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Seriously though they should print this on the dollar bill or something because SERIOUSLY

noreply@blogger.com (Midori) — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:12:00 +0000

Because in America? That's how we roll.

(took this back in October at some food place in George Bush Intercontinental in Houston)

Self portraitage at a strange time

noreply@blogger.com (Midori) — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 03:40:00 +0000

So what do I do when my face is all swollen and I'm not wearing any makeup and I haven't even showered in over 24 hours? TAKE PICTURES OF MYSELF YAY. After a work meeting (via telephone) I decided to do some self-portraits because it's pretty rare that I get to work with natural light. I threw on a dress that I've had for ages but for some reason have never worn except to try it on when I got it and devised some non-face centric setups.

I LOVE 17 Tea. VV likes it too (that and mugicha barley tea) so I like to keep it around for him (and me). I'm glad he doesn't drink the Arizona iced teas anymore because he used to go through GALLONS of that stuff. He always got the calorie-free kind, but I'm sure all that artificial sweetener isn't all that good for you either :P

Anyway, I'm doing okay. I just showered right now (for the first time since Wednesday night HAHA) and I'm allowed to brush my teeth now. I wasn't supposed to brush my teeth for 24 hours following the surgery and it was effin' nasty taking bloody gauze out of my unbrushed morning breath'd mouth when I woke up this morning. EW.

noreply@blogger.com (Midori) — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:59:00 +0000

Wooozy weird play by play streamof conciousness on twitter.com/evilmidori Ate key lime blood yogurt half of which ended up on my face. Lips re dry. When I try to dink water half of it ends up down my shirt. Nurse type people liked my giant forever21 hoodie. Icing face right now. Cooold

not happy.

noreply@blogger.com (Midori) — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 07:22:00 +0000

Getting my teeth pulled tomorrow. Not excited. I'm probably going to crap my pants when I see the IV and I will probably choke on my gigantic painkillers after the procedure. And I will probably die when I have to change my bloody gauze. And I mean bloody in the literal sense.

AND. I think my period is coming really soon. Like maybe tomorrow or the day after. That would suck ASS. Then I'd be bleeding and changing pads on both ends. Not cool.

So, going to be high on Valium and Vicodin ~~and Viagra~~ for the next 48 hours. I just took my first Valium tablet about five minutes ago. Let the games begin!

Also, I bought these on my way home from the gym. At a vegan restaurant.

noreply@blogger.com (Midori) — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:25:00 +0000

I wanted something different to eat with my aioli (which I still have a ton of, btw) so I got sweet potato fries.

BECAUSE I LIKE MY UNHEALTHY WITH A SIDE OF UNHEALTHY

VV doesn't use facebook

noreply@blogger.com (Midori) — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 02:07:00 +0000

(06:00:04 PM) me: oh god my mom posted this on her wall
(06:00:05 PM) me: 'Whatever you give a woman, she will make greater. If you give her sperm, she'll give you a baby. If you give her a house, she'll give you a home. If you give her groceries, she'll give you a meal. If you give her a smile, she'll give you her heart. She multiplies and enlarges what is given to her. So, if you give her ...any crap, be ready to receive a ton of sh__.�
(06:00:30 PM) vv: hahahahaha
(06:00:37 PM) vv: what s a wall
(06:00:51 PM) me: facebook thing you can post notes and stuff on
(06:01:02 PM) me: looks like the friendster testimonials area
(06:01:06 PM) me: just more evolved
(06:01:46 PM) vv: thats mad loco
(06:02:16 PM) vv: i'm a wall
(06:02:21 PM) vv: you can post notes on me
(06:03:15 PM) me: i do
(06:03:17 PM) me: http://www.flickr.com/photos/evilmidori/2298831274/

More bad food (and some good food, too)

noreply@blogger.com (Midori) — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:09:00 +0000

Lemon olive oil cake FAIL.

