Sunday, July 21, 2013

Thank You

On the day my mother's friend Oli brought us Panamanian fried rice, she also brought the pattern and doll's head for my mother to make this:

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Oli thought it would be nice for my mother to make one for herself and one for me (this is mine; the other doll face didn't have dimples). Wasn't that sweet? Sweet and kitschy, sure.

Today was Asian culture day in Deming (I made that up) so we went to a Chinese fast food restaurant where this sign clues you in to what two random chairs are for:
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And this is lunch (my lunch after I had eaten a bunch of it; my mother's was about a third this size to start with):
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That is a Combo C with rice and noodles, BBQ pork, beef-broccoli, and teriyaki chicken with the sauce on the side. A mess, yes. A tasty, tasty mess.

And part B of Asian culture day:

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A trip to the local nail salon. (Poor taste, yes. Sorry.)
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My mother had a pedicure--and more practice driving and climbing into and out of the car.  I went along for the ride. I wasn't feeling it today, pedicure-wise.

And this is the public service announcement--slash--learn from my mistakes portion of today's blog post:

Avoid these at all costs. They are inedible. And trust me, I can eat anything. Anything.
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Anything but these. These taste like salty, wheaty styrofoam.

And this is the result of a mishap:
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My temporary Angelina Jolie's fill-'er-up, lip filler injection style lips were courtesy of a frozen metal ice-cream scooper and a lack of common sense. (Yes, I went to bite ice cream off a frozen scooper and stuck both my bottom and top lip to it. And of course rather than calmly pouring water over it to unstick myself, I just pulled my lips off the scoop, leaving some lip behind on the scoop. And this is what that looked like, an hour later.)

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