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Tuesday, 27 February 2007

I got into the University of Maryland, which means I won't be spending my graduate years over at Catholic University with that kicky-looking chick from American Idol that's getting all this celebrity blog face-time.   She's hot.  I'd hit it.

Last night was quite possibly the best half hour of contemporary television ever.  No way any show could top the quality of that dramatic circle.  Honestly, I don't even understand the need for mind-altering substances.  The Hills is everything you need for an upper and downer, all in one convenient 30 minute time slot.  90210, eat your heart out. 

Also, tonight I'm making spaghetti and meatballs.  And I taught my hamster how to juggle.

Everything's coming up Arlene.
by: DJGroovySlug at February 27, 2007 13:36 | link | comments (2)

Monday, 26 February 2007

Can I just say that all ya'll (the royal ya'll) need to stop yapping about Pan's Labyrinth losing.  HELLO YOU HAVE NOT SEEN THE LIVES OF OTHERS, WHICH IS FAR FAR SUPERIOR IN ORIGINALITY, STORY TELLING, QUALITY, AND ACTING THAN PAN'S LABYRINTH.  Seriously.  Go see it.  Arrives in theaters this last weekend.  GO.  NOW.

And I'm spent.
by: DJGroovySlug at February 26, 2007 17:09 | link | comments

Monday, 26 February 2007

Back from NYC and utterly exhausted.  We were on the go since noon on Friday, which featured a punishingly long bus ride (never again) and finally lots of drinks and burgers at a nearby restaurant, then a stop for some wine and passing out relatively early for a Friday night. 

Saturday we woke up and since we were in Murray Hill, found only the best pastrami sandwich shop.  In the world.  I'm still dreaming about that sandwich.  I didn't even order it, Adam did.  I got my prohibitively expensive nova bagel, of course.  Is it possible that pastrami > lox?  More testing is in order. 

During our brunch, we suddenly had the revelation: why the heck are we going to go to Bodies if it's coming to DC in two months? Let's do something we can only do in NY! 

So we went to MOMA which sounds horribly cliche, but if you knew me, you would be surprised to hear I've never been.  But last time I went, MOMA had just reopened in Manhattan so it was packed.  The sad part of the visit was, there was this exhibition being installed and we could see some pieces and it looked awesome.  We'll have to go back.  Maybe a day trip.

That was followed by a quick subway ride down to Chelsea, where we wandered in and out of galleries and finally ended up at the Chelsea Art Museum.  All very fun.  And very art-y.  The Boy's head exploded.

We went to this restaurant called Peasant and it was so quintessentially New York City and so awesome and beautiful.  It makes me sad that we have absolutely nothing like it in DC.  Tom Sietsema is delusional if he thinks we are becoming a dining destination.  We have a long long way to go.

We had theater tickets for Avenue Q on Sunday afternoon, a trip that was almost derailed because of, well, let's just say that we had a visit from the Bad Decision Bears the night before.  Super rough morning.  I didn't keep anything down until pretty much right before the show.  But luckily sitting there and not moving and having the distraction helped me feel much better.  And we were in the second row, which helped since, in our drunken stupidity, The Boy somehow managed to throw away my contacts. 

And our typical random NYC moment: standing around trying to figure out what to do about getting home and oh look here comes the Duke basketball game and Coach K.  Random is really all I have to say about that.  Oh, and Duck sucks.

We had booked a bus ticket back and then realized: Wow, worst idea ever, especially given the numerous reports of heavy snow down south.  Instead, we spent a ton of money and got Acela express train tickets back home and never looked back.  We managed to catch most of the Oscars.  I was 5 for 6 of the major categories, totally didn't see that Jennifer Hudson thing coming.  I'm getting a bit rusty.

We got into no less than 2 major arguments about going to Starbucks.  Who knew giving it up would be such a strain on everyone else but me?

As far as my other current "giving up" thing, I also managed to spend three days in NYC without buying anything.  I'm getting good at this.  My Lenten deprivation remains intact and my one way ticket to hell has been forestalled. 

It's ironic because I was talking to The Boy's cousin's girlfriend about shopping in NYC and she was telling me how the flatiron district had all the stores: Club Monaco, Ann Taylor, Banana Republic.  I didn't exactly know how to take that, but it was a toss-up between: "Wow, New Yorkers don't dress the way I expected" and "OMG She totally thinks we don't have those stores!"

