Stacking 2.0

My friend Carol was in another one of her stacking moods over the weekend.  

Pazzo was worried about the stacking...

Happy Monday

Let's start this week off with something funny! My friend Carol is a really great stacker -- it's a hidden talent that only comes out sometimes!

Mall Food Court Date

Don't let out this giant secret that I'll go on a food date to a food court -- because normally I would not! I'll do it for like a handful of people and because I love Sarku Japan (I keep calling it Sakura, but whatever.) And it's super convenient because Laura works like almost in the same building.  So tonight we met for Sakura and Pinkberry = Perfection. 

First though, I got lost in the Pru parking garage because I was forced to enter a way I normally don't.  That lost me 15 minutes! Finally once I got there we started off in Sephora because I wanted to try this new peel (blog later) and met two very nice sales people that guided me (shout out vanessa and guy at the register) I got my stuff and we went fast to Sarku.  Okay so I know I'm the only person that gets the meat here.  Is that weird? Everyone else gets chicken.  But I loved it, and ate almost all of it (tip get extra sauce)

Laura is here somewhere

Next we went over to Pinkberry where we finally go to taste the Salted Carmel flavor. It was really yummy but I didn't think I could stand a whole thing of it, so I stuck to regular flavor and Laura impressively got the carmel flavor and loved it!

a little melty

And that makes for our food court date tonight. Next up chick-fil-A!

More Pizza Cups

My friend Carol made a version of pizza cups with basil, fresh mozzarella and a cherry tomato. Check it out. 

It's been awhile...

Sorry for the lack of updates! Eek, I think I say this a lot! Last week Pazzo was critically ill (congestive heart failure) and it made for a long long long week, but he seems to have made a super recovery and even goes for his usual buzz cut today! Things are looking up.  Hopefully everyone had a nice fourth.  Mine included lots of food and friends! My aunt Alisha came, and Laura and Abe came on Sunday for the day and I force fed them: hot dogs, chicken wings, pizza dip, Stromboli, pasta salad, grilled cheese, crab cakes, chicken and broccoli, pulled pork and salad.  I made the grilled cheese (brie and apple, or just mozzarella) and the crab cakes (with my own homemade mayo!) and the pasta salad.  I also made a somewhat Martha version of sangria because I didn't have all the ingredients where I used white wine, watermelon, strawberries and sprite and that seemed to be a big hit!

I'm not sure what we were looking up?

After all the food we hopped in the boat and enjoyed the fireworks

A little birthday celebration

It's really nice to be able to spend the day out with friends, tiring but really nice for my head! Last weekend it was Lindsey's birthday and we all went and got our makeup done before dinner.  It was nice to get made up!

Memorial Day Weekend...

Yeah clearly this post is late! But I didn't want to forget to post about how my friends made it a great weekend!

I got to hang out with Lindsey all day Friday, and it was great -- this included porch time, crab cakes, and ice cream!

And Laura and Abe came over and spent the night Sunday.  Literally all we did was eat.  First we started with cheeseburgers, which Abe so nicely grilled for us.  And chicken wings, oh and baked beans! (Guys Bush' baked beans are really really good and like no work involved just a note.)  After we ate they noticed one of the jetskis floating away so they hopped in the lake and saved it! They proceeded to go for a ride, but little did we know the jetskis needed new spark plugs...I think they had fun sitting on it though.  Next time they might graduate to going for a ride...

I think we even might have taken some kind of quasi nap before it became time for lobsters and Korean style BBQ! (A treat, I've never had it!) I cooked the lobsters myself which always makes me a little sad.  I gave them a little back rub before they went in the pot. 

Abe graciously cooked the pork belly and short ribs which were delicioussssss! With rice and lots of little sides that go with Korean BBQ! Somehow even after we were in a food coma with BBQ and butter we ate some of Laura's homemade cupcakes.  I just remember somehow being in bed, I was in a food coma!

The next day I had a real surprise for them and I brought them to Carl's in Oxord, MA where when you order a side of sausage you get 7 links of sausage! I had a GIANT stack of blueberry pancakes! Abe had an omelet the size of my head and finished it all, like he should have gotten a free shirt or something seriously! It was an amazing feat! And Laura had 

It was a very enjoyable weekend of friends and food! Food = love.   Next time they come, not only will food be flowing, but the scorpion bowl experience happens...

First Class Panda visits the lake!

This weekend I had a really nice treat with one of my best friends coming to visit me over an hour from her home.  This is her and her husband as we stroll slowly along sipping sangria and miller lite.  And eating lots and lots of food.  They got to meet the people I spend most of my time with now that I am out of the city, including my little buddy Maggie who was kind enough to show us her thousands of Silly Bandz! She was nice enough to give me one shaped in a hamburger.  Awesomeness.  

I think they had a really nice time and I hope they come back soon!  I should have taken more incriminating pictures after 10 miller lites went down, but I'm pretty bad with remembering to get the camera out.  Here is Abe's paris hilton pose.

And tomorrow I am off to the sweltering hot city of New York for a check up....I'll have a full report Wednesday!

Hello! Kitty!

I have a friend, let's call her L just in case she wants to remain anonymous, well she really enjoys Hello Kitty.  And I find every time I see something Hello Kitty that I want to buy it to give it to her.  And lately Target has A LOT of Hello Kitty things and anytime I am there I am like ohhhhhhhh! But I control myself.  I do every so often pick up something small though and give it to her, really anything I've given her in the past year has been Hello Kitty related.  I might just have something right now that is Hello Kitty themed in my arsenal.  I wonder, do you think she get's annoyed by this? I mean, I'm trying to think of something I really like, and if someone was always giving me themed gifts that related to that, would I be like, "Enough! STOP, give me something with a dog on it!"