10 Tables

Last night we went to 10 Tables for the Germany set menu night with wine pairing. It was Amazing. Seriously, the food was just so good. Fresh seared scallops on a bed of greens, Turnip soup with chives, garlic sausage on top of lentils and watercress, pineapple sorbet, and some kind of lemon dessert. my mouth is still watering. even all the wines were very good, and i'm not really much of a wine person. i really love that place.

that's one nasty cupcake

i just shamelessly licked the frosting off the top of a halloween cupcake, and then let the naked but obviously licked cupcake sit next to my computer. i don't know why. i guess i was trying to decide whether or not i actually wanted a bite of the cake part. i know myself though, and i know i don't really like cupcakes, i just like the frosting. so then someone really important and big comes into my cube...and stares at the cupcake. i feel so ashamed. next time i'll just eat the whole thing or throw it away.

Jerk

rudest voicemail message i've ever heard:

"hello, this is _____, Obviously i'm not available to take your call.
If i have a Genuine interest in you, I will give you a call back when I have a moment.
Have....eh....".

not even a real attempt at saying: have a nice day.

Taken from Gawker - a manhattan publication

Having A ‘Secret’ Crush On Jacoby Ellsbury Is Not Totally Out Of Left Field
Even Yankees Fans Agree: 'He Knocks Our Sox Off'

Unless your name is Rudy Giuliani, you’ll agree it’s been a shitty week for Yankees fans. Last night, you watched (or, more likely, consciously didn’t watch) the Red Sox easily overtake the Colorado Rockies in a 4-game World Series sweep. And you also may have heard the news that A-Rod has opted out of his contract with the Yanks, presumably to play for a team where the fans don’t hate him despite record-breaking seasons and the newspaper don’t chronicle his (allegedly) adulterous behavior. So to help ease the pain, here are pictures of baseball hottie Jacoby Ellsbury.

Sure, he plays for the other team—but there’’s no harm in fantasizing about what he looks after that heinous uniform comes off, now is there? Besides, haven’t you ever heard the term “sleeping with the enemy?”

red sox!

I love this shirt, and it really hugs my boobies very well.

You can't even see the best part... it's an Ellsbury shirt, and it's really Hot.

This is how Becca picks up guys. By winking and hiding her red sox gear.

laura loo life in the fab lane

kimora lee simmons. i love her. love love her. she's completely insane, kind of a bitch, a total giant, but really a great business woman and fab model. i think that out of all celebrities, i'd really like to have her life. she's loaded, she's beautiful most of the time, the head of a fashion house, and a mom to the cutest little halfsies ever. i think i could be the head of a house like that. F high fashion, things need to be wearable. what's the point of putting things on the runway if nobody wants to buy them. i would really love to wake up in the morning, have someone cook me a healthy breakfast, and then have someone drive the kids to school and then me to work only to find out that there's a new barbie doll that's me!

i love her. even though i hate the word: fab.

i like it heavy

i went window ring shopping today for myself. i went to Joseph Gann, a place in that big jewelry building downtown. i had necklaces made there for sorority years ago. so i walk in and of course it's like totally empty besides 3 dudes since it was 2pm. and there were cases of gorgeous settings, gorgeous settings without stones. i was totally on a mission to find 2 designers there. success. but this was actually the first time that i found myself really loving anything i put on my finger. 2 out of 30 seemed to be real keepers. in fact, one of the dudes waiting was like: that's a great ring. i said: i know, it's huge. i had them drop in a stone so i could get a better idea. so accommodating and really without the discomfort of being put into a private room like at tiffanys. and that was the best part of my day besides the piece of chocolate cake i had at 3:30.

ghosts

Halloween Article from Boston.com

in the spirit of halloween i thought i'd post that little tid-bit.

i definitely believe in ghosts, i believe people can see them, some people can communicate with them, most of them are harmless, etc. but i kind of don't understand why catholics are expected to be in that percentage. is it because we also believe in exorcisms and demons? it must be. i don't believe in aliens, or flying saucers, or anything that happened in that crazy town in new mexico...roswell. i think it's really interesting that there's such a subculture that is devoted to it though, and convinced of government cover ups, that part alone fascinates me. i'd kind of like to go there sometime just to check it out. but i don't believe in luck, i don't believe in superstition. i would walk under a ladder 800 times in a house with an open umbrella with a black cat and think nothing of it. my neighbors had a black cat when i was a kid, and i don't think i've ever been what would be considered unlucky. i think i did pretty well for myself. i think i subscribe to the idea that if you truly believe you'll contract bad luck for doing certain things, then you will see things in that light, it's mind over matter. unless you see a ghost and then that's real.

