Against Me!

Last night we went to a sold out Against Me! show in Gainesville, FL. I have never been so drenched from a show as last night. The crowd was singing along to every word and it was absolutely nuts. Even my fingers were pruney. However, I FORGOT EARPLUGS!!! My right ear has been ringing off the hook all day. Really hope it gets better tomorrow :-/ Marc is playing a show tonight and there is NO WAY I will forget earplugs. I'm going to buy a bunch to keep in my car. Ringing ears is awful.

However, a great remedy for feeling not-so-awesome is spaghetti, covered in nutritional yeast!! I absolutely love these vegan cheesy flakes of heaven plus many brands contain B12. No 'real bread' for garlic bread? No sweat, had some hotdog buns hanging around so baked them up in the toaster oven! Just olive oil, garlic, italian seasonings, and a sprinkle of daiya. Voila!

And look! I'm wearing shorts!!!! I have been shorts-phobic for years but I'm finally breaking lose. Some awesome leopard print sure does help. Plus check out my awesome shirt from Deadworry on Etsy. They have a TON of cute shirts that are all on my birthday/christmas list. Check them out!!

Hope you're having a good week! KEEP YOUR EARS SAFE!! Remember earplugs

Kristi(E)

I'm here! I'm here!

We have been doing some MAJOR Spring? Summer? well, CLEANING around this house!! Rearranged the living room so we could fit our bikes in here, rearranged the bedroom, cleaned up the bathroom (ever increasing amount of stuff under the sink), scrubbed down the kitchen, etc. I am also getting rid of BOXES of clothes. I really don't know how I came into ownership of so much stuff!! Most of it is from years ago and I just never got rid of it. I've been much pickier with my purchases as I get older and money gets tighter but that has totally worked in my favor. No more of those wear once and then shove in the back of the closet shirts. I've also been sewing up the clothes I DO want but don't wear because they're too big. I'll post some pictures of those on here soon.

Yesterday I made these oat-based veggie patties from a packet:

You just added water, formed them into patties and cooked. They were VERY seasoned but when eaten with the fresh lettuce, avocado, and tomato, they were very tasty! I also used the rest of the avocado to make some guacamole. My new favorite add-in is Taco Bell's Verde sauce!! That way I don't have to have lime on hand and just throw it in! Perfect.

We also recently went to Gainesville (Rock City) to see Crass's "Last Supper" Tour. It was really awesome. The chick they got to sing the female-led songs was totally rad. Went to Karma Cream (twice, of course):

How cute! I always see these at Whole Foods but they're never vegan!! Little chocolate cup with mocha mousse inside, etc. Delicious!! And, TOFURKEY RUBENS! These were amazing. Who knew I'd eat sauerkraut?

Gonna make some tea and scoot on over to work. What a waste of a Saturday!!

Hope your weekend is free of w-o-r-k.

Kristi(E)

this past weekend

I still never made the mandarin chicken with rice!! I'm totally going to do that tonight.

Saw Against Me! Saturday night in Gainesville followed by a 'secret' Off With Their Heads show. Went to Boca Fiesta and I think Marc almost peed his pants over the fact that Warren Oakes (previously of against me) served us our food. I got veggie stirfry w/ vegan queso burrito and Marc got a tempeh taco and a fried okra taco...mine came with two sides, jalapeno corn bread and these mashed sweet potatoes (mixed in with reg. potatoes) it was all delicious!! plus bottomless nachos and salsa. My phone was dead all night so I didn't get pictures :( but I have a picture from Karma Cream!!


half cookie dough/half lemon cream icecream and marc got this agave almond cupcake and later (yeah we went back at like 3am right when they were closing) he got a vanilla chai cupcake! oh, and they had those vegan candybars..


Since Marc was driving home til 5/6 am he slept in while I went to work Sunday. Then at night .. in the dark .. for some reason .. some people played a very shortlived game of football. *shrugs and Frances and I talked about roller derbying!! I would totally love to but I don't think I want to be susceptible to that much pain, or have time to possibly put anything extra on my plate..but roller derbiers* are hawt!



