How to say "cat" in different languages:

Mandarin: mao
Spanish: gato
Japanese: neko
French: chat
Italian: gatto
Polish: kot
Afrikaans: kat
German: katze

If I was rich...

If I was rich, I wouldn't want a really big house for serveral reasons. 1) I get scared really easily and a big house would have many of dark corners and have strange noises that echo a lot. 2) There would be lots to clean and I wouldn't hire a housekeeper because I don't believe in having someone else clean my messes. 3) I don't like to be wasteful and the materials used to build all those extra rooms would yeah... simply be wasteful. Plus it'd take a lot of energy to heat and cool the house. However, what I would do is travel all over the world. I'd also eat out whenever I want. Thanks to Restaurant Week I was able to sort of afford "EN" tonight and while I was eating I kept thinking how nice it would be to go to nice places more often. Pretty much everytime I go out and have a wonderful meal I feel like the luckiest girl in the world. But for now, I'll be happy with my pizza, falafel and 50% off sushi.

I'm so happy!

I notice the happier I get, the more I notice how unhappy other people are and I feel really sorry for them. But when I'm totally unhappy, I want to slap that stupid smile off a happy person's face. Lately I've been really happy. It's not like anything really great has happened. I think I'm just making a conscious effort to be happy. It's funny that it's that simple. When I'm happy, the usual things that would annoy me, simply don't annoy me and then I get even happier. So I really hope I look back on this post and instead of wishing I was happy, I'd smile and remember when it all started. This post is probably lame but at this point I don't care what anyone thinks. Why? Well, this is my blog and I can write whatever the fuck I want. And because I do whatever fuck I want, I'm including a random photo of heart-shaped biscuits I made.

Thank you Rachael.

I finally got my Keurig coffeemaker courtesy of the Rachael Ray show. It is WONDERFUL. I've tried to stop drinking coffee at various points in my life but I'm okay with my addiction now. Coffee is better than smoking, binge drinking and drugs right? The best part of the coffeemaker is that everytime I use it, I remember that I actually won something which leads me to the belief that anything is possible. That's a belief I really need right now. I'm kind of at a crossroads in my life... I am pretty sure which direction I'm going but I can't help but freak out and wonder if I'm going to be okay and if everything is going to work out... but who would have thought I'd actually win something on national television... so yes...anything is possible!

Snow

I love it when it snows. I especially love walking through it late at night, all alone...it's like the world was put on mute in the best possible way...romantic, peaceful, magical. Maybe I'm not as much of a California girl as I thought.

Funny

Someone asked me why I like improvisation so much and I couldn't really give them a solid answer. So on my way home from seeing an awesome Harold by Badman tonight at UCB I started to really think about it... and it really just comes down to the fact that I love to make people laugh. It's kind of ironic considering that people always see me as shy and quiet when they first meet me (because I am) and that the only people who I ever let loose around are those closest to me. I guess performing improv. is my way of letting all that funny out. I have all these crazy thoughts, silly ideas and random shit that's always at the tip of my tongue and it feels so good to just get it all out there into the universe.

New year... new blog...

Since I've been doing a lot of writing lately, I thought it'd be helpful for me to blog on a regular basis. I just need a place to write with no pressure, no expectations and let whatever is on my mind come out. It's kind of like warming up my brain I guess. I'm a fan of fresh starts so I deleted all my weirdo posts from the past 2 years. Some people believe how you spend your New Years Eve determines how the following year will be... so this year I spent the evening eating delicious Japanese food at Robataya with M... turned red from having one glass of champagne... falling asleep while watching "MacGruber" and waking up at 12:10am. Based on that chain of events I think my year will be filled with eating delicious food, getting good sleep and laughing... not sure where the turning red from champagne part fits in... and since I woke up at 12:10am and missed watching the ball drop I better be careful not to be late in 2011.

Here is a photo of my favorite dish of the night: Aspara Bou!

Happy New Year!