What a day! pt 1: before the show

Ok well let me tell you. Yesterday was so eventful that i had to make this a two parter!! yup. complete with pics and all.

ok let's get started.

yesterday i finally got my ass into the shower and came out feeling refreshed, with energy to actually get something done. i decided not to do groceries because standing around in the grocery store makes my feet hurt and i was trying to save my feet for the show because i knew i'd be standing alot. for those of you who don't know i have a foot condition so i try not to be on my feet for too long otherwise i'll be in excruciating pain. so i decided instead to go to my parents house because they have some leftover chinese that they wanted me to take when they went to hawaii. but i forgot. then we had that game night there and we brought 2 sodas. AND my dad had bought a carton of Publix brand chocolate almond ice cream for me (these are the only people that have this ice cream...no one else has it) and its just been sitting there.

so i go to my parents house. there i am on bird rd at 3ish and traffic is at a stand still. i was literally parked on the rd for like 10 min. thank god my car has ac, and thank god for a cell phone. i used it to take a picture of this place i saw on the side of the road. it had real tombstones outside and signs in spanish boasting discounts on tombstones and other funeral services. check out this sign for SPEEDY CREMATION. only in miami.



eventually it cleared up and i make it to bird and 117th ave when all of a sudden from the corner of my eye i see a guy selling mamoncillos!!! (i should write a separate post on my obsession with mamoncillos. basically you can't get them anywhere. they don't sell them in any stores. at least not in miami. i love these things. but its only very rare that you'll see someone selling them on the side of the road. and chances are you'll never see them on that street again.) ahh yes...the elusive mamoncillo guy. so what do i do? i swerve over 2 lanes, pull into the burger king parking lot and honk my horn at the guy. i ask him how much, he says $2. ---side bar: the bags were half the size of the bags you used to get back in the day, and back then they were only $1, but whatever i'm just sayin--- so i look in my wallet and my stupid ass only has $3!! so i gave him the $3 and 4 quarters i found in the car and bought two bags.

i was kicking myself because i knew 2 bags was nothin. nothin! i'd go through that in a day, easy. so i went to miller square, get off, go to the atm (presto!) machine in front of publix, get some cash, go to mcdonalds (by then i was starving), get lunch, take it to my parents house, eat, then pack up the stuff (soda, chinese food, ice cream) and head back over to the mamoncillo guy. this time i give him $6 and buy 3 more bags. ps. i had to do some French Connection type maneuvers to get to this guy coming from the other direction. sure 5 bags should hold me for a while. but still. who knows when i'll ever see another guy selling them?

you know they could make sooo much money if they created a website and took orders from all over the country! i mean duh! why hasn't anyone done this yet? because they're all refs. no offense but its true. they don't even speak english let alone know how to work email. so how can i expect them to know that they could be making money online? if i knew better spanish i would work with them. but i don't.

oh well. so i'm coming home with a car full of goodies. what an adventure!






i go home, wait for the signal from ed, then go pick him up from work, come home, do my make up, and then we were off......

end of pt 1. please flip tape.

lazy bastarditis

this week i've been utterly useless. haven't had the energy to do anything. all i do is sleep and eat. i think tuesday i bought like 10 candy bars and i'm already out. isn't that insane? i haven't showered, haven't done laundry, grocery shopping, nothing!!! i blame the PMS. cravings and fatigue. look it up.

today i took 2 long naps. insane. so i'm up now. doing laundry. tomorrow we're going to see The Slackers and i'm soooo excited!! they're one of my favorite ska bands and my favorite band to see live. i've seen them like 3 times in boston. i know my parents would love to go but they're in hawaii.

i want to be well rested for the show tomorrow. my feet will be killing me at the end of the show. i have never been to this club (studio a) downtown. i hope they have somewhere to sit. i hope we find parking. i hope our car doesn't get broken into!!!

here's what i made for dinner tonight. chicken, mashed potatoes and stuffing. the stuffing looks weird but it was delicious.

pizza pizza!

Tonight I made pizza again :) And took lots of pics.

Here we have the ingredients. Meat, cheese, sauce, oregano, red pepper flakes. And oil! Though thats not in the pics. The meet was left over from last nights dinner.


I started out putting some oil on the dough. I even sprinkles a bit of parmesean cheese.


Next, the sauce. It came with little meatballs in it. Cool huh? I tried to keep the meatballs on one side for Ed's pizza because he wanted half meat and cheese and half ham and pineapple.


On the left, half meat half hawaiian. On the right, all meat and cheese.


and voila! the end result. they were yummy! and i added red pepper flakes to mine. gave it a real kick. yum!!!

you know i was just thinking....

Is Erika ever not cute?? And I concluded that its impossible. That even when she's sick and breaking out and hasn't washed her hair and whatever else you wanna throw in there, I bet she still is absolutely adorable. I did a lot of thinking on this. And I'm pretty confident about my conclusion.

Moving along...

