Noodles and Beef

2009 in review, and my 2010 resolutions

2009-12-31T07:49:13Z

2009 Resolutions

~~Gain 30lbs and get to 230lbs!~~ 220lbs is close enough! That last 10lbs is, like, my clothes.
Try to get some classes going and work towards my BS in Advertising. Hahahaha...I didn't get anything done here.
Finish all those little web projects I started. I actually have more unfinished web projects now. Argh.
~~Enjoy life by hanging out with friends and family more.~~ I am very happy that I kept this resolution! If I didn't have time for my personal projects it was because I was spending it with my friends and family.
~~Learn to appreciate food and wine more~~ CHEEECK! I have definitely leveled up my cooking and ~~whining~~ wine'ing abilities.
~~Travel outside America~~ Mexico with my friend Bill.

2009 in Review

Like last year, I'm going to chart all my major events from 2009 on a scale of Awesome to Lame, chronologically. Many of these events are captured from my Twitter feed using my simpleTwitter backup/search/timeline tool.

	Awesome	Indifferent	Lame
January	Bought a new camera Learned how to make IBFA cocktails		Magnus was towed. Bail set at $472
Febuary	Started working for Guba as their Creative Director LifeHacker blogged about my Valentines day plans	Started ANOTHER project. This one is a fighting game about Sommeliers	Wells Fargo lost my account, AGAIN Mini Cooper belt broke, required a trip to SAC for replacing Sprained my ankle Wasted more time on an emotionally-unavailable guy
March	Went to Vegas for Ray's bday Totally loving my new job's snack perks Squatted 405lbs (twice my bodyweight at the time) FINALLY let go of that emotionally-unavailable jerk face	Mastered Coq au vin	Lost a lot of money in Vegas
April	Saw Natalie Portman's Shaved Head LIVE IN CONCERT I turned 22!	Got abs	Bought an iPod. Only used it for Tetris
May	Cried during UP		Getting the run-around with my previous employer over my workman's comp insurance
June	Bought a Palm Pre	MJ Died	My Wisdom Teeth popped in
July	Wicked with Bill and Rene July 26th: Met Mr January	Did Lazy Bear	Legs too big for retail jeans WELLS FARGO LOST MY ACCOUNT. AGAIN. I have genetically high cholesterol
August	Started the 365 project and now I'm blogging again. August 3rd, 8am: I am boyfriends with Mr January.	Joined a Wine Club My office caught on fire	21 days after becoming boyfriends, Mr January has a serious visit to the Hospital
September	Mr January came back home! 505lbs squat!
October	Bought an All Clad pan Went on a Mexican cruise with my best friend, Bill		Ear infection :( Roommate default on me
November	NEW GLASSES And my family LOVES Mr January!	Had my wisdom teeth removed Learned how to country dance with Mr J	Lame
December	New Computer! I MET WOOFER! I moved in with Mr January! Woo-hooo!	Went shopping with my mom	Sick, again

2009 was a big year for me personally and professionally. I can't wait to see how next year goes!

2010 Resolutions (italics are repeats from last year)

Gain 30lbs and get to 250lbs!
Try to get some classes going and work towards my BS in Advertising.
Finish three web projects I started. (That's one every four months)
Travel outside America at least 3 times
Restart my music collection. (No more Japanese hip hop remixes).
Be myself around Mr January.

365/236 Montgomery to Castro

2009-12-29T04:52:24Z

On the way home from work.

365/235 Woofer

2009-12-28T07:10:31Z

Rendezvous with S-Rank bears Woofer and his Husbear, Matthew. They were visiting SF for Christmas and I was so lucky to meet them at ~~Star~~Bearbucks. Woofer is way more fun than his blog lets on—and his husband is incredibly animated and super fun to talk with. Woofer says I'm taller than he imagined *blush!*

Would you look at that? I think I just scored A-List-Bear-Bingo. Let's review:

Hurray!

And now I'm moving in with Mr January.

220lbs Progress Photos

2009-12-17T04:59:08Z

Finally hit 220lbs. Phew. My chest has finally developed enough that I'm not embarrassed taking shirtless photos anymore. I'm estimating another 20lbs till I actually start posting shirtless photos.

