Why I love Anthony Bourdain

Snarky (adj) testy or irritable; short.

"What right minded person would NOT travel the world if and when given the chance? I began to travel seriously as soon as I COULD."

Waiter: Anthony, here is your pork. Here, let me get you silverware.
Tony: No thank you Sir, I will just use my face.

"I don't have to agree with you to like you or respect you."

"Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has very little to do with the food itself "

How to make Crazy Rachael Curls

1. get a shower. you are dirty.
2. wash your hair with organic peppermint shampoo from Trader Joe's that your Uncle left in the shower.
3. get out of shower and towel dry your hair, all rough like.
4. take a white comb with exactly 8 teeth and comb hair down and to the sides.
5. don't worry about which side to put your part, you don't need one.
6. take that gel that smells of oranges and comb it through with fingers. use all but your pinkies.
7. scrunch hair with damp yellow towel and pull your hair up turban style (see photo)
8. eat breakfast. Mother said so.
9. take towel off, flip head upside down and blow dry hair.
10. flip hair right side up and go brush your teeth.

Sketchbook 2

Self Portrait of me doing Yoga.












Lance Jones Artwork. "Unfinished... like our relationship"


















Mr. Jones's chart to help me write an effective paper. One that targets all the emotional points of a human.


















My sad attempts at a comic strip.












testing out watercolor and shading for my self portrait.


















Watercolors and words by M Night Shamalan. Best director EVER!


















Palm reading based on Astrological signs.


















Me as a white Indian girl.


















Just a man who looks freakishly like Anthony Bourdain

Told Ya!

















The bass player of the Decemberists.

Sketchbook 1

Abstract Art Ala Abarat. Awesome.












This is for Mr. Love.












One of my favorite drawings I have ever done. from a really tiny picture on my phone (so mostly memory) in the car.












My superhero I created in math. Typical, doodling in math...












In my second life my job will be naming OPI nail polish colors.












Inspired by Ramona Quimby...












My notes from job shadowing Senorita Jones. French class watched the Le Petit Prince. I will most likely write a blog entry on that movie... Spanish was learning la differencia dentre Ser y Estar.








Original art pared with Smash Mouth lyrics... don't judge.

Top Chef

In my next life, I will be reincarnated as a Top Chef. I love to eat food, and when I become more patient, I will make food.


Blueberry Muffins. Christmas morning tradition.












Re-fried beans, guacamole, cilantro, lime juice, taco sauce... heaven? I think so.

Washing away in Washington

A new perspective.


















Brilliant. John is my Boy.


















Oh they match.


















Disclaimer: This umbrella is NOT Pikachu or Hello Kitty. It is a hybrid of both.

Spanish/English translation

Everyday I get a Spanish phrase of the day and my word was foul-mouthed or malhablado, and the sentence below is the English translation of my example phrase.

"He is a very typical journalist: almost always in a bad mood, antisocial, foul-mouthed and addicted to all types of drugs"

I don't even have words....

Flight of the Conchords. The best thing I have ever seen in my whole life. I wish I was telling fibs, but I am not. These men are GODS.

confusing thought for today...

"What's going on here?
Something you wouldn't recognize. It's called love."

The Unforgivable acts of "Parenting"

I witnessed two of the most disturbing things.

Disturbing thing #1: There was a mother at a shopping mall with her almost 2yr old son, (my mother told me his age. I guess when you deal with preschool kids, you just know these things) anyway, this small child, as most small children have the tendency to do, started to walk away from his mother. Then to my utmost horror, the mother pulled a wooden spoon from her purse and spanked her child.

Disturbing thing #2: I was sitting in a doctors waiting room and there was a mother, son and daughter sitting in the chairs across from me. The boy was asleep and the daughter was schlumped against the chair. The mother was texting. (lets turn to play format...)
Daughter: "Mom..."
Mom: *silence*
Daughter: "MOM!"
Mom: *silence*
Daughter: "Mom! Stop texting and look at me when I am talking to you!"
Mom: *silence*


Abhor (v) to regard with extreme repugnance or aversion; detest utterly; loathe; abominate.

I took a polaroid. Not really though.

Things to Come (a poem I scribbled on a napkin about a year ago)

I once saw a cloud of human beings
Speaking a foreign arrogant word
One thousand streams of fire burn
Passing over the human sea of nations
Clothing the darkness with ash white as snow.

Empty mouths are feeding on wind
People of long ago, continue to flow
Deceitful beauty is on their tongues
Wearisome circuits as sun sets
Sorrows increase a lulling knowledge

As pools of trees splash and flood gardens
Ravens fly down to their bed of spices
The flock sings unanswered songs amid the lilies
New humans overwhelm the soil, sprouting ash
Whispers of sweet vines grow new life.