VV's dad gave me some sweet lemons. He said that they're definitely sweeter than regular lemons, but not so sweet that you could eat them straight. Cool. I thought about what I wanted to make with those lemons and decided that they should go in something dessert-y. LEMON OLIVE OIL CAKE. So on Monday I zested (very difficult, these lemons had really thin skin and were a bit soft) and juiced one lemon and tasted the juice and wtf just a bit sweet and NOT TART AT ALL. I went ahead with the cake anyway and after it was done baking (I used a muffin tin because individually sized anythings are win) I took them out and they looked kind of weird...the tops kind of spread out over the top and ran into each other. Oh well. After they cooled I tasted one and it was SUPER moist and SUPER fluffy and SUPER bitter. WTF. I didn't know what happened. I mean, it was sweet but it had this weird bitter taste at the same time, almost as if I'd ground up Tylenol and added it to the batter. I still have no idea what happened. They're in the trash right now. Better luck next time.

Also, I looked up sweet lemons later that night and found this Chowhound topic. I wish I'd seen that earlier. Anyway, I still have one more of those suckers and don't know what to do with it.

A more successful endeavor was the aioli I made with the leftover egg yolks. When I was done with the emulsion I put about half of the aioli into a container and whisked Sriracha into the remainder. Yesterday I ate it with tomatoes/spinach/pita bread and it was SO GOOD. I think I'm going to mix Sriracha into the plain half too. YUM.

In lieu of a real post here are some pictures

noreply@blogger.com (Midori) — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 06:51:00 +0000

Here are a couple of photos I took of myself back in October. I was in Texas but a couple of friends really wanted to see what my hair looked like (this was the day after I got it chopped) so I took a couple photos of myself to email to them that night.

My hair is kind of in an annoying in-betweeny stage right now. I know how I want to get it cut next but I need to wait for the shortest layers to grow out a couple more inches first. Right now I can't really do anything with it except let it dry straight or Remington Airwave it (that hair dryer is the BEST). I can't wait for it to get long enough for me to curl it again. I tried using a curling iron the other day and it was disastrous. I looked like a poodle. From the 80's.

Bad eggs

noreply@blogger.com (Midori) — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:53:00 +0000

So on Thursday I was boiling eggs and left them unattended while I was busy getting distracted by my mom's birthday gift that had just arrived that day (will elaborate on that after I give it to her this weekend) and kind of forgot about them. Yeah, they got kinda overcooked.

The eggs were kind of gross by themselves so last night I made deviled eggs out of them. I used an electric hand mixer to beat the yolks of those SOBs into submission. I'm happy to say my efforts were mostly successful.

I've really got to update this blog more regularly.

SO.SAD.

noreply@blogger.com (Midori) — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 06:24:00 +0000

Photo by Yulanda

I discovered her blog over a year ago and since then would visit her blog on a regular basis and worship her photos because she was an amazing photographer and had the most incredible self-portraits. She was definitely WAY too young to die.

Weekendy things

noreply@blogger.com (Midori) — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 20:32:00 +0000

VV's mom don't mess around when it comes to table setting.

I went to VV's parents' house for their family T?t celebration/dinner. Dinner was awesome and I got red envelopes even though I'm not technically part of the family.

I made my little salmon thingies again. They don't look as pretty as they did the first time I made them.

Another photo from the same day as the photo from the previous post, but this is taken w/ the dslr. VV was freaking out a bit because I was taking photos by the bathtub which was "so dirty" so I cranked the exposure time way up to the point where you can barely find my nose let alone a few stray bits of dust and lint way in the background. Face tilted up because the lighting kind of sucked and made the bags under my eyes look even worse than usual.

Really dude, the only cosmetic surgery I've ever seriously considered (well, aside from getting my bite straightened) is getting my under-eye area de-puffed because I'm pretty sure those bad boys are mostly genetic.