Unsexiest women

This is not very nice:

Maxim Magazine's list of the world's unsexiest women:
1. Sarah Jessica Parker
2. Amy Winehouse
3. Sandra Oh
4. Madonna
5. Britney Spears

it's one thing to think and agree with all the listed names, and it's another to put into an internationally published mens mag.

and it would be another thing for me to add a few of my personal favorite fugs:

6. nicky hilton
7. brooke hogan
8. hilary clinton
9. kirsty ally
10. ashlee simpson
11. molly ringwald now and then
12. mischa barton "cankles"

why...

i'm craving tater tots. millions of tater tots. i'm also craving green bean casserole. is it possible to get a meal of just that?

sushi for one.

remember when i said i could just shed a tear about the jcrew holiday collection. well today i could just shed a tear if i don't get california rolls and veggie rolls in wrapped in brown rice for dinner. luckily, i've taken control of my own destiny this evening and decided to go to whole foods to get those very items. i've lost all frugality this week, and really don't care one bit. i'd love to blame it on hormones or something, but i can't, i'll just have to blame it on lack of sleep.

complaints and guilt

i just ate a really big salad. and now i feel guilty. is eating a really big salad from a salad bar where there could potentially be a few miscellaneous unhealthy items to throw in there the same or equal to eating a piece of pizza and if so, why did i just bother to do go to a salad bar and meticulously create a salad masterpiece only to realize that perhaps it rivals a chacerero in calories. i'll remember that next time.

i also feel guilty i paid $10 in shipping on something i could have used my feet to get myself. that was not a good way to save my hard earned money...oh well. i was trapped in the house on sunday, so i thought the i deserved to have something shipped to me.

my hair is sticking up, like in a little kid kind of way where they have all these little baby flyaways all over the place. why is it doing this... and how can i stop it? also, my skin is very dull. i hate life.

christmas list addendum

my old christmas list from a previous post:
"a stainless steel mini food processor for small jobs
Tiffany's drop-pearl earrings
A weekend travel bag, pink pony perhaps something Gucci"

my adjustments are as follows: fuck the food processor.
have you seen the new jcrew holiday additions? i want new clothing!!
i could just shed a tear.

the big night.

tonight, abe's parents are meeting my parents. we're all having dinner at the capital grille.
an update will follow.

i'm nuts

i feel like i've lost my mind completely.
i really really Hated being unable to communicate with abe while he was camping for a long weekend. it was like the ultimate annoyance, and my mind started deteriorating without being able to verbalize things to him. it's one thing if he's in another country and i can't see him, but we can talk, and it's another thing for him to just be out in the middle of nowhere without any phone working. so to cheer myself up, i took a stroll yesterday to visit what i was hoping would be my dream ring. i was very wrong. i really truly thought it was terrible. online, it was such a zoomed in picture that in person it looked nothing alike. all the detailings were different. it was probably a crazy thing to do all by myself, but i just didn't care. seems like there's no time for us to do things like that as a couple, so i should just do preliminary visits myself. i think in the end i saved him the visit anyhow, so it probably was very efficient. i'm craving spicey foods. good thing we're going for sushi tonight at Fugakyu so that i can load up on the wasabi. last time i had wasabi, i was eating sushi in the car, so i had to just place the wasabi paste onto the roll and throw it in my mouth. so i did that, and the wasabi went like right up my throat and into my nose and i thought that for sure i had accidently inhaled the entire thing, and then abe thought i was choking and her seriously panicked. but then again, who eats sushi in the car...i think we might be the only people that do that. my mom told me that i need to get a retainer and abe needs braces. who knew my family had such a deep concern over teeth and teeth health.

