my ideas

so ive been thinking and talking my ideas over with jaz and i think i have a substantial plan for what i want to do in the next few years;

After I finish my teach abroad experience (whether I choose to do more than one year is still up in the air) I want to come back and ultimately open up a chocolate shop. Originally, I had the idea of selling chocolates and little Turkish Coffee type drinks. If I stuck with only the Turkish Coffee drinks that idea would still be on. However, I figured if I was going to serve drinks people would expect other drinks like espresso and I think the noise would just kill the atmosphere I want to make in the shop.

For the store itself, Id like two sides of the building to just be glass. That way you can see into the store. I want it to have a sort of art gallery/jewelry store look to it. The floor would be large white tiles. Basically everything would be colored white, with lighting in specific places to give it that gallery type look. Then on one of the non-glass walls I'm thinking three rows with six big round glass bins per row would look good to put the chocolates in. The glass bins would be all round (kind of like a giant fish bowl) with a smaller hole in the top where people could take the chocolates in/out from.

The chocolates themselves need to be creative. I think creativity would be the way I could make my chocolates stand out from just regular chocolate shops and, ehem, my biggest rival, moonstruck cafe. I don't want to give my ideas away just yet, just trust me that they would blow your mind if I told you. Or well, at least they would make you say 'That's pretty creative.'

I want the chocolates to be wrapped in really bright metallic foil. I'm thinking bright magenta, bright green and etc for the different types. I would also like to wrap some of the circular shaped chocolates in a bow-tie style with pastel colored paper.

The last idea I have so far would be to offer custom boxes for people who wanted their chocolates wrapped up nicely. The picture I have in my head is just small square white boxes with a lid that can be fitted on and off. The white box would have black polka dots, or black stripes on it. The lid would have a ribbon on it going from the top corner to the opposite bottom corner. I want the ribbons to be brightly colored in possibly the same shades as the chocolate foil.

I would also like to take the business online and make chocolates as people order them. That might be a good way to actually start the idea up. We'll have to see how things flow. I even have a decent name picked out that I would like to use, which I'll share later when this idea becomes more of a reality. For now, the big thing I want to do is to continue focusing on creative chocolate ideas.

To get to the point of being able to do all these things, I was thinking directly after I came back from teaching abroad I would take the necessary steps to getting a job as a teacher in the US. I had a double degree in education before I changed my mind about teaching before, so I have over half of what I need to do to become a teacher in Oregon. This part is always subject to change should a better opportunity present itself to me, such as becoming a professional hooker. Just kidding about the hooker part. I like the idea of trying different careers out and saving money before I start my chocolate shop. I could even have my shop at the same time as I had a different job if I needed more money to keep my shop going.

anyway that was my idea :D im reallllllyyy excited about all the things i can do, i feel like my life just started and i can do whateverrrr i want with it, its so cooooolllll

oh also, something i really want to get into is learning the persian art style, if youve ever seen persian art it like makes you look at it all crazy and be all, how did they dooo thattt

ok i just wanted to get that all written down so i dont forget anything

tavalodet mobarak

I was looking around youtubes today and yesterday listening to ym favorite composers songs, his name is Anoushiravan Rohani, you should check him out, i want to see him live one day, hopefully he will do another tour this year

anyway, i was looking at a few of the covers people did on his work, and one of them had a really nice name so i thought id list out all the names i like, so i dont forget them, thisll be a sweet post to keep updating too, also im putting them in order of how much i like them, the ones with \/ around them are ones i realllyyy like and the other ones below them are ones that i enjoy

Female:
\Persia/
\Esfahan/ (s-fah-hawn)
Olivia
Ehva (aye-vah)
Joojeh (Jew-Jeh)
Nikoo/Nikou (neak-oh/neak-oo)


Male:
\Babak/ (bah-back)
\Salaheden/ (salaw-heh-dean)
Shirzad (sheer-zahd)
Shaheen (shaw-heen)


also, i cannot for the life of me find what the name of this song/composer is, i thought it might have been Rohani, but i imagine this would be an awful popular song seeing how beautiful it is, and it wasnt under his name on youtube

anyway heres the song, so you guys can hear something amazing today as well :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6dMdxhH-8c

gday mates

man roxys been in australia for i dont knwo how many months now, but it feels like a long time, the memories of us running a muck in downtown portland and our safe plan of moving to new zealand to become sheep farmers if all else fails, seem like they were so long ago, but itll be sweet when she gets back in july...but i might have already left to teach abroad by then, doh

note to self; write resume and etc etc

i was downtown with jaz the other day and man, i forget how many adventures you can have when you go down there, first we were chillin around and heard bagpipes, so of course we tracked the sound to its source and creeped on the bagpiper from afar, he was some cool looking dude in the middle of the park, was dece

then were like, lets kick this baby up a notch and decided to go to the ghetto of downtown to see if we could spot us some crack hoes, or hookers, although we may have encountered some of these creatures, we got too distracted with peeping through the window of the last adult theater in oregon, which has closed down, pooty, anyway so we were all lookin inside the windows, and i have to say the chairs in front of the movie screen looked mightyyyy comfortable, we were trying to figure out what this little cubicle on the side was and concluded that it must have been a masturbation station