Today I had to take Ed to work then go pick up abuela and head over to my parents house. After 2 years of waiting, the insurance adjuster called my mom in Hawaii to confirm an appt for today, which they never told her about. So I had to hightail it over there to make sure someone was home. And do you know what they did?? When they got there, instead of knocking on the damn door, they called my mom at 5am in Hawaii to tell her they were there. She had to call my cell and say "they're outside". And I'm like I'M RIGHT HERE!! THEY DIDN'T EVEN KNOCK! RETARDS!! ugh. poor mom. They came and made me miss The View. Grr.

Then I took my indecisive grandmother to Palace 18 and we ate at some Cuban Cafeteria type place. Then we went to see EL CANTANTE. It was good. I enjoyed it. I liked the music, I recognized some of it and some of the names of the people. It was a sad story. My grandmother doesn't know how to whisper. She would asked me questions at normal volume. It was annoying. I had to be like "abuela, shh, watch the movie".

I thought J.LO and Marc Anthony were so good together. I really enjoyed seeing them together. I loved how much she loved him. That love that she had for him, thats the love I have for Ed. She put up with a lot more than I would put up with. But she said something that really hit home for me. I try to express this to Ed all the time. She said "I love you too. Even when it looks like I don't love you. I do." No matter how angry I get, how annoyed I get or whatever, that never diminishes how much I love him. I wouldn't get so angry if i didn't love him.

Anyway....enough about that. Jlo looked AMAZING in this film. Flawless. She is a diva. But Marc Anthony is really an ugly man. LoL. I would love to see the two of them at home, or visiting family in the Bronx. Talking in Spanish and eating latin food and dancing. How cute!!!!

Food Network Favorites

I hear you guys talk about Sandra Lee and Contessa but meh. So here's my breakdown.

Sandra Lee- Meh. Her stuff is cute, I like that she has cocktails. But I probably wouldn't make anything she makes. Also, her tablescapes are redonculous.

Barefoot Contessa- She's boring. She makes delicious stuff. But she always says its so simple but its not.

Paula Dean- I LOVE HER! but seriously if I ate like that all the time I wouldn't be able to leave the house I'd be so fat.

Giada- she's cute and her stuff is good but she can be boring. she's obviously not too down to earth.

Rachel Ray- now she's down to earth. She can be a bit much sometimes but i think her 30 min meals are doable. and her $40 a day shows are fun to watch. i like seeing what she eats in diff places.

Emeril- i HATE emeril! he's SO boring! OMG!!!

Mario Batalli- i like him as a person, as a chef too, but his show is the equivalent to watching paint dry.

Bobby Flay- He's cocky, and annoying.

Alton Brown- he's awesome!! Not only is he Mr. Gadget (ignore the fact that no one has the gadgets, pans, and utensils he has) but he has tons of props and uses comedy. Very informative and very entertaining.

the guy from ham on the street- i don't watch that show. how is it?



Shows I love:

Unwrapped.
Do you guys remember Top 5? whatever happened to that show?

I had a craving for candy bars today. I bought 6.

Today was most unproductive. I didn't do anything. My ass hurts from sitting here.

Today I was hungry so I stopped at mcdies on the way home from taking Ed to work. And there was this creepy looking guy walking up to the drive through. You know that feeling when you can sense the person coming your way is gonna try to talk to you? Thats what I had. Luckily the lady gave me my food just seconds before the guy got to my car and I quickly put my window up. Then he yelled at me through the door to give him a quarter. I zoomed out of there. What a creep. Now, I'm not busting on homeless people. In Boston I used to see a lot of the same people on certain corners. They were there, if you felt like giving you did, if not thats fine. One time I bought some hot chocolate for this woman who was squatting outside my dorm. So I'm not one of those people who sends them all to hell. But there is something sooo skeezy about someone who harasses people when they have their window down. I mean he was attacking people as they went to get their food. That is NOT cool. And I really hope the manager came out and told him to get lost. Thats dangerous. And I did the right thing. A girl alone, some creepy looking guy comes up to you in a drive thru, everything I've been taught tells me to put up your windows, lock your door, and get the hell out of there.

Anyway I made myself BBQ chicken pizza for lunch using whatever I had lying around. There was this piece of chicken left over (about 2 oz) from when I made chicken sandwiches last week. Too small to do anything with. So I shredded it up and mixed it with BBQ sauce. I didn't have olive oil so i brushed some vegetable oil on the pizza dough, added the BBQ sauce/chicken mixture and then topped it with cheese.



It came out good but the BBQ sauce was this bold and sweet kind....so it was a bit too sweet for the pizza. Here's how it came out.



Tomorrow I have to go to my parents house because the stupid claim adjuster decided after 2 years to come see the roof NOW that my parents are in Hawaii. My mom got a call at 5am confirming an appt no one ever told her about. How much you wanna bet they don't show up?

Guess What???

I am writing to you from my new computer! A macbook!!




its pretty! but it takes ALOT of getting used to. I despise Mac OS. Windows is way better. too bad i can't have windows on this mac. you know, the same applications but on a diff operating system. a hybrid. i like aol. sue me. i like the layout. the way everything i have is a click away. so i downloaded aol for mac. and erika was right. it sucks. i tried logging into my blogger account and everytime aol would just crash. bah. i'll have to get my bearings and figure out a new system.

oh i got a haircut yesterday! wanna see??



cute huh?


I also got a new mp3 player




i have a wonderful husband :)