San Francisco Love

Yesterday was EPIC. My beloved team, Giants, won the World Series! I was at work and didn't get a customer since 5 o'clock and everyone was going coocoo bananas out in the streets! We were all celebrating after 54 years we finally won the World Series!

I've got so much love for my city by the bay!

My favorite player on the team, Brian Wilson. But, he doesn't look like this.

He looks like this! He actually dyes his beard and his saying is,"Fear the Beard!" I plan on seducing him one of these days. LOL

For lunch I decided to keep it in the theme of San Francisco and had Boudin's. I know I should've gotten a sourdough bread bowl with clam chowder but I was eating at work and didn't feel like lugging a bread bowl full of chowder for 4 blocks. I had the turkey avocado with tomato, havarti cheese and mayo on a croissant bread. The croissant cost about $0.75 more but it was worth it. It was so good!

This is how my coworker and I watched the game at work. We couldn't leave our department to watch on one of the flat-screen tv's but we made it work! San Francisco was so excited that one of the managers actually made a huge announcement when they won and cars were honking and people were screaming. I even heard there was "smoke" in the air.

My heart will always be in San Francisco. Never been more proud to be born and raised here!

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Sukiyaki

This week has been such a long one and although it's Friday, it's not the start of my weekend. Oh yes, I am the only 20 something year old in my department to be working late on Halloween weekend. I mean it's good for me anyways just because the chance of relapse is higher. Plus, I didn't feel like dressing up for once and I just want to come home and snuggle with my little poopoo puppies.

I am loving my new Essie color, Chinchilly. It is a perfect charcoal grey and it reminds me of the color of those putty-like charcoal erasers. This is taken with the light on.

This is with natural light.

I've also received my Elizabeth and James rings!

One in gold.

One in silver.

I actually really like Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen's contemporary line. I'm always looking for their stuff on sale.

Thursday night I made some awesome homemade guacamole with tomatoes for the Giants vs. Rangers game. I wanted "bar" like food and we also had wings, hot links with peppers (my favorite of the night!) and a cold coke.

Tonight we had sukiyaki! I haven't had this in so long! It's basically like Shabu Shabu but without the broth and we used bulgogi isntead of just regular meat. It was so delicious. We also had cellaphane noodles with this as well.

Well, I need to get crackin on my homework =P.

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Jealous?!

Sorry for that crazy post last night. I just didn't want to not show my whole world because it's so dark sometimes. I want to be able to who I really am and show through this blog my progression in life while sharing my ups and downs. I mean it would be great to always have the ups but life's not always daises sometimes they're thorny dark roses. So, I want to keep this blog real for my readers but I don't want you guys to worry or anything I just want people to listen sometimes. So, I am sorry about my dark post.

Anyways, enough of that matter I have been eating very well.

My sister made us Trader Joe's Indian food with frozen naan and it was delicious! Best frozen Indian food.

I've also been getting early enough before work to eat some breakfast. I bought freeze-dried strawberries and ate it with my rice krispies. This is before the milk.

Then after the milk. It was really good.

This was my packed "lunch" or more like snacks for work. I bought these individual sized Sabra hummus at Costco. I know they're not really eco-friendly but it's just so convenient! I also had a banana and a Trader Joe's honey nonfat Greek yogurt. One of my favorites.

Now here is the best part:

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Yogurts galore!!! My lovely sister went to Mollie Stone's for me and got me 8 Fages (4 for $5) and 20 wallaby's, 10 raspberry flavor and 10 peach flavor (10 for$7). I am in yogurt heaven. My sister mentioned how crazy she looked when she checked out. I told her she was the best sister EVA.

I also bought 3 squashes. I got a squatternut bosh (hehe), kobacha and acorn squash. I want to just cut them up and bake them but I also want to make some awesome butternut squash soup. The ones that I remembered eating as a child. So, heres to some posts about squash experiments!

Now, I will enjoy eating some yogurt with every meal LOL

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Tweaking
Warning: this has serious and personal content and may scare some.

I had my first therapy session with Richard today. I don't know how neurotic I was but we went to therapy to help us and then we get there and had the therapist tell us there is no way to help us at this point. Rejected, rejected and then rejected some more. I felt hopeless that someone that we are paying money for isn't able to help us out. I don't even know why we went into therapy in the first place. But, we get there and the therapist basically told us he couldn't help us. So the next scene was basically me having a total meltdown. The biggest one in a long time. So Richard finally drives me to my house, my mom and dad were called out. I'm totally going insane and I realize that I hated my life. My mom manages to talk to Richard and calm him down. Richard then takes my dad to where my car was parked. I couldn't stop crying and I had a long talk with my mom and my dad and I don't know what I got from that but I just can't deal with anything right now. I don't know why but then my mom fed me two sleeping pills and behind her back I took 2 codeines and had a crapload of rum. I don't know if it was the combination of the prescription medicine and the amount of alcohol in my system but I was laying on the floor and only heard the slow breathing of my own and I don't know if I closed my eyes or not but I see the old riCH and AnniE, they were staring down at me asking what had happened to me. I looked up at them and saw the happy riCH and AnniE and I cried because they looked at me and pitied me. They were in that oblivious love-state that Richard and I used to be in. What is the Richard and Annie now? There's nothing and then I realized that I do want to get better and to try and do this therapy with Richard and get something out of it. I texted Richard and told him that we both owe it to riCH and AnniE. We both owe it to the sweet little couple that we were, the innocent richard and annie that met when I was 10 and went to the same church and both got baptized together, the couple that believed so much in love that we wanted to spend every waking minute together. We owe it to the people that believed in love because of us. We owe it to everyone. We owe it to ourselves.

