spring break thus far

monday
a visit with rochelle to Left Bank. chicken sandwich (with pear-apple compote and brie) and a glass of champagne. what we like to call the perfect lunch date!

after a visit to a sex shop for research (really) and a costco run, we picked up jt from school and then i took my first jump on the yogurt bandwagon! good gaaad i never thought i'd ever so willingly submit myself to such a seemingly overrated craze but i was SO WRONG.



tuesday
it was the green tea flavor. green tea is my weakness. so weak i am to it that i had to come back for more the next day with tim. tim! my great tomodachi! so equally poor he is to me that i think that was my first time ever going to mitsuwa with someone and both leaving empty handed haha.


i came home in the afternoon and finally got started on one of my main goals of this break -- giving my fairly-recently purchased vintage typewriter a fix and good scrub down! here's an idea of how neeeeaaaassty it looked when i first got it:
you don't even WANT to look underneath. before&after shots will be posted when i finish (which will most likely be months from now) hope that's alright! not that u have much say (or care) in the matter.



wednesday
a trip to sf design center on assignment. did someone say i was a badass for conquering my fear of parallel parking in sf with a stick shift? yup, i did.

cute outfits infront of expensive light fixtures is a photo op must.

oh yahh check out the new additions to our family. 7 baby chicks!
as cute as they are, i absolutely refuse to hold them. it could be that i am just as afraid of them as i am of touching fish because i can't get over my irrational thinking that they're gonna bite me lol. OR. maybe it's because my mom woke me up way too early the other morning to help her chase after them through bushes. finally cornering the little pests but failing to talk myself into reaching my hand out to seal the deal is beyond frustrating. THEY WILL BITE ME AND IT WILL HURT AND YES I AM JUST THAT INSANE IN THE MEMBRANE. cuteness means nothing to me if u have feathers and a beak, sorry.

samantha clearly doesn't share the same foolishness:


afterward, we had a sweet lunchand partook in the most logical activity to do after aquiring a fully full full tummy --- hula hooooop hoop hoop!


needless to say, it hurt.

but woooo what a workout!

why why why why

can't spare time and inspiration ever coincide??

i look like a monkey

and i smell like one too!


21!

i like to believe that a crazy bird lady is still a little more appealing than a crazy cat lady though...

The Blow - Parentheses

And when you're holding me
we make a pair of parentheses.
There's plenty space to encase
whatever weird way my mind goes,
I know I’ll be safe in these arms.


brandon puts up with a lot of my crazies but apparently he draws the line at collecting bird houses o_O

*sigh

if my dreams are the wind then yeah, i'd tooootally be gone with it. (that didn't quite make sense to me either)

picked up Gone With The Wind at the library today. 3 months ago it took me an unnecessary 3 months to just get to chapter 35 (a little over half of the book). since i maxed out my renewels, i went and finished 3 other books instead which now brings us to this point. i hope i'll finally see what the big deal about rhett butler is!

i kept telling myself that i would take a break from pleasure-reading this semester so that i wouldn't risk falling behind in my lame textbook reading assignments... but i swear my mind is holding some kind of threat over my body's head (ha!) because throughout my hour and a half train rides, my arms absolutely refuse to reach into my bag to pull out dreadful books on the Golden Section and Sacred Geometry. mmblehhHh

having to go through the hassle of carrying this behemoth of a novel around is better than just sitting there wasting precious time, right? i can deal. i can deal like scarlett o'hara. unless something horrible happens to her and she decides she can't handle life anymore...???!?! omg i really need to finish this now >_>

my last thought before walking out was how much i hope i'll be able to raise my future family in a nice home that is walking-distance from a library. that would be ideal :)

vday

we spent the day helping our dearest pmbq out at a con in sf that apparently left us feeling a little french.. honh honh honh


(which moustache do you prefer? i'm personally a fan of the curls)

must've been from all the bon bons consumed. the little face is saying "oui! je suis très délicieux!"


we felt sooo ballin' after getting paid that we went right on over to jack in the box and spoiled ourselves with food not limited to the value menu. sour dough jacks are a luxury.


then we came home to fondue!!!



it was allllllmost just as good as chicken and waffles night last week. wait, what did i just say? yeahthat'sright, chicken and waffles. CHIcken and WAFfles omGAD rochelle is the best thing that ever happened to me. jk. mel is 'cause those waffles were utter perfection

and that concludes vday`09

i don't think brandon and i have ever been much of the valentines day type of people. this was probably the first time we even saw each other on the actual day since high school. even then, the closest we probably ever came to 'celebrating' was watching the flavor of love marathon while eating candy haha. works for us!

pour, sip, breathe, work, work, work

i like it when my grandparents come over for lunch. it means bringing out the goood tea~ yum. and when they leave i get the rest ~ yum yum


and back to work i go.

quick sketches and color studies:


perspectives have always been my weakness :/

i'm trying to make this semester better than the last. so far not so bad!