last week at microcenter i watched a girl and her dad play tennis on the wii. that was the first time i'd thought about santa in a while...he'll be getting a letter from me this year :)
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and this morning i'm listening to the news and i hear "wii have a problem." doesn't stop me from wanting one though.
[edit] according to the site wiihaveaproblem.com, this happened to some poor guy's monitor...
LCD takes one to the face.
"I was bowling with my roommate, it was his first time. It took him about 4 frames to get the hang of it. At about he 5th frame he was really getting into it decided he wanted to throw the ball harder. He went to throw the ball and in the process he hit my end table, causing the wiimote to fly out of is hand. At first all I saw was the broken wiimote, then he was like, "dude, I'm so sorry", I looked up and saw my cracked 20 inch LCD Sharp Aquos. He immediately wrote me a check and my new TV is on the way now."
photos of my mom and the foods (dooboo-jorim and yukkae-jang) she made using green onions from her garden. no recall worries here...
i watched the latest episode of heroes, finally! it keeps getting better with each episode. for my friends, or anyone who hasn't seen the show, you're heading into spoiler material now...
i have to say, i don't like the idea of one of my favorite heroes exploding. not one bit. peter was looking rather putrid during the interrogation scene and i still get the feeling that he saved the wrong cheerleader. if he had saved claire's friend, maybe he wouldn't have died, come back to life and be the cause of the world going supernova. something must have happened when peter absorbed claire's healing ability and now hiro and the gang have to figure out how to stop him from exploding. it's all claire's fault. i'm no whiz at reading lips but i'm pretty sure she said "i'm sorry" in peter's dream. yeah, sorry for saying she'd died before and it wasn't a big deal. poor peter.
one of my favorite lines, from this episode, besides hiro's "how do you stop an exploding man?" was a line by claire's friend when they were on the track field -- "are you on crystal meth or something cuz this is really cracky behavior." speaking of cracky behavior. i'm glad to see isaac can predict the future drug free. and his latest painting of hiro and the dragon--didn't we see the future hiro with a sword on the subway in an earlier episode?
kelleah, budd, you both have some interesting ideas about the characters...claire's dad having powers to mute powers and sylar being indestructible if he absorbs claire's power. tell me more!
i'm still trying to figure out how sylar was captured in the first place with such little effort. and since the haitian guy can erase memories, why couldn't he do it to sylar? oh, and does anyone else get the feeling that our heroes are part of some sort of experiment?
i'd love to hear more thoughts about the show...
i'm so mad at myself right now. my brother called tonight and asked if i had watched heroes. nope. totally forgot. and last week's episode was GOOD--we learned so much about all the characters to keep me wanting to watch more. but i missed tonight's episode and of course i'm pouting. usually, a bunch of us will get together and make a night of it by grabbing dinner and then watching at someone's place. but i'm still out of town this week and no one reminded me that it was on. not even my brother. some friends i have! it's every man for himself, i see. well, i can't complain too much. it'll be on sci-fi...and my brother recorded it. thanks bro! sooo glad you have tivo.
Show us something blue.
despite all the glitter, i felt bad for this tree, like it needed more color. of course i was happy to see it but who's to say if the tree was pleased...having mostly silver, and blue balls. tease the season!
Show us a candid photo.
Submitted by dearbarbz.
dogs [both girls]...they're about as candid as it gets around this house.
forgot to include the apple pie in the last post so here it is. we had so much left over that i made a quick snack...
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i think i have to fast for a days!
photos of our thanksgiving meal, and i'm surprised we didn't find ourselves in a food coma afterwards :)
so this year for thanksgiving i wanted to try something new: butternut squash. year after year i would see them in the grocery store and wondered, "what the heck do people do with these things?" my brother had it a few weeks ago for the first time and i've had it a couple of times at legal sea foods in boston and cambridge. my parents have never tried it and we needed some color in the food line-up. when we were shopping at the commissary on fort benning, i held one...knocked and sniffed but had no idea how i was suppose to "pick a good one". i stood there and figured, what the heck they're all in season right?
the day before thanksgiving, i found a recipe for sweet potato soufflé and my plan was to substitute the recipe with butternut squash. i wanted to make this dish ahead of time since the oven was going to be used for baking my mom's korean bbq ribs and my first attempt at making prime rib.
i can still hear the sound of the squash splitting as i forced the knife through, cutting the squash in half. then smell of the air...a sweet and refreshing smell wafting up from the orange halves...i felt like i had walked through a field of ripe melons and fresh cut pumpkins. all i wanted to do was stand at the kitchen counter and sniff sniff sniff. so, i went around the house forcing everyone to take a whiff because it was a first for us. afterwards, i took the halves outside for a better look at all the orange goodness and once i stepped into the sunlight, the squash seemed to burst with a richer color. that's when i noticed the little heart-shaped cavity.
since i was substituting the squash for the sweet potatoes, i had looked online to find out how i was going to cook this thing. there was a suggested baking time of 45 minutes or "until soft" but i had to run to a doctor's appointment with my mom and couldn't gauge how long to leave the squash in the oven. my brother kept an eye out on the timer and even increased the baking time when i called to ask him if it was soft. once i got home, i realized it could have baked it a lot longer than i thought, but it was soft enough. i scooped out the flesh and grabbed all the ingredients, but somewhere in the mixing process i opted to leave out the eggs because it tasted fine the way it was. instead, we had whipped butternut squash. so much for the soufflé!
