The Poster I used to have up in my room.

When I was 3 my parents put this poster in my room because every time I heard 'Billy Jean' on t.v. I'd run in front of it and start dancin' (3-year old dancing). One day I was jumping on my bed and ripped it down piece by piece 'cause I thought it was fun.. Later when I realized what I had done I was sorry and started to cry. That would be the last Michael Jackson poster in my room until 1993 when I got my hands on the 'Dangerous' album then I went nuts and it was wall-to-wall Michael Jackson. I wanted to be him or marry him, one of the two that year.. Then by the time I hit junior high and the whole child-molestation and Lisa Marie marriage came to be I'd lost that side of my obsession .. but not my love for his music. I am truly devastated by his death and will always remember when he was my idol.. he still is!

Moved by this song/video

the crow nine inch nails dead souls

I ordered the sticker...

I'm getting the shirt next pay day!!!

My Next Dessert Quest...

Perhaps the following weekend I'll try these, cause birthday weekend will have too many sweets to deal with already!

(Coconut-Lime cupcakes)

And I predict the 4th of July weekend looks like this...

Birthday Celebrating Started yesterday!

My 27th birthday is Saturday (June 20th)

and the festivities all started yesterday with my very festive sis-in-law and niece and some adorable friends of theirs. I was greeted by birthday carolers and by one of my strawberry-lemon cupcakes with a candle glowing on top! oh cute!!

they handed me a birthday bag containing a beautiful book mark, which excited me when I saw it because up until then I'd been using random scraps of paper to keep my place in books. Then following a small square-shaped lemon-grass bar of soap (I really like scented soap..I want to make my own someday) and then the clincher, my very own apron! very "arts and crafts/hand-made" looking, I love it. It goes well with my new found itch to cook phase.. Now I know I belong in the kitchen! Thanks Aurora!

In our department at work we celebrate everyone's birthday by gathering in the meeting room and having dessert, well today is my day and it came as a surprise since I thought maybe tomorrow? (friday) but anyway it should be interesting.

Birthday #27 kinda snuck up on me this year since up until May it was all about planning my wedding, and then dealing with name-changing and updating this and that, rearranging and organizing (well my attempt to) and then all the sudden it's like the 2nd week in June and I start feeling it in the air and the reminder would come and go about the 20th. Now it's here and my loved ones are lovingly reminding me too. It's nice! Since Disneyland is having a free admission on your birthday year I'm taking advantage of that, so you know where I'll be on Saturday!

Bruce & Brandon Lee

this photo is heartbreaking.

I have no words, just observe and let your thoughts wonder....

Diet-Day?

dieting yet I had a cupcake last night, and I'm not going to the gym because I'm way too tired from not going to bed early last night (1 :15 am rather) I had 2 shots of Nagori at lunch and now I'm about to fall over. Will I ever loose weight?!? I still have hope that I might. I'm just not loosing any thing today. I was craving something sweet at 3, so I had some grapes and I cup of bean salad (kidney, black, and red beans). I am going to go home and SLEEP. for now I'm having a cup of coffee to last another hour here.

I need a new hairstyle!!!!!!

awesome blueberry tea!!

yummm... it's so smooth too!!

Fore-Fathers

The Strawberry Cupcakes that Didn't!

here are the Lemon-Strawberry cupcakes that I wanted to make earlier this week

(check my earlier post "Lemon-Strawberry cupcakes") 

So.. I attempted to make them and let's just say I need more practice..

but a very cute idea.. i'm not giving up on these!

Hmmmmm.... they look schrumpcous!

my attempt at making the frosting fluffier, I ended dumping that down the drain!

Going in with so much potential....

Pics from the Past!

F***** Love Love Love this SOng!!!

This is one of the few songs that sound way better Live than recorded! the Yeah Yeah Yeahs need to release this as a Live track!!!

Here is "Sealings"

Yeah Yeah Yeahs Sealings Live
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Lemon-Strawberry Cupcakes!