All in all, a great trip.  I want to go back already.  Sad face.  Sorry for such a boring ramble.  I need coffee.
by: DJGroovySlug at February 26, 2007 11:13 | link | comments (2)

Wednesday, 21 February 2007

So last night I was trying to talk to The Boy about something and he's all "what are you talking about?" and I'm all "you insensitive cad, you obviously never read my blog because I just wrote about this" And then we come home and he shows me, to my shock, that I haven't posted to my blog, not only yesterday but all week.  But the thing is.   I've  thought about it! And even written some posts and never posted them and forgot all about it!  Worst. Blogger. Ever.

Cadbury Egg season is upon us!!! I stocked up on a recent drugstore visit and was somehow fooled into buying Wonka Golden Creme Eggs.  Damn you, Wonka, and your alluring packaging!  The Willy Wonka movie terrifies me, as does Johnny Depp, so I feel dirty just thinking about  it.  These are not real Creme Eggs.  Except.  The are AWESOME.  "Chocolate creme and caramel with graham-flavored cookie pieces in a milk chocolate shell.”  The description sounds weird but I assure you, they will more than satisify your excessive processed sugar needs. 

I've been running, prepping for my race.  I've been working really hard, and reached this point where I keep taking on more work because I'm afraid to say no, even though I should be doing and finishing other stuff.  Oh, and I got in to one of my grad schools, but not my first choice.  At least I know I'm going!!  And I'm planning our NYC EXTRAVAGANZA.  And I'm trying to answer the very important life question: what happened to Heidi's dog, Bella, on The Hills?  No, really, where is that thing? Talk about pet owner of the year.

So that's what I've been doing.  YAY.  #1 BLOGGER.
by: DJGroovySlug at February 21, 2007 21:19 | link | comments (1)

Sunday, 18 February 2007

Huh.  Whodathunkit.

Please don't tell The Boy.  This will be our little secret.
by: DJGroovySlug at February 18, 2007 21:53 | link | comments (1)

Friday, 16 February 2007

Roast chicken, you are mine.  Never doubt Arlene's powers.  I can do anything. 

Valentine's Day is the perfect day to showcase my cooking skillz, or lack thereof.  Love food, love the idea of cooking, hate actually eating anything I make.  Well since the boy suggested something light and "romantic" for Valentine's day, light to me translated to easy.  And since that got me out of making the chicken parmesan with homemade sauce, I scoured my Cooking Light's for Valentine's day dinners and decided on: Bistro Chicken with pomme frites and baby greens dressed in raspberry vinaigrette. 

Yes, so what if that translates to roast chicken, french fries and salad.  It was romantic!  And I know romance.  Like the card I gave him that has a bunch of gorillas saying "I Love You."  Only class in this household. 

The chicken was hard.  I'd never really...cut one up or whatever terminology is used to indicate the preparation of chicken on a bone.  I made sure to get rid of the nasty bits that The Boy would complain about and then stuffed herbs under the skin and rubbed the whole thing down with olive oil.  It was hot.

The red potatoes were juilenned (OH YEAH MY FOOD NETWORK EDUCATION IS COMING IN HANDY) and topped with garlic and chives.  Super yum and my personal favorite part of the meal. I also roasted some garlic and spread the remains on some bread.   I topped the salad with goat cheese, which, btw, highly recommend.  It's my new favorite salad topping.

Here's some food porn for you. 



Look at the white meat.  Cooked to perfection. 

Best  part? No one died.  I am awesome.
by: DJGroovySlug at February 16, 2007 14:01 | link | comments (3)

Wednesday, 14 February 2007

Valentine's Day? Is That Thing Still Around?

Okay I'm seriously one of two people in the office right now.  The mail people aren't even here.  What am I supposed to do today, if not sort through my giant piles of mail?

The thing about my office.  Super. Laid. Back.  No one would've cared/said anything/noticed if I hadn't come in at all (probably best helped by the fact that no one is here to care).  So taking a day off doesn't feel like "WHOO SNOW DAY."  When your boss tells you to just do whatever and you can tell she really doesn't care, it kinda sucks the fun out of not going in to work. 

The only reason I haven't left is because I'm supposed to meet some people today and I'm not entirely convinced that they aren't coming in, since the government is on a delayed schedule so maybe they are just showing up two hours late.  Who knows.

The streets are pretty awful.  Completely uncleared, more or less, except whatever cars moved around while driving through.  They should've just cancelled work altogether.  It's gross out there. 

I wonder how many people will think it's too hard to make it in to work but will be fine once it's time for Valentine's dinner?
by: DJGroovySlug at February 14, 2007 10:16 | link | comments

Monday, 12 February 2007

I'm so super pumped about our trip to NYC which we've finally booked and by we, I mean The Boy who stayed up until close to 3am looking at hotel reviews while I passed out in super comfortable bed while watching Caddyshack. 

