Eyes and Ears

Gourmet Grilled Cheese

2011-01-12T11:37:00.000-05:00

Wow...i need to go here NOW:

The American Grilled Cheese Kitchen

amazing...just amazing. I dont think i'll be able to contain myself when i walk through those doors.

Peppy Nights

2010-12-23T00:10:00.002-05:00

Is it the realization that espresso makes you jump into the productive person your always striving to be the very thing that makes a coffee addict just that - addicted to coffee?

Oh my, I hope not... But if it is, at least I'll be productive :)

Pop Pop Pop!

2010-12-21T19:31:00.001-05:00

Cake pops. Where have you been all my life?

In recent days my dad's been bringing home yummy food from luncheons at work and such. One of these happened to be cake pops (cheesecake pops, to be exact). I'm so fascinated by the incredibly cute and creative idea i might just have to buy this book to satisfy my craving.
Apparently there's this huge world of pops i never knew about. Pie pops, mini ice pops, cake pops, cheesecake pops, macaroon pops, brownie pops, cookie pops, ice cream pops, it seems like you can make anything in pop form! Oh man, I'm feeling the sugar-induced stomach ache already..

I'm deciding to ~~make~~ attempt to cook up a batch of cheesecake pop's from Bakerella's recipe here. Once i get my hands on some chocolate candy coating, that is. The great thing about her recipe is you don't even have to make a cheesecake, you can just buy one and scoop out the little rounds with a miniature ice cream scooper! Brilliant! Not to mention less time consuming, as i am working on being more industrious.

And I might just have to get these cute headphones to go along with any cupcake pops I make!

A Food Addict Rambling

2010-12-19T14:05:00.000-05:00

So yesterday while roaming about in Whole Foods, i was passing by their (wonderful) cheese section and noticed that they finally had the Colston Bassett Stilton back in stock! SO HAPPY!
Oh how i missed this melt-in-your-mouth blue cheese. Its full of flavor, very strong and rich without being too "sharp and overpowering." And its from Neals Yard Dairy no less! "Farm cheese from the British Isles." I would love to visit one of their shops some day, sounds like a dream I'd never want to wake up from.

Anyways, i ended up not only buying lunch but also a sliced loaf of freshly baked sweet batard, and a jar of croatian Organic Adriatic Fig Spread! I absolutely adore this fig spread, just the right amount of sweet to go with my cheese and toasty bread. I wonder where the nearest place to pick figs would be...

Nice to see you again

2010-02-18T20:41:00.007-05:00

Well, it's been about four years now since my last blog post so I thought it was about time for an update. So many things can happen in four years. Some good, some bad. Some I'd rather not talk about and some will likely come up in future posts.

I'm taking a Human Anatomy class at Cañada College. Very interesting class. Who knew you had around 16 little landmarks in a single thoracic vertebrae?
We started touching on the GI tract today in Lecture. Can't wait to start learning about it in Lab so I can finally meet the Cadavers(aka dead human bodies). Its amazing how they can preserve all the hair and nails and things.

Adrian and Luis got baptised a few weeks ago! Adrian was so excited to have the privilege of opening the door for everyone at the KH, but he "can't wait to do the microphones" lol.

Well, off to the meeting now. Life never fails to move on.

Janis Joplin's Piece of My Heart stuck in my head.

2006-03-21T16:00:00.000-05:00

This is leena at the hospital, 2 days old

just some random stuff

2006-03-01T16:21:00.001-05:00

I officially have a new baby sister =). She is the cutest thing in the world with her humongo blue eyes and her tiny mouth with the little pink tongue that she sticks out once in a while. Her name is Leena Isabella James. She is sooo tiny and according to my parents I was twice the size of her. Hehe. And Thanks to her I havn't really done any schoolwork in the past week, there's soo much taking care of to do with a baby. But i'm trying to catch up with everyday life. Leena unfortunately has a whole bunch of heart problems. Today at the cardiologist the doctor explained all these things that were wrong with her. I feel really bad for her, she just looks so innocent and when i have her in my arms and you can't even tell anythings wrong.

speaking of the cardiologist, when i was in the waiting room my mom stepped out for a second and the reseptionist needed some papers filled out and she tells me "these are for the mom to fill out, are you the mom?" and i just think ummm does it look like i just had a baby?!?! don't you think i'm a little young for that?! geeze. and that's not the first time that's happened to me, once when i was getting an x-ray of my leg or something the lady that was taking the x-ray first asked me if I was pregnent, and when i said no she asked if there was any way i could be pregnent. i think that was the most awkward question i've been asked.