I am soooo making these on Saturday!!!

"Today"

In Need of a Hair Style/Color Make-Over!

The Bride

The day I was a Bride.

apples or Pears!

my email to the author of:  Apples & Pears: The Body Shape Solution for Weight Loss and Wellness....

From: Audrey Pena
> 
> Date: June 3, 2009 11:41:42 AM PDT
> 
> To: eileen@drsavard.com
> 
> Subject: Apples are doomed people!
> 
> 
> 
> I'm currently reading your book and though I am charged up about
> following your advice to a healthy lifestyle I feel as though you
> relentless point and make examples of Apples to your beloved Pears!
> I've felt less-human or less-feminine my entire life because of my
> apple-shape, my own mother still teases me about it, she's a happy 
> pear,she doesn't know the pain! any way I feel as though your book 
> is no
> different!  "Come look Pears... this is what you'll become if you 
> don'twatch it!.. a hideous diseased APPLE!"  well fine.  You must 
> be a pear
> yourself or else your book would have an equal amount of encouragement
> to both audiences.  I've also noticed that all your good reviews are
> from pears who've been glorified in your book.  You make us seem very
> helpless no matter what.  It got tiring after awhile reading over and
> over how doomed the apple women are, I'm skipping straight to the diet
> part now!  and am encouraging myself since your book failed at that!
> 
> -  An Upset Apple!!
> 

Cooking Buzz

Okay.. So I've been on this cooking buzz for about a week now. . I want to cook for my new husbi I suppose!  But I think it's more of the inspiration  to create something new and have it be of instant use. Opposed from sitting in a drawer waiting to be finished and ultimately have no functionality...  anyway I've been itching to make this hamburger pie that my mom used to make for me when I was a child.  NOw I wanna make it, and all I have to do is buy the stuff.. also my new Niece's birthday is this Sunday so I want to try these awesome cupcakes I found on this cooking blog I found (which is awesome)!  I have inspirations to cook and I want to keep this going this summer... for my "Good-Bye to Summer" party , my birthday, 4th of July, my 3rd year anniversary with my Love!  I can't speak of this new-found inspiration for the rest of the seasons... but just imagine the creative cooking I can do with the end-of-year holidays?!?!  Any way I've gotten some of it out of my system, I made whole-wheat strawberry pancakes (which my husbi liked) then the next day I made a "strawberry-pepper tart for two!" that came out good too!  then I tried these zucchini fritters, I guess they were called, from the Amy Sedarkis site, where she obviously cooks with a blind fold because she gives no accurate measurements and lists ingredients then gives no reference to them later.. ok.. I guess that's apart of her charm, however they would've came out great had she not listed "more flour than you think you'll need", as one of the ingredients. So assuming this meant a crap-load of flour I added it to my perfectly chopped everything and you guessed it, way too floury and doughy... weren't too terribly bad, just way less flour next time!  then I tried a totally different recipe from a healthy-cooking site.. Classic Zucchini sticks, the whole dipped in egg (whites) shake 'n' bake in a bag with a mixture of whole-wheat flour, cornmeal, etc..  so I do all that and BAKE, not fry them (Frying makes them soo good at restaurants!)

then I find that the flour mixture just wont bake despite the ton of cooking spray the put on them.. so I take them out and just eat them anyway.. ewww! although my father-in-law seemed to like them,, and the zucchini came out very well-the batter needed a little help.  I'm so frying next time!  

So that was my happy little weekend "Miss Martha Stewart-Rachael Rae!" ok, not that good....Yet.

I'm being inspired everyday to cook/bake up something new..stay tuned!

hello, 

I'm Audrey..

This is my new blog site.

Welcome...

This is where I'll most likely talk about what inspires me, what's on my mind, what pisses me off, or what excites me.. either way.. this is like a diary i suppose.. can't get too personal though. IT's online!  any way hope you enjoy!