Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Day 67

Broken spoon Ben n Jerry ice cream Bliss!

Had been craving ice cream the past 2 days and I usually don't crave ice cream, but my bff Salt told me about her fav B&J ice cream, the oatmeal cookie crunch flavor. Oh i know, I had been proud of my creation, my breakfast of champion "cookie dough oatmeal" (please refer to Day 60). So Salt told me about this flavor and ice cream was on my mind. So today at lunch we went and each got 2! Great sale, 2 for $6 Woohoo! came back and broke my silly plastic spoon carving and scooping away. It was pure blissful ice-cream-eating-spoon-breaking moments!!

I got the chocolate chip cookie dough and chocolate fudge brownie. Verdict: Choc chip cookie dough!

expected bliss: 24, unexpected bliss: 43

Day 66

LUCY BLISS!!!

OMGOMG I met Lucy! lol ok ok I know that it is an actress but still, I was SO excited to go take the picture with her. Gotta hand it to her, she stayed in character the whole time. Lucy makes me happy. Those that know me well know I love I Love Lucy! I have Lucy slippers, checkbook, wallet, books and drinking glasses. Many days after work I have dinner with Lucy. The show in general just makes me happy and feel safe in a way that is hard to explain. It brings me to childhood, to happy times, to feeling at home. I can and have watched the same episodes over and over and over. Stilllll makes me laugh and blissfully content.

expected bliss: 24, unexpected bliss: 42

Sunday, May 27, 2012

Day 65



Panera both sandwich bliss!

Please don't ask me to choose because I can't! Went to pick up lunch and couldn't decide which ones so decided to go the healthy route. Ordered the two with lowest amount of calories (they still sounded super yummy) and got the mediterranean veggie and the tuna. OMG both were amazing in flavor. Could not for the life of me pick one. I choose both! Both Bliss! You know how some people believe that you can love 2 people at the same time? I am not here to argue that. I am here to tell you world, that you CAN love both sandwiches at the same time!

expected bliss: 24, unexpected bliss: 41


Day 64


Sleeping doggy bliss...

Bunnies, hugs, balls and big bones...I imagine that is what Sleeping Sierra was dreaming yesterday. This sweet strong doggy provided me part of my volunteer hours and bliss with her company. She was adopted today :)

expected bliss: 24, unexpected bliss: 40

Day 63



Royal Capital Seafood Bliss...

Took friend here for his birthday lunch and I got power hungry when he said I can take care of ordering for us. So above picture has the beancurd, salted pork chops, sauteed pea sprouts, beef chow fun and the...drumroll please....house special fish! That dish is the bomb! Ate and caught up with each other. What other kind of bliss is there again?? O wait, o yea, there is plenty but this is just pure food bliss pleasure!

expected bliss: 23, unexpected bliss: 40

Day 62


Cat fan bliss....

Just moved to a new office and now facing out to the parking lot, but beyond that the golf course to the trees to the sky...there has been a lot going on at work and one morning upon arrival found this 2 sided fun fan of startled kitty waiting for me. Gift from neighbor D. Cracked me up and every once in awhile make eye contact with Mr. Cat and get a good laugh in the midst of the work doodoo.

expected bliss: 22, unexpected bliss: 40

Day 61


Bow Heel Bliss...

Snagged these heels from honey's store! Scored! All right I will be honest and candid with you here. When I first laid eyes on them a few words came to mind: Jetson's, space and that's a big fat gift with that bow! However, after seeing it on, new vocabulary: cuuuuuuute! I guess I have wrapped my ankles and feet a nice lil present! Match it with a cute black dress or some shorts and I am off to town with the love!

expected bliss: 22, unexpcted bliss: 39


Day 60


Breakfast Bliss...

Now I know what you are thinking...this breakfast isn't much of a looker. But look again! I have created a blissful breakfast! This is plain quaker oats with water, but THEN added walnuts, banana slices, bit of almond milk, spoonful of flaxseeds, and a spoonful of PB! Poof! Breakfast bliss that resembled cookie dough mix of some sort! MMMMMMMMM. now step forward. who wants a bowl?

expected bliss: 22, unexpected bliss: 38

Day 59


unBashful Bliss...

In the name of love and name of business I ventured out to the side of the street of our shoe store plaza with above sign "Honk if you like you like my shoes" and happy to report that some honks did come my way! Ok, some were inappropriate, but most were good!! And one young couple even walked across the street into the store! For your viewing pleasure I included the said shoes in sign. These amazing sky-high-reach-for-the-stars-wedge! Come to Fairview and look for the sign waver! I have always driven by people dancing with their signs and wanted to try it! Done!

expected bliss: 22, unexpected bliss: 37

Day 58

Beauty Bliss...

