J+K visit the CLE!

I have known Jacqui and Kristina since high school, when we wore dresses on top of jeans and pretended that we were members of a hockey team called the Detroit Red Wings. (Kristina writes about them in her blog!)

Anyway, we started Friday night out with a bang…went to McNulty’s, the classiest of the classiest bars. They gave us free SoCo shots. Jacqui is wearing my Texas sweatshirt. I tried to make her wear my “Engineering Battle Robots for a Better Future” sweatshirt, but she deemed that “too nerdy” and fiercely argued to wear the Texas sweatshirt. Kristina is wearing her own clothes. I am wearing a sweatshirt that I received while participating in a “THANKS FOR DONATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING” rally.

This was like 2 months ago, so we were still in the “I HEART DENARD” phase of our football year. It was a good idea to participate in Untie your Shoelaces like Denard day. Kristina’s shoes are sweet, they are blue and say MICHIGAN in maize on the back. *Covets*

McNulty’s was having a sweatervest party or something. I stumbled on some weirdo boyfriend of my coworker that night. I also stumbled on some roommate of some weirdo dude I went on one date with and then he never called me again, but that’s a different story. Seriously, who hangs out at McNulty’s? THIS GIRL.

 
Jacqui and I passed out at McNulty’s. Just kidding.

We went to the WestSide market and bought crêpes for brunch. We are all wearing Michigan themed stuff in honor of the football game. I’m wearing the scarf that I knitted for myself on the drive to South Bend for the game in September, Jacqui’s wearing her Michigan Squirrels t-shirt (she only joined the club for the t-shirt), and Kristina is wearing her new Michigan fleece. I don’t know why this is turning into a fashion post.

Kristina! That’s a crêpe, not an ice cream cone!

At the Art Museum, looking at the paintings wasn’t enough. Be zombies for me, my little angels of art, be zombies!

 

Kristina and Jacqui were on the inside looking out while spying on a wedding party attempting to take pictures in the rain. Real stealth. I think that the wedding party looked up at one point and saw us looking at them, but really, what could they do? No one is going to run inside the museum and say, “Stop looking at us!” Really, that would just be immature.

Art makes a girl hungry. And in this case, it made three girls hungry. While waiting to get a table at Melt, we managed to watch the tail end of the Michigan game (read: the last three quarters). It took forever. Then we waited for our food…

And waited…

And waited…Jacqui was so hungry that she ate her hand! Oh no!

But all’s well that ends well. We had our food and then ate it, too.

Melt is an experience that is not worth the four hours we were there. But the weekend was perfect with my lovely friends :)

Can a Fridge truly be a Vegetarian?

On the eve of my 24th birthday, I decided that my fridge was not animal-friendly enough. Sure, it was filled with vegetarian items such as broccoli and hummus, but it was still hungry. Maybe it wanted meat?

Cue my fridge looking sad and vegetarian, with only a 2009 Michigan Football sticker, a 2006 Dream Cruise hologram magnet, and a “Save the Date!” to keep it company. Also some wine bottles I guess.

Animalify! It has received a mixed response from the people that have seen it. My true friends love it, while people who don’t really support my arts and crafts and therefore cannot be true friends severely disliked it.

The whole thing. The bottom came out more lopsided than I would have hoped, but I’m ok with that.  It is made from black contact paper which comes off unfortunately rather easily.

I was reminded of Only in Kenya while I was stickering :)

Cilantro-Jalapeño Hummus

I made pico de gallo earlier this week, and anyone has used cilantro knows that buying a bunch is almost always too much cilantro! What to do with it? Should it sit in my fridge as I promise myself day after day that I’ll do something with it? Should I throw it out right away to prophesize the inevitable? OR should I get an idea from my Google Buzz feed that Cilantro Jalapeño hummus might be delicious?!

Ingredients
-2 cans Chick Peas
-1/2 bunch Cilantro (the leftover)
-1 Jalapeño (incidentally, also leftover from my pico de gallo)
-4 tablespoons lime juice
-3 cloves fresh garlic (unless you’re a vampire), roasted (I microwaved mine)
-2 tablespoons tahini sauce, if you have it
-salt to taste

Throw everything in your blender and blend it until smooth-ish. If your blender was like mine and refused to blend it, add a little water until it starts blending smoothly.

The ingredients posed for a picture before mixing it up.

Cilantro-garlic shot.

The blending process didn’t go as smoothly as I had hoped it would.

But I made it blend by mixing with my trusty mixer, the spoon.

Doesn’t that look scrumptious?

This is probably my favorite hummus ever. It tastes sort of like green chutney, which is basically all the same ingredients minus the chick peas.

Too Sexy for my Sweatshirt

The University of Michigan apparel store was switching, so the former store had all the items on their website listed on clearance. I went a little crazy. I now own Michigan fuzzy dice (but they’re not in my mirror because they totally flop around), a Michigan softball, and a bunch of other clothing paraphernalia.

I acquired this beautiful size M Michigan Alumna sweatshirt (I didn’t know that alumna was the feminine singular of alumni. I thought it was alum!) and the fit was just totally off.

Totally, totally off.

Luckily, with the help of my sewing machine, I can now wear it with even more Michigan pride. I added a little bit of gray t-shirt fabric to the sleeves and the same fabric to the hips to make them longer.

Rawr. I’m a model if you know what I mean and I do my little turn on the catwalk. I fill up the entire doorway with my stance. and I’m wearing tights like pants.

The back. Wait, no, that’s just me figuring out how to use the timed settings on my camera and failing.

There’s the back! I have a seam running down the back. I think it adds to the aesthetic appeal of the sweatshirt.

‘What is that girl wearing on her head?!’ you may ask. Well, friends, it’s an anthro-inspired headband. I used it as part of my Psyche costume but kind of like how it looks in general. And since I don’t knit, I have to use up my oodles of yarn somehow! Some would even say that it looks like a sweatband. That means it goes perfectly with my sweatshirt.

  
Happy sweating!