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SEPTEMBER 2003
SEPTEMBER
27, 2003 : saturday
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This weekend isn't going very well. I think i'm getting sick. It
might be allergies, but if that's the case, its not my usual bag
of symptoms. I'm having that feeling in the top back of my throat.
Its not a scratchy feeling. More of a sore one. I don't mind getting
sick during the week and missing work. But missing a weekend? A
3-day weekend?!?! (i'm taking monday off).
I'm
just going to die laughing if i'm home all day monday, my vacation
day, watching the makeover story instead of painting or shopping
or gardening. That's going to be really swell.
SEPTEMBER
24, 2003 : wednesday
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If you haven't tried MOCHI
ice cream, you should. I guess i should be prepared to tell
you where you can buy it, but we have a resource at our local japanese
toy and bubble tea store. I'm sure you can find it at a local asian
grocery.
If
you haven't had mochi, its like a soft rice pancake thing. I guess
you can buy them plain, but these are wrapped around a little ball
of ice cream.
SEPTEMBER
22, 2003 : monday
> I went to the acl festival and lived to tell about it. We went
friday night for Dwight Yoakum and Sunday for Ween. My method of
approach was get in, see something and get out. I didn't get a full
impression of the fest until i was there yesterday in the daylight.
50,000 people is an impressive sight. I am still in awe. I have
never seen so many people in my life. Never. So so many people.
I had my concerns with going to the fest at all. Luckily none of
my worst fears came true. A) Didn't have to use the portapotty.
B) Didn't get
trampled.
Also, I was excited to see my first ever streaker during the ween
show.
SEPTEMBER
17, 2003 : wednesday
GIANT HEAD PERSON
> The headphones that i wear at work, nearly every day, start
squeezing my head right before lunch time. When i put them on after
lunch, its ok at first and then, its like my head is in a vice slowly
being tighten and then the music starts to feel like knives carving
a hole in my ear drums. If that's not enough......The ones that
i have at home are equally brain pinching, but i don't really use
them because the wire is too short to reach from my computer to
my art desk chair, even though they're right next to each other.
Of course, if my home computer had speakers, i wouldn't need any
torturous head equipment. I seriously need to take care of these
issues.
SEPTEMBER
16, 2003 : tuesday
> I'm not sure what this journalist is smoking, but anyone that
says, "Suggestion: Go for the low-calorie yeast doughnuts"
is a friend of mine. I came across that
comment when I was researching the calories in Einstein
bagels, who don't post nutritional info on their cutely illustrated
website. Of course, an einstein is no where near my house and having
a bagel for breakfast is as much a reality as waking up and making
my own bagels.
 Incidentally,
i can't resist commenting on their NEW Panini Sandwiches. Has anyone
else noticed that paninis are sweeping the nation like last years
wraps? and the-year-before-that's salad in a cup?
SEPTEMBER
15, 2003 : monday
> It was a good food weekend starting with a much desired cheeseburger
at Fuddruckers friday night. I probably eat about 4 burgers a year,
so this one was a long time a-comin'. That buttery grilled bun,
just crispy on the edges, combined with their burger-fixins-bar
can not be beat.
> It sure seems like summer is gone, but i'm reluctant to pack
up my summery clothes just yet because i can remember many years
in Texas when the summer seemed like it would never end. Maybe we're
in the beginning of a really nice fall. That would certainly be
ideal.
> I nearly forgot to mention that I tried a fried Twinkie, at
a sushi place. I'm no twinkie fan, but it was pretty delicious,
tasting not unlike a filled doughnut. I had only one bite, which
was plenty for me.
SEPTEMBER
12, 2003 : friday
>
Look at this way cool haunted
house gingerbread kit by Martha Stewart. Of course, i have no
intention of buying it but I really like the idea of it. This only
reminds me about my intentions this year to do a Christmas time
gingerbread house. I'm telling you, now that we are in September,
its all a downhill slide through holidays to the end of the year.
SEPTEMBER
8, 2003 : monday
> I'm not going to be updating much, because
my computer is down for a bit. In the meantime, we purchased LOTR
Part I on DVD and are busy watching and watching. God, i just love
that lotr stuff. I can't get enough. See ya.
SEPTEMBER
2, 2003 : friday
> I guess i am trying to do too many things tonight because it
seems i am fighting the cosmic forces rather than working with them.
i went to the gym, ran an errand, went to the store. all of that
went without incident. came home, started making some soup for my
lunches -- burnt some garlic, droppped a plastic container of something
from the spice cabinet, tried to make a phone call on our land line
and the cordless was dead, tried to make a phone call on our NEW
cell phone and the call failed, tried to blog and my connection
wouldn't work. It just isn't happening for me.
> I think in a year or so, this site will have totally morphed
into a food blog. All i really want to talk about is food. So, over
the weekend we made a trip to the nice grocery store to pick out
something delicious to take home and eat, in honor of the Labors
of Day. No problem for me. I went directly past the chocolate case
and right over to the bread area and laid my mittens on a container
of one sticky bun. ( I really wish i had gotten stickybun.com.......the
bun was domain-inspiring, it was that good.) I get home with
my bun and cut it in thirds ( in order to have more than one sitting
of bun eating ). I heat it up, and when i put it in my mouth i know
that i have found the stairway to dessert heaven. This bun was a
twirled thing like a cinnamon roll and the bread was flaky and it
looked like a ladle of caramel was just dumped on top. No raisins.
No nuts. The way i felt when i was eating that bun must be how some
women feel about chocolate or how some men feel about fast cars.
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Scissor report: all three scissors currently hanging on nails in
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