Everytime someone laughs at one of Dane Cook's jokes, a bee dies.

This is my favorite False Fact so far.

False Facts - Everytime someone laughs at one of Dane Cook's jokes, a bee dies.

Recipes for spring / summer

I made this salad for Memorial Day yesterday. It was tasty. I substituted water chestnuts for the bean sprouts and omitted the mushrooms ('cause they're gross).
Eastern Rice Salad

Also, I started drinking green smoothies again tonight. Here are 2 recipes I'd recommend.

1 cup fresh spinach
1 apple, cubed
1 pear, cubed, or 1 cup mango, cubed
8oz water
blend on "liquefy" until liquid

1 cup lettuce (or other green)
1-2 cups watermelon, cubed
1-2 cups strawberries
sugar, if you are on sugar, to add a little sweet (i go without the sugar)
blend on "liquefy" until liquid

Yummmmmmmmmmmmm................

a little more...

...GLEE for you. i am in love with this video (because of the song).
Glee: "Don't Stop"

Also, i just ordered a digital camera from Best Buy (I made a trip to their store and of course they didn't have the one I want in stock, and it was also on sale online, so I have to wait a week...anyone have suggestions for a store I should support instead of Best Buy? They are such bait-and-switchers!) So hopefully this means I'll be posting some pictures on this blog again (and not pictures I have taken with the camera on my laptop :) ).

So glad it's a 3-day weekend...tomorrow will be filled with relaxing and then some time with friends.........

might i recommend...

...GLEE. totally cheesy, but i loved the premiere episode tonight (it helped that they sang one of my favorite songs of all time). here's a trailer; i assume the episode will be posted online and rerun to death over the summer to hook you for when it actually airs in the fall.

Glee Promo

enjoy. :)

My city...I love Portland

A friend forwarded me this NY Times article about Portland. The picture at the beginning is the perfect image to describe this wonderful city.

Frugal Portland - NYTimes.com

locally-owned

before i blog, a quick "shout out" to kirsten and colin, geo metro owners. i think you guys should challenge my dad to a race for pink slips (a la grease) to see who wins. :)

tonight i went to my favorite vegetarian restaurant in town, the bay leaf on division and 50th-ish. i was sad to see that of the 20-ish tables, there were only 3 tables with customers at them......the rest were empty. wha?? the bay leaf food is tasty asian goodness! i am worried that the kind owners will go out of business, so i am going to commit to stopping in for dinner on the way home from work every few weeks to do my part in keeping a local business running. i do the same by purchasing an americano every day at kobos, the coffee shop across the street from my office at work. i'm not perfect (i do still shop at fred meyer and target), but every little bit counts, right?

*sidenote: thanks to kimmy, i tried something new on the menu. in fact 2 new things. both were eggplant dishes and both were ooh la la.

what local businesses do you support in your community? i realize some of my frugal friends don't like to spend money, but i'd encourage you to find ways to give money to your community and your local small business owners when you do spend. sometimes it's actually a good thing to spend money. my dad, and all other small business owners, thank you.

in closing, which of my portland friends wants to join me at the bay leaf, and when should we go?

geo metros...

...should not be allowed on the freeway. they drive slower than my dad's 190? Chalmers, and at least that car looks good.

i realize the metro only made me get home about 90 seconds later than if it hadn't been in front of me, but it's really the principle. i mean, my 1980 chevrolet monza went tons faster than a metro. ok, not tons, but faster. wow, that was a great car...

(the red one looks exactly like mine did):

livin' in the hood

in college, the days when tammy said i was "livin' in the hood" with my green day t-shirts, my malcolm x glasses, and my attempts to dye my hair blue with rit dye, i was so creative and in tune with my emotions. i loved my life and i loved being weird and expressing outwardly what i was feeling on the inside.

cut to me today: corporate job, sitting at a desk all day, staring at outlook and dialing numbers over and over on my cisco phone, coaching as "coach-bot" with some moments of creativity as i create training stuff. this is not where i thought i'd be 10+ years later. with my re-corporatization over the last 3 years (i did a brief stint at "wells fargo e.f.s" right after college), i have become terribly out of tune with my emotions and stress, just working away each day creating those coaching call widgits (that was a reference to dr. staggers' horrid u.s. history class, if you usf-ers can recall).

my creative self has nearly died. and now i am pulling out the creativity defibrillator and restarting it. i've been carrying around the book "the artists way" for several years, after "stealing" it from warren hall when we cleaned out the storage rooms one year. this week i finally started the 12-week process of rediscovering my creative self through daily "morning pages" and weekly "artist dates".

warning: this could lead to more blogging, some painting, pushing the dress code envelope at work, creating music in "garage band" on my computer (thanks, jim, for the introduction), more mismatched sock / shoe combos, new crazy glasses, more random creations from bryan ko's old business cards, more extended ellipses and CAPITAL LETTERS when i blog or post on facebook. WHO KNOWS. the sky is the limit.

more to come..................!!!!