Let’s just knock the food category out of the way. Not having any full categories defined is haunting me.

44) Plant a mini-herb garden.

Legal herbs only, bro! Groan.. sorry, sorry.

45) Plant a mini back-deck vegetable garden

Yes, this could be combined with #44, but I’m doing the herb garden as a separate beast, because I imagine each will have a different set of challenges. I’ve been doing some research online about vegetables I could plant on the back deck, which is pretty small, you can only fit 4-5 adults out there at a time, and that’s not even terribly comfortable.

So far, I think I’ll try to grow: red peppers, jalepeno peppers… Um….uhhh…. Maybe zuchinni? I think I read that those are easy to grow. Dammit! We’ll see.

46) Vegan pizza party and movie night.

Sounds fun, right? Maybe we’ll watch Brewster’s Millions then have a pillow fight.

47) Host a fancy-pants dinner party

This is an idea from my friend Injung, and I love it. This would be a several course, sit down, place cards and everything kind of dinner party. I’ll even force the guests to dress nice. Riki and I don’t even have a proper table and chairs set, so I’ll have to think about logistics of this one a bit more.

48) Make this

Have you ever seen anything so absolutely perfect or beautiful in your whole life? My god.

49) Something that is in the works, I want to see if it happens before I post about it…

YES!!! Food is done! And I like that it’s not all about me stuffing my face. I mean, it mostly is, but not the herb garden one.

This weekend was all about food, which is my favorite thing to do besides lie motionless. Sunday I went to Ann and Henry’s for brunch: tofu scramble, vegan raspberry waffles, roasted potatoes, fresh fruit and mimosas. ARGHHH! SO GOOD!

Later that evening I made tomato rice soup with roasted garlic and navy beans from V’con… I had to call my mom because I didn’t know what navy beans were. Turns out Jewel didn’t even have them, (but they do have 900 kinds of potato chips and 30,000 flavors of Lean Cuisines, thank god) so I substituted it with a different white bean.

Jewel. What a freaking joke.

But seriously, that soup is so good and took 2 min to make. I’m having it for lunch everyday this week, just so you know.

From brunch:

I just want to curl up in a ball and nap amongst this food.