I went to my Area championship swim meet last weekend. I did pretty good....the first day anyway. I accidently missed one of my events but then I droped 3 seconds on my 100 Free so i made up for it, I went a 1:03.7, which was awesome i actually feel like fast! and i totally like beat like everyone else in my heat. I better get a ribbon hehe. but then the second day was all crappy cause well it started to rain when we were warming up and then it was like super super windy there was like things flying all over the place and i was freezing!, i've never shivered so much in my life.

humm i think i might have an ear infection. hasta luego!

Malls and Phobias

2006-02-14T11:53:00.001-05:00

Sunday I went to the mall with Alice. It was fun, we got to see The Pink Panther (hehe) it was pretty funny, kind of like those movies that are so stupid that you actually enjoy it. I can really tell Alice liked it, even when no one else was laughing she was just bursting with laughter, ha!

ok so I think I have some kind of phobia, cuz like every time someone talks about blood or like something inside the human body (such as a vein or nerve) I can't help but be grossed out to the fact that stuff like that is inside of me. And then I start thinking that if I move one inch of myself my veins will like be all smushed together with whatever else is there and explode and then all the blood will burst out of them and I'll die. Oh, and same thing happens when someone touches me. Its soo weird and I know that can't really happen but I think of it anyway and then I get soooo freaked out. I was close to crying during a meeting once cause the talk was on what the bible says towards blood or something rather. So I belive I have Hemophobia (fear of blood) and Chiraptophobia (Fear of being touched) when someone talks about blood. I am so wierd!

Here are some other funny phobias I found today:

Cacophobia- Fear of ugliness.
Carnophobia- Fear of meat
Trichopathophobia or Trichophobia- Fear of hair.
Zemmiphobia- Fear of the great mole rat.
Bogyphobia- Fear of the bogeyman
Geliophobia- Fear of laughter
Geniophobia- Fear of chins
Helmintophobia- Fear of being infested with worms
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia- Fear of long words (i might have that too)
Ommetaphobia- Fear of eyes
Lachanophobia - Fear of vegetables
Ophthalmophobia- Fear of opening one’s eyes
cyberphobia - fear of computers
Aerophobia- Fear of swallowing air
Arachibutyrophobia- Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.

feel free to add any other phobias to the list

So to the cyberphobic, I say, "get over it, or go to the extreme and move away from the city, abandon your car, hand build your home, hand pump your water, build your fires, and hunt for your own food!"

I turned 14 today!

I painted my room!!!

2006-02-09T13:36:00.001-05:00

Ok so last Monday I bought some paint for my room, I was so exited I was finally going to paint my room. I was really getting sick of the deep pink on that one wall...so I bought this like red paint for one of the walls and this like light beige color for the other three. I painted all four yesterday (with the help of my mother) and it was really a lot harder than I thought; my hands started aching really fast. The upstairs hallway was full of my junk. It was as if I was moving out or something. hehe

So after a really hard swim practice and bookstudy I had absolutely no energy to pick up anything out of my bed, which included everything from old barbies (yes, I used to be a real hardcore barbie fan) to my book of bible stories in italian(?). So last night i ended up sleeping in the hallway right outside my room along with all my junk. As my mom was walking to her room she stoped and told me i looked like some kind of homeless person. ha!

Ok so....

2006-02-06T15:55:00.001-05:00

i haven't blogged in like a really long time....like about six months or so...so i'm like starting again. i guess. I changed the picture and the backround. its a little less pink hehehe. well i have to go but i'll post later!! maybe tomorrow? humm not that i have anything to post about....

ice breakers are soo addicting, i can't stop eating them

How to Turn Down a Nine-Year-Old

2005-08-22T15:30:00.000-04:00

Welll a couple of days ago (last Thursday to be exact) I was at swim practice and there was a really bad thunderstorm soo the lifeguard people didn't let us in the pool. So they had us go into this room place and we were gonna do like drylands but instead we watched a movie on swim technique. Then, this little kid comes up to me and he looks about 7 but it turns out he's really 9 (so he says) and he goes "can I be your partner?" and I'm thinking, partner for what?? so I figured he just wanted to sit next to me so I asked him and he was like yes. well then I we were just sitting there and I was talking to some people on the other side of me and this kid starts like talking to me and he says "by the way your really pretty. " and I just think, aw he's so cute. So, then he starts to freak me out a bit after he tells me that he's going to make me a ring and give it to me the next day and when asked me if we could hold hands......yea and all I could come up with is "um no that's ok." well then he asks me if I would go on a date with him....and after I told him that I wouldn't he goes "are you sure?? Cause we can go to olive garden or anywhere you want.....Cause I have a lot of money, I have 2....200....203 dollars!" soo I was just really really freaked out right now by this person that I don't even know the name of, and I really doubt that he knows my name. After that he asks me for my number and I tell him that my parents are too poor to afford any type of phone....So of coarse he gives me his number!! yea I guess this guy can't take no for an answer. well I think I should go back to my schoolwork now. toodles!