I spent over an hour cleaning the bathroom this morning and another hour + cleaning our room. *phew, now to just keep it this way!!! Oh well, back to cleaning (and watching Harry Potter, of course.)



8O) Kristie

I also typed an entire menu and somehow deleted all but this of it:
saturday
I have the day off so I figure we'll be out and about and find something to eat.

sunday
I open but.. leftovers!?
I would also love to try to make these raspberry chocolate chip blondie bars.

monday
Closing, of course.. 2-9:30.
breakfast: might try the pancake in a mug recipe!
lunch: pizza--I still have some cheese left from our huge trip to Whole Foods
dinner: may try my hand at grilled tofu again if it came out well! (I really haven't done a lot with my own tofu and really need to start!) withh, a spinach salad and maybe some roasted potatoes/carrots

UGH! redo:

so.. tuesday was: dining services is doing a cooking demo so i'm skipping breakfast and driving up there early to eat lunch.
dinner: mushroom and sundried tomato rissoto w/ grilled tofu

wednesday
Work 3:30-9:30
breakfast: waffles
lunch: chili
dinner: beef stroganoff w/ roasted potatoes and vegetables

thursday
class 12:30-4:45 w/ meeting at 6 so home around 8
breakfast: probably toast w/ cinnamon and sugar or pb/banana/agave
lunch: leftover chili
dinner:

friday:
work 2:30-9:30
breakfast: blueberry scones
lunch: stuffed shells
dinner: the rest of the stuffed shells w/ garlic bread!

Happy New Year!

I'm supposed to be blogging more often (well, everday so I said)...but I can recount the past two days in this post and take it from there. How about my other resolutions? Well, I need to pick a song to learn on guitar this week. I haven't bit my nails in daaays!! (yes, I have to keep them painted though, for now.) The only thing I've bought is Taco Bell but this morning I'm going to need gas.
My house is still clean, have to make a menu today, and work on SPEAK stuff tomorrow. hoorah!

New Year's Eve/Day (they played at midnight) we saw the Dead Kennedys!! It was a really awesome show. Although, they only played for an hour (Marc said last time they played for two!)


Then our first meal of the year, as well as fifth:

soooo good, I am addicted to Taco Bell!

So, New Year's Day AND yesterday I worked :-/ Last night we went and watched this movie with a few friends:

I had seen it before..it's okay but I'm still kinda partial to Inside Man (I think) in regards to the whole robbery type of movie-I mean, they just seemed to be kinda reaching for the whole "reason" John Travolta did what he did..it was okay but kinda weird.

I guess I've accomplished Movie Monday, even though it wasn't in-depth. Here, I'll mention another movie I recently watched:

Ira & Abbey, I thought it was really cute and it used a scene from Harvey (an older movie I really like)..the quote is something like "In this world you can either be smart or pleasant..I used to be smart, now I choose to be pleasant." Take it on the surface, not to mean be a complete idiot but when watching the movie it really makes sense for the characters. It's a pretty cute romcom but pretty real also. I mean, well, I won't give it away :-P


Tomorrow is "Tasty Tuesday" on my blog. Can't wait!!! These are just themes to get me started and to make sure I'm blogging and mixing it up, may drop them, change things around in the future.

Hope your first Monday of 2011 isn't as dreadful as some Mondays like to be!

-Kristie

I'm back! (from GA)

Okay, for starters I found the best gourmet-type vegan restaurant in Atlanta! It is called Cafe Sunflower:

We almost didn't find it. I had looked up 'vegan restaurants in georgia' and found the menu for it which looked irresistible. vegan lasagna!? Yes, please. I called one number and it was a fax or something, my GPS would NOT find the address and when I called the other number noone picked up. I tried again a little later and finally!...an answer w/ directions. We later find out that they close for a few hours between lunch and dinner so I guess that's why I couldn't get through.

