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Posted by: cavyfc on: January 29, 2010
WHAT are you still doing here? i moved, people! like, a week ago! which i know isn’t exactly FAR into the past but still, you ain’t gettin’ any more updates ova heeah.
well…except this one.
now GO!
caviandra has a new home.
Posted by: cavyfc on: January 14, 2010
it’s up!!!!! it’s up!!!!!
twss.
go check out my super awesome new domain, designed by lilu.
NOW.
this blog is done-zo.
why are you still reading?
GO!!!!!!
sooooo, i was GOING to do a weekend/life recap for yesterday, BUT I COULDN’T MOVE MY ARMS TO TYPE.
ow.
snowboarding friday night: i learned i’m a “toe edge” girl, which apparently means i prefer to hug the mountain, according to thunder. i did some head-over-board tumbles on the BIGGEST hill they had, thanks to sim. he decided gaining momentum was more important than learning to stop. WTF. BUT. IT WAS AWESOME. he said i picked it up way faster than most of his buddies, and that while i sort of sucked, i “rocked that bitch.” YESSSSSSS. at the chalet bar, we drank our soreness away and yandow somehow won a friggin snowboard – apparently anyone who ordered a blue moon that night was entered in the contest. amazing.
i spent most of saturday on the couch with pillows under my entire body. bruise city, right here. nice to meet you. an ANTM marathon and some Big Bang Theory kept me entertained while l-more was off snowshoeing. i told her she’s an overachiever. that night we treated ourselves to olive garden’s delicious imitation italian before hitting the mall where i attempted to try on a shirt and immediately quit when my neck and shoulder muscles screamed for bringing them up overhead.
sunday i felt much better and cleaned the apartment minus my own room. i did, however, move stuff off the floor enough to push my bed against the wall and therefore leaving an entire new section of floor space to cover with clothes and random stuff. we did laundry at sim’s and made penne rosa for dinner in exchange.
and since then? i’m great. i worked out last night and today, plus i’ve made 2 of lexa‘s yummy recipes and have leftovers to boot. i’ve got new tv shows on a schedule and am totally stoked for idol, the bachelor, and biggest loser this winter.
the new site will be up sometime next week – get ready for it! mad design props can be given to miss lilu. i was searching flickr for some “city-esque” photos to give her a bit of inspiration, if you will, and among some really good ones i found this WONDER:
YEP. i gotta figure out if the name is a myth or a truth. who’s with me?
queen of the mountain
Posted by: cavyfc on: January 8, 2010
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so back in november i got a ski/snowboard pass for one of the mountains around here. being from minnesota, everyone knows how to do at least one of those activities. i’m in the “skiing” category along with the rest of my family. my parents grew up in northern minnesota where it’s plentiful, and my sister races downhill for the high school and on one of the mountain teams. i’m not excellent, but i can handle my own.
apparently everyone in upstate new york thinks snowboarding is the only way to go. example: my cube neighbor, who’s like “oh, i grew out of that lame business and advanced on to boarding at around age ten. i’ve never looked back.”
whatever, man.
sim and l-more are on a mission to teach me to snowboard. they wouldn’t even let me NEAR the ski registration desk when we picked up the passes.
tonight marks my first training session – after spending last night on sim’s balance board with him chanting “HEEL EDGE! FLAT! TOE EDGE! FLAT! YOU GOT THIS! COME ON CAVY!” while he sipped a beer and made googly-eyes at emily deschanel on bones.
bring it on, bruises. my ass welcomes you.
and l-more will have a camera which she insists is to record and show me what i’m doing wrong, but that i know is to document me falling on my ass every 5 minutes. i’ll be sure to share it with you. what better place to embarass yourself than on the internet, right?
heaven in a shoebox.