Here I am last year-ish at 200lbs:

After comparing these pics, I'm a little scared to measure my arms...I think they've gotten smaller. *sigh*

365/221 xmas photoshoot

2009-12-14T06:59:15Z

Mr January had Santa Duty.

I was a reindeer:

Left to right: Bill, Rene, Chuck and me being happy.

365/220 Better than ever

2009-12-12T09:08:32Z

Noodles and Beef will never lose.

365/218-219 Sick

2009-12-11T06:38:44Z

I'm sick.

Have a minor fever.

Sore throat.

But, worst of all, I can't concentrate.

Treatment is the usual: fluids, sleep, Ibuprofin, and Mr January has been playing nurse. Hot ♥

364/114 + 365/116 New Computer, New Facial Hair

2009-12-08T04:06:08Z

Sorry for the lack of updates. I've been spending the past few days setting up my new computer...and dealing with the arduous task of organizing files, transferring settings and spending 12 hours installing software.

His name is HYPERION: GOD OF MUSIC AND PORNOGRAPHY. This is my first serious workstation since Orange Parfait from High School. And, let me tell you, my new workstation is a much deserved beast of burden:

CPU	Intel Quad Core i7-920, running at 3.3GHz
Memory	9 Gigs of Ram (Yes, 9)
Hard drive	80GB SSD by Intel (and a secondary, lesser drive for files, etc)
Graphics	Dual nVidia GeForce GT 220, 1024MB

Ohhhh man...I've needed a *real* workstation for so long. Photoshop 64bit is amazingly fast. No more lag...everything feels instantaneous. And now that I've got graphics cards (my previous machines had "integrated graphics") I can finally try my hand at video editing and motion graphics. So exciting.

Also, I shaved. Thoughts?

Holiday Cheat sheet

2009-12-04T07:40:48Z

365/112 In and Out

2009-12-04T06:46:14Z

I've been doing all my grocery shopping with Mr January...so going home means no food.

Luckily, I live near an In and Out. Not the best San Francisco burger, but the tastiest for under $4. You know it's healthy by how neon-green the lettuce is.

Non-sequitur: Foo Dogs have the most difficult hair. It's all curly and I've never drawn curly hair before.

365/Thanksgiving, parents, and family

2009-12-02T07:26:32Z

"Mom, meet boyfriend"

I've got a lot to recap. But, quick summary: Mr January was the perfect gentleman. Mom loved him, Dad was cordial, and Mr J liked everyone.

Here's a pic of my sister, me, and my Step Mom:

VOID Character idea: Captain Coutura

2009-11-30T05:39:13Z

Soooo, I'm thinking about doing VOID. It's this awesome little site where artists design fighters and pit them against other artists' creations through comic battles.

I really want to enter Arc Tangent as a fighter, but his over-sexualized character design might not go over well on VOID. WHICH IS WHY I've created CAPTAIN COUTURA.

Still figuring out his super powers, but I imagine one of them will be submission voguing:

365/104 Oh, stop :D

2009-11-25T07:30:39Z

Oh, auto focus.

Mr January and I being blurry while shopping.

365/103 Happy End to a Stressful Monday

2009-11-24T07:17:44Z

My favourite part of this photo is Mr January's boxers.

365/102 New Jeans/Jacket

2009-11-23T07:05:42Z

I have a love/hate relationship with pants. I love pants because they look sexy...yet I hate them because they're so uncomfortable.

The problem are my big legs: 28" thighs to a 32" waist means I'm (proportionately) very difficult to fit.

I was about to endure another pant-less, cold-legs Winter in my thermal hot pants until Mr January suggested I check out Levi's custom jeans program. (Flashback to my previous custom jeans adventure). Actually, it turns out that the custom-jeans program just offers bedazzling and patching services, not Big-and-Tall jeans.

Nevertheless! I was surprised to discover that Levis actually makes jeans that I can wear! And are stylish! And aren't overly baggy! Gasp!

So, it's official: I'm a Levi's 559 33x30. Still not as comfortable or stylish as the discontinued GAP Loose Boot Fit Jeans (I ripped my only pair, sigh), but they fit...and were cheap...and Mr J likes them. So yay.

