January 2009
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Top Chef Recap
I was looking over my posts for the lasts few weeks and even I was bored and depressed to see that I’ve had nothing to write about except for tv shows and how miserable I am working the hours I am currently working. So with that in mind I’m posting this week’s insights to Top Chef because I need a breather to make up for the fact that it’s 11 PM on a Friday and I’m still working (pretty good huh –...
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Lack of dinner options near my office + closed...
Coworker: You haven’t gotten to choose where we order dinner from in a long time, where would you like to order from tonight?
Me: Nice! I want to order from [chinese / japanese restaurant that has decent sushi].
Coworker: We can’t order from that place, we just ordered from there last Thursday, that’s having too much chinese / japanese in a row.
The reason I am pouting that I...
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150 things to do before you turn 30
Bolded are ones I completed. Italics are my not-asked-for-but-provided-anyway comments
01. Bought everyone in the bar a drink (It costs over $6 in NYC for 1 bottle of beer… don’t see this happening anytime soon.)
02. Swam with dolphins
03. Climbed a mountain
04. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive (yes please!)
05. Been inside the Great Pyramid
06. Held a tarantula (gonna go out on...
My new blog: Cookbook Project →
I’ve decided to cook my way through my super-duper-hard cookbooks (and my easier ones too).
Email communication about Sox
[Below is email correspondence between me and my dad in response to a previous conversation we had about why I hadn't taken any pictures of Sox to show him yet.]
Me: Okay... the forgotten child has been included in the blog.
Dad: That's better but I notice Spam has a new picture and you might submit it to that cat thingy.
Me: It's not my fault that he's cuter.
[Now, before I get flamed for this comment... (not that I've figured out how to get comments, etc. onto this blog) let me explain 2 things to you]
1) I love both of my babies but am unbiased enough to know when 1 can be groomed for stardom (a la Lolcats) and 1 cannot.
2) Spam is also the one that gets in trouble A LOT more (so stardom comes at a cost) - though I do empathize with his role of breaking in new parents. It was my roll as well as I provided my parents with a wonderful opportunity of learning how to discipline kids and teenagers in particular. Let's just say I was grounded through most of high school due to silly misunderstanding such as breaking curfew (but I wasn't doing anything bad when the curfew got broken) and hiding report card grades (only the bad ones, and how was I supposed to know that they'd actually remember they hadn't seen them)...
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Check out this blog! →
Please note that I have not broken my promise (and the weekend starts in 4 hour anyway) as this is not an Obama post but a post about someone’s blog.
Beware! Gratuitous pictures of kitteh below!
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Song of the day.
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Trying to keep up with the Jolie-Pitts in adopting...
Last Saturday I adopted a beautiful, timid 8 month old girl. She was taken in by an adoption agency after being abandoned in a dumpster. Now, for those of you that have seen the look of horror on my face when asked when I plan to have kids, let me clear this up by explaining that she is furry, four-legged and could have pro-created with Spammers if we hadn’t gotten them...
Most unusual cat names of 2008
1. Edward Scissorpaws 2. Sir Lix-a-lot 3. Optimus Prrrime 4. Buddah Pest 5. Snoop Kitty Kitty 6. Miss Fuzzbutt 7. 80 Bucks 8. Sparklemonkey 9. Rosie Posie Prozac 10. Toot Uncommon
via Michelle and msnbc
Makes Prince Spamalot of Musubi Land sound normal right?…. Er, maybe not.
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On a daily basis I tend to have a song that I hum...
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Ahh... the company I keep.
The first year I reached a position in my company where I had people working for me I had a list going of the dumbest quotes my staff would stay. Yeah, yeah, I’m not a nice person in that sense. One of my favorites still remains “how do you round?” (as in numbers). This was from a girl that was only 20-years-old but working at the company because she’d already graduated college – a regular Dr....
More Sonja coverage on the inauguration
The office I’m currently working out of aired the inauguration live in their mini-auditorium. Yes! So I went there with a bunch of my co-workers. The crowd was pretty rowdy (or as rowdy as a crowd could get in a business setting) and so there was a lot of people screaming / laughing / cheering when appropriate. And then President Obama reached the part in his speech where he thanked Bush for...
Mr. President - Already making the tough choices.
Ouch - it’s currently 28 degrees F (but feeling like it’s 16 degrees F) in our nation’s capital but that’s not stopping my man from strolling along Pennsylvania Ave with a huge smile on his face. Yes we can!!!! Meanwhile, although I’m super excited for all the coverage on President Obama… where oh where is my high school band and cheerleaders… the girls...
It's finally here!!!
Happy inauguration day everyone!
Top 10 Things President Bush Should Say in His Farewell Address
10. “Remember this, America: 60 million of y’all wanted a second helping of this here Texas meat.”
9. “Soon as I’m out of the door, I’m putting all my efforts toward finding the real killers.”
8. “Imagine what would have happened these past eight years if I was still drinking?”
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Top Chef is Back!!!! →
***Top Chef Spoiler Alert***
Okay, I’m a little late with my post, as it actually came back last week. I was filled with mixed emotions as I was proven victorious once again when Ryan’s first contestant was eliminated. Wahoo! Except that it was the guy from Hawaii. Oh Boo. Which means I’m totally winning and will get a dinner of my choice coming up soon. Wahoo! In case...
I'm taking sewing lessons →
I’m super excited. I love this blog and she’s offering up free sewing lessons. I can’t sew at all - so hoping this isn’t too big of a task. Also, why do I come up with all these plans I want to do when I have been sentenced to a life of drudgery work over the next 2 months?
Book smarts vs Street smarts
[My friend/coworker emailed this to me]
Subject line of email: ummm... pepsi or coke... I don't care!
Message: So, my first year went to pick up lunch and I asked him to get me a diet pepsi... he came back with nothing and said they only had diet coke.
[This was sent 2 hours ago, I'm still laughing over here.]
[In my day as office grunt we sided on the other extreme. If they didn't have the drink your senior asked for, you brought back 5 different options so he/she could choose.]
Just saying...
Exercising excuses...
In regards to my post below, this really did happen to me. I lay down on the ground and decided to do some crunches (in the height of her awesomeness, Britney said she did 3,000 crunches a week… she had great abs, I want her abs) and Spam decided to sit right on my abdomen. I moved him off and he jumped right back on me. I tried to do some crunches despite the furry body on top of my...
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Making up for my lack of posting lately...
With some thoughts I’ve had this week.
Finally grossed out by food
I would like to think that I am one of the least food snobbiest people out there, meaning - I’ll try almost anything once. Granted I have expensive tastes and love the fancy-smancy restaurants but I’m always up for Spam or Velveeta cheese (which I’ve seen many people snub their noses at) or a yummy meal at the local deli. But this restaurant they highlighted on the travel...
Stamford, I'm proud of you!
I was beginning to think I was the only person that used the reusable bags at grocery stores in Stamford. Every time I go to the store I look around and everyone else is getting plastic bags. Granted I first started using them because I felt guilty for the excess amount of waste I generate and resources I use up (e.g. gas guzzling car), but now I find it so much easier to use too. Those bags...
TV inconsistencies...
So I finally got around to watching my tv shows from the past week and am irritated by this apparently recurring inconsistency they keep having on Grey’s Anatomy and its spin-off show, Private Practice. This week’s episode on Private Practice had guest star Jillian Armenante acting as a mother of three boys (one of which was autistic). Funny, I didn’t realize that she had these...
