Poco-Cocoa

Hi peeps!

I think I’m talking in exclamation points! Because I’m so excited! That we’re going to Hawaii!  !  !

We’ll be there for a week, and I plan to take a ton of photos to share with you all. Justin will have his laptop with him, but I have no idea how the wifi situation will be, so I may or may not post and/or update flickr while we’re there. If not, you can look forward to lots of Hawaii goodness when we return. We’ll be staying on Oahu for the whole trip, and we don’t have any set plans… we want to snorkel, and hike, and see Pearl Harbor and Diamond head, and sit on the beach for large amounts of time. We plan to eat. A lot. Other than that, we’re just going to go with the flow. I can’t wait! (Exclamation point!)

Also, I’m saying this here, on my blog, so that you internets can hold me accountable: when I get back from Hawaii (maybe not THAT DAY, but you know), I AM GOING TO COOK. We’ve been dining out like crazy, and though it’s fun, and the food is spectacular, I miss home cooking. I miss chopping garlic and kneading bread. I miss grocery shopping. I mean, we eat at home too, but lately it’s been quick things… sandwiches, spaghetti, cereal… sadness in  my heart. I remember the days when I’d plan out a week’s worth of menus (2 weeks, sometimes!), with packed lunches and baked goodies, and grocery shop on the weekend, and cook and cook and cook. And we would eat at home together and not gain weight (darn you, pork belly! and ricotta cheesecake! and homeslice pizza! and pork rillete and shrimp bisque and tuna tartare and gnocchi with sausage and fettucine alfredo and beef sopes and calamari salad and steak frites and… oh, now I see why my swimsuit is kinda small) and try new recipes and eat more veggies and all was well.

So! Internets! It is your job to nag me about cooking at home. (But nicely, you know, like, don’t be really mean or anything.) Just remind me how lovely cooking is, and how expensive restaurants are, and how nice it is to fit into your jeans. Don’t worry, there will definitely still be posts on dining out, because I LOVE Austin restaurants, and I also still have tons of stuff backlogged that I need to post (Primizie brunch! Jorge’s! House Pizzeria!). But I am hereby declaring that there will also be homecooked food on this blog. After Hawaii.

Aloha, everyone, I’ll see you on the flip side!

Once, when I was little, I asked my mom for a cup of milk. She got a plastic cup from the cabinet and set it on the table in front of me. She got the jug of milk from the fridge and poured it into the cup. And a big black spider was swimming in it.

For a long, long time, I thought the spider had been living in the milk jug, and I was slightly afraid of finding more. Only when I was a bit older, and I thought back on it did I realize that the spider was probably living in the cup, stashed away in the cabinet, and that it was highly unlikely that I’d ever find a live spider swimming in a milk jug in the fridge.

I just remembered that today. That’s all.

Saw this on IncogKnito and thought it sounded fun…

Random A to Z from me to you.

A is for Annie’s Cafe, my new favorite place, with fabulous drinks, fun bartenders, great food, live jazz, and a zinc bar.

B is for Boots in the Oven, our new fab foodie friends who also happen to just be rockin’ people.

C is for Castle, a cute whodunit TV show that I found this weekend on the internet and now can’t get enough of.

D is for the decade of marriage that Justin and I will be celebrating next Friday. I love you, baby!

E is for Evernote, because I love it so very, very much. It keeps my thoughts organized.

F is for Fino, my other favorite Austin haunt, with Bill behind the bar, Jason in the kitchen, and Brian managing it all… delicous food and cocktails.

G is for GoodReads, where I keep track of all the books that I devour.

H is for Hawaii, where we’ll be in less than 2 weeks!! I can’t wait!!

I is for island paradise… see H.

J is for Justin, my husband of nearly 10 years, my best friend, the most beautiful man on earth, my support, my strength, my sanity.

K is for Kit-Kat, which is one of my many nicknames for our older cat, Roux.

L is for Little, our cute and teeny tiny black cat.

M is for making chocolate chip cookies, which is what I’m doing now.

N is for napping, my favorite weekend activity.

O is for Oahu… did I mention we’ll be there VERY SOON?

P is for Post Secret, which I read every Sunday.

Q is for Queen of Eating and Drinking Very Good Things (that would be me).

R is for rain, which we really, really, really need here in Austin. 🙁

S is for Soulemama, one of my favorite blogs ever. So inspiring.

T is for “Too Late Baby” by Carole King, which is playing on my iTunes at this very moment. Just before that it was Smashing Pumpkins.

U is for Urban Weeds, a way cool street fashion blog in Portland, Oregon that I love.

V is for vanilla soymilk, which I can’t live without.

W is for Waikiki… I mentioned that we’re going there soon, right?

X is for X-Men, which I used to watch when I was little. I wanted to be Rogue.

Y is for yoga, which I haven’t done in forever, but would really like to get back to.

Z is for zzzzzzzzzzzz… I stayed up all night last night after drinking a latte at 1:00 a.m. Lesson learned, now I’m exhausted.

🙂