pizza post!

Well, sort of.

One of the shitty things about digital cameras is having to upload the photos onto your computer. I'm so lazy/forgetful. So my posts are always so bulky. Maybe this summer there will be some consistency, but I wouldn't bet my money on it.

Anyway! Basically, I don't think I've mentioned Pizza Club before. Basically, Joe and I (since we met almost three years ago) make bi-monthly meets to eat pizza and shoot the shit. Most of our ventures were to Sam's Club because we're reasonably poor, but sometimes we'd splurge and go to someplace fancy like J.J.'s. Anyway, we've gotten more creative with the club.

On this meet, we got a Frechetta five cheese brick oven! Which we added mushrooms and LOTS of garlic to.




Out of the oven. Onto my plate!




Site note: should saute the mushrooms before garnishing, they released too much moisture onto the pizza.

Joe's house is hilarious. He has these pidgin fridge magnets that his roommate got while in Molokai. Daikon legs and onolicious are my two faves.



Plus they had these sweet magnets. "Splatapus" hahaha!



And that's about it. Here's a CPK pizza to finish!

random

pizza face



pancake face

addiction to 4square + other

so in case you haven't been keeping up with the stupid thing that social networking has become... there's this thing called foursquare (similar to the iphone facebook "places" app) that allows you to check into venues and see who else is there that also uses the app. if you check into a place the most you get a crown. this is why i am addicted. i will not lie. i really really want a legitimate crown. i don't know why i want it. i know as soon as i get it i'll be super over this thing.

right now at this moment i'm one check in away from mayorship in six different venues! so so close. someone asked me if i care that people know where i am at every moment. the answer to this is: no. also, i usually never remember to do the check in until i'm leaving a place so even if you were to show up i probably wouldn't be there anymore.

i've been eating an overwhelming amount of j.j. dolan's pizza lately. i am too addicted to the pepperoni from there. i know i should just try ordering one of their specialty pizzas one of these days but after the let down that was the white pizza i don't think i want to. i'll just stick with what i know.

my dreams of living in my room in complete isolation are quickly becoming a tangible reality. my dad is giving me his fridge thing (it has no freezer but can keep beverages/snacks cool). i'm excited. i've been searching craigslist for decent monitors or TVs but it's hard. most are asking me to travel out to get it and i still lack a car (which is totally not going to be an issue anymore because i'm really going to learn how to drive. shooting for a car sometime in january).

anyway fallout is pretty much the same as fallout 3 except that you can upgrade weapons and ammo which makes it a little harder to play. my hunting rifle keeps jamming up so wandering the wasteland has become really difficult. there's also this hardcore mode that i'm intrigued by but it sounds like it's wayyy too difficult. you have to hydrate, sleep, and healing yourself is next to impossible unless you see a doctor. i don't think i could do it so i won't even try. kudos to anyone that can, though. /nerd.

oh and i tried red hook ale last night and it was delicious. the end.

it hurts, guys.

so first i want to start this post with pictures that will guaranteed gross you out. yesterday i worked a really long shift (6am-130pm) and i was dead tired afterwards. i rode my bike home begrudgingly and when i got home i had less than an hour to nap. i figured that it wouldn't be worth it, because i'd wake up more tired. i decided, then, that i should go jogging to boost my energy. this is what happened.




i. fucking. tripped. and. ate. shit. UGH. sorry for the bandaid photo but when i took it off this morning i was thoroughly grossed out with myself. i hate the sight of blood especially when it's my own. but now i have this crater thing in my knee. no skirts or shorts for a while. in addition to that knee, i have a scrape on the other side, scrapes on my right elbow and on both of my hands, and a bruise because i hit a rock on my right thigh. I AM IN PAIN. :((((

anyway onto the less gross stuff! my last day at satura photos:

miho and i. she's leaving, too!

actual last day. andy bought me a lei. i had to wear it all day.

blurry, but this is a picture of the soda josie bought me as a good bye gift in addition to the waste cupcake that cody gifted me. thanks, guys!



miho and kyoka made me a goodbye cake. amazing!! i miss you guys already.

then to go back in time, here are photos from my birthday dinner at CPK with my mom. my brother didn't show up. but that's okay, i guess. i was so tired this day.

asparagus and arugula salad! and the hummus and pita bread thing!

see, i told you this is my mom's signature pose.

