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Sick!

I've been sick! I still am (kinda). I had a really bad day of allergies which somehow morphed into a cold?! Or at least that's how it seemed. It haas been an annoying illness, because I don't feel that bad. I'm great to lounge around the house and do light housework and even run out and see a movie or get groceries, but I don't want to stay out for long and I can't do anything very physical. It's annoying. I'd rather be very sick and not be able to do anything than feel pretty good and not be able to do some stuff (stuff I wanna do, I might add).

So despite being sick, we had a pretty nice weekend. We went to see Around the World in 80 Days, which I would recommend waiting to see until it hits video or your local cheap theatre. We watched countless hours of Babylon 5. As much as I hate Blockbuster I am loving Netflix. Their service has been incredibly quick and easy to use. If they only rented video games!

We also tried our first QueerEye recipe which was very easy and a big success. Basically, we just pan fried some salmon and put some blackberry sauce (very easy to make)over it. We served it with some rice and shredded zucchini. Yum!

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NetFlix

I've just signed up for a free trial of NetFlix. I really doubt I'll keep it once it goes pay, but I wanted to try it out and Matt and I have been trying to rent Babylon 5 from Blockbuster but they don't have it and NetFlix does. So I figure … for free it's worth a try. They say they'll ship our first 3 discs on Friday and they'll arrive in 1-3 days. Sounds kinda cool. Too bad the pay service is $22/month. Oh well, it's still better than Blockbuster.

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Saved!

I really liked this movie. There were a few plot holes, not the least of which is a girl as small as Jena hiding the fact that she’s pregnant from everyone for 8 months. But in light of how funny the movie is, they can be easily overlooked. What’s best about movie is how accurately they portray all the stereo types. Every single character in the movie I could replace with someone I knew growing up. I think it helped that I grew up in the bible belt, Nashville TN but these schools are everywhere. If you’ve never meet anyone who goes to one of these schools, you may not get the movie. If you have, which I assume is most people, you’ll laugh your ass off.

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Sunny Weekend

We had a really nice weekend, but we didn't really do anything specific. We sorta did a buncha stuff that filled time but isn't really all that interesting. I've prefected my Egyptian city-building techniques (played Pharaoh) and Matt perfected his plundering techniques (played Pirates). We also took our bikes out, ran errands and did some shopping. It was one of our first truly nice weekends all year. Very little rain, lotsa sun!! Excellent weekend.

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Fun in the Sun

As I was on my mad-dash-to-the-land-of-all-that-is-unholy (Blockbuster) to return the very disappointing Alias game I popped in a random CD (the right music gives me special fast-driving powers).

My ears were quite glad that I'd popped my Beach Boys CD in, especially since sister and I were discussing our mutual love for them the other day. I've loved the Beach Boys since I was a little kid. In fact, I think they were my first musical love. I remember trying to go as a surfer for Halloween (I don't remember if I actually pulled that off … CO is always cold on Halloween and usually snowy). I remember listening to their tapes in my parents' cars. I'm sure my parents were relieved that I wasn't draggging them off to Ticket Master (land-of-all-that-is-unholy prime) to buy $100 New Kids on the Block tickets.

Now The Beach Boys bring to mind not only fun-in-the-sun, but also a very happy childhood. I still like to listen to them every now and again, cool or not. How can you be unhappy by listening to The Beach Boys??? You can't. We actually, I don't know that. But now that I think about it, I'm going to apply for a grant from the NSF to study Beach Boy music's effects on peoples levels of seratonin (what? the NSF gives grants to much stupider studies on a daily basis).

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Funny Trick

I played a funny trick on Matt yesterday. I took a screen shot of his computer desktop and then set it as his background. Then I deleted all of his icons (moved them into a folder called “funny” in his documents folder). So when he went to use his computer after work, none of his desktop “items” worked. It was hilarious. He thought he had a virus or something. I prolly should have played it a little longer, but I really can't keep a straight face.

I was practically falling-down-laughing for like 20 minutes though. He acted like he wasn't amused and then admitted to me that it was a “funny trick.”

Dinner was damn good last night. I made the eternal favorite, cheese-rice streudel and then I sauteed up a bunch of zucchini (which is my current fav. veggie) and some mushrooms. Sooooo good. And can you believe it? Matt doesn't even give me guff about a vegetarian meal now and again. He even requests black bean burgers now. I how open-minded he is. Continue reading “Funny Trick”

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Wiped Out

Urgh. Tired. I lifted weights tonight for the first time in like 5 days. Who knew that short break could make me feel like this? So now I'm going to sit on my butt and play some puter games and relax.

The weekend was nice. Matt did his bit to make Bratfest a success. He consumed six brats and brought home one for the puppy. I won't eat brats, but I did have a couple hotdogs. We also discovered a new local band that we like. They were playing at Bratfest. They're called Exit and they're sorta Guster-esque and nice. We brought home a nice CD of theirs and I'd love to go to one of their concerts sometime.