anyway, then we continued on and i was like looking across the street at these chicks pants, because they were bright blue and like looked painted on they were so tight, and i was looking at them in a no homo sort of way, but i thought they looked awesomeee, when all of a sudden jaz is like WHAT IS THATTT and i looked in front of us and there was like bandages and blood all over it, oh it was so creepy i cant even think of anything funny to say about it, but yeah what can you expect when you head down there, i mean the only crazier place to go than the ghetto part is the china town part and man, you need to travel in more than a pack of two to adventure through that part

but it was good times :D

okok im gonna go back to sleep now, but i leave you all with this

a little memory of roxy; may she rest in peace till she gets back

tonight was amazing

HERES MY TABLE OF CONTENTS BEFORE I FORGET MY THOUGHTS
- life
- team us
- jasmine, a buddy to build with
- purple flag
- fulfilling potentials
- ideas
- always learning
- book club


ok i had the best time tonight, you know how i have all my crazy ideas of the things i want to do? well like when we were kids i used to have a whole bunch of ideas too and when i was a kid like i felt like i could do all of them because i always had roxy and jaz as my bros who were like, yeah lets do itttttt

then i went to college and like i think i forgot that feeling, like the feeling of like, i dont even know, i mean i know what im saying but i dont know how to write it down, but like i think when i left for college like i stopped getting that feeling of 'i can do anything', and like i didnt come up with cool ideas as much, just because i was distracted by other things

but now like,man, now im backkkk, im back in portland and like jaz is here and like, i just build off of her and were like gonna start a team, we havent decided a name yet, but its gonna be so great

i just drank a pot of coffee so im trying to keep my thoughts straight, like it all started out when i was going over to help her fill out some of her baby shower cards to send out, and i had the idea of going to one of those 24 hour restaurants and just chilling with coffee and doing them but then it turned into something so much more, like i was telling her my ideas and she was like, yes lets do this, and i was like YES LETS DO THIS, so we made a pact

were going to try to enrich our lives with like knowledge and adventures and ideas and always have like something going on, were gonna try and be the best people we can be and like, start a bunch of projects together and start a book club and become persian partners so we can speak persian as our code language

OH AND WERE GONNA HAVE A FLAGG, for several days i was thinking, man why does no country use purple as its main flag background, welp, were inventing a flag, and were gonna pick like two emblems or something that represent us, im picking a rainbow and work them into each other in a cool way, and then thatll be our flaggg

ok so some of our ideas are like; we want to be entrepreneurs, and i want to start a band where we just rap about lyrics of funny stuff that happens to us in our everyday lives, just for fun so we can look back and laugh, and we want to create things

i have this cool idea for art, involving glitter glue, cant say more until ive worked out all the details, but yeah its gonna be cool

she wants to make little craft type things and sell them, which is a cool idea shes great at that stuff

and we want to work towards starting a non profit organization aimed at high school kids, that will be a long time int he making, but the idea is to always always alwaysss have something in the works

were gonna pack ourselves full of knowledge, like anything we can get our hands on, i want to know everything, but theres too much to learn in one lifetime so well have to really be dedicated to this one so we can learn as much as we can

oh i told her about my blog ideas, she liked them so i want to get the ball rolling on that too

ahh there are so many more ideas i just cant think of them all or remember them, i need to start carrying around like a notepad or something so i can write them down as they come to me

i feel really like alive right now, its so cool, its the same kind of feeling i used to have all the time when i was a kiddddd, i remember this one time i wanted to turn this fort thing into a pirate ship, and like make it ours (me r and js) and i had this cool feeling like that i could really make anything happen

oh yeah and i talked with jaz about being a yes man, like saying yeah to things just because an opportunity presents itself, because im sure that will lead to cool adventures and experiences

im so happpyyyyyyyyy, i love my lifeeeeee

ok now i gotta go coz i have to get up in 4 hours, but this is greattt, i gotta cut out sleeping from my schedule coz i have so much to doooooooo

also, i want to make people happy, and like help people, like random acts of kindness to make people i dont even know have a better day, but i dont want them to be random i want them to be like constant

okok that was my last thought, see you later my friends :)

lil bro gets the shaft?