i'm so tired god damn it.

my weekend just tired me out like a mofo. i did not have a very relaxing weekend. friday, i went to the gym after work. that in itself is an accomplishment, and then i was too tired/lazy to eat much dinner and then later had a few beers in somerville. i was quickly reminded that lauras cannot do retarded stuff like that because there are very real consequences. i puked when i got home, and then was up till 3am with a tummy ache and no tums or zantacs. it's really a pain, but of course my own fault. saturday, i obviously stayed in bed as long as possible completely wasting my day. i grabbed lunch with some friends at like 3, which is right in the middle of the day so i didn't make it to the gym and felt pretty guilty. bob greene would disapprove. natasha came over later for some takeout and some tv. turns out george clooney can make a bad movie afterall. "the good german", really it's black and white the whole time and slightly very confusing. it might be confusing because i am bad with history, or it might be confusing because in black and white everyone looks the same, or that the story line was just way off. then later i got sucked into the stupid epic sox game and stayed up till 2. it would have been worth it if we had won, and that's just the winner in me saying that. i was changing cleo's cage when i realized what time it was and couldn't believe i was still awake. what is wrong with me! sunday, i got up and went to the gym with tons of good energy, almost lost my wallet, put oil in my car after a light came on, and had dinner at my parents house. which you would think would be nice and relaxing, but when i'm not in the mood for annoying conversation i'm just not in the mood for it. like what i want for christmas because no lie....my mom has started shopping, where i'm moving, why i didn't realize my oil was leaking, i need to take my car to get looked at, what are abe's parents names, always something. they did give me a pumpkin and a halloween card that sings though, which was pretty cute. after all that grown up talk with them, it turns out they do still think of me as a kid, and i do like pumpkins with painted faces onto them and glued on straw hats. i went to bed at 10, and at 11:45 i'm still trying to fall asleep. i'm annoyed, so annoyed. desperate times call for desperate measures. how can i get some real sleep? i fully blame this on my body chemistry changing. it's going nuts...or am i going nuts?...not as nuts as britney shaving her head though.

friday, the day of not much going on.

a new day....
a new day after a week full of not enough sleep. i would like to say that i'm in a good mood because it's friday, but today since i woke up and it was dreary out, that was impossible. and almost impossible to get out of bed. and it could be nice out right now, but i'd have no idea because i live in a cubicle that's too high to see windows out of. i've also noticed that for a long time my heartburn had disappeared...probably for like 6 months or longer, and then just recently it's appeared almost daily. it's back, and it is not pleased that it had been on hiatus. i wonder what is going on.

i heard a nasty rumor today that Kendra was getting ready to pack her bunny tail and leave the mansion. i hope that rumor is true. she is very funny, but if i were her, i'd think about my future and the offers. she can stand on her own. i found out today on a Girls Next Door forum that she used to be a stripper before becoming a model and before meeting hef as a painted lady. sigh. i also learned how holly got to be the #1 girlfriend...hef didn't even choose her, she just moved all her shit into his room when the previous #1 left and never said anything about it to hef. that seems a bit strange, but i don't doubt that's how it happened. oh my gosh and this makes me so sad too: http://www.goodplasticsurgery.com/archives/007226.html. natasha: this is a special note for you. What the F??

hm

i woke up today with some strange things going on in my head. for one, i really felt like slaving over an oven and making home make turkey meatballs in home made sauce or a vegetable lasagna all while wearing an apron and furry slippers. unfortunately, i don't think i have time to do such things. maybe i'll do it on sunday, and make a bunch of meatballs and then freeze them....

also, i read today on Gawker a few things. first, my image of matthew broderick has fully deteriorated to jerkdome. he seems so sweet, like a really nice guy, boy-like. but turns out, he pays his assistant shit and on more than one occasion made her come over and fix the tv remote control in the middle of the night. now i think he's a complete idiot, and a jerk. i no longer like him, and i urge you all to do the same.

also on Gawker, they actually made fun of my show, Meercat Manor. they made fun of flower dying. how can they do that? i realize it's a silly nature show or whatever, but people don't make fun of animals dying, that's just so mean. someday, i'm going to be really rich, and then i'm going to buy Gawker and hire writers who are actually funny and not just new yorkers with no sense of responsibility.

