My house.

Hellooo!!!!

Ok, so I promised occasional pictures of my dream house/pictures of real estate- today is the day that this finally happens! So, I am a nerd, and when I am bored, I look at Yahoo real estate and MSN real estate and MSN home makeovers and go through houses after houses looking for picture of houses and rooms that I like. My favorite are kitchens. This is so random, but my favorite kitchen that I have ever seen was in the movie Baby Mama with Tina Fey, the kitchen of her boyfriend was amazing.....hahaha
Confession time: I have a whole folder on my hard drive where I save pictures of houses that I like :/ I will now upload one.

.....or three

My ultimate kitchen would be kind of a combination of these three. All white with the layout of the first one, but with a huge island where the table is and the table perpendicular to it, with the back-splash from the second one. I don't really like the third one that much, but I wanted to illustrate the big white island :) LOVE IT!

Also, My cool thing for today:

My debate coach showed us the cool website called realclearworld.com. This website is AMAZING. If you like keeping up with the news, even if you don't like keeping up with the news, it chooses really witty, great, easy to read articles and organizes them for you! READ IT!

Anyways, peace and love :)

Thanks.

Hellloo Everyone!

Today, in honor of Thanksgiving, I am going to list some of the things I am thankful for.

• Life
• Friends and Family
• The clothes on my back
• FOOD
• All my senses

My cool thing for today:

Lorraine's Famous Vegetable Pie. 

One word. AMAZING.

Ok this recipe is soooooo easy.

Ingredients:

• Mixed Vegetables (Frozen or Fresh): Chopped
• Shredded Cheese (Cheddar/Whatever you like)
• Butter
• Onions
• Garlic
• Store bought pie crust 
• Vegetable Stock (Or Chicken if you are not vegetarian)

Directions:

1. In a big pot, sautee onions and garlic in some butter until onions are translucent
2. Add mixed vegetables and cook 1/2-3/4 of the way
3. Add about a 1/2 cup of the vegetable stock
4. Add a couple tablespoons of butter and mix
5. ***At this point, if it seems too liquidy, you can add a couple tablespoons of flour. Do keep in mind, however, that the cheese will thicken it a bit.
6. Add LOTS of shredded cheese!!! (And mix until it is a melty and gooey mixture! Stirring in figure eights helps....I don't know why but it does! Rachael Ray will tell you the same!)
7. Put into pie pans with crust on top (and butter glaze crust)
8. Bake according to crust directions

Another way to make is sort of like a Shepard's pie. Instead of pie crust, put mashed potatoes on top and add kidney beans into the veggie/cheese mix.

YUMMY!!!!!

Happy Thanksgiving :D Take some time to spend it with the people you love and relax.

Debate.

I Had my first debate tournament this weekend, and I unfortunately got paired with an interesting character from another school.
Some gems from my partner:

"Everyone. We should all do drugs because humans are like water. We do not want to be stagnant water. Moving water moves mountains"

"Rome was not built on drugs. This is the situation"

"We all need to learn from the field of grass known as knowledge"

"Love is beautiful. Why should we stop the glowing fire that is love?"

"The human body is beautiful. Humans are like water. Water moves mountains. Self expression helps us move mountains."

"I don't know what I am saying. I am just going to BS this"

After getting to the podium for 30 seconds "Where am I? What am I doing? What am I talking about? What is going on?"

I think you have the idea.

Clothes.

Hellloooo everyone!!

Every week, I want to post more than once, but I just can never seem to get around to writing before Sunday. For this, I apologize. All week, all I want to do is post something, but as usual, school work takes precedence. womp.

Anyways, I realized that people care waaayyyyy too much about clothes. Way, way too much. Not just about clothes, but their appearance, and for some reason, the clothes that people wear somehow equate to their appearance. People find it so necessary to look their best and wear proper clothes. People stress so much about what is appropriate. Myself included! Seriously though, who cares?! what does it matter what we wear, shouldn't we all just wear what we like to? Sometimes, it irks me how much people care about appearances at the hotel school, but yet, I still feed into it. What do they say? If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.

Regardless of all this philosophical-ness, I still LOVE clothes. I don't quite know why, but it is so fun to find new pieces and make new outfits. I like it. What can I say? Secret: one of my favorite pastimes is online window shopping....though I only actually buy something once in a blue moon. Additionally, anyone that knows me knows that I only buy cheap things. I mean REALLY cheap things. I own a number of shirts and sweaters that $5 or less. For some reason, a piece of clothing is so much more attractive when I know it's cheap. hahaha

Current Dress I am eyeing:

It's from forever21 and it is only $24.80. I might actually get this one........

My cool thing:

I REALLY WANT TO READ THIS BOOK. Another secret. I love Clinton and Stacy from What Not To Wear. I know. embarrassing. But I think they are hilarious, and I really want to read this! Tell me what you think of it if you have!

Social Expectations.

Hellloooooo everyone!

I hope everyone had a splendid week and is ready for the one ahead of us.

What was/is everyone for Halloween? I went to a "7 Deadly Sins" party, and so I dressed up as wrath. I wore a red dress, painted my nails red, wore red lipstick, wore black eye-shadow, wore a harsh ponytail, and wore big black earrings. Thankfully everyone at the party quickly guessed what I was, but I had to explain to everyone I saw before I got to the party what I was supposed to be. I got a lot of "What are you?! Red dress girl?? A flower?" hahaha Comment below and tell me your Halloween stories!

