Saturday, November 30, 2013

Photo-a-day 2013.11.30

Space Needle Christmas Tree

Post Thanksgiving randoms

My Thanksgiving was spent in Texas. I'm thankful of the great time I got to spend with family and friends alike. Though, I did notice a few things:
- Texas portions are definitely bigger. A medium drink in Texas is 24oz, not the usual 16oz.
- Thanksgiving is more of a long shopping weekend now
- I have a knack for flying into cold rainy weather
- Austin has outgrown itself
- Kids of sports fan parents can be hilarious. Father says "Sea?", kid says "hawks!"

Now thanks to Black Friday, I am in shopping mode. Also thanks to something (cold weather I assume), I am now sick... booooo. Oh well.

Friday, November 29, 2013

Photo-a-day 2013.11.29

Flooring
100 internet points to whoever can identify where this is...

Thursday, November 28, 2013

Photo-a-day 2013.11.28

Family photo

thanksgiving amusements

if i have kids, i will troll them with dinovember too
when a dog shakes... it can look so intriguing
i'm very impressed with the landfillharmonic orchestra
very curious about where chinese surnames come from
a long but interesting read about language barriers growing up
watching a timelapse of china reveals how pretty it can be
aaah the chemistry of cookies. pretty awesome
i find the spread of world religions rather interesting and scary
if you're having a bad day, these dogs have it worse

Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Photo-a-day 2013.11.27

Boot lights
only in Texas
(as seen at Mozart's Coffee)

Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Monday, November 25, 2013

Photo-a-day 2013.11.25

Pho Dan
Pho Dan in Austin, TX
Mmmm phoooo... thanks to curious_notions for suggesting the place and always being awesome company for fooding and our various talks =)

the week of thankfulness and things

new set of random updates and thoughts going on for me
1. kudos nordstrom for waiting until after thanksgiving to christmas-ify
2. my hands and limbs get noticeably cold 2hrs after major meals
3. i have been super fan-girling over takitsuba amusements again O=)
4. my poor violin has a giant crack in it... soooo sad!
5. i made 3rd place at my work's Fall Bake-Off for these cupcakes. yay!
6. voice actors have always intrigued me, here and abroad
7. a coworker makes the news, then it is announced he no longer works with us. the news was not a good one...
8. must remember to be patient with people
9. apparently my neighbor is jamming with a band. no wonder his bass gets so f***ing loud (and their lead singer could use some vocal lessons)
10. making green onion pancakes by hand is not worth it

Sunday, November 24, 2013

Photo-a-day 2013.11.24

Green onion pancake
homemade from scratch... too much effort =P
though, now i understand why they look they way they do

Saturday, November 23, 2013

Friday, November 22, 2013

Photo-a-day 2013.11.22

Prepping Christmas decorations

Thursday, November 21, 2013

Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Photo-a-day 2013.11.20

Autumn cupcakes
Spiced apple cupcakes with maple buttercream (recipe link here)
Liners and beautiful sprinkles bought at the awesome Home Cake Decorating Supply Co store

Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Monday, November 18, 2013

Sunday, November 17, 2013

Saturday, November 16, 2013

Friday, November 15, 2013

Thursday, November 14, 2013

Photo-a-day 2013.11.14

Fall leaves and lights
see... Christmas lights are going up too soon, the leaves haven't completely fallen yet =P

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Photo-a-day 2013.11.13

Pancakes 'n bacon cupcake
From Yellow Leaf Cupcake Co... surprisingly good!

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Monday, November 11, 2013

Sunday, November 10, 2013

Photo-a-day 2013.11.10

Euphrates and Tigris
those tiles...

Saturday, November 9, 2013

Friday, November 8, 2013

Photo-a-day 2013.11.08

Expressing desires
oh so inappropriate... yet amusing... and no, i don't really want to know why

Thursday, November 7, 2013

Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Photo-a-day 2013.11.06

Self-trimmed bangs
tad short and needs thinning... but passable.

Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Photo-a-day 2013.11.05

Mini-figure dancing
my Lego mini-figures are circle dancing...

Monday, November 4, 2013

Photo-a-day 2013.11.04

Satsuma mandarin
it's satsuma season!

Sunday, November 3, 2013

Photo-a-day 2013.11.03

Cloud face
cloud is going om nom nom nom to the cars...

Saturday, November 2, 2013

Photo-a-day 2013.11.02

Violin
...and unfortunately, with a giant crack! =(
i guess my apartment got too warm this past summer...

Friday, November 1, 2013