Speaking of surgery, date to get my wisdom teeth yanked = March 4th. I'm terrified. Mostly of the IV. I told the oral surgeon I was terrified and meekly asked if there were any alternatives to the needle. He said no, but he did prescribe me a low Valium to take the night before and the morning of which means I'm probably going to be a total space case in the 12 hours or so leading up to the procedure. FUN. Anyway, I'm glad I'm getting those fuckers extracted because one of them is really starting to bother me. Surgeon said my lower two are impacted which means that I'm probably going to be especially swollen around the lower section of my face. Which means I'm probably going to look like this for the following few days. Rawesome. I think I'm going to try and stay home that weekend.

Brute-force method

noreply@blogger.com (Midori) — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:51:00 +0000

It takes a lot of work and product to give my hair any semblance of texture and it's nothing short of a miracle if it retains any of that texture at the end of the workday.

My hair DESERVED a photo, okay?

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I went to the dentist on Monday FOR THE FIRST TIME IN FOREVER. My last dentist was in LA and after I started working it became somewhat inconvenient to try and make it out there on a weekday just for a checkup/cleaning and I didn't much like him anyway since he always seemed angry every time I saw him so yeah. Anyway. I went to go see VV's dentist who is also a friend of his family which I guess is good. He explained to me very nicely that even though my teeth are awesome my gums kind of suck which means I'm going to have to get shot up with anaesthetic and get a serious deep cleaning and that really sucks because needles send my anxiety levels soaring (remember, I cried the last two times I got my blood drawn) but he also told me they keep nitrous oxide (aka "laughing gas") handy and that my case might warrant the use of it which intrigues me.

But first I have to get my wisdom teeth out. Yes I still have them. And they all suck.

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Going to NorCal at the end of the month. It's all going to be very rush rush rush and family-centric, though, so I'm not sure whether I'm going to get much of a chance to do/see anything other than what we're there for.

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Wordpress is being a bitch about importing my jillions of blog posts. Am going to try and slowly work through the issues which will probably take a while since I'm trying to see if I can salvage comments from Haloscan and BlogBack. #$@#.

noreply@blogger.com (Midori) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:40:00 +0000

Sorry, things are going to be a bit messy in here until I figure out how to move everything over smoothly. #$@#$.

test post

noreply@blogger.com (Midori) — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000

republish

Thanks, blogger

noreply@blogger.com (Midori) — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:01:00 +0000

I've stuck with Blogger for the entire time I've been blogging thus far...almost 10 years now! I've resisted switching because a) I hate change and b) it was just so freaking easy to use Blogger.

But now those mofos have decided to axe FTP support. And to that I say OH NO YOU DI'INT but unfortunately they did and to that I say ~~FUCK YOU MOTHERFUCKERS~~ I guess there's nothing I can really do at this point but move on over to WordPress.

I have until March, so things won't change right away. I guess I'm just glad that I found out about this before I actually did my new layout. Procrastination works!

By special request

noreply@blogger.com (Midori) — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:43:00 +0000

So I've been both busy and faux-busy lately. There are a bunch of little side-projects that I need and/or want to do that I haven't gotten around to yet/need to finish up. One of which is my mom's birthday present that was supposed to be her Christmas present except I messed something up so I had to get her something else.

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I'm starting to itch for some new photo equipment. I think my lens collection is sufficient (for now, anyway) but I'm starting to dream of lighting equipment. Specifically, two continuous light heads/stands and a couple of sets of umbrellas (shoot through, silver/white reflectors).

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Warning to those who are squeamish: don't scroll down because there be a dead pigeon down there!

So remember how I said something about a dead pigeon in the post about the bar crawl? Yeah, that.

Blip

noreply@blogger.com (Midori) — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:49:00 +0000

I think I have a pretty lame-ass layout update (very different from a very lame ass-layout update esp since I don't think there is such a thing as a lame ass-layout) coming up soon. Whipped up something simple this weekend. Need to slice it up and change my template. Time to incorporate some PHP for the first time evAr.