Mr. Pitiful___ Matt Costa___ The Most Beautiful Man in the World

And look at the ones before me
Some say I waste my time
But normal life seems so boring,
So trying to lose my mind.

Some RYLA Quotes...

" I plan on going to Westminster for the chairs"

"That CrAzY obtuse love angle..."

"It has nothing to do with the fish, you don't go throw your Cathode Ray Tube"

"My hands smell like Cheese Danish"

"This sounds all good right? So did the fish... and the seal..."

"You are NOT a real person"

"Like Racquetball..."

"Hello, My name is... Gary"

"It's one of those ones that are half way out then they are like 'See Ya'"

"... The Candyman Can"

"I feel like Oprah only thinner, and whiter."

"Pheasants Chase Burt."

The Happy List

1. Postcards from Korea
2. Fresh Cherries
3. Curly-twirly Hair
4. Mexicali Black Bean Pizza
5. Old Friends meeting New Friends
6. Picnik.com
7. T-shirt Dresses
8. Jeep Wranglers
9. The Itsy Bitsy Spider
10. PB & J Waffles
11. Chocolate Soy Milk
12. Indian Inspired Clothing
13. RYLA talks
14. Soulful Acoustic Guitar Songs
15. Rainy Day Fake-outs

Mi Mejor Amigo

The will never be a day where I will forget how amazing this kid is. Freddy Gomez, take me back to Venezuela with you <3

simplicity.

Sri Lanka.

T A M E
T H E
T A M I L
T I G E R S.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_Tigers_of_Tamil_Eelam

The light within me honors the light within you.

Añjali Mudrā

It is pronounced ON-jol-ly MOO-drah.

The commonly recognized symbol of Namaste.

NHS Girls.

We are wonderful girls who contribute to our society... or something like that ;)

The new hair cut

My beautiful friend and fellow photographer Dave Matthews, yes like the band, was nice enough to tell me this photo of me reminds him of the beautiful talented singer Corrine Bailey Rae. She is wonderful and soulful, I recommend watching this, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVNK_VDQY8I&feature=related

Why is it that all teenage boys like girls sunglasses?

Red is the Color of the Sun with your Eyes closed

The Happy List

A beautiful idea I borrowed from Charlie Clark and his wonderous fbook group (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=12515806493&ref=ts) or here is his brief explanation:

All those who participate and want to share the healing properties of the happy list, a daily practice invlolving the recording of fifteen things that make you happy and shareing with freinds! Introduced to me by adam drummer the true creator of the happy list.

So enjoy the power of being happy :D

1. Forgetting what language you are supposed to be speaking
2. Wearing other peoples glasses
3. Tiempo Libre
   
4. Burt's Bees
   
5. Discussing the beauty of boxers :D
6. Guitar Fingers
7. Road trips in the Duck with a Sheep
8. Listerine Cool Mint
   
9. New DMB music
10. Spell Check
11. Reading graphic novels, NOT comic books
    
12. Facecake
13. Hackneyed phrases
    
14. Spelling Hot with two Ts
    
15. Sitting with strangers for lunch
    

Let it be sung, so we can carry on.

Well all the good people, They're really not so hard to find.

Um... Get R Done??

Go Back To Guatemala!!!!!

Gomez... Freddy Gomez

quiero un martini sacudido no revuelto

Jino Lee

모든 게 나에게 여자가 여자다운 것을 강요해...

날 바라보는 네 야릇한 시선들이 난 싫어...
(약한 여자..사랑에 약한 여자 Whoo..)
내게 강요하지 마..틀에 갇혀버릴 내가 아닌 걸
전부 나의 뜻대로..

You are the Light

With the moon I run,
far from the carnage
of the fiery sun.

TaNgO

"The Tango is the easiest dance. If you make a mistake and get tangled up, you just Tango on."

Wanna go on a picnik?

I am well aware this is cheating. Editing your photos on a online program after you have taken the photo. But this www.picnik.com is amazing my friends. I highly suggest it. Blurry things excite me.


Wasting my time,
In the waiting line.
Do you believe,
In what you seek?













I love the things that
you have given me.
I cherish you
my dear country.
But nothing is
as scary as
Election Day.













So sturdy up, sturdy up your heart,
for the road is long ahead.
I'll be with you even though we're apart,
but your road is yours to tread.















Movie theaters and museums
Fishing in the pond
ABC's 123's bring your friends along
Flying kites way up high into the blue sky
We can take a ride
Just you and I
It's a jungle gym