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Yesterday my Gma took me out to my second favorite restaurant in the KC area. In case you are in KC or will be visiting KC, here is a list of my top favorite restaurants here. (They are my favorites for not only amazing food but ambiance/atmosphere as well.) 1. Lulu's Thai Noodles Thai food in a cool urban style building. I love their panang curry, chicken satay, and pad thai tofu. 2. Andre's This is a Swiss Confiserie. They have changing daily specials though always have the option of a quiche lorain. Their desserts are to die for (ie rum diamond or napoleons) and their mango tea is killer. 3. Korma Sutra This is an Indian cuisine restaraunt, with the option of a buffet at certain times of the day. I love love love their Gosht korma, naan and mango lassi. 4. Arthur Bryants This is one of KC's finest barbeque spots. I like the burnt ends and fries. 5. Cupini's Cupini's makes amazing fresh pasta every day from scratch. Their spicy mozzarella balls will put hair on yo...

Holy smokes, I have been running around like crazy and am so so so worn out. Wednesday- 9:00AM-Go to work. Noon- Dig out weeds from old sand volleyball court for upcoming youth event (the sand was so hard it was like concrete) 1:00PM- Be a pansy about blisters 4:00PM- Come home 5:30PM- Go back to work for meeting 7:00PM- Go to church 9:00PM- Come home 9:00-Midnight- Organize for garage sale 12:30AM- Go to bed Thursday- 5:30AM- Wake up 6:00AM- Get up 6:30AM- Set-up garage sale 8:00AM- Open garage sale to public 9:00AM- Go to work 4:00PM- Come home 5:00PM- Finish up garage sale 6:00PM- Pack up garage sale 6:30PM- Go over to Kreiling's home for dinner 9:30PM- Come home 10:00PM- Coma Friday- 6:00AM- Wake up/ Get up 6:30AM- Set-up garage sale 8:00AM- Open garage sale to public 9:00AM- Go to work 4:00PM- Come home 5:00PM- Finish up garage sale 6:00PM- Pack up garage sale 7:00PM- Collect finished cookbooks from Jeff and Vivian (Woohoo! I have several finished products!) 9:00PM- Watch weir...

I thought I would just mention that I was all about the peaches today. I had several forms of them, canned, jarred, baked, jammed and artificial. I had homemade peach jam on toast for breakfast, made warm peach dumplings with cold ice cream for dessert at lunch time, had peach tea from Quicktrip and finished the day with having peach jam in my oatmeal. Mmmm. So good. I wish I had photos to share but this morning was a little hectic and I wasn't thinking about taking pictures at the time. Speaking about Quiktrip drinks, since we had the 49 cent 32 oz drinks all summer I saved all my cups and I have been collecting other people's cups. Now I have a set of 14 or so and I plan on taking them with me to California so I have some cups I am not worried about messing up. And I found out today that you can put the cups, lids and straws in the dishwasher with no problem (though I don't believe I will have a dishwasher in LA, it is just good to know.) PS Unless you want to be visual...

It's a bird! Its a plane! Its my blog today! The above picture can be found on the Heading East blog (over on the right), I believe it is a picture of his sons playing around. I like it because it reminds me of my childhood when Nae and I would dress up as super heros. My gma Marrineau actually made a spandex mask and shoe coverings with wings on them to look like the Flash. Though I think the above picture is of them being Luchadors, I am not sure. It seems like this week had several (well maybe not several , but more than normal) super hero references. Starting with NPR's This American Life episode on Superpowers . Initially I thought the podcast was going to be about the world powers like China, Europe as a whole and America...etc. No, it was actually about people who believe or really really wish they had superpowers. Then I follow that up with watching Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World with Nae and my Dad. I love how they used typography in several shots and how they used vide...

First off, I would like to announce that I now have a place to live in Los Angeles! I wrote about it on my new "Chi Alpha" blog titled Becoming a Bruin (so if you want to see what I am up to ministry wise, just jump over there). I will be staying in a wonderful little guest house. It is pretty much the most perfect situation for me and I am beyond excited. I have slowly but surely started to prep for moving to LA. My mom found me some $.50 (yes that is cents) kitchen gadgets the other day. I now have a can opener, a liquid measuring cup, a colander and matching bowl and a couple spatulas. Also, the other day I soaked baby food jars in hot soapy water in hopes that the label emulsion would soften and peel off completely. I became impatient and scraped the rest off with my fingernails. After they dry completely I plan on filling them with the spices that I bought from the market. I haven't decided the best way to fill the jars... by spoon, funnel, straight up pouring......

Colors of the world Spice up your life Every boy and every girl Spice up your life People of the world Spice up your life Okay, enough of the Spice Girls. Though I did spice up my life yesterday, starting with the farmers market where I bought some amazing spices. They smell oh so good. Italian Spices Ginger Curry Turmeric Dill Poppy Seeds (spice?) Some of the essentials. They give you a heaping scoop and a half for only $1 which in the spice world is a steal. So I plan on doing some research this next week and finding out which spices are most expensive and then just buying them there. Though only spices I will actually use because if I spent money on something I won't use, you aren't actually saving money no matter how cheap it is. I spiced my hair up yesterday as well. I bit the bullet and did a more drastic style than I was planning. It is the shortest I have ever had my hair cut. Kind of a short haired Sienna Miller meets short haired Michelle Williams. It takes me a whil...

