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and go to Alisa's blog. She's always putting up fabulous recipes and home decorating ideas, and it's lots of fun. But seriously, homegirl is a freakin' GOURMET.
Last weekend we were celebrating a birthday in our little group, and Alisa made this. It was so unbelievably good I decided that I would go out on a limb and try to make it myself from the recipe on her blog. Which I did tonight. It was actually a pretty fast thing to make and it's DELICIOUS. I won't lie, mine is not even close to as good as hers, but it's still tasty and I filled up two tupperware containers which will provide lunch for the next two days. Woop!
This is how mine looked (hers was also way prettier):
And coupled with a glass of wine (yea, I'm classy with my $9.99 wine) should make for an excellent TV watching night. Big Bang Theory, How I Met Your Mother, and Heroes. I'm giving Heroes a chance to hold my attention this season, after what we'll say was a subpar plot choice for season 2.
So, yea. Got a little carried away with the s' there, I'm not sure what happend. But you'll also note that I'm too lazy to go back and fix it.
At any rate, as I'm sure you're well aware, last night was the 2 hour season premiere Grey's Anatomy spectacular of bloody medical drama.
I pretty much loved it. I thought the trio of ladies who came in from the limo accident were all very good and I loved the scene when Kathy Baker was exclaiming over one of the men they brought in only to find out later that he wasn't actually her husband, just her best friend's husband who she'd been having an affair with. Shame on you, Kathy Baker! (and can I just quickly tell you how much I love her now that she's moved from the 'crazy mom' to the 'interesting older lady' character? She used to always play someone's crazy mom or something. I didn't love it)
This may be sacrilege to Shonda Rhimes, but I'm just not sure how I feel about the army guy. I think it's a good idea for a character and I definitely think it's about time Christina got some play, I just don't know about that actor. Did anyone else find it wooden and awkward (and maybe even a little creepy) when he said, "YEA, SO" while he was getting out of the ambulance and the chief asked him if he really trached (sp?) a guy with a ballpoint pen? I don't know, delivery was off or something and it just set the tone all wrong for me. Maybe I'm being nitpicky. Wouldn't be the first time.
I did like the whole Christina impaled by an icicle situation. I like seeing her as the patient when she's bossing everyone around and being rude as opposed to season two when she had the ectopic pregnancy and spent an entire episode crying. This was way better.
I'm super glad Rose is gone, but I did think it was kind of anticlimactic that she just up and went to pediatrics after basically stabbing Derek in the middle of an operation. Yea yea "accident" whatever, she is a scrub nurse and she should know better, I think she should have gotten in trouble. But then this is Grey's Anatomy and Izzie got to keep her job after cutting some guy's LVAD wire and almost killing him, so I guess they can't really punish Rose for scratching some guy's hand, right?
Anyway, I thought it was a pretty good episode and I'm looking forward to the rest of the season (at least the closest thing we got to trying to save a deer this time was Derek telling Meredith that she was like a deer), but I'm a little bitter that it'll be two weeks before there's another new episode. I am not much of one for waiting.
Now then, obviously since I watched Grey's live yesterday, I had to wait until today to watch The Office online. It was a tough call, especially when Toni called and invited me over to watch with her. I wanted to go, but I knew that I would just end up trying to jump into Grey's in the middle and then I would get frustrated that I didn't know what was going on. Anyway, now that I've seen The Office, here are my thoughts:
I just really never get tired of Jim & Pam. They're so super cute and the whole proposing at the rest stop lunch meet-up because he couldn't stand waiting any longer might be the cutest thing ever.
The rest of the episode was quite excellent, but I gotta be honest, the only thing that really stands out for me is the engagement thing. Loved it.
And the only other thing I have to say is hooray for the weekend, it could not have come soon enough!
Two hour season premiere of Grey's tonight!
And I can only hope that will be enough to get me through the next 8 hours.
Longest. Week. Ever.
Hello again.
So, earlier I thought I wasn't going to post about this because I didn't want my parents to flip out or anything, and I was going to just ease them into the idea, but then I thought, eh? I've already moved 5 states away on what basically boiled down to a whim, so after that there's probably not much that will phase them. Might as well just rip the band-aid.