Posted by: cavyfc on: January 7, 2010
cooking update: i’m holding off on enchiladas tonight in favor of THESE – because they look amazing and i can imagine the kitchen smelling WONDERFUL and i would have made them last night but i was in a pizza mood and ended up with yellow/red peppers, onions, and goat cheese on a boboli crust 🙂 and i stuffed my face while watching the people’s choice awards.
over christmas break (i can say ‘break’ because it truly was…12 days!) i did a lot of shopping. my sister and i hit all 5 shopping centers within half an hour of home, armed with espresso and gift cards. the sales just begged us to come in and stay awhile.
Mall of America was the big trip, since we could get to pretty much any store we desired in one fell swoop. we scored big time at DSW, H&M, express, banana republic, martin + osa, etc., but the biggest prize of the day came from nordstrom rack.
if you haven’t heard of/been there, LEARN/GO NOW. anything nordstrom needs to get out of their stores to make way for new stuff goes to the rack and is marked down like you wouldn’t believe. i’ve gotten michael kors skirts, nicole miller dresses, and an unimaginable number of pairs of shoes.
BEHOLD:
cynthia vincent boots. 100% leather. sexy. COMFORTABLE. MY SIZE. AND THEY FIT MY CALVES OMG A RARITY.
originally priced at $350.00, marked down and down and down to $149.99, and then 60% off for the post-christmas sale.
grand total – $60.00 even. minnesota doesn’t have tax on clothing – which is the BEST reason to live there.
gift cards made my purchase come down to $30. color me HAPPY.
my sister ended up with a white michael kors leather bomber jacket that wasn’t on sale enough in my eyes and that she’ll probably only wear twice. she’ll learn one day.
did you do any post-holiday shopping? any steals?
kitchen confidential
Posted by: cavyfc on: January 5, 2010
confession: cooking is definitely not my favorite thing to do.
it’s not that i find it boring or housewifey or anything like that. i’ve just never really HAD to, i guess. growing up with a chef for a mother meant one of two things for dinner – either a delicious and nutritious home-cooked feast or the handing over of a credit card and a “have dad order a pizza for you and the kids, honey!”
the college i went to has a cafeteria consistently ranked in the nation’s top 10, and i had a meal plan. working nights in reno meant lots of lean cuisines and subway sandwiches. new york city meant eating out with colleagues or clients. milwaukee and normal hours meant bringing salads for lunch and anything quick for dinner, whether that meant mac & cheese or grabbing chinese on the way home.
it’s also not that i don’t know how. i can whip up cilantro-lime shrimp or thai chicken satays or mushroom risotto. they might not be super perfect, but they taste good.
one of the goals for my time here in saratoga was to cook more. i decided that since this is a six-month gig instead of the threes that i was used to made it a good time to really dig in and make time for the kitchen. l-more is leaving me at the end of this month, so i’ll have even more free time.
backed by inspiration i found in darling lemmonex‘s recipe bank, i decided that at MINIMUM, i would make something i’d never made before once a week. when i left milwaukee at the end of october, i told my parents this. they surprised me at christmas with a full-size Kitchenaid food processor. HECK YES!
last night i made kylaroma‘s french onion soup. EASIEST, MOST DELICIOUS THING EVER.
thursday i’m going to attempt enchiladas. sim is letting me take over his laundry room and wants dinner in exchange. i can’t turn down free laundry – i just can’t. wish me luck!
so let’s give it up for the new year.
Posted by: cavyfc on: January 4, 2010
bet you’re sick of that kitty cat, huh?
here’s the deal.
your lover and mine Lilu is working with helping doing everything for me on a new self-hosted domain and layout design.
it’s gonna be mega sweet, but… it’s gonna be a few weeks, people. sometimes a beautification process takes time – just ask pauly d.
in the meantime, happy new year!
my resolution is to start being more responsible. here’s to savings accounts and no more credit cards. CHEERS!
i’ll be there with bells on. LITERALLY.
