Who let the dogs out?

Went to a dog park with my friend Christine and her corgi Charlie a while back. Found the pics.

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I kinda want a Samoyed puppy, but.... we live in Texas

attackofthecute.com is an awesome blog.

BTW: looking at photos of baby animals have been shown to increase productivity.  

Publication: http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0046362?imageURI=info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0046362.g003

Aging Up

Just completed another trip around the sun. Feels like I made it in record time...haha.

Since my birthday was Sunday, Friday night was the celebration with friends. We did dinner at Kim Wah (refer to the Hot Pot post regarding dinner with friends and happiness). Then it was back to my apartment for drinking/drinking games, followed by 3 hours of karaoke.

Then on Sunday, my parents were coming in to town to have lunch with me, but instead, when I walked in to the restaurant, this is what I see:
Turns out, my family rented a 15-passenger van and drove down to surprise me for lunch! Pretty serious surprise haha. I should probably be more appreciative for good family and friends, because without either, there's really no purpose in life.

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On a related note, I'm apparently still the alcoholic of the group. This weekend, I received two bottles of scotch, a bottle of wine, and then two bottles of sake & Haribo gummy bears hehe. I now have five bottles of scotch opened right now, nbd.

"Old Japanese Couple"

"Diving In"

Asian Hamburger

    My version of the "hamburger"

    

    Ingredients:

• Bread
• Eggs
• Baby Spinach
• Bean Sprouts
• Vietnamese Ham (Cha Chien)
• Sriracha instead of ketchup

Random update: Going to try a 48-hr juice cleanse next week with one of my friends, so stay tuned.

Potluck 1 of 12

Food! One of my friends came up with an idea for a "last meal" styled potluck for our group of friends. The idea is that one person of our twelve is picked to have a "last meal" - they choose the appetizers, main courses, desserts and drinks. The other eleven are tasked with cooking. I made strawberry-mango-papaya & strawberry-peach-banana smoothies.

Additionally, we're always so quick to jokingly insult each other or to burn one another - we really don't compliment / openly appreciate the ones we care about. At the end of dinner, the person on "death row" receives a box of compliments / affirmations from everyone else and reads them aloud. Some are more thoughtful, while some are just for fun.

Prostitute Pasta

Pho

Almond Jelly + Fruits

Twinkie-Tiramisu

Homemade Pho, Best Pho

Lana Del Rey

edit: actually, I just realized that her lyrics are all super-depressing.

Music & Shenanigans

I think I'm going to start playing the clarinet again. Over the last four-and-a-half years (after high school), I probably played two or three times a year - usually when I was stressed out. Well 2013 hasn't exactly been a walk in the park, so perhaps it's time to drown myself in music. There's nothing quite like expressing your emotions in a rendition of some etude.

Part of the impetus for this was probably the act of going to the TMEA (Texas Music Educators Association) convention this weekend! It brought back all sorts of memories - I even ran into my old high school friends and directors. I really should have had more confidence in my residual abilities and just bought my mouthpiece & barrel with me, but I didn't, so....bass recorder it is.

Posing with statues is probably one of the most fun things to do...