I’m so mean.

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I am growing my hair down to my butt.

I used to have short hair in my early 20’s.

Also was known to have worn medium length hair, but because my hair is so thick, it just never works out well.

I’ve decided to grow my hair until it almost touches my butt–basically I’ll stop when it reaches the small of my back. I have never grown it that long b4. There’s about 8 inches to go.

Kiki Lulz January 2010

Ah the first Kiki Lulz of the year. I think.


Panic Mouse Undercover Mouse a.k.a. the Electronic Kittysitter is back in action.

Kiki’s “I Want” look.

Mooncake Obsession

I really like red bean mooncakes. Esp. ones from Chinatown that are drizzled in red dye and shaped like squares or flowers.

Sometimes I buy daifuku

or dorayaki

but it isn’t the same. Mooncakes are only available around the fall months. So I’m thinking about making them @ home. Buying mooncake molds and all that. Blah.

I finally saw Avatar!

Floating mountains are awesome . . .

Avatar is super-cool. It’s Star Wars/Lord of the Rings/The Dark Crystal cool. I walked into it expecting a Titanic James Cameron yawn fest in 3D and walked out a total fangirl. That’s really saying something, considering Avatar is freaking 3 hours long and I am easily bored by movies.

If you are a sci-fi or computer dork like I am, it’s pretty much written in the stars that you should see Avatar. I knew going in that Avatar would be visually amazing, for 300 million dollars, shouldn’t it be? and I wasn’t disappointed. Avatar is a story set in the future where Earthlings must travel to a distant planet to mine a valuable ore because it is needed to sustain life on dying Earth. The way the Earthlings go about their mining business is by recklessly bulldozing the pretty planet they’ve invaded and displacing the native population by military force. All I knew about Avatar going in was that certain people were kvetching that it was a movie solely to incite radical leftists to action done in high tech animation. Many made this plotline out to be an allegory for the role of the US in the Middle East, but I see a much clearer reenactment of the Europeans and the Native Americans.

The planet that the barbarian Earthlings attempt to pillage is called Pandora. I’m a tree hugger, but even if you’re not into that, Pandora is COOL. There’s glowing flowers at night and bugs that spin like tornados. The creativity that went into dreaming up the part-prehistoric, part Nova episode speculation of life in the Andromeda belt reminded me of how much fun the original Star Wars movies were for the awesome creatures inhabiting every scene. There is a humanoid race of blue people called the Na’vi. There very strong and very tall, about twice the size of humans.

A soldier guy named Jake gets transferred to Pandora, but he’s actually the identical twin of the guy they really wanted. The reason for “using” him is that they want him to become an Avatar. An Avatar is in essence a laboratory grown golem zombie, a creature that is the body of a Na’vi controlled by the conscious of a human, who must be wired up to a machine while in a state of trance to inhabit the Na’vi body. Jake’s twin brother is dead, so they choose genetically identical Jake to control the Avatar body meant for the dead sibling. For Jake, a paraplegic, it’s the first time he’s been able to walk on his own for several years. Even though it’s not truly him, he’s delighted to walk, run, jump, and generally amble around again.

Jake, in his new Avatar body, goes on a base-ordered mission to inform the Na’vi that the U.S. military is going to overtake their ancestral homeland. He eventually converts to the peaceful Na’vi tree-loving way of life and falls in love with the beautiful, brave Na’vi princess Neytiri. Along the way, he befriends the scientists who created the Avatar in the first place. Even though he is a total doofus at first, he eventually learns to do awesome stuff, like talk to trees and tame fabulously colored dragons.

Overall, Avatar is a wonderful story that never descends into preachiness, even though it would have been incredibly easy considering the plot described above. It’s worth seeing just for the special effects alone, but the characters are well developed and even though the moral of the story is clear, it’s not put above the actual storytelling. I wasn’t a big fan of James Cameron’s Titanic, but this one puts Titanic to shame. It’s his best movie by far.

Names I call Kiki

Kiki-monster
Ki-chan
Baby Kitty
Baby Kee
Baby Girl
Babinsie Girl
Girly Girl
Girlinsie Girl
Pudding
Keeeeeekers
Kikinsie Girl
Crazy Little Bat Creature

Kiki-bunny
Bunny
Bun-ones
Muffin-one
Pretty
Pretty-muffs
Gorgeous
Pretty Girl
Sugary Muffin
Mama’s Girl
Princess
Pa-rincess PloP (name coined by Rodney)

and many more . . .

Cheese Toast Recipe

A decadent not-very-healthy but delicious recipe from my Mom:

Ingredients

1 cup minced onion
1 cup Parmesan cheese
1 cup mayonnaise
Party Rye bread loaf

Directions

Mix the onion, Parmesan, and mayonnaise together and then put spoonfuls of the mixture on the Rye breads. Broil in the oven for about 5 minutes or brown on top, pictures follow:




Kiki watches me from the edge of the kitchen as I tend my oven . . .

Kiki Lulz December and Random Photo of Y.T.

Yeah, she didn’t want to wear it. But can you blame me when you see HOW CUTE?
My hair is a tsunami.

Double Extend Tubes Mascara

I have wimpy eyelashes. I am not willing to try Latisse, because the state of my eyelashes certainly does not warrant a pharmacological approach.

I bought a “new lash-extending technology” based on a recommendation from my all-time favorite makeup artist, Carmindy:

The name of it is Loreal Double Extend Beauty Tubes Mascara, in blackest black.
It is kind of complicated for mascara. You put on white goo first with one wand, like a primer coat, then follow that with the black stuff. The creepy thing is that once you cover all the white gluey primer in black, your lashes grow. It’s hard to explain, but they’re kind of like little tree branches that get longer. I have now officially grossed myself out.

Here’s my eyelashes with 2 coats of regular mascara:

Then with the Loreal stuff:

The new mascara is good, but I think what’s next is to try regular and hi-tech mascara combined just to see what happens.

Brown Rice Sushi Maki Recipe

Ingredients:
2 cups uncooked brown rice
3 cups water
5 sushi nori sheets
5 Tbsp. Mizukan sushi vinegar
filler ingredients like carrots, radishes, cucumber, avocado

Step 1: cook rice in a rice cooker or cook on the stove according to package directions.

Step 2: Mix sushi vinegar into hot rice with a wooden spoon.

Step 3: Spread rice over most of a nori square and make a line of vegetables or whatever you are putting in there.

Step 4: Roll into a tube shape and use a little water on your fingertip to seal the tube.

Step 5: Slice them. I had to use a serrated knife because my normal knife isn’t very good. I’m not into knives.