Happy Thursday! Blogger is telling me this is my 300th post. Congrats, I guess! That's ridic.
So we still have like a whole bag of baos in the fridge. It's kind of crazy. But I got distracted from eating them because I made dinner on Monday, so we've been working through that, too.
I'll make it for you sometime, it's just a sweet potato and a package of squash and some mushrooms and craisins and apples and cashews all cooked together with some cinnamon and stuff like that. I really liked it, haha.
Finished my castle boat, named her Olivia Victoria. The ship motto is "Semper Est Victoria In Pace." On one of the days when I was mad at wall-building, I swam ashore and constructed a covered wagon. So now I'm putting in a little trading camp next to it, like a place for people to trade with the ship. Minecraft can be so cute sometimes.
Facebook informed me that Rocket Fizz had a new flavor of soda called "sweet corn," so I took Carolyn down there to get one today. It tasted remarkably like corn! Like if you opened a can of corn and started eating it, except it was a soda. I do love me some sweet corn, so it was pretty amazing.
We also went to Green Forest and I had some pretty amazing strawberry yogurt, and later we went to Toki and I had a pretty good ramen salad. It was just a good food type day, I guess.
Weather, too, it was at least 70 before the breezes started up. I forgot that the real nice weather starts up again with the school year. Because basically I was waiting all summer for a nice week like this. Yesterday I was laying out with Donnie, but I was too busy reading to pet him so he bit me for my negligence.
Happy 300, peeps.
-Steph
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Thursday, August 18, 2011
A Million Baos
Happy Thursday! Gotta be at work in an hour so I'mma shoot this out there.
Fair's over! I just got my check today for my winnings-- five WHOLE dollars. That was for a second and third place poems. I didn't get to pick up my ribbons because the pick up times matched my shift that day exactly. I don't know what to do with ribbons, anyhow.
I think next year I'll be happy going just the once. I ate all the fair food, which was not as dream-fulfilling as it promised. The Beach Boys was fun, though, so I'll probably pick a day when someone cool is playing, and maybe go opening day when it's a dollar.
On Tuesday morning me and my dad went to go see Captain America finally. I lost my ticket stub, though :< It was pretty good. I like the sets and the scenery, and Chris Evans lived up to expectations. Gonna have to see him in the Avengers though, to get the whole picture.
Yesterday Steven, Carolyn, and Austin came over and we cooked for a forever. Coconut milk waffles, which we made once prior...maybe over the weekend that I forgot already? And then regular baos and curry baos that we could only steam five at a time. After we were done eating all we could eat, and plates were sent home with people, there were still 30 left. Come over and try one! They're good!
We watched Hairspray, which I haven't seen in a while, and it was a good laugh for everyone. But on Batman (1966) right after, but then people started leaving. I need to own more comedies. Do you know where I can find Scott Pilgrim on blu-ray for under $20?
(It's funny to me that Chris Evans and Brandon Routh are in Scott Pilgrim, and they are also Captain America and Superman.)
Oh yeah we also watched Orphan on the first waffle day -- it must have been Friday -- which was pretty good and weird. Me and my folks watched The Conspirator, and it was like watching an essay.
I'm nearly finished with my boat castle in Minecraft. Working on the wall now, and it's turning out like I expected. That's one of the things I'm consistently amazed by, in this game, is when you think of something, and then build it, and when you're done it's exactly what you had in mind. I guess I mean as opposed to, say, painting, where maybe you're not exactly able to get the image from your brain onto paper.
Alrighty, off I go.
-Steph
Fair's over! I just got my check today for my winnings-- five WHOLE dollars. That was for a second and third place poems. I didn't get to pick up my ribbons because the pick up times matched my shift that day exactly. I don't know what to do with ribbons, anyhow.
I think next year I'll be happy going just the once. I ate all the fair food, which was not as dream-fulfilling as it promised. The Beach Boys was fun, though, so I'll probably pick a day when someone cool is playing, and maybe go opening day when it's a dollar.
