• homemade!
  • Berthillon
  • Bi-Rite
  • Tucker's
  • Ici
  • Amorino
  • Mashti Malone's
  • Ciao Bella
  • Sketch
  • Mitchell's
  • Bombay Ice Creamery
  • Gelateria Naia/Mondo Gelato
  • Fenton's
apr 13 2006 ∞
jul 24 2007 +
  • Try new coiffures/looks involving scarves, hoods, hats and sunglasses. Current coiffure: pull back hair, wrap scarf/bandana around head to keep stray hairs out of face, don gigantic Oliver Peoples sunglasses, flip hoodie up and apply lip gloss.
  • Road said new "looks" while doing basic things such picking up bandages from the drugstore, taking out the trash, coffee runs, etc. Shoot for "Olson twin avoiding paparazzi" attitude. (Note to self: get ahold of a giant Starbucks cup)
  • Try to decide between Johnson's sheer or flexible fabric bandages. The the adhesive on sheer bandages are a little less rough on the skin, but the color of the flexible fabric blends in better with the skin. For fun, use novelty Marc Jacobs bandaids with kitchy prints and slogans.
  • Arrange bandages on skin in as decorative a manner as possible. Whorls, spirals an...
jun 5 2006 ∞
jun 5 2006 +
  • Marc Jacobs - modern with a retro twist through the eyes of a derelict schoolgirl
  • Alexander McQueen - razor sharp tailoring with a touch of eroticism
  • Zac Posen - girly swirly bias cut paneling
  • Stella McCartney - girly but not too precious
  • Catherine Malandrino - parisian goes rocker
  • Proenza Schoueler - understated luxury that's not boring
  • Narciso Rodriguez - makes minimalism look sexy
  • Imitation of Christ - hey, Subkoff was in freeway. j/k... i just like her stuff.
  • Prada - as massive as her distribution is, Miuccia's still a trendsetter
  • Balenciaga (Ghesquiere) - unabashed paean to haute couture
apr 13 2006 ∞
may 24 2006 +
  • The new Marc by Marc Jacobs store
  • Veronica Mars (missed the first half of the first season, and I'm finally catching up on DVD)
  • Beard Papa cream puffs
  • Lost (who isn't?)
  • New yoga arm balances - parsva eka pada galavasana, mayurasana, hummingbird (don't know the sanskrit name)
may 16 2006 ∞
may 16 2006 +
  • Freeway - why I'll always love Reese and saw her Oscar potential ten years ago
  • Election - see above
  • Heavenly Creatures - when will Kate get a statue?
  • Cinema Paradiso - one of the most sentimental movies I've seen
  • Indochine - colonialism and Catherine Deneuve
  • All About Eve - for the ultimate in bitchy divas
  • Gallipoli - early Mel Gibson, but a great WWI film
  • Audition - Japanese horror that will scar your soul
  • Wings of Desire - beautiful and poetic
  • Before Sunrise/Sunset - falling in love in Vienna and rediscovering it in Paris
may 6 2006 ∞
may 6 2006 +
  • The Neverending Story
  • Splash
  • Legend
  • Red Sonja
  • Dragonslayer
  • War Games
  • That Darn Cat
  • Cloak and Dagger
  • Short Circuit
  • let's be honest here... Police Academies 1-4
apr 30 2006 ∞
may 1 2006 +
  • chili cheese fries
  • Kelly Clarkson
  • Juicy Couture
  • InStyle magazine
  • getting my cuticles trimmed
  • Blue Crush (the movie)
  • gigantic sunglasses
  • white bread
  • The O.C. (the tv show)
  • West L.A.
  • Mandy Moore
apr 20 2006 ∞
apr 20 2006 +
  • La Mer
  • Prada
  • Caudalie antioxidant
  • Smith's Rose Bud
  • Fresh Sugar
  • Nuxe honey
  • Kiehl's Original (2 bigass pots, 1 for my office, 1 for my bedside table, 2 tubes)
  • Tarte lemon curd
  • Kiehl's SPF 15 (clear)
  • Kiehl's SPF 15 (berry)
  • Vermont's Bag Balm
  • L'Occitane blueberry shea butter
  • Benetint lip balm
  • Jing Jang creme

Last year, I flew down to LA late on Xmas Eve and forgot to bring any! It was awful. Now I'm paranoid about not having any.