so a few weeks ago i was like talking to my aunt and my little cousins and i noticed that the two older ones hung out together and then the 2 year old baby hung out with the rents and the like middle youngest kinda got the shaft coz he had no one to hang out with and was trying to get attention in a negative way, which caused his mom and the two older cousins to always talk about him in a negative way and i was like, ill hang out with you lil bro, we can be buddies

and then i went to my dads california house for a week and yadda yadda, but his bday was on monday and i remember last year we threw a party for the two older boys (they all have bdays around the same time) and little buddies mom said his turn would come next year...so i was gone for his bday so i asked my mom what all went down for little buddies bday, and she said his mom forgot about it, and i was like what the beeeeppp no man nooo, i felt so bad for the lil guy, coz last year his brothers really got a big deal kind of a bday thing

so i called my aunt up and i was like, hey is it still chill for me to pick up little buddy from school? and shes like yeah man thanks so much, so i was like hey little buddy since i missed your bday, think of some stuff you wanna do and well go do it, and so im pre sureeee were gonna go to the arcade for a bit (he knows i love halo and wow and gaming, and so he always brings up gaming when he talks to me, tis so awesome, hes like a lil bro) anyway but i want to go and get him a little cake and write his name on it and put a candle in it so he can feel special, even though its like 2 days late

but yeah hes gonna be a bro and were gonna halo and ill like think of cool things we can make, like neon colored playdough and fun stuff so he feels like hes got a buddy

that is alll

good ideas, bad ideas and other crazy happenings of the day

lali ho secret lover aka my cool journal,
so as not to forget what im trying to remember to write let me type out a brief overview of the chapters that will follow
good food idea
bad food idea
crazy dog?
lesbian dog
i forget what else

ok, good food idea of the day, finding that you have plump specialty raisins, peanut butter but no celery

oh craps, my dad wants to go somewhere, will retype rest later...see table of contents was a greataa ideaaaa, back soon back soon

ok back, what was i wika wika typing hmm

oh yeah, raisins and peanut butter but no celery, so i invented a peanut butter honey raisin sandwich to try and make up for it, not quite as good as a peanut butter and honey, or an ants on a log, but still all in all a nice idea

next on my list, bad food ideas, lately ive been into grape lollipops, which i must say are delicious, grape being the best fruit flavor of them all, if only they made green and blue grape flavored items, note to self; put this on my list of inventions along with clamless clam chowder, anyway, i decided i wanted to go swimming, however i had just unwrapped a grapalolli so i had the idea of going swimming with the lollipop anyway, all was going well until i decided i needed to one up michael phelps by playing around under the water, this is how i came to conclude that swimming in a salt water pool whilst eating a grape lollipop, or any flavor of lollipop for that matter, was a bad idea, while only a little mouthful of salt water got into my mouth as i did my underwater shenanigans, it was a little mouthful of what tasted like cum, dont get me wrong or anything, i enjoy a good mouthful of cum as much as the next lady does, but i think we can all agree that theres a time and place for every taste, for instance, say youre going along to taco bell or bk, your fav fast food joint if you will, and you order a milkshake (ignore the fact that tacobell does not have milkshakes, substitute soda in for that example, anyway on with my story before i lose my train of thought) ok so you get your milkshake and you take a small sip and youre like hells yeahhh this is gonna be some delicious milks-omg this tastes like a hamburger, ok hamburger tasting milkshakes may be the future, and that may actually be a cool idea to pursue ps to future people, i invented the idea of a hamburger tasting milkshake after a run in with a cum tasting lollipop, creds to the right people plz

anyway, my point is this, theres a time and a place for every taste

onto the next item of my list

ohb yeah, topic crazy dog, ok so after run in with salt water lollipop taste test cum failure, i decided id play on the upside of the water till i finished my lolli, so i was chillin out on the steps of the pool, i had just taught my dads dog how to come in and out of the water so the lil bugga was chillin next to me, and im like just relaxing contemplating life and chewing on the chocolate inside of the lollipop when my dads dog just goes crazy town on me, it turns out that the lil guy is scared of anything landing on his rear end and it was approaching evening so those little gnats were starting to come out, i was worried he had ebola or alzheimer and i was going to have to take him down

oh, now on to lesbian, dog, so it was evening right? and so the air was like iunno 68 but there was no sun and the water was warmer than the air so i was like, damns ive trapped myself in this pool unless i want to experience some crazy chills, so as i was building up the courage to popsicle it up i look over and murray is humping my stepmoms dog shamwow, and i was like what the beeeppp, i will have no lesbian activities on my watch....murray and her crazy dominance lesbianess, i wasnt surprised

oh and my dad got this cool mini helicopter that he kept trying to fly, its lol, i took a video but i cant upload it till later when i can stick my micro sd card into my sd card adapter which plugs in by usb to my computer

that it all, over and out

edit, i want to add this song in because i want to remember what i was into when i look back on my posts--- steve miller band abra kadabra

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTJ1hRaElyE

for the ladies ;p

sup ladies

man i wish i was a guy so i could smooth talk some ladies with that line 'sup ladiesssss'

anyway, ive been doing a lot of swimming lately which has led to a lot of thinking while swimming which led to a cool idea...i should start thinking about cool toy inventions, one time i was watching this tattoo show and there was a guy that worked for a toy company on there, id never considered what itd be like working for a toy company before, but i think it would be pre dece

a toy shop would be cool, maybe like an adult toy shop too, im not talking like fleshlight and leather here, i mean like, gadgets and high tech remote control robots, i was always into gadgets...the omsi store has tons of them but theyre soooo expensive, but so cool

i love science