Namaste, bitches

IT'S TIME FOR A BLOG REPURPOSE AGAIN!!!!

I'm all about fitness and yoga and diving right into my vegetarianism right now! I've added Entrepreneurship to my minor and I've decided what my options for my job are. Working for the Pittsburgh Penguins, being a professor, owning my own yoga studio with a vegan cafe/bar, or maybe even a fun vegan pizza shop! IT'S TIME TO GET SERIOUS ABOUT MY HEALTH!!! I'm going to quit smoking (I haven't smoked since Saturday? i think?).  I'm getting back on my TurboFire grind. I'm getting super into Yoga because I really want to be an instructor someday! I've started trying to eat healthier, I'm actually cooking some tofu as we speak!

So now, this blog will be geared towards documenting my progress into the world of health, nutrition, fitness and wellness!

MELT #4

well today was our fourth trip to Melt. we brought Jessie this time and met Kelli and Dave there! i was so excited for Jessie to try it and for the rest of us to get the Corny Beast. it's essentially a super-cheesy corn dog--stick and all! it comes with a chipotle ketchup which was really good. overall i really liked the sandwich. it was good. but i wasn't as in love with it as i thought i would be. it's not Melt's fault, i think i just built it up in my head and expected it to be more extravagant. but sometimes simple is good and in this case it was. i also got the Parmageddon to go! which i'll update on after i get out of my food coma.

Jessie had to go back to school because she had to work and the rest of us went to Beachwood and shopped at H&M and forever21. honestly, i wasn't impressed by H&M at all. i always see sweaters in outfit post and i thought their stuff would be really cute. but i only got two sweaters. everything looked like it was from the same five materials and were semi-trendy, middle-aged styles. i was thoroughly disappointed. but on the other hand i spent $107 at forever21. i could have spent more but there were so many people, it was crowded and the music was really loud, i couldn't concentrate on the items and i think i was over-stimulated. it was kind of stressful. i'm happy with my purchases regardless and it was a really fun day. 

here's a peek at our day!

corny beast!

i love the random stuff written on the walls in the bathroom.

and this funny grammatical horrorfest.

i want this in my apartment.

and a few edited with instagram.

joe and my new shades.

i thought the clouds would look cooler than this.

Adventures in Cleveland.

I'm so far behind on everything! Last Wednesday, we had tickets to go see one of my favorite bands of all time--Queens of the Stone Age. I was so excited. I'm still giddy from it. 

We decided to TRY to go up early. However the snow was so intense on the way there that it took us way longer than normal. We still managed to arrive in time to eat at the place that we planned on called Pickwick and Frolic. It's a cute little restaurant/wine bar type deal with a theater attached. They've got a small menu but what we got was amazing. I apologize that the pictures are so dark. It was basically pitch black in there and I wasn't going to look like a freak and turn my phone's flash on!

I got the Farmer's Salad. It's got chicken, apples, tomato, and bacon. It is supposed to come with ranch dressing but I thought that raspberry vinaigrette would be better and it was.

Joe got this three cheese flatbread pizza. He claims that it tasted better than any other pizza he has ever had. But I thought it was comparable to pretty much any place that sells those huge pieces of pizza by the slice.

So we walk across the street to the House of Blues. Of course we're way early and I say "let's stand up front." It's a VERY tiny standing-room only kinda deal so I'm thinking, no one is going to be tweaking out like they would at a bigger venue. Joke's on me! This odd little foursome called the Dough Rollers opened for them. They were rock/bluesy and dressed in 40's-looking suits with slicked back hair. Obviously, I was the only one anywhere near us who is musically well-rounded because no one else could fathom what was going on. They weren't bad but they used the standard blues chord-progressions and what not. The only one I was impressed by was the guitarist. The lead singer/guitarist creeped me out, thoroughly. When QOTSA came on, the douchers who squeezed into the two inches of space that there was behind us started tweaking out, which was obviously something Joe wasn't expecting or happy with because I thought he was going to kill someone. Although, I can understand because he was getting beer all over him. So for two seconds I was 6 feet away from one of my favorite bands.

We enjoyed the rest of the show from right in front of the bar rails. Which was fine. They played their entire first album and 3 of my favorites right after. I was in my glory until I got a joint dropped onto my foot. 

Here are the pictures that I managed to take. (it sucked being on 5'6''). I took them with my iPhone 4, which is SUPPOSED to have excellent resolution and quality, the best out of any phone. But these pictures are terrible.

MELT! #3

Not yesterday, but LAST Sunday we went to Melt. It's slowly becoming a Sunday tradition for Joe, Kelli, Dave, and I. I apologize right now for my lack of pictures of our meals. :( I totally forgot because I was so damn hungry!

I got the Big Popper. Jalapenos, cream cheese, cheddar and it comes with the mixed berry preserves. It was AMAZING. However, just a tad hotter than I would have liked because of the peppers. Trust me, they weren't a normal, like, TGI Friday's popper kind of hot. They were pretty legit. But very tasty nonetheless.

