update: i'm alive. i swear it!

I don't know, I think I might be depressed again. I've been jobless for 2 months.. and while it's great being able to stay up late, wake up late, play warcraft 24/7.. I'm just so over it.

Oh, but Isobel is becoming a sexy beast..... I love my warlock <3

ow! don't touch me i bite...

So any way, I got offered a part time job at Best Buy. I have NEVER worked retail before. But I figured it would be perfect. I start clinicals for medical assisting next quarter and it will be another year or so before I actually start the nursing program.. and that will take about 2 years, unless I go for RN. Oy vey, why does life have to be so complicated?? Why can't I win the lottery and just play video games and read comics and watch anime all day?

I'm totally aging backwards... :|

Oh, but I might be able to make a little cash soon. I'm going to start live streaming my wow play on twitch tv. My girl Tiff has been streaming and it's been going well for her. You can watch her here. She's giving a free copy of Guild Wars 2 when she has 400 followers ^__^.

Alright, that's my geek/i'm-still-alive update. I have reviews to write and more posts to put up. I just need some motivation... SIGH.

Busy week! Long-ish update...

NOTE: I started this writing this post on Sunday, but I finished it today.. sorry if I confuse you.
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Phew, I'm glad that week is over. You know, when I had a M-F job, Friday was always the day I considered the last day of the week. Now that I don't have a job, and EVERY day seems like a Friday, I have to go by the day that my class work is due (Sundays). One more assignment and a quiz and I'm home free. And I'll say what I say every Sunday...this week I will not procrastinate and wait until the day before homework is do to start it. Hehe, wishful thinking.

Let'seeeeeee...finally got my ass back into the gym, went to Ru Yi, Naked Tchopstix (again!), One World Market, Saigon..yeah, it was definitely Asian food week. Of course we never get tired of it!

Earlier in the week Dillon had to go get a haircut  (his sister is a great hair stylist) and she recommended that we check out Ru Yi which is located in the same strip mall as her salon. I ordered a rainbow roll, spicy tuna (that was actually suppose to be our appetizer), and Dillon ordered the teriyaki Chicken. Even though the serving of teriyaki was quite large, it wasn't very good. The chicken was super over cooked, tough, and some parts burned. The sushi on the other hand was really, really good. If we are ever in Avon again, we'll stop here instead of Sushi Club.

Teri-YUCKY chicken, rainbow roll, spicy tuna

Saigon is my new favorite Vietnamese restaurant. The pho is so good! Especially after a long, hard, work-out. Okay, so it was only aqua Zumba AND it was for old people...I still got a work-out. :P Any way, I got pho tai and Dillon (who is sooo predictable in his food choices) ordered ginger chicken. Someday I will get him to try something new....

pho-king delicious! hehe..

Naked Tchopstix was a spur of the moment decision on Friday night. I'm surprised I convinced Dillon to even go to Broad Ripple on a Friday night. Of course it wasn't hard to get him excited to go. SUSHI, turns us both on. So does unfiltered sake. Ozeki nigori sake... oh, I could have had 3 bottles. Unfortunately, one small bottle is $15.99. Actually everything we ordered was kind of expensive. The tuna carpaccio was $9.99 and you only got 4 pieces of thinly sliced tuna w/citrus juice squeezed on top. Our rolls weren't over priced, but our bill still came out to $74.89.

No food pics...we were in the bar section and the lights were turned down super low. But I managed to get this shot before they turned down the lights. OH YER....sexy time...

i think i'm turned on..... >.>

 Saturday was suppose to be devoted to finishing up classwork. I know, I know; I'm a super procrastinator, but I do my best work under pressure! Any way, 6 hours into class work and I realized I hadn't eaten anything all day. There is nothing worse than a lack of food headache. Of course, my go to food is always Asian...and I needed to pick up a few things from the Japanese market so it was win win drive up to One World Market in Castleton. We bought some goodies, but I'll save that for another post.

Did I go for sushi?? NAH.. I got Miso Katsu. OH, nom nom nom. So fattening, but oh so tasty. It was so good, but they gave me so much rice!

Miso Katsu

Cucumber, pile of shredded cabbage, mountain of rice, katsudon, miso soup, and miso sauce. It was really tasty, and I wish I could have it every day. But it would probably kill my diet. LOL.

If you want to learn how to make katsudon you can watch Cooking With Dog video or RunnyRunny999's video.

Sorry for the long post. I'll try to be better at posting more often so I don't have long ass posts. :P

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Indiana State Fair

I love state fairs. The food, the farm animals, people watching; it's just an all around good time. We went last Saturday, which luckily ended up being a gorgeous day. Of course the first thing we do is gorge on the yummy fair food. Fried chicken fingers, french fries, fried pork tenderloin (not me, our bff Mark), funnel cakes, cold tomato juice, boba tea, and honey sticks were some of the things we stuffed our bellies with. I wanted to try a fried oreo, but by that time I was ready to be rolled out of the fair grounds.

Deep fried Kool-Aid??? WTF??

