Air plants

They are super neat.

 

Long time no see

Welp.  lets see..

right about now, I'm missing these.....

 

 

Buuuuuuuuuuut back to reality: 

 

 

Seriously people, time is evaporating out of my ass like the silent killer. I can't even remember half of what I did this Summer yet its definitely taking a toll on my body.  One of the main things was my trip back home.  My mom's surgery was success, she is at the moment cancer free and on the road to recovery.
I gotta say though, this experience has really opened my eyes about cancer.  I joked about it so many times but really, joke is over once you are diagnosed.  The whole process is a painful, emotionally straining and absolutely horrifying experience for everyone around.  Over the course of this past year and a half, I learned more than I needed to know about all the shit that spews out of the asshole that is cancer.  While survival rate and such may seem like all luck with this horrendous disease, what I learned so far is that it really helps to STAY POSITIVE and begin, if you haven't already, to do what you can to build a strong immune system to prevent it--take multivitamins, drink a lot of water, eat raw veggies/fruits, exercise or just move around a lot. 

As a result, I've been trying to improve my health by correcting my eating habits and exercising, but I fear there is one thing I have failed to get over, which is my cigarette addiction.  BUT good news is that this week I've made my switch to electronic cigarette!! I got the brand from Hawaii called "Volcano," as recommended by Vicki's fiance Russell.  So far, its been ok besides the fact that when I use it in public places during my break, I feel like I'm smoking crack or something. But hopefully I'll get used to it
 I'm going to update details on that on my tumblr.

what else.  I've been back from Hawaii for about a month now.  Wesley and I are both homesick.  But we have our kitty dingding Mr.MeowMing to lift our spirits.  (he is currently on my lap and my leg is falling asleep as I type this.) Seattle is slowly but surely getting cold.  Its almost like a dream I was in Hawaii for so long and now winter is about to start.  But I'm excited for snowboarding season because I really want to at least get good enough to be able to get off the lift without falling on my face and master going down a tiny hill lol.  Besides, I HAVE TO make use of my ultra pro Helly Hansen pants that my coworkers constantly make fun of me for buying, because I was stupid enough to not know that its one of the most expensive snowboarding brands.  anyways must go because my foot is completely numb and I need to go walk around the house like I just lost my virginity to Michael Jordan.

peace.  

Wallace Falls

On Memorial Day, Allison and Adam took us on a hike at Wallace Falls, about 1.5 hour drive northeast of Seattle.  First hiking adventure of the year, hopefully there will be more hiking trips as we dive into Summer!
Weather is finally looking a little better these days.  Still a bit rainy and cold in the morning, avg temperature in the upper 40's to mid 50's. This weekend is supposed to be nice in the 70's, so looking forward to it. 

Beautiful trail, with mossy green forest.  I F'n LOVE MOSS!!!
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cool bridge we crossed

River from the Lower Fall

A&A Exploring

At the Middle Fall

View of the river from a look out point

Look out point at the top

DA SUPER UPPER FALL

we make the same faces cuz we vibe-in'

Yayyy we made it!

 

Pike Place Market

At any US urban metropolis you may find foods from the far east to the Mediterranean.  Same goes for Seattle and it comes with a bit of interesting history.  Thanks to the Klondike Gold Rush Museum, I learned that one of the reasons Seattle became the largest city in the northwest was the gold rush, when the city became kind like a one stop shop for gold miners to obtain goods for their journey up north.  People all over US, some out of the country, were crossing through the town.  Growing business meant that the city also saw the chance to offer a variety of different types of food to meet the demands of the travelers and the passerby alike.  Pike Place Market is an excellent example of where one can experience this culinary diversity in this city. 
I love the Pike Place Market.  I always thought of it as a place where you find seafood but its more like a conglomerate of various international foods.  Up until recently I've been calling it Pike's place!! oopz. lulz  I've been living in Seattle for 3 years but I still haven't tried all of the little food places in the market.  So far, my  favorites are: 

• Piroshky Piroshky- salmon piroshky is orgasmic
• Uli's Famous Sausage - i love em big juicy sausage mmm
• Pasta Bar - ok its like a food court place but seriously, REALLY awesome pasta
• Beecher's Cheese - macaroni and cheese here is dangerously amazing. 

borscht at Cafe Yarmarka, a russian food court place. My roommate/bff from college is Russian, her mom cooked really good borscht.  This place isn't really comparable to their homestyle cooking, but still god really good taste. 

