Thursday, October 17, 2013

Hilarious haunted house reaction photos

HEY YA'LL instead of giving the tired old blog post intro of OMG IT'S BEEN SO LONG SINCE MY LAST POST that I have used for the last, like, a bajillion posts, I will just get right down to bidness (business).

And that business (bidness) is OH HEY it is October and that means Halloween is a relevant thing right now! Hurray! Actually I never do anything for Halloween (because I am lame) so I don't even really care, haha. But candy is real cheap at the store and there are more cat-themed things around than usual and maybe I can find a badass corn maze to EXPERTLY NAVIGATE MY WAY THROUGH. I am not even joking, I sprint through corn mazes. And then have to wait forever for the rest of my friends to make it out. (The secret is to follow one wall alllll the way around until you make your way out. Trufax.) (Now I've just ruined corn mazes for everyone, lolz.)

Besides corn mazes, another thing that pops up during Halloween season: haunted houses! (Sometimes both at once, combined! Gasp.) I kind of like haunted houses because I like screaming really loud and clutching desperately to my friends in abject terror, but I also dislike haunted houses because I am very skittish and do not particularly enjoy having 50+ heart attacks in a row. However, I definitely like looking at the hilarious reaction photos taken at the Nightmares Fear Factory haunted house in Niagara Falls, Canada. In case you don't know, this haunted house is famous not only for apparently being the oldest haunted house in North America in continuous operation, but even more so for taking photos of visitors at a particularly scary part of the attraction and then posting the pictures online for all to laugh at.

Here is a selection of some of my favorite photos of random terrified people!



















I wonder what my photo would look like if I went to this haunted house...probably nothing because I would be curled up on the ground below the camera in fetal position. :P

via Buzzfeed, Mashable, and of course, NFF's Flickr

Thursday, August 8, 2013

Long overdue lololz

Mannnnnn I am the worst at blogging! But I've been so busy with work and vacations and birthday and GETTING ENGAGED aw yisssss. I know, EXCUSES EXCUSES. Onwards to random funny things!










via Poorly Drawn Lines, Infinite Nap, and some random tumblrs

Saturday, June 15, 2013

Caturday: Then and Meow

So kittens are pretty great, right? Totally. And cats are pretty great too, right?? Of course. I, somewhat atypically, actually like grown-up cats better than kittens. WHAAAAT, I know right? But old kitties are way more awesome than baby kitties. (Baby kitties are awesome too, though. Duh.)

Today's Caturday, however, is awesome for everybody, because it features both kittens AND cats! And not just any kittens and cats, but THE SAME kittens and cats. By that I mean, pictures of cats when they were kittens and pictures of the cats that the kittens became. You know. Then and meow. Please proceed. 



















Aren't they way more adorable and hilarious when they're older!?? I think they are. Either way, it's a cutie kitty overload. :)

mostly via these Buzzfeed articles

Saturday, April 13, 2013

Foods I have been hardcore craving

Food food food food....it is basically all I think about, along with kitty cats and buying stuff on the internet. (And also science, I suppose. But that is mostly just when I'm at work.) Here are some of the things I have been really wanting to eat lately.

Coconut frozen yogurt

As it is sort-of-maybe-possibly getting warmer (or, rather, as Boston taunts us with warm, sunny weather for a few days before reverting back to cold and overcast), I think more and more about tasty frozen treats like frozen yogurt. Coconut is, obviously, the best flavor of frozen yogurt. And Pinkberry may be way overpriced, but they have the best-tasting mochi - which is, obviously, the best topping for frozen yogurt.

Beef banh mi

I need to get down to Chinatown more often so I can get my banh mi on~! Banh mi are super delicious (and super cheap!) Vietnamese sandwiches with meat, cucumber, cilantro, and pickled carrots + daikon on a baguette. I prefer beef banh mi, as the pork/cold-cut variety usually includes pâté and various mystery meats that I am too chicken to try. My favorite place for banh mi is Mei Sum Bakery - more than slightly sketchy-looking and rather hard to find, but their banh mi (and baked goods) are so tasty!
 