Oh, and I bought a new jacket.

noodlesandbeef @ 2009-11-18T23:01:00

2009-11-19T07:01:44Z

Down and Beefy Winter Jacket

2009-11-17T04:51:27Z

WHY HASN'T THIS BEEN DONE BEFORE?!

On the left we have a timeless Winter Jacket. But! With a few modifications...MAGIC! The same jacket suddenly gives you the build of a super hero! It's inconspicuous enough that I could TOTALLY wear it without anyone suspecting me of being skinny.

Alright, Livejournal...it's poll time. How many of you would buy something like this?

Would you buy this jacket?

View Poll: Would you buy thsi jacket?

Colouring techniques...anyone?

2009-11-16T07:13:54Z

I think I'm finally getting back into doodling and art stuffs. Maybe.

Can anybody point me in the direction of a good colouring tutorial? (Bernie, help?!) I'm so bad at colouring...and inking. Really need to brush up on this stuff.

On jump rope dance routines

2009-11-12T20:56:57Z

Anyone else catch Glee last night? Specifically, the first 20 seconds?

Hot. Watching it reminded me of...

No wonder I date cheerleaders...

365/92 Woosh

2009-11-12T06:44:43Z

Two days since surgery. Still too difficult to chew food, but I'm no longer groggy/nauseous and was able to return to work.

Well. Mostly. The nausea returned in the afternoon—seemingly triggered by REST-ful implementation of PUSH/DELETE at the office.

I'm no longer taking Vicodin. It's not meshing with me very well. Whatever pain relief it gives me is quickly accompanied by terrible itchiness, blurry vision and trouble breathing? Meh! Acetaminophen works just fine without the crazy side effects.

365/90 Surgery

2009-11-10T06:30:21Z

Had my wisdom teeth removed today. Thanks to the anesthesia, I don't even remember taking this photo.

Yikes, look at all those tools behind me...

This is the first time I've ever been prescribed a pain killer. Everyone online warned me that the pain would be unbearable and that I would probably need to take a week off from work.

Ha!

Perhaps my oral surgeon is just really skilled, but the pain isn't that bad! My swollen face is causing me much more trouble; my deep, sultry radio-voice has been reduced to a slurring, lisping whine; I can't chew anything thicker than yogurt; everything tastes like blood...AND I have to wear a towel-bib because I'm always dribbling ooze from my wisdom-teeth-holes. Gross!

I don't think the Vicodin is doing anything. It's really just giving me itches and nausea.

Can't wait till this is all over. Mr January has been the most perfect boyfriend, and even cut up my food (despite my aggressive independence). I look forward to being able to show him my appreciation. And kiss him.

So my dad finds my blog...

2009-11-09T00:20:27Z

Edit:
Super-talented Wolfy-chan thinks I shouldn't draw myself with noodle arms. Proposed re-branding:

365/89 Chicken and Waffles

2009-11-08T08:03:42Z

Chicken and waffles with the boys at Little Skillet:
www.yelp.com/biz/farmerbrowns-little-skillet-san-francisco

Probably the best fried chicken I've ever had. Waffles were belgian style and were a bit crispy...if it's possible to be a Chicken and Waffles snob, it would be me.

Chicken and Waffles sounds like a friend of Noodles and Beef?

365/88 New Glasses!

2009-11-07T05:06:01Z

Funny story: Nobody liked those white glasses from Face-a-Face.

Soooo...I started over. Everything else on my glasses-wish-list already looked like my current specs. I decided I wanted something simple, unobtrusive, professional...but somehow unique.

WA-BAM: UNDOSTRIAL's collection was everything I wanted. Super minimalistic frames that complemented my face and were unique. The pair I picked have a LEATHER inlay.

Everything smells like a leather bar when I wear them...very sexy.

365/87 My Teeth

2009-11-06T07:19:34Z

Had my oral surgeon consult today. Besides having a very high success rate and a PERFECT 5-star score on Yelp, he was considerate and didn't nag me about my poor flossing technique. I was sold.

These darn wisdom teeth are killing me. And one of them is rotting so Mr January doesn't like kissing me with my rotting-tooth-breath.

*huff*