King of Pop

My top memories of Michael Jackson:

1. I had a red Micheal jacket that my mom made. It also came with a glittered, silver glove. I was just one jheri curl away from being a mini Michael.

2. My brother and I played the Moonwalker game on our Sega Genesis. Micheal Jackson would use his special powers to sing "Annie are you okay" and dance kick opponents.

3. My brother rode his bike to a friend's house when Thriller premiered on MTV cause we didn't have cable yet.

4. I was late for elementary school cause I was home watching the "The Way You Make Me Feel" video where he's wearing a blue shirt knotted at the waist and dancing on the car.

5. Tutti, from the Facts of Life, had a poster of the "Human Nature" album where Michael was wearing a yellow sweater vest.

Summertime

Everyone loves the summer, but not necessarily everything that comes along with it. Wednesday was a great day to eat lunch in the park, until you realize there's all these random children running amok in the middle of the day in the financial district. Nowadays, you only see kids and homeless folks drinking from the fountain.

And now, a momentary flashback to 1991 when the Fresh Prince came out with the Summertime song. . . when all we did was spend the summer at Stonestown mall, movie theater, and Tower records

Fake It's It

Believe it or not, I survived today without turning on the tv- on purpose! Yesterday was no meat day, and I guess today is no tv day. Instead, I retried my banana ice cream with milk instead of cream, and the addition of walnuts. Plus, I made oatmeal cookies to make ice cream sandwiches (one sandwich even got traded for chicken karaage). I feel like the only thing that's missing is dunking the entire thing in chocolate. It's Its actually originated in San Francisco in 1928 and was sold when Playland was down by the beach.

We'll see what the taste test reveals tomorrow.

Free Crap

Despite all my skepticism about "used" items on Craigslist, it's sort of become a recent obsession. It seemed to kind of pay off when someone was giving away his West Elm floating shelves. Of course I'm just obsessed with getting it before everyone else, cause I have no idea where I can put these shelves in my tiny house. Who cares, cause I win!

Father's Day

Just another day at the park and I am officially tired. Plus, not a good idea to take pictures below my giant brother climbing a kids' play structure.

Banana Ice Cream

I figured I haven't made ice cream in a while, so we spent the day making banana ice cream and chocolate chip cookies. Unfortunately, some of us look like they spent more time eating ice cream than making it.

Fish Trap

Friday was an early Father's Day with my pops. We stopped in Half Moon Bay at the Fish Trap for fish 'n chips, and then a quick farm visit at Hidden Villas. I like how the pig looks like he's wearing pants.

Lucca's

I was taking this picture at one of my favorite delis, and the lady next to me commented that it would be a great picture. Of course my response to her was, "How can anything be wrong with a picture of hanging meat." Not one of my finer moments.

Pocahontas

I admit I did not take a good photo for Wednesday except for this dog outside Chinatown's Wells Fargo. Who says you don't see dogs in Chinatown?

Instead, I wanted to post a pic I took on Tuesday of this fool getting ready to go camping, headlight and all. It's like Pocahontas with a new accessory.

Fire Escape, or Clothesline?

I love how people decide to hang their underwear on Broadway. What I don't understand is why they don't use that round spinny clothes hanger from the dollar store. We used to hang our socks and underwear on that in the garage- it's much more space efficient.

I dream of cookies

Another 14 hour day, but at least I could sketch during my meeting. I'm trying to debate whether I should make puff pastry from scratch and make palmiers.

Toy Shelf

On Sunday I finally finished assembling my new shelf even though I only slept 6 hours after a 14 hour work day. The cool thing is that it's made from recycled materials. It's my new toy shelf.

We're Watermelons!

Yay! My parents are finally back from their Alaskan cruise and don't look like they gained 20 pounds like they're supposed to. Although I'm sure they ate more than their worth. I'm still waiting for my mom to pull out little biscuits and cookied wrapped in napkins from her purse that she took from the buffet. She was amazed by all the fruit sculptures from the buffet, and this little samurai watermelon dude was my favorite.

Mini Parade

Friday is just the beginning of a crazy weekend where I will be glued to my computer. I spotted another Mini in the garage and was wondering if the company was downgrading from Porsches to Minis.

Sustainable Food

Last night's Academy Nightlife hosted some local chefs demos featuring sustainable seafood. I learned how to make a banana boat and sampled this ceviche made with shrimp. Now I'm going to have to scour asian markets so I can practice my food origami.

He's Not Fat. He's Big Boned

I really wanted to take a picture of this guy who had his dog in a baby carrier on his back, but I don't think he'd appreciate that when I'm 2 feet away. Instead, I was at In-n-Out Burger when I thought it was 1998 and saw this grown man holding Cartman. I like the asian lady on the right who looks like she's laughing at him.

Thirsty Cat

I forgot to refill Steffi's water dish and she was left to her own devices. At least she's resourceful.

I'm a Girl Scout

I opened a box of girl scout cookies at my parents' house and was reminded when a "non-asian" friend sent me the front of this cookie box cause she thought I looked like the chick in the middle. I must admit I can see a tiny tiny resemblance if you squint.

This reminds me of when Peter Brady had to be a Sunshine Girl and try to sell cookies because Greg wanted to teach Marcia a lesson when she tried out for the Boy Scouts. Just a side note.

There's Starving People in China

There may be starving people in China, but not so much in the Sunset. Since my parents are away this week, this may be my chance to eat all the non-asian food I can. Apparently, I am incapable of making food for just one person and ended up with my next 5 meals. Hopefully some unsuspecting guinea pig at work will help me make a dent.

Dog Whisperer

In an effort to befriend my barky neighbor's dog, I made her doggy treats. I recently developed a fear of taking out my trash on the rare occasion that I might run into her dog by the trash cans and have my arm chewed off.

Tenderloin Fire

There was an underground fire in the Tenderloin while we were out to lunch. It was right outside Mitchell Brothers on Polk. I was totally a lookie loo and ran down the block in the smoke to take pics. You should read the comments on the SF Gate article. One person asked, "Did they save the theater? Think of all that porn. . ."
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/06/05/BAG8181NH5.DTL

Congraduation

It's a where's waldo of asian kids. Can you believe there's a ceremony for kindergarten kids? Congrats, you know how to go to the bathroom all by yourself!

Ahoy!

I dropped off my parents for their cruise on Wednesday. They lasted about 50 minutes before they found the buffet and the cruise still had an hour before leaving the dock. It's my mom's dream vacation- a travelling casino.

Eat This, Not That

So the author of this diet book, "Eat This, Not That," was on the Today show this morning. It's a book that shows you how to pick the lesser of two evils when it comes to food. So I learned it's better to eat an egg mcmuffin instead of a sausage mcmuffin. Unfortunately, all it did was make me want a sausage mcmuffin with egg. To no surprise, I also scored poorly on his quiz. Check it out
http://www.menshealth.com/eatthis/game/

By the way, there's a huge fuzzy bumble bee on my car window that followed me from McDonald's all the way to work. Wonder what that means. . .

What Lazy Eye?

Despite being at a huge disadvantage of 1) not having a drill, and 2) having a lazy eye, I was able to mount and hang all 8 frames with only 8 holes in the wall. I was a little obsessive about trying to make the frames align perfectly and thank goodness I outlined the frames in cad and mounted the scale print on the wall as a guide. There is 1 frame that is close to a quarter inch too low, but hopefully that won't keep me up at night.