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Fall is Here

I love when it gets cold and rainy. I was born and raised here in the Bay Area and for as long as I can remember I just loved the cold. I love wearing my peacoats in the middle of July and wearing rainboots in the rain. I love crunching on the leaves while seeing my breath in the air.

I've also realized that Fall is here because of my Mollie Stones ad.

I was looking at ads (as I do on Mondays) and write my grocery list out for that week. Well let's just say it was the best ad so far this week! Favorites including Fage is 4 for $5, wallaby organic yogurt are 10 for $7 and best of all, all the squashes are cheap! I'm definitely putting kobacha and butternut squash in my basket this week. It's also killing me because the sale starts tomorrow while I'm at work! You obviously can tell that Fage will be gone ASAP. I am taking their whole stock! My sister also agreed she would shop for me so I will clutch onto my iPhone hoping she would be able to get everything on the list for me.

Wish my sister and I good luck! Lol

My mom also took the time to make homemade dumplings. They're made with cabbage, onions, tofu, ground pork, green onions and bean sprouts. The only thing I don't like about Korean dumplings are how thin the dumpling skins are! I love the Chinese ginger pork and chives dumplings with the doughy skin. They're still good though!

You can eat dumplings in many different ways. So far I've eaten them steamed, boiled and in soups. I think the best way to eat them are in soups though but it's because I love soups.

Another sign that fall is here? Persimmons! They are so delicious and they are so ripe right now.

I've also indulged in the McDonald's bandwagon for the McRib.

Come on! These only come once in every few years! You bet I got me one!

I've also got some new colors for Fall. My favorites are chinchilly (the middle Essie one) and OPI's Lincoln park after dark. Chinchilly is a shade of grey and Lincoln park after dark  is a dark jeweled-tone purple.

Delicious

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Cafe Venue

I've recently come across a new restaurant near Bloomingdale's. You see, I don't really venture outside the mall when I want to buy lunch sometimes and my vegetarian coworker always raved about this place. I've never really looked for it just because I've always usually craved something indulgent like burgers and french fries and if I wanted sandwiches or soups I would walk my butt up to Union Square and go to Boudin's.

Then I met up with one of my friends in high school and we decided to meet up for lunch one day and I decided to give Cafe Venue a shot.

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



(picture taken from www.google.com)



I got the half salad/half sandwich combo. You can't tell from this photo but the portions were huge! The salad wasn't just romaine and dressing, it was greens with carrots, red onions, cucumbers, mushrooms and she was about to dump bleu cheese on it but I opted out of that. So it was a really great side salad and I only had half because it was a lot. My sandwich was turkey club and they did not skimp on the ingredients. She also sliced the avocado right in front of me and the bread was so soft and delicious. It came with tortilla chips and I think it comes with it when you get salad because my friend got soup and he didn't get any chips. I got all of this for about $8.00.

I am definitely going back there again.

Cafe Venue

67 5th Street

San Francisco, CA 94103

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Sweet Little Treat

I've been having weird appetites lately, eating some things that I never usually crave or normally wouldn't eat or I hardly ever eat. I guess when you're emotional (and on your period) you just have weird cravings.

While waiting in line to meet Tyler Florence, my sister and I were conveniently right across Pinkberry. I don't really usually like cold stuff like ice cream (I'll even wait for my yogurt to be at room-temperature) but for some reason I was craving frozen yogurt with toppings. Pinkberry has got to be the best frozen yogurt I have tried. This literally tasted like frozen Greek yogurt. It was tangy and sweet and I immediately got on my iPhone to see if it was actually Greek yogurt (website didn't say). I must've enjoyed it so much that the people in front and back of us in line went to Pinkberry to buy themselves a treat.

I've been enjoying my coffee every morning. It's gotten really chilly again in the bay and hot coffee is so great when you're walking outside downtown San Francisco early morning and you can see your breath in the cold air.

One of those chilly days it got really warm in Bloomingdale's and I had to have myself a Jamba Juice. I don't even like smoothies or milkshakes! So it was really weird that I was craving it. I found a hair on top of my smoothie but I just fished it out and the surrounding smoothie that I thought was contaminated and just kept drinking away. I got Aloha Pineapple because I love pineapples.

Then I had a craving for boxed Mac and Cheese and ate half of it plain and the other half I added a can of tuna and more cheese.

Nostalgia.

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