I didn't take this pic and I am sure some photoshopping may have gone into it, but saw this and loved it. Yours truly has a special liking for cherry blossoms (hence the ink on my back) and this just looked beautiful. and blissful. I want to be there with my bare toes pointing to the sky...

expected bliss: 22, unexpected bliss: 36


Day 57


Mother's Day Mom Bliss

Every year my mom works on the day of Mother's Day so we always celebrate either before or after the real Sunday, which works out great because we can avoid the madness that occurs every year out in brunch world! This year we went to Langham Huntington in Pasadena for brunch and it was pretty good! The hotel grounds are beautiful and we took lotsa pictures together! It was nice just mother and daughter! And I am sure my mom enjoys walking around with her giant daughter hah!

expected bliss: 22, unexpected bliss: 35

Day 56

Irish matey bliss

To celebrate my lovebug's new business venture I took him to Gallagher's in downtown HB where we consumed a pitcher of Guiness (ok that was mostly accomplished by lovebug) and had fish n chips and the turkey burger (add fried egg please!!) It was amazing, the service was great and we left satisfied! oh and this was recommended by my supervisor who is half Irish so had to go with that recommendation right! Now I tell you world, go get Gallaghered too!

expected bliss: 21, unexpected bliss: 35


Day 55

Pan de queso..bread bliss

I love the cheesey bread at Brazilian BBQ establishment Fogo De Chao so when my accountant told me about www.amigofoods.com selling the mix for the awesome bread I love that I call Brazilian cheesey bread, I jumped on it and got me 10 boxes! It is so simple that for the not so betty crockers like me, it is easy! Just add eggs and water and poof you have got bread palooza. Out of the oven bliss balls available at  my fingertips! Score!

expected bliss: 20, unexpected bliss: 35

Day 54

Bootcamp Barf Bliss!

Agreed to go to my prima's friend's bootcamp class and dang that kicked my big fat butt (as pictured) It was about 40 minutes long and the instructor had time to snap a quick pic to see if I would really barf! lol! It was excellent tho. Many times throughout I fantasized about going Wolverine on the other instructor's face, but in the end did have to say a sweaty sore thank you! Great workout! Sense of accomplishment was pretty sweet too!

expected bliss: 20, unexpected bliss: 34

Day 53



Skydive Bliss!

Awesome adrenaline rush for Alice. I haven't gone skydiving since Hawaii a few years ago and again this thrill was just what I needed! There had been a lot going on in the past few weeks and I was looking forward to this. Sure, signing documents over and over covering the fact that I will not sue for any bodily injury is not the best foreplay, but inching over closer to the door of the plane makes up for it! THAT foreplay was intense and I just want to go back and revisit that excitement again. Oh and yes. On the jump down I lost my right shoe. So hope my shoe did not bonk anyone on the head!

expected bliss: 20, unexpected bliss: 33

Monday, May 14, 2012

Day 52

Bean Cheese Rice Burrito Bliss

Say that 10 times fast. Bean cheese rice burrito bliss x 10. BCRBB. The gang went to get lunch together at a lil spot called Miguel's Jr and I had the bean cheese rice burrito wet style and it was gloriously good! Oh! but before we left, there was extra bling bliss when i heard the familiar sound of a coin touching the ground and was surprised and excited to see that the teen that dropped his coin did not even seem to care. So i told him that he dropped his dime, he said he didnt care and didn't want it so I asked if I can have it, he said yes, and picked the dime and a nearby fallen penny up and walked out of the place a burrito and $0.11 richer! woohoo!!

expected bliss: 19, unexpected bliss: 33

Thursday, May 3, 2012

Day 51

A Sprinkle of BFF Bliss

"You are my sanity."

Aww that was what my bff said to me this morning. We were talking about the possibility of if we didn't work together, that it would be boohoo sad. Just when I thought I was part Chinese and part looney, (and don't forget I do the Insanity workout) I get this and it brightens my day!

So, world, do this today! Tell people what they are to you! (happy thoughts people!)

expected bliss: 19, unexpected bliss: 32

Day 50

Halfway through....my b-moment seeking journey has reached its halfway point on Day 50. Thinking about it...it feels like it went by pretty fast. Each day had moments of bliss, whether "big" or "small" or however significant. Regardless, they were mine and real to me. Looking at the bliss score card, the current score is:

expected bliss: 19, unexpected bliss: 30

It tells me what I suspected all along, that in life, we know certain set things that make us happy and make us feel excited to be alive and to be able to feel what we feel....but it's those unexpected moments that will catch you off guard and create the bliss that makes it more worthwhile to live with our eyes and hearts open. Wide open.

Kids: Forrest Gump was right: Mama always said, life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get!

Reflecting on this midpoint realization is b-blog-worthy. Salud to the next part of my b-journey.

expected bliss: 19, unexpected bliss: 31

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Day 49

Bulldog Bliss

Got off late from work and decided to get a pizza from the Gourmet Pizza Shoppe. I had been craving pizza since a few days ago and decided I needed to treat myself! So here is the Bulldog pizza I ordered, with chicken and spinach and tomato and mozarella cheese. The crust is amazing. Funny coincidence, for lunch I had spinach and chicken too! Totally recommend this establishment! Mmm Mmm blissfully good!

expected bliss: 19, unexpected bliss: 30

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Day 48

Zzz Bliss

Ahh....sleeep.....the past weekend I have been extra tired and busy with the new store and other activities. Slept late on the night Day 47 and woke up snoozing away morning of Day 48 wondering how I would survive. But I did! After work I got home and did my Insanity workout because I knew that it would give me extra energy. Did that, packed up, headed to our store and closed up, then Mr. Honey and I did some more rearranging and organizing and then got gas and finalllly got home. Showered and had dinner and watched The Office...and then hit the ZZZs hard. The past few nights have been blissful during bedtime because as soon as it was lights out, we were just out. Love those moments where you can just fall asleep right away while our brain rearranges and recuperates. Just didn't know how MUCH I'd love it this time!!

expected bliss: 19, unexpected bliss: 29