Tampons and Ramen

Happy New Year, everyone!

I had a kick-ass Christmas. Materially, it rocked. I got everything I wanted, and so much of what I wanted I couldn't decide what to play with first. Got a cookbook -- Moosewood Restaurant Low Fat Favorites. It looks very good.--full of ingredients I'm comfortable using (rice, beans, grains, vegetables), unlike Vegan With a Vengeance-- what the heck is tempeh and seitan? OMG, this is funny. I just realized why I like the Moosewood book. It's got a little bit of an Asian twist in there, but mainly Mediterranean or Italian. That's my ethnic background. Tomatoes and basil and garlic and miso. I plan to try 5 recipes this week.

The boyfriend bought me a sewing machine. I plan to create a wardrobe worthy of an entire issue of Vogue. Sewing is about me as control freak. At the store, I see a shirt I like, but not in my size. Or not the right color. When you sew, you control every aspect. You pick the color, the size, the fabric, the print...the buttons. Its about total control. I dig that. It's probably cheaper to buy off the rack and not as time consuming, but the control...I love the control.

One little problem...

I don't really know how to sew.

But I'm not going to let some minor detail like that get in my way.

I also got a much desired tripod. Finally, a Christmas photo with me in it! (instead of me being the one with the camera)

My friend took me to get a haircut by her gay stylist with long flowing gray biker hair. (I was like, "uh-oh..." thrilled he was gay, but the biker hair threw me...) He did a great job. My hair looked fucking fabulous Friday night! And wasted on a bunch of guys in a gay bar. Oh well.

I wish I had taken a picture of my fab hair.

Today, it looks sorta Joan Jett, but not in a good way. Could be worse. Could be Rod Stewart. (hahahahaha crackin' myself up here...aplogies to you folks who are not amused.)

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Stir fried some cabbage, onions, broccoli, garlic and tofu. Meanwhile, cooked up a pot of brown rice.

I try to eat healthy. But that doesn't mean I like it. I'm half Japanese. It ain't rice if it ain't white and sticky. To me, brown rice is like ... well, it's like eating Crunchberries all your life then switching to All Bran. You kinda swallow it because its good for you, all the while wishing you were eating Capn Crunch.

So I'm grimacing inside for the following reasons:

It's brown rice.

The cabbage was bitter.

My life sucks because I have to eat this way or I'll get really fat.

So there's me, in the kitchen, cookin' up a big batch of self pity, when the boyfriend comes home from the gym.

He says, "Wow! What smells so good?"

(me, on the inside, "cabbage?!?")

He says, "I could smell it outside. Smells great!"

Sometimes its like a little door opens and I briefly see a world where not everything sucks. It was nice.

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