Little slow on the uptake yes I am.

Photography

noreply@blogger.com (Midori) — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:08:00 +0000

I created a photography blog some months ago but haven't done much with it. I finally updated it with some photos from my first "shoot" which was really just Sara and Damon just being very generous with their time and indulging my whims :) Thanks you guys!

Click here for the blog. The layout is both shoddy and temporary, but it works for now!

Birthday crawl (HAPPY 27th LEENERS)

noreply@blogger.com (Midori) — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 20:46:00 +0000

I was still vaguely cranky on the day after the blender incident (see previous post) but not quite as despondent, so I finished off the half-full bottle of wine I had in the fridge and had a 1/2" of whiskey to follow it up. I don't like drinking when I'm really really sad (when I'm really really angry it's okay though) because I think I end up feeling worse and I don't ever really feel like drinking when I'm sad anyway, which is probably good. Anyway, I went to bed a teensy bit drunk that night and the next morning I felt kind of awful physically but my mood had inexplicably improved tenfold. Just in time for the weekend (woo!)

VV had a small food/dvd/game get-together for the Korean on Saturday afternoon. I was only able to attend long enough to sit through the movie (recommended!) and scarf down too much pizza and mac and cheese because I was starving after my workout and possibly an insufficient number of carbs in the previous 24 hours. Also, I did a little bit of clothes shopping (thank you for the gift card April <3) at Anthropologie between the gym and some other errands. I haven't bought any new clothes or shoes (aside from my Oktoberfest costume which totally doesn't count) since my Japan trip in August so yeah AWESOME.

Later that day I drove out to the LA area for a birthday dinner/bar crawl. It was full of randomness (cheesy self-made shirts, tiaras, dead pigeon, running into high school friends of birthday girl's bf, snuggie pictures) and fun. Requisite random assortment of photos ahead! Btw, it was dark and we were moving a lot so a lot of the photos are freakishly grainy.

I got back at around 5 in the morning and was greeted by VV clamoring down the stairs to give me a hug. He told me he woke up not too long before I got in and couldn't get back to sleep when he saw I wasn't home yet :(

Still haven't caught up on my sleep yet. Need to go to bed early tonight!

Is there a light at the end of this tunnel?

noreply@blogger.com (Midori) — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 07:44:00 +0000

Work has been freakishly stressful lately. It's kind of getting to the point where the first thing I want to do in the morning when I wake up is shoot myself in the face because maybe I'll be able to legitimately call in sick and maybe even take some time off guilt-free. Also I seem to be bouncing between being unable to sleep and being unable to stay awake. It's been kind of a shitty week and to top things off I BROKE A FUCKING BLENDER.

Seriously. And it gets worse.

Wanna know how I broke it? I somehow left a fucking spoon inside of it. WHAT THE FUCK. Anyway, the few seconds it took for me to register what was happening and the few seconds it took me to turn it off was enough for the spoon to crack the blender and send shards of glass flying everywhere. I miraculously didn't get cut (THANK GOODNESS) and after it was all over I just sat in the corner of the kitchen and cried which totally seems overdramatic but having something like this happen (consequences of my own stupidity ugh) on top of the awful day I'd already had was like somebody just vomited on my shit sundae of a day. YUM.

Anyway, VV vacuumed and wiped down the floor and after I stopped crying and my hands stopped shaking I cleaned up the counter and washed all the dishes. I didn't feel much like cooking anymore so I comforted myself with two slices of peanut butter toast drizzled with honey.

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I took these photos a couple of days ago. The bed usually isn't made, but I straightened it out for the photos. The stuffed pig is a souvenir from our trip to Japan last August.

Oh, and I totally made a spreadsheet with a list of all my shoes and clothes (well, the stuff I have at VV's anyway)! I'm going to try and get through as many items as possible. We shall see how that goes!

