Color Me Mine- Before you go, read this

I went to Color Me Mine in Coconut Grove today. Its one of those places where you go and pick out pottery and paint it and then they put it in a kiln and it comes out all pretty and you can take it home.

First of all, the moron answering the phone couldn't tell me anything about the location other than its behind Sandbar. So I call 411 and she's like its on Main Hgwy. I'm like..."ok Main Highway is a long street. Is there a number?" Nope. Main Hgwy. So we drove around. Fund parking. Walked around in circles for almost 30 min. I went in store after store asking people if they knew where it was till finally someone told me.

We go in there...its a lot lamer than I was expecting. Its quiet. They should have had some music playing. The only employee there was the douche bag I talked to on the phone. Great. Does he help us? No. We pretty much figure it out on our own. We pick our pieces and I'm like..."um ok so we just pic the pieces now what?" and he slinks over and tells us to pick colors. I'm like how many? And he's like "5" well thanks. Its like pulling teeth with this guy. He's not friendly at all. He's some young punk kid with a fucking attitude. Just taking up space to collect his $7 an hour I'm sure. Can you believe they leave this douche running the store?

So whatever we were there for 2 hours painting. They didn't even have paper towels or anything for us to wipe our hands. Ridiculous. Then we go up to pay. Ed did a big fruit bowl and I did a small little bowl for my keys. Total? $79!!!!! $79!!!!

Yeah. His bowl? $25. My bowl? $23. WHAT??? Then they tack on a charge per hour of being there $18. Then tax and then a $10 tip for the shitbag's service. You gotta be fucking kidding me.

Unfuckingbelievable. And after all that we have to come back in 3 days to get our pottery. We couldn't even take it home that day! No no but get this. I'm like umm ok so when its ready you call me? and he says "no you call us" WTF! am i fucking psychic? am i just supposed to keep calling to find out when my little $40 bowl is ready?

Please people, do not waste your money. Don't go to COLOR ME MINE in The Grove. Its a total rip off and just all around bad service.

brightly colored jeans

this is a frightening new trend.

More foody goodness

Saturday night was fun. :)

I decided to look up some new recipes. I've been trying to incorporate veggies into my dinners. So here are the dishes I came up with.

Salmon w/veggies- Ok so I usually make salmon in the oven. It's quick and easy and no mess or smell. But I got the urge so sauté some veggies with it. So I heated up a little olive oil, some garlic and added green peppers and onions finely chopped. I sautéed them for a while then added the salmon. I sprinkled salt and freshly ground pepper (i've found that with good kosher salt and freshly ground pepper you have all the seasoning you need) on the salmon and slapped it on the pan in the middle of he veggies. (*note* I always remove the skin from the salmon because the scales are messy and stink up the place) after a while i flipped the salmon and added sliced mushrooms to the pan (they cook pretty quickly). And thats it. It came out soooooo deicious. The salmon was perfectly cooked and the veggies came out way better than I thought. In fact I think the veggies were my fave part of the meal!

Apple and Sweet Potato Casserole- Grease a casserole dish. Peel and slice 1 (i used 2 it was too much) sweet potato into thin slices. Peel and slice 2 granny smith apples into thin slices. Layer them in the dish. In a saucepan mix brown sugar, butter, water, raisins, and salt. cook it for like 5 min then poor it over the apples and sweet potatoes top with a few lemon slices and pop it in the oven. Now, this def needs some tweaking. The bottom was moist but the top was dry. Next time I'll use less sweet potatoes and slice everything really thin and make sure all of it is covered with the sugar mixture. But it did come out good. The apples especially. Nice and sweet healthy treat.

Honey Mustard Broccoli It was ok I guess. But 2 things I didn't like. 1. I guess I'm just not a honey mustard person. And the sauce mixture was too watery. maybe if it had been thicker and more caramelized it would have been tastier. Also the broccoli was frozen. So much more convenient, I mean have you ever tried to steam broccoli? Unfortunately it came out practically mush and a really bland color. Its hard to get fresh broccoli to be the right texture. So if I do it again I'll try with fresh broccoli. Fresh bright green veggies are always the best. Same goes for green beans.

oh and I figured Ed would want more than this so I made him some crabcakes I bought from the store.

Here's the finished product.


It was just really fun and exciting to be making new foods and having different flavors on one plate.

anxiety

god i have the worst anxiety. its really kind of crippling. it stops me from doing a lot of things. lots of activities, meeting new people, pursuing goals. i hide away in my apt where its safe. i never go out of my comfort zone. and when i attempt to i get so upset to the point where i'm visibly shaken and on the verge of tears. it really holds me back in life. i think its part of the reason i am the way i am and why i have the life i do.

even if i found out that someone wanted me to be on a tv show or in a movie i would be excited for 5 min and then a title wave of anxiety would wash over me and i would say "forget it. forget it. i don't wanna do it. nevermind."

i mean i get these attacks. i remember being on the T in boston and knowing my stop was coming up next and i would get this anxiety attack. why?? because i might miss it and go too far in the other direction? whats the problem? when i would get called on in school...even in college it would be like i was suffocating. and when i know someone other than friend or family is gonna call (business related, interview, something serious) i get super nervous. and don't get me started on doctor appointments. my stomach starts hurting and its just bad.

i look for excuses anywhere to not do most things. i'm afraid of failure. i'm afraid of success. i'm afraid of anything thats hard or uncomfortable or puts me on the spot.

there's no end to this entry.

more cookies

banana oatmeal cookies


these have raisins and walnuts



these have coconut, white chocolate chips and macadamian nuts

i'm happy

i feel so good about myself lately. the other day i woke up and i felt really sexy and beautiful. it was awesome. i hope to feel more days like that. :)

guess what

It was 10 yrs ago today that I graduated high school.