I feel future-less and disappointed.

salads to remember

Antipasti Salad with artichoke, red peppers, chick peas, fennel, and Parmesan shavings [via] the Food Network -I'd get one of those fancy cheese shavers just for this!

Warm Beet and Lentil Salad with Goat Cheese [via] the Food Network - this looks amazing!

salad obsession

I never thought I'd say this and I partly hate myself for saying it, but I'm beginning to love salads. I don't just love them like I like the color the leaves turn in the fall and how pretty they look - red, yellow, and ocre - spread out on the ground, I really, really love them. I am obsessed, completely obsessed.

I always thought of myself as someone who'd rather have a plate of grilled vegetables and a chunk of cheese before committing to the cold leaves and tangy flavor of most salads. I would say I'd rather have a sandwich with nothing but tomato in it than have a salad. However, I am slowly starting to realize that there's more to salads than romaine, grilled chicken, and cider vinegar. It all started this spring in Ireland, where I had the most delicious goat cheese and caramelized onion salad. The goat cheese was salty and strong and the onion was sweet and gooey; they complemented the bitter leaves so well.

This fall, I am bent on kicking old habits and eating healthy. Salads twice a day. You'd think I'd hate them by now, but the love is only beginning to grow.

Today:
Chick peas, dried cranberries, red onions, olives, grilled portobello mushrooms, red peppers, eggs, feta crumbles, and tuna on a bed of iron-filled spinach.

Yesterday:
Chick peas, beets, dried cranberries, red onions, olives, grilled portobello mushrooms, tofu, and a balsamic vinaigrette on a bed of spring mix.

facelift

After a month of thinking and germinating ideas of what this blog needs for me to finally feel like I can write on here on a semi-regular basis, I have settled on a Nathan Farb image of Jim Morrison (in all his ghost-like splendor) to grace my blog. I needed to go back to the basics after a long and successful stint with Lulu from Pandora's Box. Invocations is a reference to a Jim Morrison song and I say this because it does come from his "solo" poetry album with music by The Doors, An American Prayer.

This feels like what it's supposed to. Let's see if this keeps me coming back.

Looking to give this blog new direction. Maybe I'll start writing fiction: my first love. Or maybe poetry. I remember when I enjoyed writing poetry. I also remember when I started to think it was stupid. Either way, this is getting a much needed facelift.

Sweden vs. Ghetto

Is rap music always much more ~culturally relevant~ when a white girl from Sweden sings it?

You be the judge.

"My Life" by JJ



VS.

"My Life" by The Game ft. Lil Wayne



So $obsessed$ with this song.

thoughts on tildes

i 'feel' like changing my 'name' on facebook to this: ~

it may describe me more than anythin' else out thurr.