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Challah = Holla! March 22, 2011

Filed under: Family,Food — Kelocity @ 7:14 pm
Tags: Family, Food

For some reason, whenever anyone says ‘Challah’, I always want to yell “Holla!”

Irving and I had a lunchtime date at Costco today. Oh, the life of the adult, huh? We picked up a lovely loaf of Challah, and I just think it looks so pretty!

This gorgeous bottle of Moscato also ended up in my cart. I don’t know how it happened!

It’s from Israel! My Jewish mother-in-law would be proud. I can’t wait to open this up. A bottle of red wine will stay half full in our house for a couple of weeks. But Moscato, Ice Wine or Chardonnay? 2 days, flat! We’re total wine-o’s. (hahaha, that’s not really true, but I do love really sweet wine!)

I went out on a 3-mile walk after work tonight. I love how clear the sky is after the rain in Los Angeles. On the way out I grabbed a Hunk-O-Challah! I kept chanting that in my head “hunk o’ challah, hunk o’challah”.

I chatted with my sister for the entire three miles. She just finished up another semester of grad school. GO, LAURIE!

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Angry Clouds March 21, 2011

Filed under: Happy — Kelocity @ 1:39 pm

According to the National Weather Service, Downtown Los Angeles received record rainfall with 2.42 inches of rain, breaking the 1943 record of 1.48 inches for March 20.

That’s a lot of rain. It looks like Armageddon out my window today. Those are some angry clouds!

I think LA is pretty during the rainy season. Lush, green and alive. I’m sure all the bushes will be turning brown and dead soon enough when the temps hit 100*+, but for now, I’m enjoying my rain.

I really wish I had a great pair of rainboots to puddle jump in.

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Blogger Meetup: Pizza Party!

Filed under: Blogging,Cooking — Kelocity @ 6:29 am
Tags: Bloggers, Cooking, Food, harry potter, Meetup, Pizza

Saturday night, Kaitlin hosted an LA Blogger meetup at her place and it was pretty awesome.

The group included Kaitlin, Amanda and Andy, Katherine, and Melissa .

And in true Blogger Fashion, the food was amazing.

We had a make your own pizza concept, with no topping spared!

Katherine is a pro and taught us all how to properly stretch out the dough (the key is to keep adding flour)!

And spreading olive oil on the dough before the sauce and toppings makes it crunchy! YUM!

We made four mini pizzas to share. They were all gorgeous. I love when food looks like art.

I love cheese. Lots of cheese… and garlic. MMm!

I put the Broccoli on this bad boy. I just bring so much talent to the foodie world.

Served with a really good salad (and Newman’s Own Dressing of course!)

Blogger friends –> Real friends! You won’t meet a nicer bunch of people.

Melissa made dessert. Peanut Butter Chocolate chip cookies, and a peanut butter coffee cake!

I’m not a big Harry Potter fanatic, but if you hang out with these guys long enough, you’ll become one through osmosis. lol

We also watched the Rebecca Black music video Friday a few times. You should watch it. It’s addicting.

Such a fun night, great food and new friends.

Photo from twobooswhoeat.com !

Thanks for hosting, Kaitlin!

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Soaked to the Core

Filed under: Dining Out,Family,Food,Galaxy — Kelocity @ 1:00 am

Irving and I had all kinds of Sunday plans. We had a to-do list (of course) of fun stuff and some chores stuff. But all of it got de-railed by the rain. We used to always make fun of Los Angeles residents who cancel their plans when it rains (it’s just rain, guys!) But this weekend, we totally became those people.

We scrapped our plans to attend the LA Travel Expo and spent the day in our office rewiring, rearranging and cleaning up our electronics. We’re such nerds, you have no idea. Irving even vacuumed the inside of my computer. If that’s not the dorkiest thing you’ve ever heard, what is? haha

All that geek stuff worked up an appetite and I enthusiastically tore open these new gems from Trader Joes. Dark Chocolate. Vanilla. Caramels.

Irving exclaimed “it’s like three of your favorite things all together!” Yes, husband, you are correct. They were awesome.

Later, we headed down to the South Bay to go see the LA Galaxy home opener game. They were playing the New England Revolution and it’s sort of become a tradition to see the two teams play!

It was POURING out though, they gave everyone ponchos, but just running from the car to the stadium left me soaked to the core. The poncho was no match for the weather today!

Oh well, we made the most of it, and it actually ended up being a really great game.

Irving listens to the broadcasts and hears all the stats and commentary…
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And I spent the entire 90 minutes trying to get a good picture of David Beckham (Priorities!)

In the end, we tied 1-1.

Then it was time to brave the rain again to trek back to the car. My jeans were soaked to the thigh by the time we got there. Gross.

PS… why are my eyes two different sizes there?

Even though we were soaked, my uncle was in town and wanted to go out and do something fun.

We ended up having dinner at BJs Brewery and it was awesome. I had a great soup/salad combo, but I was totally saving room for the main event: The Pazooki!