 So besides the food, there were the animals.. farm animals of course. This year's fair was all about the dairy cow. And I LOVE dairy cows. I went to school at a boarding school that has a dairy farm and I always loved visiting the calves or the big old bull, Mark. Cows are sweet... smelly, but sweet. And I think my little Penelope is part cow. Hehe..

Penelope's long lost sisters!

I never did find out why they shave the cows. They shave the white parts of their bodies. Or if they are jersey cows they get a little body mo-hawk. It's so weird.

pretty girl...

Oh and lucky me.. we saw a little calf that was only 4 hours old! Poor thing was calling for his mom, who was tied a few feet away from her.

4 hour old on the left!

And of course the 4H stuff was going on. Lambs, cows, ewes, but no piggies. There were some horses, and we saw the horses that were involved in the accident yesterday with the fair princesses.. or whatever. I'm glad that nobody got seriously hurt like last year. It seems like the Indy state fair is cursed! Well, there's about a week left of the fair so cross your fingers nothing else happens!

Food Porn: Naked Tchopstix

Oh geez, it's been a long, painful week. I haven't been to the gym is a little over the week and I haven't been able to cook. Why? Stupid, old bones always go out of place. Unbelievable sciatic pain. Ufff. But I feel better; the old snap, crackle, pop doc (my lovely chiro sheila...) put me back in order.

feeling MUCH better thank you!

sort of. HAHA. I love photo apps. This one is called PhotoFunia.

So any way, that was not my food porn pic.. DUH. My friend Juliet (also a Jules) and I went to Naked Tchopstix in Broad Ripple. I seriously wish that we had looked around different neighborhoods before settling. But, BR and SoBro aren't that far from us, so I'm not too terribly upset. It would be nice to not drive all the time and be able to just run/walk on the canal. OR be able to stumble home after bar hopping. Just saying.

Naked Tchopstix is Asian infusion food. A mix of Japanese and Korean mainly, which are two of my favorite cuisines put together: HEAVEN! I usually get sushi, but I have had their Bibimbap and it's delicious. I think in the colder months I'll try the Kimchi Jigea or Yukae Jang (Cafe Korea has the best Yukae Jang). Juliet hasn't really had Asian cuisines (she's my little Latina cutie friend) and she went with the Shrimp tempura bento box. I'm so happy that she enjoyed it! I wasn't sure what I wanted, so I just ordered my usual; dragon roll and spicy tuna roll. The spicy tuna roll is not like most you'd have at other restaurants; they use gochu-jang (Korean hot pepper paste) instead of ichimi-togarashi (Japanese red pepper flakes) and personally I like it with gochu-jang. Nom nom nom...

Okee, enough talking....food porn photo time:

oh Naked Tchopstix, you do me right... RAWR.

So we are suppose to go to the Indiana State Fair tomorrow. But I think we are going to need to eat dinner at Naked Tchopstix too. ^__^

Yelp

I wonder who nominated me as an elite. I don't write well, but I do like to eat. Ah well, I love eating and I'm good at it. And, I want to learn to be a better writer and that takes practice.

You can read my Yelp reviews here.

working title, thunderstorms, need mo' sleep

One of the many annoyances of being indecisive. :S I reserve the right to change my mind and change the title again. I suspect I'll change it 4-5 more times. :P

I've been up since 5ish. Thunder and lightning rolled in and the dogs jumped into bed with me. We cuddled then Dillon came back to bed. Not quite sure what he was doing (he had a long ass nap, so probably couldn't sleep.. or it was my snoring...:X), but the four of us were spooning like:

Buddy ) Dillon ) Penelope ) me

And of course I was being pushed off the bed...

labels courtesy of LabelBox 

Dogs are usually not allowed on the bed, but for thunder and lightning storms I will make an exception. Partly for the dogs, but mostly for my chicken ass. I still cannot get use to the storms here. If I had a choice it would be earthquakes!

Busy day ahead: homework due today and I need to go food shopping.

...but I think I need a quick nap first...

Updates.. but nothing to do with food really..

Alright, just as I have feared, I've already started to slack off on posting stuff.. But it's been a busy week/weekend. Dillon is back home, we went and saw Kaskade at the Egyptian room and the Murat, and watched The Dark Knight Rises.

Kaskade was AMAZING. I first saw him when I was still living in Monterey and he was just starting out. The venue was so small that I literally was able to touch him. Love him then, love him even more now. DJ Fareoh and Alvin Risk opened for him. Really liked Fareoh but I totally dig Alvin Risk.

Right before I got to the front, you can see part of my face bottom rt.

OH, and bonus! The First Friday Food Truck event was also going on outside the Murat. And who do I stumble upon? DJ Colette!!! I totally freaked out.. she's one of my favorite lady DJs. It really sucked there was nobody around her..INDY people do not know good music!!

DJ Collete

I think that The Dark Knight Rises is my new, NEW favorite movie. I love it so much I'm trying to figure out a way to convince Dillon to go watch it again. And of course I'll have to procure the Blue-Ray when it comes out and watch it over and over again. Yeah, I loved it that much.

So eating update, the only new place we visited so far is Sushi Club. I still need to write a review for it, but I will say that I probably won't be visiting that place again. One of things that sucks about Indy is the lack of decent Asian food restaurants. Oh well, just another reason we need to move to CA!