Pink Trouble Kitten

4:51pm: Meep
So people have been sort of inquiring why I have been missing from the internets lately, and I suppose the short answer is that I got a life, or at least a boyfriend (sometimes I leave my laptop in my bag all night! I go 18 hours without checking my email!). Or perhaps I just got a sense of discretion. Anyway, I have been blogging, just about food, at food.pinkhairedgirl.com, and I'm on twitter now too, as pinkhairedcyn.

As for what else I've been doing, I've been cooking and watching tv and reading old issues of the New Yorker and snuggling with the cat and my boyfriend and drinking too much and watching movies with my friends, and oh I am boring but it is pretty wonderful.

1:32pm: I Am A Little Excited
So this morning at 10 am the doorbell rang while I was all asleep in bed snuggled between my boyfriend and the cat, and I was all "Oooh! Maybe it's my hula hoop!" So I got out of bed and showered and then snuggled with my boyfriend and the cat some more, because they were still in bed, and then got dressed and went to the door and looked for a hula-hoop-sized package . . . and what was actually there was a tiny little package from Amazon for Jon containing cleaning tablets for his camelbak. LAME! Not a hula hoop!

And then around eleven when I was packing my lunch, the doorbell rang again, and I was like "Yes! Hula hoop!" and I ran and opened it . . . and it was a box of beer for Jon. And I was like "You got a package! That is NOT MY HULA HOOP." And Jon was like "Um. Sorry?"

Want hoop now!

12:15pm: In Which I Do More Things Designed To Make Me Look Silly
So I came back from Burning Man with an urgent desire to learn how to hula hoop. I just ordered a hula hoop, specifically The SuperStar II, which is named after my friend Star and made by one of her friends. And how nice it is that my friend Star will be with me in some way in this endeavor, which will surely involve me falling over and hitting myself in the face and otherwise being totally uncoordinated, just like she was with me when we took yoga together and I also was generally klutzy and bad at it. I have silly daydreams about going to Balboa Park on the weekends and hooping in the park. So hopefully I will actually do that, and not just leave the hoop in the corner of my living room forever.

In semi-related news, the hula hooping games in the Wii Fit are insanely fun.

10:30pm: It's the vegan 100 food list!
Yay! I get a list too!

Your mission, should you choose to accept it:

1) Copy this list into your own blog, including these instructions.
2) Bold all the items you’ve eaten.
3) Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.
4) Post a comment here once you’ve finished and link your post back to this one.
5) Pass it on!

1. Natto
2. Green Smoothie
3. Tofu Scramble
4. Haggis
5. Mangosteen (the juice at least)
6. Creme brulee
7. Fondue (I honestly cannot remember if I've had fondue or not.)
8. Marmite/Vegemite
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Nachos
12. Authentic soba noodles (Another maybe - what makes them authentic?)
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi
15. Taco from a street cart
16. Boba Tea
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Gyoza
20. Vanilla ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Ceviche
24. Rice and beans
25. Knish
26. Raw scotch bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche
28. Caviar
29. Baklava
30. Pate
31. Wasabi peas
32. Chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. Mango lassi
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Mulled cider
37. Scones with buttery spread and jam
38. Vodka jelly
39. Gumbo
40. Fast food french fries
41. Raw Brownies
42. Fresh Garbanzo Beans
43. Dahl
44. Homemade Soymilk
45. Wine from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
46. Stroopwafle
47. Samosas
48. Vegetable Sushi
49. Glazed doughnut
50. Seaweed
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi
53. Tofurkey
54. Sheese
55. Cotton candy
56. Gnocchi
57. Piña colada
58. Birch beer
59. Scrapple
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores
62. Soy curls
63. Chickpea cutlets
64. Curry
65. Durian
66. Homemade Sausages
67. Churros, elephant ears, or funnel cake
68. Smoked tofu
69. Fried plantain
70. Mochi
71. Gazpacho
72. Warm chocolate chip cookies
73. Absinthe
74. Corn on the cob
75. Whipped cream, straight from the can
76. Pomegranate
77. Fauxstess Cupcake
78. Mashed potatoes with gravy
79. Jerky
80. Croissants
81. French onion soup
82. Savory crepes
83. Tings
84. A meal at Candle 79
85. Moussaka
86. Sprouted grains or seeds
87. Macaroni and “cheese”
88. Flowers
89. Matzoh ball soup
90. White chocolate
91. Seitan
92. Kimchi
93. Butterscotch chips
94. Yellow watermelon
95. Chili with chocolate
96. Bagel and Tofutti
97. Potato milk
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Raw cookie dough

4:49pm: The Origins of Beerman protector of precious hops and malts
This is me talking about this Beerman super hero character I made up for my beer obsessed boyfriend.

4:40pm: I Am Fearsome
My boyfriend took this photo of me in Maine.

