Taking a Break

I know I haven't been posting a lot lately and I've decided something. I'm going to take a break from this blog until the new year. I've been really overwhelmed lately and I also feel a lot of pressure to censor what I write lately. This won't be permanent because I do love this blog and I really do enjoy writing on it and sharing my thoughts and working out my feelings. I know it might seem weird to use a public space like a blog to share my personal thoughts and feelings but it's something I enjoy. This blog has been with me for awhile and I've chronicled so much in it, from being single and crazy in San Francisco to meeting Pete and getting married. Hopefully when I return I will have some interesting things to write about! See you in the new year!

Love at First Sight

Everyone knows I'm really a gay man inside. And not just any gay man, a flaming gay man. So when Kylie Minogue kicked off her first ever North American tour I had to be there. I bought tickets for this concert in July when they went on sale and basically it's what I've been living for ever since. And now that the concert is over I basically feel like I have no reason to live. Seriously, I'm so sad that I have no more Kylie to look forward to and I even contemplated ditching Pete and his brother this weekend and flying to Vegas to go to Kylie's show there except I'm poor and this was the first time Dave has come to visit Pete and I in our new place. But mostly I'm poor. Sorry Dave! If any of you have a chance to see Kylie in concert, GO. You won't regret it, she's an amazing performer and you will have the time of your life. Here's proof:

Ummm she is wearing a feather fur coat thing and a solar system around her head. LOVE.

This was my favorite outfit of hers. All her costumes were made by John Paul Gaultier. I must have this sequin leather dress thing!

I want giant screens in my bedroom now. With pictures of my face.





Is she gorgeous or what?


Kylie Forever!!
I leave you with this video of Kylie's brand new song from the concert.

Housewarming Pictures

We finally got our place the way we wanted so of course we had to throw a housewarming party to show off our fabulous new place. I love my new apartment so much!!

The savory food table.

The "fun" table, i.e. desserts and alcohol.

Martha's Tomato Tart. The hit of the party.

Marinated Boccocini Grape Tomato Skewers. Pete made these all by himself! (Under heavy supervision.)

Martha's Blue Cheese Ball coated with dried cranberries and served with Terra chips.

The rather lethal Lillet-Vodka punch.

And the piece de resistance. Mini red velvet cupcakes!

We Made It!

Happy One Year Wedding Anniversary Pete!

Emo Mondays

The weather in San Francisco is gloomy and dreary and making me feel all emo. That and possibly, maybe, my PMS. That would probably explain why I burst into tears this morning when I realized I was out of shampoo. Anyway, since I'm in a emo mood here's some emo music for you. Enjoy! I particularly love the Fleet Foxes cover. And I don't care what other people say, I love it! (I'm looking at you S and D!! PS: When can I babysit R?)


Black Cab Sessions.


Ignore this stupid video, I love this cover of The Smith's "This Charming Man."

Tuk Tuk Goose

I don't know about you but I've always admired the kind of people who just seize the day and take off on amazing adventures. Since I'm kind of averse to being dirty and not showering every day as well as sleeping in strange place and just in general any place that does not cater to my OCD tendencies I have nothing but utmost admiration (read: envy) for those who seize the day and take off backpacking through the Andes etc. Which is why what my friend Chris is doing is so awesome! He's going to be participating in the Rickshaw Run in January. It's a 2,000 mile journey through India and Nepal in a Tuk Tuk. Yes, that's right, he'll be traveling some 2,000 miles through rough terrain in a three wheeled motorcycle with about 7 horsepower and 150ccs. And he's doing it for charity!! So please donate to his cause!! For more information and to donate please go here.

My Chicharrones

A couple of weeks ago I read about a new Go Game that was going to be all about Street Food. I immediately sent an email to all my best foodie friends and was like "Who's In?" I guess my super competitive nature preceded me because basically only one person was like I'm game and he's even more competitive than me. The game lasts for three weeks and each week you get a set of clues which you have to solve and some of them involve finding various street carts and taking photo or videos of yourselves doing certain things to complete the mission and get your points. Right now my team is in 11th place (out of 226 teams) and I'm very excited for the finale which takes place during the Street Food Fair in San Francisco. Below are some pictures of us completing some of our missions as well as a link to vote for us. Please give us A's!! We are team "My Chicharrones."

Vote for us HERE.

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Where we're going we won't need roads....

Now let's all get something straight here, the greatest film trilogy of all time has got to be the Back to the Future series. Shut up all you Lord of the Rings and Star Wars people. Star Wars was pretty good until they released Episode One and tainted everything with the stench of Jar Jar Binks and Lord of the Rings don't even get me started.... I mean yeah it's good and all but you could have easily cut out four hours of sweeping green vistas and elven villages and still gotten an amazing trilogy. Now Back to the Future is AMAZING. Everything about it is so good! Doc, Biff, George, Lorraine, Einstein/Copernicus, the DeLorean! I love the movie so much I even for two minutes considered having the theme of my wedding be "Back to the Future." And Pete would have totally gone for it because he is an equally huge fan. Over the weekend the trilogy happened to be on TV and we gloried in all three movies which led to an argument between Pete and I about who knew more about the movie. We each claimed to have seen the movies hundreds of times and started quizzing each other to see who would break first (have I mentioned we're a tad competitive?) Finally I was able to stump Pete by asking him what the name of the mall was where Marty first travels in the DeLorean at the beginning of the movie and what was it at the end. He was stumped. Ha! And I'm not about to give you the answer either. I'm not about to give up my Back to the Future crown.

The pursuit of Martha continues....

Finally got our new buffet so gotta show it off!

Made this rustic tomato tart. So delicious! Got the recipe from Martha of course!

The setting for lunch!

Looks like I'm going to have to re-do my wedding....