Well today....

2005-08-10T22:46:00.000-04:00

was a pretty crappy day. I was taking this like science test thingy and it took me like hoooours to finish when I only had a couple of questions left and I clicked on a new tab to look up an answer for this question. (don't worry I wasn't cheating) and for some reason the browser wasn't responding and I had to close it!! sooo all my hard work was lost and I could only access the test once, unless someone like "unlocks" if for me. soooo I'm gonna take it again tomorrow (I hope).
anywhoo after all that I went to swim practice. aand we couldn't get into the pool since it was like raining and there was thunder and lightning so my coach made us run two miles instead of like one and a half that we usually do because we were doing flutter kicks wrong. And the reason I was doing it wrong is because I couldn't like hear her when she was screaming at me cuz it was raining so hard. But the rain actually felt good when I was running. welll then we were finally let into the pool and the main set we did was really hard. we did 12 100's, six of them were back and the other six were free descend 1 to 6 and the back was on 1:45 and the free was on 1:30 which are like really really fast intervals. so I died. and then the lifeguards saw lightning so we didn't even have a chance to warmdown. or stretch after. so basically i'm gonna be really sore tomorrow. but I guess I should be used to it by now. hehe.
well that's all for now.

2005-08-05T20:46:00.000-04:00

Here's a picture of me in my wedding dress...but unfortunately my wedding was ruined because it started to rain really hard. o well, i didn't really have anyone to marry anyway hehehe.

2005-07-14T23:58:00.000-04:00

Well meeting the Australian swimmers was pretty sweeet. They were soo nice and I really like their accents hehe. And like this one guy like um the hott one with the brown curly hair was talking to me and he was like soo are you gonna go practice after this and I was like yeaaa and they like asked me how long we practiced for and I was like um only for an hour and he was like oooh just an hour huh and I was like yea well we usually practice from 5-7 but now that you guys are here we only practice for an hour instead of two. And it was funny cause he was like ooh you must like that huh it was soooooooo cute! I swear I could have just sat there and talked to him all night!! hehehe. But I was also disappointed because I didn't get to meet Ian Thorpe =/. cuz he was practicing at this other pool. o well. Maybe next time he's in town.....haha yea right. o yea and to answer Kathy and Alice's questions...I figured out that I had asthma about a month ago, when I had a really hard time breathing when I swam or exercised. It was really like weird, like I was like gasping for air and like it felt like the air just wouldn't make it to my lungs!! But anyways now I have like an inhaler thingy so I feel much better. And its not like regular asthma (my brother has that) its called exercise induce asthma, so I only get it when I exercise. well i should go finish up this movie and go to bed. BYE!!!!!

2005-07-14T12:06:00.000-04:00

2005-07-14T12:05:00.000-04:00

2005-07-14T12:03:00.000-04:00

Me & Grant Hackett

2005-07-14T11:51:00.000-04:00

Signing our shirts..

2005-07-14T11:48:00.000-04:00

The people on this table were kinda snobby, but i guess i would be too if i just came out of practice and had to sign autographs for a whole bunch of kids. Although they are tapering for a meet, so they shouldn't be that tired!

2005-07-14T11:43:00.000-04:00

Matt Welsh and some other really hott guy

2005-07-14T11:41:00.000-04:00

2005-07-14T11:38:00.000-04:00

Australian Swimmer

Australian Swim Team

2005-07-09T15:27:00.000-04:00

Hey!!! well i'm like really exited because the Olympic Australian Swim Team is here in Oviedo. I'm not really sure why, but i think their here for some kind of swim meet....anywhoo their practicing at the pool that I swim at. Yesterday i got to swim practice early to sit on the benches and watch them swim, It was so cool!! They don't let anyone else like near them except for the swimmers on the swim team that i'm in, yesterday i was walking on the pool deck to get to where my swim coach was and some person like told me to get off and that they weren't letting anyone near the pool even though there was already people there!! grr i was mad, but then some other coach said we could go in after a while. They have like so many policemen around for like security and stuff, which kinda freaked me out but they do have some pretty sweet motorcycles!! hehe. But what sucks is that were not allowed to like talk to them, or take pictures of them so we can only watch them swim and dive. But on Tuesday we get to like meet them, take pictures, and get autographs. I can't wait to see all the really good Olympic swimmers like Ian thorpe, Grant Hackett, Jodie Henry, Alice Mills, Libby Lenton, Leisel Jones, Giaan Rooney and some other ones i can't really think of right now. well gotta go, toodles!!