On Tuesday morning me and my dad went to go see Captain America finally. I lost my ticket stub, though :< It was pretty good. I like the sets and the scenery, and Chris Evans lived up to expectations. Gonna have to see him in the Avengers though, to get the whole picture.
Yesterday Steven, Carolyn, and Austin came over and we cooked for a forever. Coconut milk waffles, which we made once prior...maybe over the weekend that I forgot already? And then regular baos and curry baos that we could only steam five at a time. After we were done eating all we could eat, and plates were sent home with people, there were still 30 left. Come over and try one! They're good!
We watched Hairspray, which I haven't seen in a while, and it was a good laugh for everyone. But on Batman (1966) right after, but then people started leaving. I need to own more comedies. Do you know where I can find Scott Pilgrim on blu-ray for under $20?
(It's funny to me that Chris Evans and Brandon Routh are in Scott Pilgrim, and they are also Captain America and Superman.)
Oh yeah we also watched Orphan on the first waffle day -- it must have been Friday -- which was pretty good and weird. Me and my folks watched The Conspirator, and it was like watching an essay.
I'm nearly finished with my boat castle in Minecraft. Working on the wall now, and it's turning out like I expected. That's one of the things I'm consistently amazed by, in this game, is when you think of something, and then build it, and when you're done it's exactly what you had in mind. I guess I mean as opposed to, say, painting, where maybe you're not exactly able to get the image from your brain onto paper.
Alrighty, off I go.
-Steph
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Episodes
Happy Thursday! Another early one this week because closing on Thursdays seems to be my shift now. So exciting.
I did end up getting the "season pass" to the fair, so I've been four times now. For $30, it ended up paying for itself right there. BUT I also went to see the Beach Boys on Tuesday night. Thirty bucks for a concert is also a good deal. Any way you want to look at it, I think I won this year.
Except for I had plenty of opportunities to eat the fair foods I'd never gotten around to, so you might want to count that as a loss. :< so much funnel cake.
The Beach Boys! Two of them are still the same, and one of the others I saw in person at a pirate bar when I saw fake the Beatles. They were pretty awesome, especially since they sounded like the Beach Boys. And Mike Love, after like fifteen minutes, was all "we're going to take an intermission...followed by a nap." lol oldies.
This week I randomly caught up on the new Starz season of Torchwood. Since the last season had a special name (Children of Earth) and this one does (Miracle Day), I thought it was going to be a six episode thing, too. But it's a full season! There's a new episode tomorrow, but I'll probably just wait a few more weeks and watch them all at once again. I've been spoiled by the internet and dvds, I don't want to bother with real-time tv anymore.
Case in point, I watched season...five? of Dexter yesterday. It's coming out on dvd next week and we got it in yesterday. Luckily I'd already seen the first three, but the other 9 I smashed out over the afternoon. I liked the season end, but the first half of the season seemed a little lackluster. But that's another one under my belt.
I actually turned on the tv the other day, just out of curiosity. But it was like 8 on a Sunday or something, so I flipped through the guide and then turned it back off. I'm definitely not someone who just watches tv for tvs sake. That's what Youtube is for.
Although if I do find myself with a spare half hour in the mornings, I do usually end up watching Supernatural. :/ It's dumb, but I feel like I need to know what I'm missing. I know I'm not missing, well, anything... but I still have to know, you know?
Caught the first showing of Harry Potter today, just to have something to do. It was pretty dark and enough like the book as I remember. So that's all over. How sad.
Well I guess I better go find some noms and then it's off to work for me. Catch ya next week.
-Steph
I did end up getting the "season pass" to the fair, so I've been four times now. For $30, it ended up paying for itself right there. BUT I also went to see the Beach Boys on Tuesday night. Thirty bucks for a concert is also a good deal. Any way you want to look at it, I think I won this year.
Except for I had plenty of opportunities to eat the fair foods I'd never gotten around to, so you might want to count that as a loss. :< so much funnel cake.