We got two appetizers, two meals, two teas, and two desserts as follows:

Sampler Box containing spring rolls w/ sweet-n-sour sauce, hummus w/ pita bread and veggies, soy nuggets, i can't remember what those things are called you get in like wonton? soup, and stuffed mushrooms. DELISH!

fried green tomatoes! with hummus in between them, SO DELICIOUS!

Marc got this, some kind of lemon crusted tempeh w/ mashed potatoes and veggies

I got this eggplant orzo lasagna w/ tofu ricotta!!

These delicious sugar and caffeine free all-natural tea.

and two pieces of pie!! Peanutbutter (front) Chocolate (back)

We asked for a dessert menu and they literally brought out a tray of pie slices to choose from!! ALL VEGAN! I was in heaven and teared up on the inside. Some of the other pies were chocolate raspberry, carrot, coconut creme?, strawberry shortcake.. but my mind was set on peanutbutter!!!

So why Georgia? ...to see this man!

aka Billie Joe Armstrong! Whom, sources tell me, is totally veg! They are Marc's favorite band and we got a guitar pick and one of tre's drumsticks so that was awesome. Two days before this we went to an 8-hour ska show called the Mass Ska Raid at the Masquerade, get it? and.... they had tofurkey kilbasa and boca burgers!! SCORE!! It was only $4 for two kilbasas and a bag of chips. The same price as two cheap hotdogs and a bag of chips :) I thought that was awesome. In between this, we went to a place called Little 5 Points with our friend Mike. Him and his wife were gracious enough to let us stay at their house while we were up there. (THANKS!) We went to this restaurant (the name is escaping me) and they had really awesome veggie chili, burgers, zucchini chips, sweet potato fries, tater tots, etc.etc.

All in all, a very good trip!! On the way back to FL we stopped in Gainesville to get some icecream and a cupcake, brownie, and cookie from Karma Cream!! It used to be 24 hours but I think right now they close down for a bit at around 2:30AM? Not sure..there was some kind of sign on the door but I slightly ignored it due to the fact that I LOVE their icecream. I got toffee w/ vegan whipped cream and vegan hot chocolate fudge :) Marc got a chocolate & pumpkin shake. So good!

Oh, we also saw that Will Ferrell movie "The Other Guys." I thought it was a lot better than the trailer made it seem, so no disappointments! Also got a Rat Fink doll and a Tank Girl comic book!! hehe.

I really need to figure out how to do my own layout on this thing, as a side point.

So we got back Wednesday at 1/2AM. Interned that day.. I ate my leftover lasagna :) and made my favorite 'beefless' beef tips w/ noodles and gravy for dinner, started reorganizing the house (trying to get this done before school starts up--11 days!)

Today I worked 11-8 and literally ate an entire dish of nacho dip for lunch and dinner. I'm addicted!!! Tofutti now makes a sourcream & guacamole together. I actually bought in on accident but it tastes SO good with salsa. I always thought normal sourcream was kinda nasty but the tofutti one is so addicting!! It has the same taste except without the gross feeling of eating curdled milk. Just mixing that with salsa is good enough..with some daiya cheddar cheese on top. Refried or black beans are always good as another layer and you can make veggie crumbles with taco seasoning for meat. mmm I love vegan taco nights!

I went through all of my nail polishes and threw away the ones that weren't good anymore. I then went on to paint them pink with white polka dots! I love painting my nails (which I happened to stop biting while in Georgia). It's weird because the last time I stopped biting them was when I went up to South Carolina and when school was starting and here we are--vacation and school is starting!! Coincidence?

I rearranged the furniture in the living room maybe two weeks ago. It seems so much larger and inviting-like a living room should feel! The record player is now in a corner on my old tv stand and all of our records (currently) fit on the shelf below it. The guitar stand even has its own space. I actually spend time in here and can even have boardgame nights after the redo. Hooray!

That's all to report, intern again tomorrow. Work Saturday and Sunday.