Uli's sausage serves Bavarian + American sausage.  personally, i like the cajun style ones better. 

So a couple weeks back, I went to the Cheese festival at the martket.  There were over 200 different types of cheese you can sample and buy plus seminars and cooking demonstrations.  I love cheese, I mean my name is made of cheese.  I sampled a LOT at the event. By the end everything tasted the same (　*´Д｀) But! there were a couple of different types that stood out in my mind.  One was this super stinky 9 year old cheese; my sample was the size of a tiny booger but boy it was pungent, my mouth tasted like all my teeth rotted.(´ж｀;)  Another one was the one we ended up buying.  It was "smoked" cheese made locally and it kind of had a smoked meat kind of smell to it when you bite down.  mMMm 

We were real cheesed out at the end, but it was a fun event.  below are more pix, you can see they had vendors lined up serving free samples. 

Grilled Cheeeese made with artichoke cream cheese and some kind of white cheddar.  

My first meal after I went to the gym... MMMMm.  

some kind of cow cheese

some kind of goat cheese

Baking

On a very rare occasion, I become ecstatic about baking.

When its all over, I stand by the kitchen absolutely petrified by the amount of butter and sugar content I just smothered onto my creation. 

Recently I went through the same episode of this baking seizure and reminded me of my housemate in college who used to bake stuff all the time.  She wasn't exactly the social type, judging from the fact that she stayed home most of the time and that I never really recall her bringing any of her friends over during that year.  It didn't take me long to speculate that one of the reasons for her social ineptness was the way her facial expression stayed still in a very uncomfortable way when we would have a conversation. 

Nevertheless, she was nice enough to always share her baked goods.  In fact, when I say always, I mean ALL THE TIME.  I'd often come down the stairs high as a kite and then find her freshly baked cookies patiently waiting for me with my housemate never in sight.   Back then I only thought as far as appreciating how F'n awesome it was to have tasty sweets conveniently available as soon as I smoked a bowl.

It was not until I graduated college I learned how to bake cookies, let alone learned the amount of butter it takes to make a batch.  Now that I look back, I can think of several good reasons for her to murder me and rest of my housemates by slowly inducing diabetes in all of us with her cookies.  The walls in the house we lived in were made of tissue paper so I'm sure we made a lot of noise partying and coming home late.  When she did bake cookies, at least for my part, sometimes I would forget to thank her because she was not around.   or when she cracked a joke, no one laughed because at least for me, I was too busy trying to see when she would blink.  So this is how I imagine it went down:

But, I'm sure she didn't.

Anyway, I guess long story short, I made an apple tart the other day and here is how it turned out:

I forgot to put syrup on the apple before I took the pic.  = \  *sigh* I'd like to bake more but its just so hard to eat them after you see what goes inside.. = (

Qat Comics

Battle with Itch
 

Face of Yakuza Qat



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Tulip Festival

My friend Steph took me on a day trip to Woodburn Oregon's Tulip Festival + Portland this past weekend :D

It was.. my first time *blush*

The place was filled with ACRES of tulips of all different kinds.  It was incredible! 

The weather was actually really nice in the upper 60's/low 70's, a little overcast.  

After 4.5 hour drive from Seattle, when we arrived and this man fed us Bratwurst.. 

'TWAZ DELISH.  I F'n LOVE sauerkraut and he loaded it up MMM <3 

Bratwurst then gave me super powers.

I could talk to animals. I made a new friend.

then I rejoiced in the field of flowers like you do.  

and then I hid, because all the terrorists are doing it.   

 
and then I fell in love with Steph's dslr.

and then I took an AWESOME pic of steph, I mean look at this, its perfect.  can someone give me like $1000 so I can continue this effort in producing pretty photos?  kthx

The End :D

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