...not that bad

So Rachel and I are sitting in my room, finishing up her airborne, and I was inspired to make a little twist on the traditional airborne recipe (shown on the left) which involves an airborne tablet and a cup of boiling water.

on the right, rose's birthday airborne cocktail:
1 airborne tablet
2oz pomegranate-flavored vodka
1/2 cup cold water
1/2 cup cranberry juice
sprinkle of lime juice
lots of rocks

alternate name - 'the mile high club'

:)
love ya'll, happy to see a good half of you this week, miss the other half dearly.

this boat is REAL

Hello all,
Yes, it was a busy weekend for 'hersters in Boston this weekend. Rachel and I were indeed on a boat with Chris and a bunch of Rach's friends, having some brewskies and generally being super fly...until we were boarded by the Coast Guard and searched for narcotics. We came up fine, and they got back in their armored boat (with an M-16!) and left. What else? Selena has already described the house party, and the next day Rachel, Chris and I all walked around Cambridge for a while. We caught Selena later and took her to Deep Ellum which is a bar named after some area of Texas.

Now, I'm at work (sad), but hoping to catch a ride with Rachel to a happy farm reunion next weekend.

I have recently been swearing off (too much) sugar, and therefore avoid sugary cereals and crap in the mornings EXCEPT FOR MY MOCHA, which I make myself with a half gallon Monin chocolate syrup (cafe quality!) that I ordered off the net. So every morning I make my coffee super strong in an upside-down italian this thing.

Then I froth some milk and add a pump of chocolate sauce and go crazy. But today, I didn't feel like coffee so I could still use a pump of chocolate sauce without breaking my sugar quota, which brings me to....
EXCITING BREAKFAST YOGURT
1 cup nonfat plain yogurt (keeping it healthy)
1 handful crispix healthy-for-you cereal
1 handful flaxseed flakes fiber tasteless cardboard cereal
1 pump chocolate sauce
.....if you have no sugar quota, may I suggest also adding chocolate chips, berries, granola, a crushed up brownie, a small birthday cake, and bacon grease.

love to all!

weekend in new york

This week has included some free modern art at the ICA which has a beautiful view of the harbor and free latin jazz concerts.
The featured exhibit was Shepard Fairey - the guy who did the 'Andre the Giant has a posse' stickers and a lot of other art that looks like advertising....so ironic man. The medium IS the message.

I also went to my first modern dance class in ages at Green Street Studios in Cambridge, which was fun, though I'm still in the market for a really good weekly.

Have found a ton of entertainingly useless websites on StumbleUpon.com, the most recent of which has been a food blog that is almost pornographically delicious-looking.
I also made this cake in a mug. Actually works!

Heading off to NYC tomorrow to visit Jenny and my good good friend from home who is moving to Germany. Have to wake up super super early tomorrow so that's it for me. Love to all.

entertainment across all forms of media, or hardcore leisure

Just finished Farenheit 451, being recently inspired to read those old classics that I managed to miss during high school. It's nice to have the time to do all of this catch up. I'm headed to the swap meet with Kevin (he visited Chaps, remember?) tomorrow.

Interesting events in recent memory include the San Diego County Fair, complete with adorable cows, goats, sheep, canopied kiosks of shops selling completely useless shit, and anything that has ever been fried. I actually saw a sign advertising a confection composed of two cookies forming the outer flanks for the following delicious filling, "cream cheese, strawberry jam, and CHICKEN" ...what the fuck. Not even I, nor Jess, would put chicken in the middle of a cookie and sweet goo sandwich. Not that it helps, but I believe it was fried chicken. The fair is a sick sick place.

Also, opened a twitter account (http://twitter.com/ultracricket) in order to follow the iran election, and have just now made my first post, so that if you click on the link, it won't be a silly empty page. Who knows, maybe i will become a 'tweeter', helplessly connected in a pool of peer consciousness, which is more and more starting to seem to me a miraculous and scary manifestation of the 'hive mind' which captivated my star trek adolescence. You know...the borg...RESISTANCE IS FUTILE...too nerdy?

Also yesterday watched Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey for the first time and it is SCARY AS FUCK. The scariest part of which is encapsulated by this youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1IPrx-zC1Y&feature=related
How scary is this scene out of context? Because after watching the entire movie, I wanted to crawl into a corner and cry softly. Man this video doesn't even have any of the HAL stuff. In other movie news, I agree with Rach, Up is lurvely.

Next week I'll get to tell you about my upcoming trip to Selena's crib in Dallas, and then it's back to Amherst for a quick hello and MOVE TO BOSTON. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh real life ahhhhhhhhhh....that is all.

exciting breakfast yogurt

Hi all, I'm doing my post early because I'm shipping out to LA today to go clubbing with my buds and then pick up Carms, to return Sunday!
I have been having some exciting culinary adventures. I successfully made RED bean brownies (or reddies, comrade) and they are NOT SHITTY!! However, in keeping with traditional rosie style, I have amended my Exciting Breakfast Yogurt Recipe. It is now slightly less unpleasant, but still not a terribly good idea:

1 cup yogurt
1 tbsp honey
1 packet instant coffee (here's where I start to go wrong...while better than actual grounds, this still doesn't really dissolve all the way...)
1 red bean brownie (totally a good idea)
1 tbsp granola (superfluous)
blueberries, raspberries, strawberries
garnish with cilantro (j/k, that's a TERRIBLE idea)

I'm getting pretty good at the rubix cube, although I still need the cheat sheet. Getting some good reading done, though not as quickly as I would like. All in all lots of lounging and trying to ignore the raucous elementary school that borders my apartment building. Excited to get some Carmella, especially because I'll be inspired to do fun things, and not be so lazy indoorsy. We will take lots of pictures, and put them up.

:)

chapman too

I can't wait for my day!
I am still here, getting ready to head out tomorrow. We are in this strange limbo period. It's like I haven't left yet...because I haven't. Graduation and all that hasn't hit me yet, maybe it will on the plane, maybe it will in thirty years when I have eight kids and I can't remember their names because I'm too busy wondering if I left my sheets here.
Selena's parents and Tony are chilling in the common room. Janitors and random people have been in and out, but none seem to have the authority or care to kick me and my shit out of my room.
I was contemplating a Rao's run to sit and sip coffee and have my last raspberry oat muffin, but instead decided to eat everything in the kitchen and make myself the Ethiopian Harrar that I purchased for the family brunch, which is from Rao's anyway.
I am waiting for the posts that begin with, "so now I'm in the tiny village of blank, thousands of miles away from any other civilization, and yet somehow I have a computer and can tell you of my hut-building adventures," but until that happens I will entertain you with a description of my breakfast.

Rosie's Last Hurrah Exciting Breakfast Yogurt

In a small bowl, mix thoroughly:
1 cup yogurt
1 spoonful ground ethiopian harrar coffee beans from Rao's
1 spoonful confectioner's sugar
1 spoonful 'Better n' Peanut Butter'
3 spoonfuls hot chocolate mix
garnish with frozen blackberries and shame

...honey might be good in this
also, eating straight coffee grounds is only mildly unpleasant and makes you pretty hyper immediately, very effective for a little morning jolt.
however, in the future, I would omit the peanut butter substitute, because not only is it unnecessary, but it also tastes like crap....live and learn right?

love you girls.