apr 19 2006 ∞
apr 19 2006 +
  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer
  • Arrested Development
  • Freaks and Geeks
  • Simpsons
  • Seinfeld
  • Cheers
  • The X-Files
  • My So Called Life
  • Undeclared
  • The Office (UK)
  • Sex and the City
  • Lost
  • Veronica Mars
  • Da Ali G Show
  • Firefly
  • Carnivale
apr 13 2006 ∞
apr 13 2006 +
  • Battlestar Galactica
  • Flight of the Conchords
  • The Daily Show
  • Entourage
  • Meerkat Manor
  • Lost
  • The Office (U.S.)
  • Julia Child anything
  • Scrubs
  • Good Eats
apr 13 2006 ∞
jul 24 2007 +
  • Worrying about Freddy Kreuger-like scars
  • General pain, discomfort, itching and lack of mobility. Heat and sun seems to aggravate the discomfort.
  • Being unable to go to swim practice or yoga class. Usually, when I'm stressed or anxious, I exercise or clean or cook. I haven't felt much like cooking until yesterday and went back to yoga a couple of days ago. Hopefully, I'll be able to swim tomorrow. Luckily, I had just cleaned the entire house when I burned myself.
  • I haven't been able to exfoliate or moisturize my face for a week. It feels simultaneously flaky, greasy, dirty and itchy. I'm not generally prone to breakouts, but with my luck, I probably will. Yuck. At this point, I'm with gonna need a facial, but who knows when I'll be able to get one.
  • I need a brow wax really badly, but won't...
jun 5 2006 ∞
jun 5 2006 +
  • Mayonnaise - freshly made is okay, but that stuff that comes in a jar is snot of the devil.
  • Honey Walnut Prawns - whenever I go out for Chinese with others, they also seem to want to order this dish. I think it's just foul and I think it must have mayonnaise in it.
  • Donuts - I like beignets and fresh Krispy Kremes, but otherwise, they're just too much.
  • Tripe - I really should like tripe. I've sampled a fairly wide variety of offal - liver, gizzards, sweetbreads, kidneys, tendons, tongue, etc., and liked it, but as much as I've tried, I just can't get into tripe.
  • Corn dogs - I love hot dogs, and I like cornbread, but I think I must have o.d.ed on corndogs in my school cafeteria.
  • Bittermelon - a staple of many Chinese ho...
may 25 2006 ∞
may 25 2006 +
  • Naked
  • Middlesex
  • Infinite Jest
  • My Life in France
  • The Little Friend
  • You Shall Know Our Velocity
  • The Brothers Karamazov (D.F. Wallace might have convinced me)
  • The Sun Also Rises
  • A Long Way Down
  • Assasination Vacation
  • Lolita
  • In the Name of the Rose
  • Mrs. Dalloway
  • Kav and Clay
apr 28 2006 ∞
may 22 2006 +
  • "Whew! Whew! Whew!... I was just imagining myself as a ninja!"
  • "When the robots take over, you'd best be prepared."
  • "Of course the chickens would peck you. It's the apocalypse!"
  • "What would you do if you came home and I was building a giant wooden badger on the front lawn?"
  • "You lied to the pirate! The pirate police are going to come after you now. ARRRRRR!"
apr 30 2006 ∞
may 8 2006 +
  • when BART is over 30 minutes late because it's their fault (i.e. computer problem), passengers should ride free
  • "Fun" is a weeklong "business" trip to Paris in April with your fuckbuddy. "Not fun" is researching IRS tax codes for nonprofit business associations.
  • My coworker asked me what we should treat ourselves to for Secretaries' Day. My immediate reaction was "chocolate!" But then I wondered are you "treating" yourself to it if you have it every day?
  • It takes the federal government exactly 10 days to cash your tax check, but approximately a month and a half to issue a return. WTF????
  • It's much more of a pain to "lengthen" a pair of pants than it is to have them hemmed.
  • Though I love a pencil skirt, they sure do limit your range of movement.
apr 19 2006 ∞
may 2 2006 +
  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  • Being John Malkovich
  • Heavenly Creatures
  • Memento
  • Donnie Darko
  • Adaptation
  • The Sixth Sense
  • The Usual Suspects
  • The Others
  • Jacob's Ladder
apr 22 2006 ∞
apr 22 2006 +
  • L'Occitane lip balm
  • sunglasses (yay! the sun's back!)
