i ammmmmm.....

struggling today...

totally had a great dinner/vent session last nite with my two mains...cousin and godmama...and it was nice...love them...

then went to milk and got toallllaaayyy hammmeered and paying for it now at work...

that is all...im jus sayin...=D

back on a hype....

oh yes...its finally here...what you've been waiting for....my list of fro-yo places in order of deleesssh-eshnesss.....6 being decent, 1 being addictive.

so awhile ago i was really on a hype, i tried really good tart fro-yo for the first time and was in love....in love to the point where i would have it everyday...sometimes twice a day for like weeks straight...i was in fro-yo heaven....then funny thing happened...i just stopped...cold turkey...

then jus this past week, my obsession started back up again...thus landed me here...to finally do the blog posting that ive always wanted to do...top 6 froyo places in the bay area...

so here we gooooooooo...

6# - Tuttimelon
location - all over the bay area

http://www.tuttimelon.com/

http://www.yelp.com/search?find_desc=Tuttimelon&ns=1&find_loc=san+francisco%2C+CA



i feel that tuttimelon is soooo overrated. and the only reason people go is because its convenient and the inside is decorated really well. There tart is very lacking...they do have carrob chips which is just one of the many hard to find toppings, that they have, that most places over look. and i do like their coconut flavor. But come on...for having so many locations around the bay, you have to come up with a better tart. its almost too tart and sometimes taste like yogurt that has too many cultures in it. as im typing this im even considering taking them of my list, but the toppings save them, and that they keep their station nice and clean. if you can wait to find a another place....do so...but if you need your fix, im sure there's one on your block somewhere.


#5 - Icebee yogurt
location - 5th and mission

http://www.icebeeyogurt.com/

http://www.yelp.com/biz/icebee-san-francisco




this was a little lower on the list because sometimes its hard to find parking. they do have a very good tart banana flavor and their regular tart is actually darn good. i dont like however that they have the colored mochi which in turns gives it a food coloring flavor, and the cereal there sometimes is stale which is jus nasty. it is self serve and the price is reasonable, but the toppings are lacking and their fruit i feel like is canned...which is also nasty as well...they dont have carrob chips or even dark chocolate chips...and everyone in the fro-yo world knows that milk chocolate just does not go as well in fro-yo as its counter parts. but the tart is tasty and their fruit flavors do well...if there toppings were better and they kept their station cleaner it might move up the list...if your ever shopping in westfield definitely go and give it a try.

#4 - just yogurt
location - pacific east mall in richmond, ca

http://www.yelp.com/biz/just-yogurt-richmond

outside of store.



picture of yogurt



unlike tuttimelon, this place is sooooo underrated! yes its in richmond, and yes its not a franchise, and yes they dont even have their own website...but it is the bomb.com!

im sorry...their only fault would be that they only take cash now, and sometimes the yogurt melts way to fast for you not to enjoy the deliciousness. its sooo damn tasty! it has the jus the right amount of tart to sweet, and they have a bomb ass raspberry and banana flavor as well. My friend lea even thinks that the espresso flavor is good too. They have really good fruit, fresh, except for the pineapple...and its jus damn good. i would have put it at number three if they had a location in the city, cause richmond is far for me...(despite the fact that i've gone for the past two days) and they also use these mini dark chocolate chips that are to die for...sooo yummy...and its super cheap! i get a full cup of yogurt for under $5! i mean really...go try it now...

#3 - Yo-cup yogurt
location - market and 3rd & rincon center (spear and howard)

http://www.yocupyogurt.com/

http://www.yelp.com/biz/yocup-san-francisco



when i was on my hype, and couldn't go to my #1 spot, i was hitting this place up almost everyday sometimes twice a day. it is yummmy....they have the infamous carrob chips that i look for, and its conveniently walking distance from my house...and they have one on market for the weekend when the one in the financial district is closed. there tart is deleesssh and there fruit is always really goooood....the texture of the yogurt is really good...plus they know me there and hook it up sometimes...with a couple extra stamps on the frequency card...cant really say much more...yummmy i want some now....

