When he was a puppy his ears would stick up and then stick down and then one ear up and one ear down and finally they just stayed put.

Maximus loves to eat and Titan? He LOVES to sleep.

We fed him vanilla ice cream and he was happy starting his 3rd year.

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