Posted by: cavyfc on: December 11, 2009
let’s all drink and be merry, shall we?
yes, i’m descending down on DC this weekend with the famous l-more. i’ll see you all there!
my mother has asked me to send her some options for christmas card photos. since my brother is off at school and i’m 1000 miles away and couldn’t get home for thanksgiving, there isn’t a big time window to take a family picture anymore. she’s decided i need to send a picture from each place i’ve been this year.
because obviously i should get 4 pictures on the card and everyone else just one. duh.
so i’m combing through my iphoto and trying to find something remotely normal that the 150 or so people receiving these cards (woman is CRAZY) won’t find offensive. yanno, for my parents’ sake. that unfortunately means no war paint, alcohol, or tiger hands.
LAME, i know.
among the bajillions of pictures i need to reorganize, i found this gem:
that’s right, my high school girlfriends and i are AWESOME. we made a music video to “hey baby” by no doubt during the summer after graduation.
those ensembles are a jumble of old dance costumes, halloween accessories, and random shit found around minnie’s house. i’m about 98% sure that i had the first verse and had my segment in the kitchen, using a ladle and wooden spoon to drum on the stovetop burners.
i believe i’ve seen only seen the video in its entirety all of one time.
must.
get.
copy.
any of you ever make a music video?
is it on youtube?
please send me the link kthxbai.
day 3 and 4
Posted by: cavyfc on: December 5, 2009
day 3 – black friday
we have to work until noon, meaning i spend the entire four hours of my workday decorating for the kids’ holiday party and painting a fake fireplace. at noon, i meet sim and hub at the stadium cafe for lunch, and we order big burgers and pints.
when hub goes to the bathroom, sim tells me that while he hasn’t spent a lot of time with hub in the last year, he doesn’t remember him ever being like this around people he hasn’t met before. and that he wants to officiate our wedding. i roll my eyes, but inside i giggle like an idiot.
hub comes back, we eat, thunder and l-more join us for beer round 3, and two hours later we’re pretty much rolling ourselves down the busy black friday street to get back to our cars.
l-more and i shop for a few hours, grab a quick dinner, and head back home. later we head over to sim’s for margaritas and card games. flirting with hub continues, but i begin to notice he’s acting a little differently than he has been, like more put off. i shrug it off and we leave.
at home, l-more says she thinks hub was acting weird. i agree and we spend an hour overanalyzing every possible detail about everything that has gone on since hub arrived. the only conclusion we come to is that something was off and we can’t put our finger on it.
day 4 – saturday
sim and hub go hiking early in the morning. we meet up with them in lake george later that afternoon and browse the little gift shops for an ornament (for me) and a stuffed lake george moose (for l-more). the boys are both unusually quiet.
we head to the chinese buffet (because who doesn’t love that?!) and pig out. things seem to be back to the way they were and i forget about the earlier oddness.
later, l-more tells me it’s tonight or never, since hub leaves in the morning. we made our way to the parting glass, only to find it empty except for two bartenders and a lonely-looking man at the end of the bar. we hang in the back room, drinking and playing darts. l-more pulls me into the bathroom with her and attempts a pep talk. we get back to the table, she starts hinting to sim that they should leave us alone again, and when he stammers with an “uhh…i don’t know…” hub asks what’s going on. l-more has had enough and goes “i’m trying to get sim over here to play darts at the other board so you two can have your own time.”
at that moment, hub’s face becomes a field of utter confusion, and he looks back and forth from me to sim to l-more and is silent. l-more asks what’s up, and he goes:
“well, maybe if i wasn’t gay.”
WHAT?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
sim chimes in: “yeah, he told me on the hike today.”
hub: i could have sworn i had mentioned it earlier.
me, l-more: UMMMM, NO!
color me red-cheeked and shocked into silence. and if it wasn’t bad enough, @jenniferalaine and i were plotting conquests via text during this exact moment. my text was this: “haha yeah i bet OMG OMG OMG HUB JUST SAID HES GAY OMG OMG DYING NOW WHAT”
we’re so damn similar that WE EVEN BOTH LIKE GUYS.
this is the part where i repeat the same general idea in different types of wording: go effing figure. story of my life. another one bites the dust.
rule 1 in my dating book now reads: must have an affinity for vaginas.
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