I also got March's special sandwich, the Reuben Melt, to take home. It's pretty much your typical reuben only better because it's from Melt. AND it comes with the Russian dressing.

Don't ask me how, but I managed to get pictures of everything other than our sandwiches.

I found this written on the stall in the bathroom and I fell in love with it. I kinda want to get it tattooed somewhere. Kudos to whoever penned it!!!

Their menus  are pasted onto the backs of old record sleeves! We're always excited to see which ones we got.

I lied. here's a picture of my almost-finished Big Popper.

there's an app for that.

i promised a Top Apps post and here it is!

for the longest time i was completely opposed to Apple products. i was on the Robotics PR team in high school and the desktops that we had to use were Macs and i HATED them. looking back now, i guess it was because they were old and the programs were outdated and thus, difficult to understand and use.

but i got an iPod when i was 16. pretty much because i had way too much music and it was the only reliable mp3  player that i knew of at the time. despite that, i still hated iPhones. but now that i realize their awesomeness as a productivity/multitasking/organizational tool, i love mine! of course the first thing i did was seek out the applications that would maximize my phone's potential to be this type of tool. most of them were pretty lame, though. i like to have my schedule written out. BUT i have found some pretty cool apps that i use on the regular. most of them probably aren't that great to other people and some are just games but i wanted to share!

so without further adieu, here are my Top 15 Apps! (these are just my opinions and i am in no way affiliated with the following applications or Apple Inc. products.)

 foursquare. i love love love this app. it is what started the whole checking-in-on-facebook fad. except here, you get points and become the "mayor" of places where you have been the one to check-in at the most. it's excellent for exploring new cities. you can search for specific types of venues and other users can leave tips or "to-do" items about dishes to try, etc. some venues even run specials for mayors or first-time check-ins. you even get cool badges when you meet certain check-in criteria. like visiting 10 pizza places or shouting "Go Steelers" when you check in somewhere on superbowl sunday. i currently have 1923 check-ins, 21 badges and i hold 18 mayorships!

 urbanspoon helps you find restaurants nearby! i haven't gone anywhere new since i downloaded it but it looks neat and i can't wait to try it. you can search for specific foods or prices. it even has a feature where you shake your phone and it spits out a random city nearby, type of food and price range that will show you restaurants that meet your parameters.

 instagram is by FAR the best photography app i have ever downloaded. it has awesome filters to pick from. black and white, old-school 70's-looking, grainy, over-saturated, etc. you can add friends and see their photo stream, as well as linking it with flickr, myspace, facebook, twitter, and so on. HIGHLY recommended!

 foodspotting allows me to do what i did everywhere anyway; take pictures of the food i love and display it for the world to see. it's kind of like foursquare in that you sort of check your photo into the restaurant that it is from along with what it's called and a review of how it was. this is also linkable to all social media outlets.

i'm a nerd, i love scrabble. so when i discovered words with friends (although i was somewhat late on finding it) i was elated. it is just was it sounds like, digital scrabble that you can play with almost anyone. as you can see, i had over 11 games going at one time. it seems like everyone ELSE has discovered words with friends and twitter and are jumping on the bandwagon. it's too overwhelming and not fun to have that many games at once, though so i resigned from all but like, 5 of my games and those 5 are my favorite people.

i'm not going to lie, i'm REALLY obsessed with this game. the original is call reMovem. i have the original, christmas and halloween is my favorite. you have to try to get rid of all of those little circles. you can only remove them when there are two or more next to each other. eh, i'm a dork!

 obviously angry birds would be on anyone's top apps list. i love it. i've got seasons and the newest, rio, which i downloaded last night and played until like 4 in the morning. it's so addicting. also, go on YouTube and look up angry birds peace treaty. it is the cutest and funniest thing i have ever seen. almost.

i pity everyone who doesn't have an iphone and cannot use these! they're essentially just emoticons, but there is food, items, symbols...using them is really fun and sometimes completely lewd.

cover your ears, boys. this app is called period tracker. i love it because i never know when it's going to happen because i'm so not on schedule ever. you can keep track of several things like cravings, cramp intensity, mood, intimacy dates, and also temperature and when you're fertile if you're trying to get pregnant.

 smartsync syncs all of your facebook friends to your contacts. it adds profile pictures, birthdays, places of employment, etc. it helps your contacts be "fuller".

of course twitter is on here. i'm obsessed.

 ...and facebook, too. i'm basically just a social media advocate. i love their practical uses for business, networking, advertising, etc.

 i NEED my scorecenter to stay up-to-date on all of my teams. it allows you to add your favorites and sends you game updates based on you preferences.

 ahh, yes. texts from last night. my guilty pleasure. i remember freshman year of college, someone told me about tfln and i thought it was stupid and not funny. either i was too drunk to understand or not drunk enough to think it was funny but i LOVE it now. people submit their heinous, rude, scandalous, and just plain stupid texts, well, from last night. i love finding ones in my area code.

SHAZAM! a looooong time ago i saw a commercial for this app and was instantly pissed that i didn't have the proper cellular device to support it. music is my obsession and i love finding new music. so this app is perfect for me!