#2 - blush yogurt

http://www.blushyogurt.com/

http://www.yelp.com/biz/blush-organic-frozen-yogurt-san-francisco



sooooo this place totally caught me off guard. my first experience with blush was in dublin. one of my best friends lives out there and there's a blush in the little plaza. omg can i just say that this is probably one of the hidden fro-yo places that most people do not know about. its that damn blush flavor that they make...out of pom and dragonfruit? what the hell is a dragonfruit? i dunno but its damn tasty when it comes to froyo. they also have really good dark chocolate chips, not as good as just yogurt, but they are mini non the less. i also love that you can go in there and sit and watch these huge big screens, very homey. one time me and my cousin went, and there was a couple in there just watching TV. but i digress...the yogurt is bomb and it is definitely a must try. its #2? i mean what more can i say?

and nowwwww for the #1!!!!! dun dun dunnnnnn

PINKBERRY!

http://www.pinkberry.com/

http://www.yelp.com/biz/pinkberry-palo-alto -(palo alto location)



call me a groupie, call me a band wagoner...call me whatever you want...but this place holds a special place in my heart. it's what started my obsession with fro-yo...

so here's my first experience.

walked in with my friend, a little inebriated, and was thinking to myself...yogurt schomogurt whats so good about it?

waited in line and finally got to the front, my friend orders - orignal tart, with strawberry, kiwi and carrob chips.

she finishes and looks at me...and in a fluster i order a "strawberry smoothie"

the girl and my friend look at me like im a crackhead? she turns to me and says "you should really try the yogurt that's what their known for"

me and my inebriated self turn to the girl and say, "i want the same as her".

little did i know that little clouds of flavor would enter my life and change it forever...its soooooo freaking good...the texture, the flavor, the fruit, the carrob chips...the amount they give you...i mean come on people its sooooo damn delessssh!

the only drawback is that its in the fckin far! i mean really an hour! my goal in life when i am ballin (oh yes it will happen) is to open one in the bay area...they wouldnt know what hit them...

with that said...i think that's all i have to say about PB. go try it now if you havent..and if you do call me cause im coming!

yummmmmm!


and that's all i have to say about that. happy fro-yoing!

im jus sayin....=D

i am so ready for my VD to come back! LMAO!

dont know about you but this was a guilty pleasure of mine this past TV season and now there back today with new episodes! yesssssssssssssss....and the guy vampires are soooo hawt...i wouldnt mind a bite from them anyday! holla!





i love this cute little guy too....if i cant be a vampire in my next life i would totally be him, but only the cartoon version, not the actual animal...=D

what is that?

what is that? everyday around 330 to 4 i hit a wall...call it a mental lapse, call it a brain fart, but for whatever reason i just become totally unmotivated and feel the need to run out of the building kicking and screaming...

what is that?

i'll stare at my fish and sometimes wonder what is going on in that fat little brain of hers...always looking for food...twirling around and around in her fish tank, even when she over eats she floats upside down for the hell of it...



you ever think of how easy life would be if you were an animal instead of a human...no weddings, no need to date, no need for money...no expectations...just you and the jungle...when you feel like mating, you do your call and find the closest thing that's breathing...when your hungry you go kill something...when your tired you sleep, not to say that you better hope that your on the top of the food chain...like a lion or something...cause if you were an ant or a mosquito, i think i would try to kill myself....but i digress...

back to the topic at hand...oh yea

then i'll gaze at my screen waiting for something incredible to happen..."jen you've just won 100 million dollars!...what are you gonna do now!"

or "hey jen, ive been stalking you from a far, and have been secretly wanting to have babies with you, will you be mine?....love, Brad pitt"...

or "hey jen you've been doing an awesome job here, why don't you take the rest of the week off paid"...

hmmmmm maybe i should start a hobby that doesn't involved, swishers, froyo or an xbox?

hmmmmm maybe i should do that 25 random thing list on FB even thought ive vowed to never do it ever...

hmmmm maybe i should actually do some work because in all honesty it'll be waiting for me tomorrow...

any suggestions out there?

dont mind me...im just bloggin here....

Rest in peace ODB...

ODB bought march 09' passed away on friday 1-15-09....

despite his long battle from laying on the ground of our fish tank, ODB sadly did not make it to see a whole year...he was a good fish, a dirty fish that kept our tank clean...hopefully he is in a better place now...

SIDE note...this tank has been sitting on my desk for the past year...and the water has now turned green...wondering how long i can keep disregarding it until the water becomes really unbearable to look at?

yea, im not changing that anytime soon...

Since childhood i have always been deftly afraid of spiders. i think it stems from my brother teasing the sheit out of me any which way he could.

those six legged freaks scare the living be-jeebies out of me. granted over the years the fear has sub-dued a little, to where now i don't have to completely run out of the room, but now i just slowly call for the nearest person to kindly kill the bug (because the it is not jus a spider issue but a bug issue all together)and set it on its happy little way down the toilet.

my mom would always try to help me get over my fear by saying, "whats going to happen when you grow up and live alone? are you going to ask your neighbor to come over and kill the bug?"

flash forward to 2010, me a somewhat successful grown-up now living in my own comfy abode, downtown SF...you are probably wondering, what do i do when a bug comes crawling in my place?

besides spraying it to death (see past blog) i grab my trusty vacuum and suck that little mo fo up!