TBL diet is going well. so far, i've followed the guidelines for the first phase: no eating less than 2 hours before bed, reduce to quit smoking, take a daily multivitamin, 3 meals and one snack a day never skipping breakfast, and work out work out work out. next week may not fare as well, i don't think i have as much time to go to the gym. i feel hibernation mode kicking in, i have a crazy desire to not make anymore work night plans beyond the gym and the couch and whole foods. i should resist this urge till atleast november or thanksgiving.

--today i am thankful for food courts. i think they're wonderful things.

a new leaf

Today, i have turned another leaf. and when i say: another leaf, it's because i've turned many a leave in the past few years. today, i have quit smoking, and started The Best Life Diet. in phase 1, i'm basically prepping my body by exercising consistently, taking vitamins, eating a healthy breakfast daily, and definitly not smoking. i know what some people may be thinking...yes i did quit before, but i've decided that i'm ready to quit again, hopefully for the longhaul this time. after reading half the book, i think that this is really a nice plan for people. it's not too restrictive, but they give great tips on foods that will work for you as well as recipes that are good for dinner, etc. i'll give a weekly update.

meet Hope, my baby elephant

This is Hope, he's a baby elephant at the Elephant Nature Park and Elephant Haven in Chiang Mai, Thailand. He's 6 1/2 and the park's cheekiest elephant. I just sponsored him for a year. I know, it's probably like the strangest charitable donation anyone has ever heard of, but i don't think people realize how expensive it is to support elephants and how important they are to Thailand. I was reading all these stories about elephants who had been rescued from horrible and abusive conditions, and they all just really broke my heart. I can't say no to an innocent animal, especially ones like this.

meet my meez, she's super hot

labels should be explicit

i went to target to buy a blender for making fruit smoothies. while i was there, i was dying thirsty, so i bought a dasani plus water. when i picked it up, i read: vitamin enhanced flavored water beverage. two hours later, i finished it, and decided that i didn't really like it that much. it was a lot like fruit 20, which i also dislike. so then i'm reading the label again, and what the Fing F, there's guarana in it....natural caffeine. Fing A. if i had seen that, i never would have drank it this late at night, now i'm going to be up all night because they found it too challenging to label the bottle correctly. i find that unacceptable, and do not think it was my fault.

and on the upside. i bought new lip gloss/stick by almay, and love it love it. $7 and worth every penny. the color is so natural. that beats the pants off the nars product i was going to buy for $23. i'm so frugal.

i'll eat my cake too.

i just had a moment.
i decided that i absolutely had to have a traditional cake topper on my wedding cake in the sense that it would be two figurines of some sort in some pose which is undecided. then i could keep it forever. so i started looking at them. and what is wrong with everyone? all the cake toppers are white. they are either all white, or they are "interchangeable" so that you need to buy the bride and groom separately and then you get the crappy generic pose. that's really annoying.

weekend wrapup

i survived another trip to virginia to see abe's family. when i say survive, i think it's a pretty accurate description. the good thing is that everyone is very focused on the kids, the bad part is that the kids really dominate everything. they think that i'm really shy, but that's not really a word that i'd use to describe myself at all. i'm not even really that quiet, in general. i don't think that they're really going to see the true me for years and years. i find it impossible to be me in the given conditions. oh well. i don't really feel like i could have done or said anything differently over the weekend to change their minds, and i might actually just remain the quiet one forever. i'm totally exhausted now. it was quite draining.

the bad news is that i've gained 1 pound since last week, i suppose it could be a lot worse. so i'm just going to press the reset button and start to lose these 5 pounds today. sigh.

the best unexpected news is that abe found his way to a proactive machine today to buy me some products. the bad part of that is that yes, i have acne, just like jessica simpson. How i met your mother is on tonight, and so is the hills - although, i might not watch it, i feel like it makes me a bad person....like i actually just get too angry when i watch so it might be better for me to stay away.