On a different note, I was just wondering: Have you ever wondered about when it is appropriate to friend someone on Facebook? Should you friend them right after you meet them, after you know them for a while, when they show up your news feed? Whenever I friend someone whom I don't know very well, I am always thinking....should I have friended them? Do they think I am weird/a stalker for finding them? Its often the case, however, that they show up on one of my friend's wall or my news feed and so I just send a request. I am always nervous until they accept. Is that weird? Should I have waited until I was actually very good friends with them?!?

I do have one thing to note: I have found that often, I become better friends with the person in real life as a result of our Facebook "friendship".....Who knows.
(If it was not obvious, I just friended someone on Facebook whom I don't know that well because I wanted to get to know them better haha)

Ok my cool thing for today:

This piece was composed by a guy named Shankar Tucker who is AMAZING. He has been learning the clarinet from a very accomplished Indian flute player (Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia, who I saw live!) for years, has played in symphonies over here in the states, and recently has been making these videos on Youtube which I can't stop listening to. This one is one of my favorites (and the guy playing the mridangam (drums) is my friend!)

Enjoy!

Don't forget to subscribe! :)

Party like a nerd.

Helloooo Everyone!!

I apologize, it has been MUCH too long since I have posted (a not-sucky post). HOPEFULLY this will put an end to that :)

SO before I start talking about things that actually interest you (and not just myself), I will talk about things that interest just myself. haha. First: I got through that crazy week I was telling you about (relatively unscathed). YAY :D Second: It is forecasted to snow in Ithaca on Thursday >-<. I HATE THE COLD.

Okay, so this past weekend, after all of my exams, I had a dance performance! All of the Indian people at Cornell get together every fall to put on a show for Diwali (Hindu New Year), and basically everyone who wants to gets to participate. I was part of the sophomore dance--it was fun! Anyways, so of course afterwards, everyone partied. Real original. I know. So there was this HUGE party with TONS of brown people, and I took two of my (not-Indian) friends. They. Loved. It. They could not stop raving about the party and how great it was. It really struck me when one of my friends said was that it was refreshing to be at a party where the majority of people knew and liked each other as opposed to a "party" which consists of a bunch of random, sweaty, drunk people stuffed in a room. I agree. Really, what is so great about being squished and smelly? Also, grinding does not equal dancing. Sorry to all of the crazy people couples on the dance floor. Also, I wish that people still liked parties where people were NOT just randomly drunk and stuffed in a room. I think parties which consist of people who are actually friends are fun! Parties where there are games, food, discussions. I even like dance parties and parties where (legal) people drink. I just don't get how that is the only type of party and that is the ONLY way people can have fun! Also, believe it or not, dance parties can be fun without the alcohol. Crazy, I know. People rollllll their eyes at board-games. I, on the other hand, love scrabble. Hmph. What can you do?

Sooooo my cool thing for today:

On (kind-of) the same note, here is yet another article from the Cornell Daily Sun that really spoke to me.

http://cornellsun.com/section/opinion/content/2011/10/24/emptiness-being-invulnerable

It is intriguing that everything this author is saying is true. We, as a society, try SO hard (whether we like it or not) to put out an image of ourselves. What is the point in tailoring ourselves to be the people we think others want us to be? If we truly think there is a problem with the way we are, we should change it, not hide it!

Just a thought :)

It will be Diwali in approximately 35 minutes, so Happy Diwali and Saal Mubarak to everyone :)

On a last note, PLEASE SUBSCRIBE! I'll love you even more if you do!!

Peace and Love <3

Overwhelmed.

Ok, I don’t want this to become a whining blog, but I am going to whine anyways haha. let me tell you. I have SO much to do! Today, I am in meetings straight until 9:30 at night (this lunch is my only break all day), after which I will continue to work on a group project until it is finished. Oh, and from 7-9 I somehow have to be at two places at once. I have a 25 page group paper due tomorrow (the one I mentioned before), 3 exams this week, and a dance performance on Saturday (which has multiple rehearsals before then). To top it all off, there is something stuck underneath my “D” key on my laptop, and so the key doesn't always work. Soooo, I will let you know if I am still alive after this week.

Ok whining done!

Haha funny story: today my friend posted this to my facebook wall:

“True story: I just watched a kid sitting by himself and all of the sudden he just started laughing for no reason. I immediately thought of you and was like oh he probably just cracked a joke to himself hahaha”

The funny part is that she is completely on mark to think of me. Hahahahaha

Ok cool thing for today!!

I have a really great cause that I would like to share with you—The Cause is called Krochet Kids, and they teach people in developing countries how to Crochet different things which they then help sell. It is a really great way to start moving these communities towards being self-sufficient, and I think it is GREAT what they are doing. The thing that is really cool about this non-profit is that the founders are just normal people who have a passion for helping people out. They were a bunch of guys who liked winter sports and taught themselves how to crochet. They thought it would be a good idea to teach others how to as well. Their story gives you that warm, fuzzy, reassuring feeling that anyone can do something small to help people out.

Here is the link to their website:

http://www.krochetkids.org/