Decisions

If you are undecided about what to have for lunch and think “I’ll hold up my options and whichever one the dog noses first is what I will eat.” don’t thrust 2 cans at him quickly. It only confuses him and he runs away. best to put them on the floor and let him get to know them naturally.
He picked the soup.

So Much To DO!

Went in to panic mode tonight realizing that I didnt have my dress for the wedding yet. Blick. Messaged Owen and told him to call me after work. Perfect plan, completely perfect. We got drinks and dinner from the SMARMIEST waiter. I had the veal (mmm baby veal, kept in little boxes, so wrong and yet…) and as dinner was served the the drinks were flowing we got to play bitchfest ’04!
We bitched about the food (which was actually very good, just fraught with end-of-the-night kitchen issues), hair, clothes, people with zero self respect, money, dating, sushi, dicks, moving, the future, and traffic. Not necessarily in that order.
To balance it out we promised to take a trip together, he assured me he would help me buy a dress for the wedding and match my hair to it, laughed at how goofy the world is and marvelled at the sheer coincidence of our friendship (the hairdresser I had an appointment with was sick, so they switch me around and set me up with him. sigh, happy).
We drank too much, ate too much, smoked too much. I needed it.
Came home and went on a treasure hunt to gather up the little bits, cards, photos, and mementos that will be packaged up and sent out east before the move. I figure it’s the best way to keep the things that are important to my heart safe in case the moving truck falls in a river. Of course the UPS truck could be consumed by aliens, but hey, contributing photos of my dad and paris snow domes to the alien research cause is the least I can do.
I’m up too late, La Reina was actually around and I wanted to talk to her cool ass before I went to bed. Must sleep, big day ahead of me. Fingers crossed.

Karma

So a coworker and I keep talking about brownies and how we totally deserve them. She told me that after talking with me about brownies she went up to Wedge (the local feel-good, organic, fair-trade, good for you co-op), saw brownies and decided to get one. It was entirely disappointing. It was too healthy or something. We decided that the sugar was all wrong. The sugar was probably organic, harvested by people who were paid a living wage and had super-standard working conditions. Feel-good sugar is not good sugar.
We want our sugar harvested by people working at gunpoint for meager wages and subsisting in conditions that 60 minutes would bust in and report about. “Fear and bad karma make for good sugar!”
Song of the week is Wild World as performed by Me First and the Gimme Gimmes (Cat Stevens’ version is nice, but…). Also, with the iPod you end up making massive random playlists for the car and Pearl Jam’s Rearview Mirror came up a little unexpectedly. I highly recommend this for any high speed, high volume driving mix you might be putting together.

I deserve and award

or something…
Tonight for dinner I tossed some cubed sweet potato in a bit of oil and garam masala and kosher salt. I roasted them at high heat. While they were in the oven i seasoned a half rack of lamb and seared the hell out of the outside, separated it into chops and seared those. Served it with a wedge of mirableu (I tried to find a good link to mirableu but i couldn’t. It’s a mild, tangy, salty sheep’s milk blue cheese from spain. It goes beautifully with lamb. Is it wrong to serve lamb with sheep’s milk cheese? yes.).
So tonight’s dinner was good, but what I made the other night was better.
Herb and cornmeal crusted slices of zucchini with sauteed shrimp and salsa fresca made with tomatoes, basil and parsley from the garden. Yum.
Of course, to balance things, I’m slumming with a bag of Black Pepper Jack Doritos !Limited Time Only!
Who’s coming to dinner next time?