mum

at least...

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the at least list...
{the happy list's cynical younger sibling}


1. at least i woke up at 7:45 and not 6:45
2. at least i got four hours of sleep and not three hours  of sleep
3. at least it's all for the good cause of teaching little kiddies
4. at least i have a shiny new starbucks card with which i will purchase a pumpkin spice latte on the way to school.
5. at least i can sleep in tomorrow
6. at least i have tap class today
7. at least i got a sweet care packeege from mum yesterday that had a lot of cool nail polish
8. at least i might have time to actually paint my nails sometime, late november
9. at least halloween is coming up and at least i have a SWEET costume planned out
10. at least six people might actually understand my costume



in other words, it is way to early for me to be up on a weekend.

woe. IS ME!


xoxo


oh i luv you all


yeh



life adventures fund

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i had a beautiful day off in miami last week...

it involved waking up at noon, going to the beach, wearing my floppy sun hat, lying in the sun, listening to les noces, and daydreaming about the future. 

the future is one of the best things in the world because everything can be as perfect as you want it to be!!

on this particular day, the future involved a lot of adventures. i like adventures...a lot a lot. 
i dreamt up all of the ultimate adventures i could take in my life and wondered how and when i would actually get to take them. so i thought of an idea: 

the molly life adventures fund
(referred to hereafter as the LAF)


the details of how i add to the fund have yet to be determined, but as i'm making a little bit of a salary this year, i gather i can add bits and pieces to my fund and over time have enough to make some pretty strong adventuring happen. (mum wants my savings to go to a down payment on a house for when i grow up. but what good is settling down in a house if you haven't done enough cool things to merit settling down yet? i guess we can negotiate a happy medium, mum). 

adventures that i will take using the LAF:

a dumpling tour of the world
samosas in india
potstickers in china
gnocchi in italy
pierogies in poland
knödeln in germany

yoga in india

cooking classes in italy

learning things about my roots in china and hungary

carnivale in brazil 

something in paris... i don't know what yet. maybe just finding the best croissant? 



those are the adventures that i've dreamed up so far... i'll add more as they come...



xoxo


yeh





SCHNITZEL TRUCK

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mum and i do this thing where we tend to eat a TON of wiener schnitzel. and by wiener schnitzel, i mean chicken schnitzel (we like to think we're being healthy-ish this way  (but let's get real, it's fried meat)).  it's this total obsession that we have. 

i'll fly home and mum will be like, "aww you must have had a long day of traveling, you need a schnitzel." 

or something terrible will happen like ikea ran out of all their swedish meatballs, and mum will be like, "hmmm.. only a schnitzel can cure this." 

or something happy will happen like we found the perfect shoes and the only appropriate celebration will be schnitzel. 

there's simply nothing better than a schnitzel.

our fave place in chicago is kuhn's. 


i mean, imagine my surprise when i moved to new york and a good schnitzel on the upper west side was nowhere to be found.

but guess what? I FOUND IT (with the help of mum's savvy tweeting skillz). 


the schnitzel and things truck, based in brooklyn, just happened to be on its little way up the island at the same time that i was leaving school today. so, i mean, naturally, i had to try it (can we please ignore the fact that i piggied out on tortas and horchatas last night?)

it parked right in front of gray's papaya. my nose was confused. 

i bounced up to the truck and started to tell the brotha workin it all about how excited i was to finally have a schnitzel and how i've been waiting for it to drive up here for months and how my mom who tweets.. blah blah blah, and when i realized he didn't give a shit, i ordered my chicken schnitzel sandwich. with pesto mayo and ginger/scallion/garlic relish. oh. and yukon gold fries. oopsies. 

it was so good. 

it was a different experience from the sit down with mum, which always involves spaetzle and paprika sauce.

but it was fried just right, the bread was fresh and delicious, and the sauces were amazing. perfect texture, perfect seasoning, perfect everything. oy vey. and the fries? oh snap. pommes frites, you've got competition. 

needless to say, i am satisfied.

go schnitzel truck!!! 


oh if only writing my paper tonight could be as easy as writing an essay on schnitzel. 

xoxo


yeh

apartment painting is finally (FINALLY) finished!

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i've always wanted a red door...



{fun things with chalkboard paint}

purple bathroom!
door to my bathroom with chalkboard people... 
{so roomie and i can dress them and draw faces and stuff}

chalkboard paint in purple bathroom :-)

{living room. roomie making reeds.}


isn't roomie a good drawer??



some shots from the long and treacherous process...

my room matches meester gnome perfectly!

pictures of my room to follow... once i get in my sweet gold curtains and the look is complete...



yay painting is finished painting is finished yayayayayyyyy!!!!!!

it only took us about a week...

and it reminded me of the time when mum and i painted her room at old house. 

when she wasn't looking, i dropped trow and put a butt print on the wall in wet paint. 

teehee. 




xoxo


yeh