Unfortunately, now that that's done I've been relegated to the task of planning everything else out.  The only reason I find that exciting is because I plan on eating my way through NYC so I get to pick all the places we go.  Last night I browsed restaurant forums for "BEST NOVA BAGEL IN MANHATTAN" and I found out about these things called bialys.  They are like bagels but upgraded.  OMG.  Why am I not Jewish?  Oh, because I like bacon.  And Jesus.

I'm also in charge of entertainment.  The Boy expressed interest in seeing a Broadway show.  Let me just say: I don't like musicals, can barely sit through anything longer than 2 hours and frankly hate the pomp of theater-going.  But since I can't think of anything else to do that doesn't involve a weekend intake of about 5000 calories, I said that seeing a show would be an acceptable way to waste pass the time.

Thankfully, we agreed that sitting through something like Wicked would be a painful and expensive (and painfully expensive) experience but decided Avenue Q sounded reasonable.  So I've been looking for tickets.  And now we reach the real point of this post.

WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH GREEDY AMERICA AND PRICE GOUGING?  Case in point: my lazy ass didn't buy pre-sale Lily Allen tickets and now they are sold out and people on Craigslist are selling them for $50 a ticket.  THEY WERE ORIGINALLY $15 EACH.

You know what bothers me most about this?  The biggest offenders are probably yuppie hipsters (yupsters!) who buy tickets for a show that has some buzz and then go on Craigslist and sell them at more than twice the amount.  And as much as I want to go to Lily Allen and believe I should be punished for not buying them when I had the chance, there is absolutely no way I'm going to fund some yupsters next dinner at Pasta Mia and a six pack of hard cider.  Absolutely not. 

These people must be stopped!  Besides the obvious "voting with your wallet" mentality (because some other lazy idiot with zero morals will probably willingly pay for these for his spoiled kids) they should be publicly shamed as tightwad.  I wish there was a way to flag any money given to them so when they go to the Barney's Co-op, the cash register starts flashing and blurting out "This is being purchased with money earned through scalped tickets sold above face value and is not a reflection of the professional or monetary standing of this consumer."

[In other unrelated news, it appears napping is like, really good for you.  Ah, I used to be the queen of the two hour midday nap.  Now The Boy comes around and wakes me up before I'm ready and then I get grouchy and snappy and my whole day is ruined.  GOD DAMNIT NEXT TIME I FALL ASLEEP WHILE YOU'RE PLAYING MADDEN JUST PRETEND I'M NOT THERE.]
by: DJGroovySlug at February 12, 2007 14:26 | link | comments (3)

Friday, 09 February 2007

I was going to go on and on about some other minor thing in my life but why subject you guys to that. 

Instead.

SUPER GRATUITOUSLY CUTE PICTURES OF ANIMALS THAT I WANT TO HAVE AND HOLD AND LOVE AND MAKE MINE MINE MINE.



This is a pika.  They are like giant hamsters, which means they are AWESOME.




ZOMG.  CUTEST THING EVER.
by: DJGroovySlug at February 09, 2007 15:12 | link | comments gratuitously cute animals

Friday, 09 February 2007

The morning has already started off shitty.  First of all, I'm staying at The Boy's for a couple of days and naturally I forgot like a TON of important stuff.  Including my work ID that allows me to enter and wander the building.  Now I'm pretty much chained to my desk until it's time to go home.  Oh, and underwear.  It's like, somehow I managed to bring the two oranges that I wanted to have at work today but god forbid I remember important stuff, like how to breath and continence. 

So I get in way earlier than everyone else IN THE WORLD and I stood around for 15 minutes hoping someone I knew would enter the building.  That's what sucks about giant soulless corporation: anonymity.  (That's also what's great about it too.) 

About two weeks ago the fan in my computer started to get loud.  It went from a whir to a rattle and now this morning it's just a straight up obnoxious WEEEEEEEEEE (best when repeated with a Fran Drescher inflection).  You know, a Mac would never do this.

Not to mention it's freezing outside and my dumb ass decided to wear a skirt.  AND THIS LAPTOP FAN IS DRIVING ME CRAZY.

Well at least we are doing Valentine's dinner tonight at Corduroy.  Oh, and the first season of Bosom Buddies is going to be released on DVD.  It's the little things in life that count.
by: DJGroovySlug at February 09, 2007 09:59 | link | comments