with that said, i had company over and noticed that there was a big huge bug flying around my place! i freaked out and told my guest to kill! he then informed me that it was a lady bug...

a lady bug! memories flashed in my head of me playing with these cute little things when i was growing up, so i then instead change my "can you kill it?" to, "okay don't kill it jus catch it and we can throw it out the window".

he agrees, and then we go back to where ms. lady bug is and she's gone! nooooooooo i start to freak out, because now i have lost track and am now terrified that ms. lady bug is going to end up on my check when i wake up and naw its pretty little polka dots into my face!

urgggh...sadly..the next morning im by myself and cannot find her!

spent the weekend in vallejo, come home last nite and lo and behold i find her chillen on the window sill!

yes! score! i move in closer to try to pick her up and shove her fat ass out the window and to my horror my friend lied to me and this ladybug is actually a phatty ass flying pincher looking bug!

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh i scream in horror and run away because my hand came this close to touching that nasty ass bug!



im freakin out...and seriously am contemplating going through another spraying ordeal, but look at my last stain that was caused by my last near death experience and decide to go another route.

grab my trusty vacuum and suck that little mo fo up! wheeewww disaster averted! then i start to think as i am putting my vacuum away..."the whole time i am living here, i have yet to change the bag"

living here for the past two years, that's a whole shiet ton of bugs...

needless to say...im not changing that bag anytime soon. i can only imagine what's living inside there! wheeeewww scary!

what did you jus call my floor?

picture of my building...aint it grand?! (it costs a grip so it better!)



seeing that my cousin was talking about the "ho stroll"...a conversation popped in my head that i recently had with my neighbor....

let me back peddle a little....

Unit #200 - walking into my hallway the first door on the right...#200 always smells like shit/cigarettes/crack/weed/homeless person...whatever the hell you wanna call it...
i sometimes hear people yelling in there fighting, and dare i say folks gettin beat down! crazy i kno...next time i remember. i will take a picture of the door and show you guys the lock..it looks like there place has been broken into a couple times...there a couple times i see cigarette butts laying outside of there place...other times when im in the hot tub i see smoke coming out there windows...odorless mind you...you kno what that means...i mean come on have some class here....

Unit #212 - straight up crazy old pervert looking man always leaves his door open, and you can always see straight through his door...sometimes he has nothing but his tighty whitey's on...no joke..its creepy and sometimes when he gets on the elevator with me i totally get off on the wrong floor jus so he doesnt have a clue on where i actually live.

and finally

Unit #205 - the guy that lives right across the hall from me...yes right across the hall from me...i think sells weed...not sure...but my neighbors have copped from him...and they swear its good...but the fact that he slangs right acorss the hall from me...not a good look...

so, now that you are caught up...lemme finish.

i make friends with the security guards...it always helps...tip to anyone reading...it always good to be nice to the blue collar worker guys in your building...they can get your keys when they fall down the elevator shoot, help you with your parking space if someone is not supposed to park there, and protect you and not let people up if you tell them, or vice versa and allow the delivery guy to actually go straight to your door and you not having to walk down to the lobby to get it.

i instantly befriend this one guard that is originally from hawaii...ole...middle aged down to earth guard that says the funniest things!

we start to talking and i start to vent about how the people in the beginning of the hall always stink the place up...and he then goes on to tell me...(not knowing anything but what ive mentioned above) that their place got raided a couple times for prostitution/drug trafficking, and that the owners of the building have been trying to evict them for years but always gets caught up in red tape...and then he goes to tell me and i quote "your floor is like the tenderloin of the building".

what? did i hear you rite?...did you sir jus call my floor the TL?

really...then images start to pop through my mind...










my response..."are you freakin serious?, like are they crackheads? have you guys seen the hookers? am i safe"

the guard instantly sees that im worried and he goes on to tell me im fine and that they always do patrols nightly on every floor...but assures me that it'll be okay...

moral of the story...no matter how much you pay, or how safe you think you are...there will always be crackheads and hoes lurking around somewhere! the trick is not to run into one yourself!

im jus sayin'

stop being so fckin EMO....

soooo every month, every freakin month...why do we have to get so emo?

i mean i understand the whole...im a woman thing, and im getting my period, so im extra bitchy....but really...can we, as woman, just have a month when it doesnt happen...

it the words of my aunt, via my cousin "GET IT TOGETHER!!"

so true...

example one - the lady and her two cents

shopping at target the other day, and was minding my own business trying to buy some much needed cleaning supplies and came across some swiffer duster sheets.