2005-07-01T14:20:00.000-04:00

Alrighty well i'm finally putting up a new post, after about a month hehe. umm nothing interesting is really goin on in my life right now. I saw war of the worlds!!! yea it was pretty cool. it did have a wierd phyco person in it though, which freaked me out a bit. and it was kinda depressing since like all the aliens are trying to kill everyone. But they look really cool!!! so anywhoo i got a hair cut, I CAN SURF ON IT!!! (haha kathy) i got like bangs sort of...but their like side swept bangs. well I can't really think of anything to write, so i'm gonna go and look for some pictures to send to alice. bye!

Kathy's House

2005-05-30T08:22:00.000-04:00

Hello, i'm here at kathy's house and yea i slept over today....I mean yesterday. anywho we just woke up and i'm still kinda tired. yesterday we went to lowes because kathy's dad needed to buy a lawn mower. and while he was doing that me and kathy and Julie ran down the ailes and knocked on doors and ditched each other it was fun!! so then like her dad bought a lawn mower thingy and its the kind that you can like sit on a ride so we were like riding on it yea it was fun. Hey this is kathy and Julia's being a stupid loser and annoying. NO I'M NOT, okay kathy needs to write something "cool." okay well the "cool" thing kathy was writting isn't very APPROPRIATE for this thingy so yea i'm not gonna post it. oooooookay said kathy. anywayz i'm getting hives from the strawberry popsicles we ate yesterday cuz i forgot that i was allergic to strawberries cuz like i found out that i was allergic to them a couple of weeks ago. ok well were gonna go eat (not that kathy has anything to eat in her house!!!!!) and like maybe look for some phyco people in the woods so bye!!

2005-05-29T00:56:00.000-04:00

Here's a green swamp thingy that i saw in Yosemite after i hiked up this mountain to see some waterfall upclose. I saw this dead animal thingy in it. well, it was either that or a small log, i'm not quite sure but it still looked gross!

2005-05-25T16:23:00.000-04:00

here i was walking to Pier 39 which is like a place with a whole bunch of shops and restaurants and at night its really cool cuz of all seals that sleep on these big wodden thingies in the water.

2005-05-08T19:22:00.000-04:00

Wow its been a long time since I've posted, I guess I've just been so busy with my hectic yet very boring life. Well I went to California and it was like SO awesome!!! Especially when I was in the snow and I had flip flops on and the snow sucked me up to my waist and I couldn't get out but then I finally got out and my toes were like FROZEN!!!!....yea that was so fun hehe. Yea and I almost got KILLED by some verrry sneaky Chinese people when I was in Chinatown. oo oo and I saw all my old friends and made like so many new ones yea that was cool.
I learned how to use chopsticks too while I was in japantown cuz like they didn't have any forks and it was kinda confusing cuz I didn't know whether I was supposed to like chop up the food with the chopstick, or just like stuff it in my mouth so after I analyzed the problem for about five seconds i just was so hungry that i stuffed the food in my mouth but sometimes before it actually reached my mouth it would just slip out of the stick thing yea that's really annoying.
well gotta go post later maybe??

I'm so exited!!!

2005-02-16T00:20:00.000-05:00

I'm so exited!!! i'm going to take a trip to California for a whole month!! YAY YAY YAY YAY YAY!!!!!!!! but the only bad part about it is that i have to be ahead of my schoolwork which kinda sucks cause i'm already just a tad bit behind. hehe. and i really don't want to have to do any over there. that would really suck.

I really want to like start packing for it right now!!! and the first thing i want to do is to go skiing in Lake Tahoe but, i'm not so sure if there's still snow over there in march. and somewhere during the end of march i'm going to Disneyland with my friends that live over there with the school they go to. too bad i can't stay at their hotel. oh, and by the way i used to live in california for about nine years =) O K i've already written down exactly what i'm going to do for the whole month. aand somewhere inbetween all those things i would like to go over to Steve Jobs {CEO for apple} house and get some FREE IPODS!!!!! hehehe and i have been trying to figure out how to ask him for some without actually asking him. Although, it is kinda mean to take advantage of someone like that....humm maybe i'll just control him with my "brain controling powers" and make him give one to me!!! muwahahaha!!!! whoa that was wierd. hehe ok now i must go and make a list of everything i shall pack. toodles

Heelllloooo!!!

2005-01-29T22:43:00.000-05:00

hey there how's it goin'?? humm...well i got a blog. but i have nothing to write...well i'll think i of something sooner or later. i shall go for now but i will be back!!!

toodles