  • iPod
  • makeup bag (we'll save this for another list)
  • Smith's rosebud lip balm
  • coin purse (containing BART ticket, ID, cash, atm card, gym card, mini lip balm, building pass)
  • coin purse #2 (containing assorted punch cards from restaurants/cafes I frequent, gift cards, etc)
  • ball point pen
  • Kiehl's lip balm
  • cell phone
  • Fresh sugar lip balm
  • Juicy tube - "beach plum"
  • Orbitz bubblemint gum
  • lipstick shaped novelty ball point pen
  • sugarless orange mints I bought from CDG airport
apr 19 2006 ∞
apr 19 2006 +
  • poached eggs with toast
  • soft boiled eggs with asparagus
  • belgian waffles
  • chorizo
  • linguica
  • bacon
  • merguez
  • plain yogurt with fresh fruit and honey
  • irish oatmeal
  • Cheese Board corn cherry scone
apr 14 2006 ∞
apr 14 2006 +
  • Ispahan (Parisian almond macaron with rose lychee buttercream and raspberries)
  • Strawberry shortcake
  • Mixed berry (raspberry, boysenberry, blueberry) cobbler
  • Stone fruit (cherry, peach and apricot) crisp
  • Raspberry tart
  • Sour cherry pie (2x)
  • Peach blueberry tart
  • Meyer lemon bars
  • Rocky Road ice cream
  • Raspberry sorbet
  • Noyau ice cream
  • Apricot Galette
  • Plum tart
jul 29 2006 ∞
aug 9 2006 +
  • dropped a pot of molten sugar into the mixer, splashing it onto my face and arms. Second degree burns, yay!
  • walked into a plate glass door
  • spilled hot tea on myself, leaving a meandering 2nd degree burn all over my wrist and hand (healing nicely now)
  • picked at a hangnail on my thumb and wound up peeling half the skin off the whole finger.
  • slipped on the BART grates in the rain (damn chuck taylors) while rushing to the gym and landed flat on my back. (luckily, my ass absorbed the brunt of the fall)
  • fooled around with hot beeswax (for a baking project) and accidently sprayed it all over the kitchen
  • walked into a parking meter when I tried to be all slick and avoid the metermaid while jaywalking
  • after too many mojitos at a pool party, I...
apr 28 2006 ∞
jun 5 2006 +
  • Epoisses de Bourgogne
  • Vacherin Mont D'Or
  • Gruyere/Comte/Beaufort
  • Langres
  • Camembert de Normandie
  • Pouligny St. Pierre
  • Parmegiano Reggiano
  • Forme Sauternes
  • Humboldt Fog
  • Torta del Casar
may 24 2006 ∞
may 24 2006 +
  • I worked out earlier, so it's okay.
  • I'm working out later today, so it'll be okay.
  • When you share, the calories don't count.
  • Chocolate is good for you.
  • Pizza isn't that bad for you
  • Tacos aren't that bad for you
  • If you deep fry foods at the proper temperature, they're not that bad for you.
  • Red wine/lemon/vinegar/caffeine/sugar cancels out the fat.
  • It's not as bad for you as butter.
  • Most of the fat has been drained/blotted/melted away, so it's not that bad for you.
may 1 2006 ∞
may 3 2006 +
  • listography!
  • water - lame, I know, but I actually start developing a headache if I don't get 32 oz in by 2:00 pm! Juice, tea, and alcohol don't count.
  • lip balm
  • chocolate
  • green tea
  • yoga
  • my iPod
  • TiVo
  • The Daily Show
  • NPR, esp. Sat - I was in OC visiting the fam a few months ago, and couldn't get a clear feed. I am now convinced that it's some sort of right wing conspiracy.
  • Lost
  • Orbitz bubblemint gum
apr 28 2006 ∞
apr 28 2006 +
  • Don't Stop Believin'
  • Copacabana
  • Daydream Believer
  • Dancing Queen
  • Summer Nights
  • Raspberry Beret
  • Get This Party Started
  • Since U Been Gone
  • No Scrubs
  • The Tide is High
  • Express Yourself
  • Hit Me With Your Best Shot

Admit it, you know all the words...

apr 20 2006 ∞
apr 20 2006 +
  • blue bottle coffee
  • strauss milk
  • blood orange juice squeezed to order from monterey market
  • mariage freres tea
  • B & B farms eggs - they finally returned to the farmer's market!
  • Frog Hollow stone fruit
  • Acme Bread
  • Fage yogurt, when I can't get La Fermiere or Mamie Nova
  • Callebaut/Scharffenberger/La Maison du Chocolat
  • Niman ranch beef and Hoffman chickens
  • Fallot dijon mustard
  • fleur de sel
apr 14 2006 ∞
apr 14 2006 +