yah so what i am japanese. i grew up watching anime my whole life, and i still love it! Ive been watching more and more anime lately, mostly because theres not much to do. games are a bit stagnant, and between work and tv.. i watch anime. chub’s also a huge huge anime fan whose been feeding me some good shows.

if you are anime fans and enjoy good seinen anime and even ecchi anime.. martial arts anime then here are a few selections you should check out:

• Tenjou Tenge
• Bleach
• Naruto
• Full Metal Alchemist
• Ikkitousen
• Rurouni Kenshin
• Real Bout High School
• Genshiken
• Elfen Lied
• Record of Lodoss War (I and II)
• Samurai Champloo

anyway those are just a few. enjoy.

i love to cook and i love to bake. last christmas i baked cookies for everyone along with brownies and cornbread, wrapped them up and handed them out as gifts. this year i did the same.

nina, who is currently attending the pastry academy in napa, is also a baker. she made these incredible snickerdoodles light and gave me the recipe. i decided this year to do it right. i spent a good amount of money on pure bakeware, probably close to about 300.00. nina also introduced me to silpat baking pads and cooking by weight. christina says im british now!

id have to definitely say nina has it right. cooking by weight completely changes the outcome of your baked goods. i baked 4 kinds of cookies for christmas. snickerdoodles light (i love you nina), delicious peanut butter cookies, spicy oatmeal raisin cookies of goodness, and ultimate chocolate chip cookies. they were a hit and i love baking.

if you’d like any of these recipes, leave me a comment and ill gladly hook it up im too lazy to post them!

so i’ve been horrible at committing to my blog as of late. you ever have soo much to say you don’t know where to start so you just don’t bother? Well thats pretty much my situation. I kept staring at an empty page willing myself to write and i became overwhelmed with thoughts.

so regardless of my 101 reasons why not to post, i’m just going to start from here.

happy belated christmas and new year!!

i hope all of you had a wonderful holiday, i definitely liked mine. i got amazing gifts (ill have to dedicate a post to all my new toys — i swear i will!). i celebrated christmas with joel and his awesome family. we had christmas eve dinner at his father’s, then christmas day at his grandmothers (moms side). every time i have dinner with his family i feel blessed. i think joel has been so lucky to have grown up with the family that he has. I was surprised at the amount of gits joel’s mom and tif got us!

New years was pretty pleasant. We did it small this year.. VERY small. like 3 small. I cooked up a ton of lumpia and i made a delicious oven pot roast. we shimmied on over to sean’s around 7, got there at 8 and spent the nite away drinking good wine, eating good food, and just talking. I don’t get to spend much time with sean much anymore but when we do get to hang out, its always fun to have a serious conversation where people can actually explore their own ideas and just discuss. i like toilet humor just as much as the next person, but now and again its nice to talk your age with peers who don’t have their heads up their asses. We talked till like 7am til we finally drove back home to watch a few episodes of bleach and fall asleep.

i think we had a good start to 2006 thanks for having us over to your cool place sean, and i hope you had a good new years too.