Eating crackers because I'm good at eating crackers

noreply@blogger.com (Midori) — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:00:00 +0000

When VV gets french fries I'm kind of physically unable to not eat any of them. I think the only time I was able to refrain was the time we ate at a Jewish deli and me being ignorant of Jewish dietary laws as I am was fearful of eating anything from VV's plate (including his french fries), afraid that I'd unknowingly violate some law of Kashrut and offend the proprietor (who had taken an interest in me and my large camera and was consequently sort of watching us).

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I was thinking this morning that I should make it a goal to wear everything in my wardrobe at least once before the year is up. Except before I did that I think I'd have to catalog everything in my wardrobe and the mere thought of doing that gives me a headache.

Little potato pancakes

noreply@blogger.com (Midori) — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 06:55:00 +0000

La Tartine Gourmande is my newest blog obsession. I'd been following her flickr for a couple of months and just recently (as in maybe a couple of weeks ago) started to read her website. Her post about r�p�s had me drooling so I decided to shrink them down into finger food for new year's eve/day. Unfortunately, they didn't turn out as crispy as I'd hoped (apparently I hadn't drained enough water from the grated veggies) and I kind of over nutmeg'd the whole thing (whoops). Still, topped with cr�me fraiche, green onions and either some bacon or a slice of smoked salmon they were reasonably edible. I'm going to give it another shot someday, and I promise they'll be better!

You can see how crazily scarred my cutting board is. Eek!

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I seriously, seriously wish I had dinnerware that is just plain white. No textures, no designs, just smooth, bright white. I never understood the appeal of fancy china patterns or any of that. I feel like it just distracts from the food.

Circa midnight

noreply@blogger.com (Midori) — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 23:25:00 +0000

Last photo taken by VV.

Happy 2010!

noreply@blogger.com (Midori) — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 06:42:00 +0000

This is my 3010th post!

I'm muthaeffin exhausted!

Have a great day!

Happy EVE

noreply@blogger.com (Midori) — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 10:35:00 +0000

So on xmas evening, after most of my family left and it was just me, VV, my mom and my dad (via google videochat) my mom literally raided the liquor cabinet and I...drank too much. She also brought out a small bag of Doritos because she said Crown Royal (her side of the family's drink of choice) goes well with it. I also had some Kaluha tasting liqueur that my dad had recieved as a gift back in the 80's or early 90's or something and mescal with a worm in it. That was gross. And not because of the worm.

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And now...time for the year-end roundup! Round-trip flights: 4 (Vegas, Texas, Europe and Japan)
Number of stamps acquired on passport used this year: 3 or 4
Total number of stamps on passport: 3 or 4 (I'm lame)
Airports visited: 14 (SNA, LAS, LAX, JFK, CDG, BCN, VCE, BRU, ORD, NRT, KIX, CTS, MMB, HND, IAH)
Number of days our checked baggage was missing on our cruise: 10
Number of days we were on the cruise: 12
Number of extra pairs of underwear VV had brought in his carry-on: 0
Visits to Roy's: 0 (WTF)
Food Festivals: 1 (Just Taste of HB...SAD)
Employers: 1
Relationships: 1 (woo!)
Breakups: 0 (woo!)
Alcohol-induced vomiting: 1 (there's a shameful story behind this and it involves dvds and bacon)
Any other type of vomiting: 0 (woo!)
Number of people who celebrated their birthdays with me at our birthday party: 3
Number of people who ended up in the emergency room after the birthday party: 1
Number of glass boots I saw this year: 2 (one at the party and one in Japan!)
Number of car accidents: 1 (crazy spinout...scary)
Number of spa visits: 0 (SAD)
Net pounds gained: Oh man I don't even know
Number of figurative candles on my figurative birthday cake: 26
Cell phones: 1 (Blackberry!)
Number of blog updates: 227 (including this post wtf that's it???)

Sorry this one was kind of not as cohesive as the ones from past years...check those out below!

2005
2006
2007 (none...why?)
2008