Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Barbeque chicken?

Okay, so we made a huge batch of bbq chicken in the crockpot. The sauce is called "sticky rum" barbeque sauce, and it was really good... but now we have lots of leftover chicken. Aside from just heating it up and eating it as is, who has some suggestions for other preparations? Other flavor combinations that might be good just to make it a bit different? Thanks, guys!

Thursday, July 23, 2009

Mountain Dew Goodness

Sorry, gotta get my geek on... I mean, hey, I get an in game pet. Woooot!


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Sunday, July 19, 2009

The Hangover

Ended up not going to Rocky since my friend from out of town couldn't get a ride. Ah well. But we did go see The Hangover instead, and that was definitely time well spent. It was just excellently solid, silly, inappropriate humor. Dig it! Loved Bradley Cooper on Nip/Tuck, and he was great in this, and Zack... okay, I won't even attempt his last name... is hilarious in terms of his stand up and really awesome in this flick too. Definitely recommend it when you're in the mood for something that isn't though provoking but is just plain fun.

We also rewatched the Dark Knight today after having recorded it to the DVR from a preview of the movie channels. <3 that movie. Seriously. It just came together on all levels to be really strong and really excellent. I'm torn about whether they should continue the Batman franchise after it, though, since I worry that anything from that on will be a downhill slide in terms of quality.

Friday, July 17, 2009

Life Goal


New one for the list: Age in as awesome a fashion as Betty White. Seriously. Don't pretend like you don't watch Golden Girls re-runs because you do. We all do. And don't pretend like you remember *anything* about the movie Lake Placid except her cursing like a sailor. You don't. <3 Betty White.

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Yahoogroups

Just a quick rant. Yahoogroups not having fixed their message search STILL when they promised to fix it in by mid May is really wearing on my nerves. It's keeping me from being a good mod, it's causing stress, and it's making me want to throttle tech people who didn't plan better for their user base. :: sigh :: Guess now it's a matter of deciding whether I am dissatisfied enough to consider moving any groups to another service. Mostly I just needed to rant since I'm starting to think they just aren't fixing it. Instead they are taking their services down every couple days for "database maintenance." :\

Sunday, July 12, 2009

Hello, My Name is Inigo Montoya...


My mom and sister came up to visit this weekend, and my sister and I went to see the Princess Bride at a midnight showing on Saturday. I love that movie a little bit more every single time I see it... and I loved it a lot to start with.

There was also much grilling of cool stuff on Saturday for our own little belated Fourth of July (since I was sick for the real thing). I forgot to take any pictures or I'd share the bounty. We made black & tan macaroni and cheese, corn, tomatoes w/provolone and the weirdest watermelon salad ever. It was awesome! We also did a lot of sitting around listening to the XM radio stations we get via DirecTV and rocking out. It was good times. They're hopefully coming back up for an IKEA outing in another couple weeks, so that should be fun!

Thursday, July 9, 2009

What I Want...

Random things I want to do/places I want to go in no particular order. So if anyone wants to reward Wes and I with extravagant amounts of money (or small amounts) so that we can do it? We'll take it. I'm sure I'll add to this later, but it's a start :)


I want to go to Seattle, WA. Wes' brother lives there, as does a friend of mine. It just sounds like a cool place and one I'd really enjoy visiting.

I want to go to the beach. I got to go once when I was in my early teens with my grandparents, but it was too cold and the water was too choppy to do more than walk along the water looking at it. I'm fine with anywhere. It can be Galveston for all I care, but I have a driving desire the past year or so to go someplace with a beach where I can look out on the ocean or the gulf or whatever.
I'd love to go to Vegas. We've joked about running away to Vegas to get married, but, honestly, it's just a place I'd love to go and experience whether I get my quickie wedding (the HELL I'm doing a "real" one) before or after or whatever. Don't worry, folks - we'll have a party folks can come to for celebrating and the giving of gifts and money. Cuz I'm not givin' that up ;) But back to business - I want to see Vegas. It's a culture unto itself, and I want to experience it.


Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Buy me stuff?

Please?


No. Just no.

An open letter to the world:

I'm not a morning person. Please stop thinking or pretending that I am. Pretty please? I'm never perky or happy or funny in the morning. I'm blah. I want to be blah. Give me a half hour or so to relax and be blah and then you may just have a happy, prospectively useful person on your hands. Keep bugging me for no reason and that will NEVER happen. So just... relax. And let me relax. We'll all be much happier for it.

Thank you!
Me