clam linguine

me and my sam adams, margherita pizza, and diet coke! the pizza was mediocre.

it's so weird how into greek food my mom has been lately. it started when she wanted to eat lunch with me one afternoon and we couldn't decide where to eat. "how about greek?" i asked. she made the nastiest face ever, "yadda. daikirai." really? i asked. turns out she was basing her disgust on that movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding and how the food didn't look super delicious. "niku bakkari janai ka?" no, mom, it's not completely meat filled cuisine. after a bit more talking i convinced her to try eating at the greek corner with me over on university and king. she was amazed! she kept saying that their food seemed so healthy, not bad oily, vegetable filled. she also loves feta cheese.



here's a photo of her at the greek cafe. i went there with her a few weeks ago and it was pretty amazing considering the price, but definitely not the best greek food on island.

i'm really bad at ending posts with the whole tying this whole blog together thing. i feel like all my posts are just some stream of consciousness bullshit that never gets anywhere and no point is ever made. but meh, i think it's a good idea to record my thoughts regardless of how scattered they are, right?

pizza rant

MAN. so i really really love papa john's pizza. i don't really know what it is about the garden fresh pizza (maybe the deliciously sweet tomatoes, or maybe it's the crunchy bell peppers?) but i am hooked. absolutely. and guess what? i really really love papa john's because they allow online ordering. AND they post all their specials up there. gasp! the internet has officially made me fat.

i guess i'm excited because i do not like ordering over the phone. i always get way too caught up with the specials that the employee kind of barfs out at the beginning of the phone call. this leaves me feeling overwhelmed with options that i haven't had time to consider, and me being indecisive makes it all the harder. i can't even tell you how many times i've hung up on pizza places which in the end made me opt to not even get pizza because i was afraid if i called back they'd recognize my voice.

anyway, the internet has oversimplified this dilemma and has eliminated what was really preventing me from ordering delivery. now i don't know what i'm doing but i'm eating pizza three times a day several times a week. yes, this is horribly unhealthy (hence garden fresh, i figured the veggies make up for something) but god. i can't help it.

which is what brings me to this point. they're onto me, papa john's that is. i got this in the mail today, just after i had ordered pizza.

oh man. THEY KNOW THAT I'M HOOKED! i know for sure now. i only have till august 28th to take advantage of this deal (which is an amazing deal). even if i can't eat more than two slices in one sitting, i can always freeze whatever the second pizza is and eat it over time.

what is wrong with me?!

supermarket finds!

a few weeks ago my mom and i made an unusual trip to salt lake to visit the carpet store. afterwards, we stopped by target which was right next door. salt lake/that whole area of aiea, pearl city, mililani, ewa, etc is such a strange place. i'm so unfamiliar with it... but to be honest everything looks exactly the same. maybe i am really a townie since i can only establish where i am based on landmarks around me. this cannot be so when you're out there. there's just houses. a TON of houses. i can officially say that suburbia scares me.

because there was only a pizza hut and a starbucks to eat at... we became desperate for decent food. luckily target has food in the form of a freezer aisle and this was on sale for $4. frozen pizza this cheap? unheard of! plus it said that the ingredients were "imported from italy." really?! i was excited.

(note to self: you can't fucking take pictures at 3ft distance. FIGURE IT OUT, GIRL!)

mom made caprese salad with cherry tomatoes and bits of anchovy on top! this ended up being much more delicious than the pizza which was a hot circle of garbage (thanks, kevin, from the office for this quote). why was it bad? there was no flavor! the goat cheese had the strangest texture... and since it wasn't evenly spread you'd just get huge bursts of goat cheese and then... dull... crappy... frozen spinach flavor. yuck. never again.

i've been trying to be more frugal lately but it's hard. i'm an impulsive buyer-- i'll admit it! so when i saw all these items on sale i could not resist. do i really need the equivalent of 20 servings of miso soup in the middle of the summer? ...no. but i might. plus this stuff doesn't go bad, right? right!

i'm really excited for the item on the far right, which is something i haven't seen before. it's just the miso paste except it comes with small baby clams inside! we will see how that actually tastes. i don't want to hype it up too much for myself (like i did for the pizza) only to be sorely disappointed. the miso ramen in the dead center is always good. the soup packets are delicious and the ramen is exceptional for the processed type. $1.50. i just wish it was a just-add-water kind of deal so i could bring it to work.

anyway~~ that's all for now. heehee.