dissonance

Yeah, good luck with all that

For the last two years I've tagged along with Alana to celebrate Thanksgiving with her family.  This year, some of my own family members are coming down here instead.  Additionally, both of my roommates and their boyfriends will also be joining us (Don is still a maybe, boooooo).  Thusly the meal preparation is falling on my shoulders (with a lot of help from the roommates I hope).

Thanksgiving Day Menu

Sugar Coated Pecans (for snacking)
Grilled Turkey (thank goodness for Cindy's birthday present)
"Traditional" cranberry sauce (ie from a can)
Mashed Potatoes a la Cindy
Slow cooker stuffing
Snappy green beans with bacon
Sweet Potato & Apple casserole
Pumpkin Pie and ice cream

The most perfect food

August is National Sandwich Month!

And look, I may have found my soulmate. 
Ok, if not my soulmate, at least another blog to read, and dang those sammiches look gooooood (even the ol' PB&J).

In celebration, I'm going to go to Panera today in lieu of the originally planned NY style pizza place.  Not only do they have delicioso sandwiches, they also provide free wi-fi.  I don't have my laptop with me, but just to be surrounded by FREE WI-FI makes my skin tingle.

This all makes me feel a tad better because our dodgeball team is on a losing streak (2-3).  We have only two more games in the next three weeks (one week is a bye).  If we come out of this with a record where we've won more than we've lost, I think I can consider this whole experience a successful therapy session for all my painful memories of middle school.

Food, tv, music: happimi indeed

Guess who didn't get the memo that it isn't her birthday anymore?
Hint: me

Cindy brought me Phil's BBQ.  Hot damn that was good stuff.  Nothing like some ribs, chicken, and beer (with a good sprinkling of macaroni salad and beans) to celebrate a birthday yet again!

And just when I think it can't get any better, tonight was the season finale of House. Wee!

Oooh and someone introduced me to West Indian Girl.  Pretty good stuff. I'm gonna try and catch them at the new SD House of Blues next Thurs (opening for unknown Fischerspooner).  <-- That's an edit.  Wed at the Casbah is actually Out Hud, who I'm also planning on checking out.

Mine, all mine!

Not to be sexy or anything, but I can eat strawberries until I throw up.
I once had three dinner platefuls of strawberries at Todai and I only stopped because they ran out.

Please still like me

For those of you who are like me and love dark chocolate, Starbuck's Chantico is very very good.   It only comes in tiny 6oz. servings but I don't think I could drink more than that in one sitting so it works out all right.  Anyway, I feel an obsession coming along, I like it that much.

However, as the article states, the sucker is 350 calories.  Do you know how long that is on a treadmill? (for me, almost half an hour)  Do you realize I can eat a chicken pita and a half for that?  Not that I want to be a calorie counter but... dang.

I tried it with Kris when we went to Starbuck's for a knitting party.  Wooooo... good times, good times.  Our latest 'thing' is socks and there were 3 other people at the party making socks as well.  Yes, there was actually more than 3 people at this this knitting party.  I'd say maybe 11 people at one point.  This one girl is making an iPod cozy, which I am all over for my next project.  The Apple store offers iSocks but they're $30!! Screw that! Ok they give you six, but really... does my iPod need 6 socks?  I don't think so.  It's simple enough that I might get ambitious and put a design on it. I'm thinking maybe an emoticon, either ;) or =D.

Hmm... and with that comment have I just received a bid to be in the dork hall of fame?

Breakfast of champions

Today is my co-worker's birthday so my other co-worker suggested we bring cupcakes and being the sucker that I am, I volunteered to make them. So last night I go buy some cake mix and when I go home I realize we don't have any muffin pans (where is it??), so I think to myself, "No problem, I'll buy one after Joey and Apprentice and I'll still be in bed by 12."

So Apprentice is over, and being the distracted little ADD dork that I am, I get caught up in this and that (don't even ask me what "this and that" is, I don't remember) and I go to bed.

Around 1 o'clock I sit bolt upright in bed.

OMG, the f*%[email protected]#g cupcakes!

But Vons is closed and there's nothing I can do. So I set my alarm for 6:30am stumble over to Vons, stumble back home, kind of mix the batter and take a 20 minute nap while it bakes.

The result? Tada!

It's none to shabby considering I don't really remember making it.

Now to find some Pepsi to wash it down...