(though I did tell them ahead of time and warn them it was going up in a post. I don't like secrets, but I also don't like to induce strokes just for shock value)
I got a tattoo yesterday! Now, here's the story: I picked out this tattoo when I was 18, newly arrived at college and wanting to be a rebel (because, you know, it's not like every other 18 year old college student gets a tattoo). The thing is, I never actually did it because a) I was afraid that 5 minutes after I got it I would hate it, b) I couldn't justify the cost , and c) I am a total chicken. Cut to 9 years later, I have never wavered in the design I wanted, and Alisa's boyfriend is a talented tattoo artist who stubbornly refused to take my money, so I sucked it up on the pain front and bit the bullet!
This is the process:
This is the finished product (well, the color is a little off because it bled kind of a lot):
And this is what it looks like today (see how the color is so much better?):
The today shot is a little farther away because it was brought to my attention that it's hard to tell how big it is in the close-up pictures. It's in a spot that is easily and usually covered with clothing, so you really can't see it unless I want you to (don't you feel special that I want you to see it?) yet it's not in a place that's completely indecent. The tricky part is that for the first few days I have to clean it and put this ointment on it several times a day and due to the placement on my back I have to do this interesting twisting maneuver in order to do that and I won't miss it when that was no longer required. :)
Oh, and it's a little star guy from the Care Bears. They live up in the cloud city. Specifically, it's this little guy, minus the Easter Egg he's holding:
Cheesy? Yes. Do I love it anyway? Yes. Stars are my favorite shape and this is really just a friendly little star. What could be better?
I love it! (and my parents both took it like champs, thanks guys!)
So yes, I'm aware that it's been awhile. But I was on vacation and then birthday celebrating, Rock Band playing, recovering, and having my brain fried repeatedly at work.
The brain frying is still taking place at a level which is making me sort of hate my life from 9am-5pm Monday - Friday, but that's fine. It's only temporary, right? I hope?
Anyway, I am spending a lot of time hating feeling like I'm wrong ALL THE TIME at work NO MATTER WHAT. And yes, I'm having a bad morning.
The real point of this super short post is to celebrate the return of all new TV! How I Met Your Mother premiers tonight! Yay! At least there will be something to look forward to in this @$^#%$!@ day. :)
Spotted: One super creepy kid (teenage) who rides the train with his parents and sits unreasonably close to other people with his super creepy extra-long fingernails. Said individual is oblivious to other passengers trying to avoid excessive contact with strangers on the train and only leans in further when said passenger tries to move away. Weird teen seems to see other people as pieces of furniture, and not as strangers that should not be touched if possible.
Spotted: One older, balding, uber-curly haired man with the general look of a computer programmer from 1995 talking very loudly on his cell phone at a crowded bus stop. Snippet of conversation overheard: "well, she's...I don't want to say promiscuous (icky chuckle) but... she's 'free'." Several passengers standing around said individual seen sharing looks and raised eyebrows at said man's choice of location for his very public conversation. Man seemed rather dirty and creepy to be talking in such a judgy manner about other people (this author totally realizes the hypocrisy of judging people for being judgy, and she's surprisingly ok with it).
Spotted: One body building, quite probably roided up (based on the strange hair growth and body acne) wearing a shirt that says "The police just pulled me over for carrying these guns" with arrows pointing to his arms. The sleeves of this gentleman's shirt were cut off so that it was more of a muscle shirt exposing an amount of chest that could be described as overly intimate at best when one is in a situation where it's possible one will have to touch other people. Skin on skin contact is to be avoided at all costs (unless you're carrying around "guns", apparently). Man blasting "Billie Jean" on his iPod and other passengers spotted avoiding eye contact at all costs to avoid laughing.
It's been a good couple of weeks on the MBTA. :)
So next weekend I'm going to a wedding. Something new and different for me, I know. :)
Anyway, I have this new dress that I will be wearing, it's black and white, it's very cute.
I decided that what this new dress really needed was a pair of new shoes to go with it. I had something very specific in mind. I wanted a pair of burgundy colored, patent leather pumps with a round toe (with my freak toes, I can't pull off the pointy shoe). I thought that would be the perfect amount of color to go with the dress. I figured that as per usual, because there was something so specific in my head, there was absolutely no way I'd find anything close to what I wanted. I was prepared for this inevitability.