PS. I went to Maine with my boyfriend. His mom bought me this pink cowboy hat. We got into a minor car accident and wrecked our rental Prius, but we were both uninjured. It rained a lot there. Now I have one week to move my stuff out of my old house and prepare for Burning Man, and I am FREAKING OUT.

12:55pm: Last night I had a dream I was playing with all of these puppies. There was a whole little herd of them running around and being cute and soft.

It was awesome.

10:09pm: CSA Pickup #3

12:53pm: CSA pickup #2

10:10pm:

Your result for The Steampunk Archetype Test...

The Aetherist Bodger

2 SwashEng, 1 CCTin, -2 CharNob, 1 RogPir, 3 MechFian and 8 AetherBodg!

Take The Steampunk Archetype Test at HelloQuizzy

2:53pm: Figures

You Are 50% Feminine, 50% Masculine

You are in touch with both your feminine and masculine sides. You're sensitive at the right times, but you don't let your emotions overwhelm you. You're not a eunuch, just the best of both genders.

I was just talking to a friend (Hi, John!) today about how I don't know how to talk to girls anymore. Not in like, a "Hey, ladies . . ." (wink, wink) sense, but more in a "How much time do you spend doing that to your eyebrows? Really?" sense.

5:11pm: I can't stop looking at this tattoo of unicorns fucking. Seriously, I look at it at least once a day and each time it makes me happy inside. I want to make my boyfriend get a replica tattoo of it on his chest.

1:10am: Does anyone know how to effectively search prior friends-locked lj posts? I want to find a particular post of mine, but don't really know how.

6:21pm: Lost - Double Posted
I posted this on my other blog, but I know a lot of people on my FL are into lost, and some of you don't read my other blog. (This is especially for ack_attack)

I’ve been watching a lot of Lost lately, mainly so I can catch up with where the show currently is so that I will understand what the hell my boyfriend is talking about when he talks about the show, and also won’t have to shush him lest he spoils important plot points for me. (I just watched the first episode of season four, so I am almost caught up.)

I sort of neither enjoy nor dislike Lost as much as I sort of enjoy being mildly annoyed at it. It gives me an excuse to yell at the television and rant, which I sort of like. However, I do have two giant problems with it:

1. No one on that god damned island has any kind of communication skills. Every time anything happens, they all lie about it for basically no reason, and lo, sitcom-eque miscommunications and tragic misunderstandings occur! The worst of this is really Jin, whose ability to understand English basically entirely depends on whether or not it would be convenient to the plot, but I can’t think of a single recent event on the show that has not resulted in half of the main characters randomly lying about it/keeping it secret from the other half, and in pretty much every case, this makes things worse for everyone. I yell at the TV about this a lot.

2. All of the characters are pretty much one dimensional. For example, every single one of Kate’s flashbacks is basically: Kate lies about who is she, is sad about it. Jack: Jack is alcoholic and incapable of emotionally connecting with other people, is sad about it, cries. (Recent discussion while watching Lost - Me: Ha ha, Jack is crying again. Boyfriend: That’s kind of mean. Me: I hope Jack dies.) Charlie: Rockstar hobbit, uses heroin, is sad about it. Desmond: No free will, is sad about it. Locke: Does something stupid because he needs meaning in his life, fucks everything up, is sad about it. Sun & Jin: They love each other but also kind of hate each other, are sad about it. The only characters on the show I even find vaguely interesting right now are Juliette and occasionally Hurley. I also like Ben a lot more than I like Jack. I mean, Ben may be evil, but at least he’s not freaking whiney about it

9:33pm:




Which of Henry VIII's wives are you?
this quiz was made by Lori Fury

10:41am: 24%

1:41pm: Also, for babyraven, Ask Golden Age Wonder Woman

11:15am: Dear Friends List,

I see tentacle arms, I think of you. Especially you, yagathai

<3
Cyn

12:32pm: YARN CRAWL
People seem to think later is better for the yarn crawl, so how about meeting at two at Loop. Please leave a comment if you're in so I know!

8:04pm: We Fear Change
Does the fact that lj moved the friends page button so it's no longer under the friends heading drive anyone else insane? I keep mousing over and being all "But . . . it used to be there"

11:31am: I made a Pandora station called "Whiny Indie Boys." It pleases me immensely. I think Pandora might see into my brain.

3:28pm: Do My Bangs Look Emo To You?


My hairdresser said that if I couldn't handle them in a week, I could come back and she'd trim them for me. I feel like they're lurking on my forehead.

1:01pm: NOT GEEKY ENOUGH
80% Geek

Albuquerque Dating

12:56pm: Ha ha, I beat Crowyhead!
95%ALCOHOLIC

2:39pm: My Subconscious Is Back
Last night I dreamt I was buying a new cellphone. The whole dream was like "Well, I really want a smart phone, but they're so expensive. And then I'd have to get a data plan. I just don't know . . ."

Yay, my brain is boring again!