About
My wide, toothy smile and Scandinavian fondness for bright color give me a downright Muppet-esque air. I like to cultivate this, and often sing Beethoven’s Ode to Joy in the voice of Beaker. My name is Amber Adrian, and I’m not really a muppet. Nor am I a moose. I just play one on the internet. I’ve been blogging at Moose in the Kitchen since 2005.
I grew up in San Jose, California, when kids still rode their bikes in the street and VHS technology was cutting edge. Early claims to fame include infecting my entire family with chicken pox in the fourth grade, performing with Santana in the Opening Ceremonies of the 1994 World Cup (I was one of approximately 9 million dancers, so it’s really not as impressive as it sounds), and sleeping through an entire semester of Econ classes. In 1996, I packed up and left California to attend college in Manhattan, where I learned to navigate crowds with cunning and guile, and how to look innocent when the fire alarm goes off during an unfortunate 2 a.m. Rice-a-Roni experience. I also learned that bragging about your reading comprehension has unintended and hilarious effects. Like being handed an embossed certificate written in Latin.
It’s true. I can’t read my own college diploma.
I’m 31 years old and live in San Francisco, in an apartment that’s approximately the size of a hallway. Luckily, I feel comfortable in small spaces – possibly because I don’t have to spend as much time cleaning them. I’m a writer who writes to pay the rent and hopes one day to buy pricey cheese in addition to paying the rent. One day, I plan to be so fancy with the writing that I move all the way up into the Able To Take Proper Vacations Without Hocking the Car category. When I do, you’ll be the first to hear about it.
My current ambitions include writing in whatever format suits my whim (epic email correspondence, blog, haiku), moving to an apartment that allows dogs, adopting a dog, and finding someone who will love me, my dog, and my incessant keyboard clacking. Saving the planet doesn’t seem to be on that list, but I like to think I make my own corner of the world a little bit better. Mainly by baking people cookies. I like coffee beans, shiny shoes, paperbacks, and flannel sheets.
Thanks for visiting.