After work I went to DSW to see what I could find and imagine my shock when suddenly, there they were. The exact pair of shoes I had in my head, albeit with a slightly higher heel. They were perfect, they were glorious. They were $170.
My poor little heart sank. In my endeavor to be more fiscally responsible, there's really no way I could justify spending $170 on such a specific pair of shoes that I probably wouldn't get that much wear out of. I forced myself to put them down and search the rest of the store. I searched the entire first floor, the special occasion shoes, the everyday shoes, the flats, nothing caught my eye. I went up to the second level and searched the entire clearance room, there was nothing. I searched the first floor again. There were a few pairs that were similar and probably would have worked, but nothing as perfect as that first pair. I decided that I might as well just try them on at this point, what was the harm in that (dangerously close to convincing myself to spend the money)? It's probably a good thing that I did, actually. The heels were just a little too high and as I'm pretty clumsy without 4 inches of heel, I decided that was the final nail in the beatiful shoe coffin.
Happily, I was able to console myself with these classy babies:
They won't go with the dress, obviously but they're just so adorable! I decided I couldn't possibly be expected to live without them. Maybe not the perfect fairy tale ending to this particular shoe tale, but a good one nonetheless. And let's be honest, it's not exactly like I'm lacking in shoes, I'll definitely be able to find something to wear with my dress.
So, remember that book I was reading last week? Yea. Pretty much as bad as I anticipated, but not for the reason I expected. In my opinion, it's not the best idea to write a fluffy chick-lit book and include sentences like "the ability to oscillate between obstreperous conviviality and sententiousness was one of the prerequisites for being elected class president." Um, I'm sorry but are you serious? Who talks like that? It's one thing to need a dictionary when you're reading literature or a textbook or something, but a $4.98 clearance girlie book? No wonder it was on the clearance shelf, lady. Yikes. I mean, I'd like to think that I have a fairly respectable vocabulary, but here are the words I had to look up in order to make sure I knew them in just that one sentence (courtesy of my American Heritage Dictionary which I have a large degree of fondness for):
obstreperous: noisily and stubbornly defiant
conviviality: fondness of social pleasures
sententiousness (which I would like to point out that firefox doesn't recognize as a word): 1. Terse and energetic in expression; pithy. 2. Given to pompous moralizing
It would be one thing to use these in an ironic way in this one instance, but it was like this for the WHOLE BOOK. Ugh. It wouldn't have been a terrible story if the author wasn't trying so hard to prove she was smarter than most of the people who would be interested in reading her book.
Labor Day was lots of fun, there was an abundance of badminton. Which I'm pretty sure I haven't played in years, but I forgot how much I love it. It might be one of the funnest games ever. Sadly, my feet may be permanently grass stained. After two days of scrubbing I've got most of it out, but there is still a greenish tint to the bottoms of my feet. Yuck. Also, I'm sore in places that haven't been sore since I quit softball due to all the diving and falling and tripping and sliding. Yea, when I play badminton it's a very physical game. Or I'm just really uncoordinated. You choose.
I'm so excited about the return of new TV, but can we discuss the new 90210 for a minute? Um.....wow. I did not enjoy it. I didn't watch the original when new episodes were airing (because I wasn't allowed, my parents were very mean ;) ) but during college and various stints in unemployment I became a fan. When the only bit of dialogue that stands out is this:
mean curly haired girl: are you breaking up with me?
emo lacrosse player boyfriend: I'm breaking up with us.
You may have some problems. Now, I'm willing to give it another week or so because the guys that are writing it have done good work in the past (Freaks and Geeks) and I'm hoping they can step it up. I try to keep an open mind, because if you go back and watch the very first few episodes of lots of popular series they aren't very good. I'm hoping they just need to find their flow or something. Also, can I just say seriously? Could the girls on that show be any skinnier? I don't think they could. Yikes. I'm afraid that most of them are going to fall over due to the disproportionate weight of their hair.
Gossip Girl, on the other hand. Excellent season premiere. It's good to know that I can get my over priveledged, unrealistic high school soap opera fix somewhere this television season. :) Last season I totally hated Blair, this season so far she is my new hero.