I dropped my computer off at Microcenter today because it has another crack in it for no apparent reason. Since they were supposed to fix this problem last month, they are fixing it for free as they did the first time since it was under warranty. Basically that means that I am on a different computer than usual. The keys are just enough off from what I am used to that I can't seem to write a single word without some typo. I would probably be better off typing on my own computer with mittens on while under the influence of a strong cough medicine. f';lxdfjhlksdfjgl;kjdsl;kjdfgj Anyways, when coming home from work yesterday I was surprised to find my mom had bought me some kitchen gadgets for my birthday. They are the basics like whisks, a cutting board, an apple cutter, measuring cups, a blender, knives, bamboo spoons nothing too fancy but amazing none the less. Having my gadgets plus taking the initiative to take my computer in, dropping off mail at the post office and stopping...

This weekend had a bit of a sad beginning in that our family cat passed away rather suddenly. Isabelle was a good and gentle kitty and we will all miss her dearly. Aside from our sad morning on Friday we started the weekend off right. We finished off our inner city VBS at Church of Hope Friday night (not including the closing party on Saturday morning). Let's not forget that during our VBS I had my first Churro (sooo good). Following the VBS I introduced my little sister (see photo below) to First Fridays. We then ended the day with Ocean's Eleven at Crown Center's Free Friday Night Flick. As I previously mentioned, we finished off our week of VBS with an exciting closing party Saturday morning. I met and had lunch with little Eduardo, Reggie, Precious, several Isabelles, Jennifer and few other cute munchkins and their parents. Saturday night I celebrated the engagement of my bestie, Jori along with her friends and family. It would be a great travesty if I did not mention...

The rumors you have heard are true, my cookbook is hot off the press from my brotha's place of work (well at least one is, so people can look at it to see if they want one). It's a beaut if I do say so myself. At the release of my cook book, I think of confetti falling from the skies, doves being released, cheers from every direction and my default celebratory song "It's Raining Men" being played on loud speaker and me being hoisted onto shoulders of people as we tambourine down the streets in a joyous parade. That is how excited I am. Drum roll please... I not only have the spiral bound cook books available, I also have the pdf version available. Oh yeah, it is also my birthday which has pretty much been amazing thanks to my dear family, friends and coworkers. Last night at the stroke of midnight I was serenaded and then sent off to bed. Upon arriving at my workplace this morning I was overwhelmed with good wishes, cards, a banner (note the banner hanging beh...

Why yes, I am spending my last day as a 23 year old in bed in a coma. Why you may ask? Well mainly because I was sleeping rather restlessly and my dreams were all weird and I realized I didn't feel well. So I woke up and was sick to my stomach. Let's just say I didn't know whether to sit in front of the toilet or on top of the toilet. Awful awful awful. After completely clearing my system of all comestibles I drank about half a glass of water that Nae brought me (evidently I woke him up... he sleeps in the basement). Then I felt pretty good and went back to bed. Then I woke up again 2 hours later, same story, on repeat. Awful, awful, awful. It was one of those nights where you felt okay about, no, more than okay but better by sleeping on the cold bathroom tiles (with a clean towel as a pillow ) just for safety's sake. Even though I am laying here and have not really gotten up all day, which sounds nice, it is not really redeemable for such a night. In fact I would rat...

Saturday I went to a show at a coffeehouse in Grandview. I really liked the venue, it was a split level, loft style with red painted wood floors. I love wood floors, I especially like painted wood floors though I think I would only paint my wood floors if they were in kind of bad condition. I even like it when the paint is worn down and is in just the wood grain and in the cracks. Beautiful. I would probably consider painting my wood floors in my imaginary house that I don't own...white, black, red or possibly kelly green. Also another cool part about the venue is that it shares a building with the Exodus Cry , an organization committed to bringing notice to and ending human trafficking and modern day slavery. I don't know much about the organization itself but their building looked interesting none the less. I really wish they were open while I was there so I could look at their products and information. Aside from all of this I was also introduced to Mumford and Sons music (...

My shoulders, glutes (also known as my butt) and upper back muscles in general are so sore. Yesterday a group of about 20 youth and youth sponsors met up at the plaza and played ultimate frisbee for a couple of hours. It was really fun and I surprisingly caught quite a few shots (though I missed my fair share, but I was excited none the less). My arm muscles are so weak to begin with. Sometimes my arm gets tired holding my phone to my ear and don't even get me started with the hair dryer. Though I don't think my arms and shoulders would hurt so bad if I hadn't played basketball on Thursday (correction, I lied, I didn't play an actual game of basketball I just played 7up and did free throw challenges). We took several students on a Tour De KC on Thursday. Our tour started off at the Sprint Center at the "College Basketball Experience" where they have a full court, and several caged off challenges (such as dunking, free throws...etc.) , information on college b...