my house get super dusty and this looked just what i was looking for...and then out of no where this lady, (who looked like she cleans for a living) gives me her two cents and says "those are no good, you should really stick to pledge and a towel"....i looked at her and said...thank you and walked away wanting to punch her in the face! bitch does it look like i wanted your two cents? if i really wanted to hear you opinion i woulda asked...but if it were any other day...i probably woulda have not care....FAIL! EMO WEEK...get it togehter. who cares what this lady says...dont let it ruin your target day...moving on...

example two - i dont smoke cigars but if i did

picking up my swisher at my corner store, having a nice little chat with the store owner...the guy behind me says "swisher sweets are not really that good, if you want real flavor, you should really try a cohiba, or a true cuban cigar"

again...smiled and nodded....first of all GUY...i dont smoke cigars...and if you really knew what i was buying this cigar for you would feel stupid...second of all GUY i was having a nice convo with my friend the liquor store owner and you rudely interrupted...third of all GUY...shut the fuck up cause no one was talking to you!



i could go on and on, but there are some other incidents that i do not want to make public...hehehe

so in conclusion...strangers of the world out there...please dont add your two cents....be careful what you say when you are just trying to "help"....some people dont want it...sometimes people jus want to go to target get what they need to get done and not be bothered....sometimes people jus want to buy their swisher in peace not hear bout your super expensive and tasty cigar that you imported from cuba....

i really could give a fuck...at least during my emo week....

IM JUS SAYIN!

this literally made me laugh out loud!

michael cera is freakin hilarious...i loved nick and nora.

two near death experiences in two days! what is that? - Part 1

soooo i dont know what is going on but what the hella has been going on with the past two...i have had two near death experiences and where better place to talk about it then with you my friends friends friends....

scenario 1 - you're probably wondering where this stain came from?

i was minding my own business, just got back to my comfy little abode and thought to myself, "you really need to do laundry"...

i am a one of the few happy San Franciscans that actually have a washer and dryer in my place. so laundry is not really that big of a deal, but still non the less i find myself lagging trying to get that damn chore done.

standing there, in front of my washer and dryer separating my whites from my colors...first load, in waiting for it to finish...dreading having to stay up and finish at least three more loads...yes this pile was waiting on me for awhile...

get through my whites, and move on to my towels and hoodys and guess what pops out and lands on my shoulder a freakin SPIDER!!

i scream i horror! and runaway trying to find something to spray it with and find this!



yes that is sunblock and no i did not intend on using this to kill that wretched creature but i was terrified for my life!

i run back to where the spider was and it was gone! gone from where it was...im liteweight freaking out mind you...talking to myself..."where are you, you little fucker"...kinda building up a sweat....and low and behold i find it trying to run...it spots me and comes to dead stop!...

i massively spray the thing with sunblock to no avail! it's still moving! urgghhh i dont have raid and look for something else...and find this!



that little fucker is still moving its legs...it stuck to the carpet but its still moving!...finally i grab this -



and finally finally it dies...freaking out but feeling triumphant i grab my vacuum and suck that sheit up! thus....all that leads to this...



yes yes i kno...you probably wondering...all that plus a stain on your carpet because you cant kill a spider? and to those of you wondering that....i dont care!

i was scared for my life! i was seriously sweating my ass off and thinking this little fucker is gonna eat me for dinner!

in the end i won and i sucked him up in my vacuum...but damn...never putting off my laundry ever again...

Part II soon to come.

how well do you kno your friend jeen?

still waiting for the NYE pics...i think im almost over doing an NYE post, but will see =)...

here are a couple of questions to see how well you know me...answers will be in the comments section....ready, set, gooooooo!

1)what is the one food that i hate the most -
a) burritos
b) dinuguan - filipino pork blood soup
c) raw fish
d) indian food

2)what is my middle name?
a) marie
b) jane
c) catherine
d) lynn

3)what kind of car do i drive?
a) honda civic
b) toyota rav 4
c) honda accord
d) ford fusion

4)if you look through my ipod what music is played the most?
a) country
b) hip hop
c) reggae
d) R&B

5)what is my favorite day of the week?
a) sunday
b) wednesday
c) saturday
d) friday

6)what is my drink of choice when i first get into the club?
a) grey goose pineapple
b) hen and coke
c) shot of hen
d) long island ice tea

7)i have pretty big collection of?
a) used liquor bottles
b) magnets
c) pictures
d) sneakers

8)currently the phone that i use is?
a) an iphone
b) a blackberry
c) an android
d) a motorola razor

9)one of my all time favorite movies is?
a) sleepless in seattle
b) love jones
c) 50 first dates
d) brooklyn babylon

10)besides question 1 the other thing that i hate the most is?
a) basil
b) stinky breath
c) noisy people
d) cilantro

that's all i got folks! hopefully you scored high! if not you need to hang out more with your friend! hahahhaha

NYE updates soon, but for now...

two of my favorite viral videos....sooooooo freakin hilarious!