Lai wong bao
(Egg custard buns)

Speaking of Chinatown-based foodstuffs... Within the last year or two, I was able to try egg custard tarts (daan taat) for the first time and found that they are amazing. Then, within the last month, I got to go to a dim sum restaurant for the first time (I can't help it, I've spend most of my life in super rural areas!) - so just imagine how thrilled I was with egg custard BUNS (lai wong bao). The yummy, creamy, egg-y custard of egg tarts combined with the delightfully fluffy bread casing of my beloved cha siu bao (pork buns) - fantabulous! I have been thinking about them all the time ever since I tried them...droooool. I think a banh mi + egg custard bun Chinatown sojourn must occur in the near future.

Pignoli cookies

Hopping now to another part of Boston, to the North End for tasty Italian treats like these! Pignoli cookies, aka pine nut cookies, aka almond macaroons, aka amaretti - they have many names, but these cookies are always amazing. The particular cookie I'm referring to is chewy and made with egg whites, almond paste, and sugar (plus pine nuts, of course). I first tried them at Modern Pastry (which sells, imo, the yummiest cannolis in Boston - better than Mike's or Maria's for sure), and when I recently had extra pine nuts on hand I tried making them from scratch using this recipe. Mine were not as pretty looking as the bakery variety, and they stuck really bad because I didn't have any parchment paper, but they were still really good!

Jiro-style ramen

I was actually not aware of this type of ramen (which originates from a chain of ramen shops called Ramen Jiro in Tokyo) until recently, when I heard about a relatively new ramen shop in Cambridge called Yume wo Katare that specializes in this style. Seeing as ramen (the legit, fresh Japanese kind in a big bowl with toppings) is probably my favorite food ever, and also seeing as how I especially love fatty tonkotsu ramen with chashuu on top, this place seems right up my alley. Now I just need to plan to go try it at a time when there isn't a ridiculously long line to get in....

Chocolate croissant

For some horrible and unknown reason, I had never eaten a chocolate croissant until just a couple of months ago. And boy, have I been missing out. So freaking delicious. And now that I've discovered that they sell excellent chocolate croissants at Au Bon Pain - which is absolutely everywhere in Boston - I might have to start eating them more often....and also probably start exercising more often. Lol. Worth it.

Chicken salad sub

Lately, I have not been very good about making legitimate dinners in the evening, so I relatively frequently grab some food on the way home. One of the most convenient and cost-effective meals for me to get is a sub from Al's Cafe - the chicken salad sub, in particular, is my favorite. (Chicken salad anything is almost always my favorite, actually.) Al's subs are filling, very reasonably-priced, made super quickly, and located right on my commute home from work. I wonder if the people who work at the Harvard location are starting to recognize me....I go there all the time. Also, the above photo is from a totally random sub shop chain with stores all over the country (but not in Boston, haha). But you get the idea. The idea being that chicken salad sandwiches are delicious.

Peanut butter cookie

Another convenient place for me to pick up tasty foodstuffs on my way home, helpfully located right past Al's, is Insomnia Cookies. Despite my strong hatred of peanut butter, peanut butter cookies actually happen to be my absolute favorite cookies ever. And the peanut butter cookies from Insomnia Cookies are amaaaaaaazing. What could be better than a soft, warm, gooey peanut butter cookie during a cold walk home after a long day of work? Not much, my friend. Not much.

Almond milk tea bubble tea

Another place in Harvard Square that I patronize frequently is Boston Tea Stop. Bubble tea is freaking awesome and I am therefore always craving it, so BTS ends up getting a lot of business from me. As in, a week rarely goes by where I don't drop by at least once. I get good use out of their frequent customer stamp cards! After trying numerous flavors, I have concluded that the almond milk tea with boba is the best. I want some right now.

SO WOW that was a way longer and more rambley post about food than I had intended! But whatever....I do what I want. And what I want is to eat all the foods, all the time. Om nom nom and such.

photos via the websites noted on each respective photo