The Beach Boys! Two of them are still the same, and one of the others I saw in person at a pirate bar when I saw fake the Beatles. They were pretty awesome, especially since they sounded like the Beach Boys. And Mike Love, after like fifteen minutes, was all "we're going to take an intermission...followed by a nap." lol oldies.
This week I randomly caught up on the new Starz season of Torchwood. Since the last season had a special name (Children of Earth) and this one does (Miracle Day), I thought it was going to be a six episode thing, too. But it's a full season! There's a new episode tomorrow, but I'll probably just wait a few more weeks and watch them all at once again. I've been spoiled by the internet and dvds, I don't want to bother with real-time tv anymore.
Case in point, I watched season...five? of Dexter yesterday. It's coming out on dvd next week and we got it in yesterday. Luckily I'd already seen the first three, but the other 9 I smashed out over the afternoon. I liked the season end, but the first half of the season seemed a little lackluster. But that's another one under my belt.
I actually turned on the tv the other day, just out of curiosity. But it was like 8 on a Sunday or something, so I flipped through the guide and then turned it back off. I'm definitely not someone who just watches tv for tvs sake. That's what Youtube is for.
Although if I do find myself with a spare half hour in the mornings, I do usually end up watching Supernatural. :/ It's dumb, but I feel like I need to know what I'm missing. I know I'm not missing, well, anything... but I still have to know, you know?
Caught the first showing of Harry Potter today, just to have something to do. It was pretty dark and enough like the book as I remember. So that's all over. How sad.
Well I guess I better go find some noms and then it's off to work for me. Catch ya next week.
-Steph
Thursday, August 04, 2011
Pepito: A Remembrance
Happy Thursday! The fair's on! I won a second and a third for two poems, but nothing for the lemon. :< The one that won "funny shaped" was just a huge monster that wasn't funnier shaped than the other entries. Just larger. There goes my winning streak.
So remember September 09 when I got a fish tank and then one of this fish I bought had fish babies? Remember how one of them survived by hiding in the fake plant? Remember how there were like five more living in the filter? Remember how I took out the tank divider too early and all the filter fish got eaten? And Pepito the plant-lurker was the only one who made it?
Well he got sick and died. He was a bad hat, but he will be missed.
But me and Carolyn went to the fair yesterday and looked at evvvverything. We spent like five hours there. I had udon and a corndog and spiral fries and a gingerbread cake and kettle corn. Laughed at all the kids art, tried to pet a donkey, wandered through the gardens, looked at all the collections of rocks and pokemon cards. It was super full of people, but seemed less full of exhibits.
The rabbits cages were full of chickens and/or empty. There was a butterfly cage instead of kaleidoscopes. The giant model train town was only a half a track.
But it was cool. Full of sawdust and children's screams. OH we looked at giant snakes!
It was Beth's birthday on Monday! Happy birthday, buddy! I got her Minecraft and then we built a giant guitar for her to live in. :>
-Steph
So remember September 09 when I got a fish tank and then one of this fish I bought had fish babies? Remember how one of them survived by hiding in the fake plant? Remember how there were like five more living in the filter? Remember how I took out the tank divider too early and all the filter fish got eaten? And Pepito the plant-lurker was the only one who made it?
Well he got sick and died. He was a bad hat, but he will be missed.
But me and Carolyn went to the fair yesterday and looked at evvvverything. We spent like five hours there. I had udon and a corndog and spiral fries and a gingerbread cake and kettle corn. Laughed at all the kids art, tried to pet a donkey, wandered through the gardens, looked at all the collections of rocks and pokemon cards. It was super full of people, but seemed less full of exhibits.
The rabbits cages were full of chickens and/or empty. There was a butterfly cage instead of kaleidoscopes. The giant model train town was only a half a track.
But it was cool. Full of sawdust and children's screams. OH we looked at giant snakes!
It was Beth's birthday on Monday! Happy birthday, buddy! I got her Minecraft and then we built a giant guitar for her to live in. :>
-Steph
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