March 2010 Archive

31Mar
3

Sashimi Fail

J took me out to sushi for dinner tonight. We decided to try this little sushi place down the street from us. I was hesitant, given that it looks kinda janky from the outside, but whatever,  let’s give this a shot.

The inside of the restaurant way exceeded my expectations. It was clean and very cutely decorated. All the fish at the sushi bar looked really fresh too.

My all time favorite item at a sushi place is salmon nigiri:

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Last time we had sushi, J suggested we get sashimi instead of nigiri because at that particular place it was more cost-effective. I’ve never had sashimi, and trying new foods at a sushi restaurant scares me. Let’s face it, last time I did that I came super close to vomiting in my mouth. I had to spit out the roll. OK whatever, I’ll try sashimi.

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Posted by Caro in Animals, Food, Random
31Mar
0

Yahtzee!

Let’s get this out of the way: call me a nerd, but I LOVE playing board games. They’re so much fun!!

Alright now that there’s no question about that, I can post my blog about board games :)

From time to time when I wander through Target I’ll actually allow myself to indulge and buy a game.  I’m trying to beef up my collection at home, but in order to keep my wallet happy it’s a pretty slow going process. A couple of weeks ago I bought Yahtzee. It’s the simplest of games really – it consists of a cup, 5 dice, and a pad of paper to keep score. You roll the dice and try to make things, like 4 of a kind, full house, etc. Since you only get 3 tries, sometimes you don’t get all of the items on the list (like  a Yahtzee, aka 5 of a kind).

A couple of nights ago I convinced J to take a break from his work and play a quick game with me. That’s another thing I love about this game – with only 2 people it can be super quick! So we played. It didn’t seem that close, but as we each started finishing our sections, I started adding up the scores. As it turns out, I was ahead by a lot. J only had one item left on his list: Yahtzee. Since this is the hardest one to get, it’s also worth the most. He was frustrated and asked if it would even matter if he got it. I added up all the points and realized that if he rolled a 5 of a kind, we would be exactly tied.  TIED!

So he rolls. Three 6s. Another roll, another 6. Down to the last roll – can he roll a 6? 16.5% chance he will. At this point we’re having a pretty friendly yet competitive game here, and you have to understand there was some serious suspense. He rolled.

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Posted by Caro in fun, Life, Money, Random, Things to do
31Mar
0

Yesterday: A GREAT Day

It’s not often that I have days as great as this. You know those days – where everything just goes RIGHT? Not even that. It was like the best possible outcome for a variety of situations.

1. I woke up and wasn’t groggy. I actually kind of felt rested. Weird, but OK!

2. I rolled into work and was ridiculously productive. I never knew I could do that much work in that short of an amount of time!

3. I got a call from the cable guy at like 11:30. He wanted to come to my house right then to fix my DVR. Um…my appointment is from 1-3. I’m at work sir, you need to come later. He told me he’d show up at 1. I got home at like 1:05 and the dude was there. SCORE! He gave me a new DVR box, but it was taking a long ass time to set up. Impatient, he changed it out for another box. This one started working after a while. He mentioned maybe 2 or 3 times that I had a nice telephone voice. Um creepy! And strange too, cuz I was kind of pissy when he called at 11:30. For lack of anything else to say, I just said thank you. As he was leaving, he asked if there was anything else he could do. I told him the customer service person had told me to talk to him about getting a credit on my bill. After all, my TV was essentially useless for like 5 days. He told me to call customer service. Lame, but oh well. Dude left.

About 5 minutes later I got a call from this dude. He wanted to see if the DVR box was picking up the schedule yet. I looked and shockingly enough, it was actually working. The guy then told me he gave me a credit on my bill – for the entire cost of TV for a month!! Here I was hoping to get like $10 off, but I got a whole month of TV for free. That’s what I’m talking about!!

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Posted by Caro in Life, Random, Rants and raves, Work
30Mar
1

Butter

Yeah, that’s exactly how my skin feels at the moment!! Talk about glory, especially when my skin had previously been having some alligator-like dryness issues.

A friend of mine is getting married in less than two weeks, and I have the honor of being a bridesmaid. The story of how I came to be the one responsible for throwing a bachelorette party is not relevant at this time (although it was stressful!), but I’m quite satisfied with the outcome.

My friend decided she wanted a spa day…. at Burke Williams (she had a gift card). Quite expensive to say the least, but in the end it was so worth it. While the other girls decided they all wanted massages, I decided to do something different. After all, J gave me a membership to a different spa for Chrismakkah, and I still have 2 massages left on that! I ended up going with the Parafango Treatment, mostly because the first sentence describes it as “The ultimate moisturizing experience.” Yes please!

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Posted by Caro in Discoveries, Health, Life, Shopping, Things to do, Weddings
30Mar
1

SHOES!

I just bought these shoes from Zappos:

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Posted by Caro in Discoveries, Shopping, Things to do
30Mar
0

Addicted

I’m 100% incurably addicted to Facebook Scrabble. Like I get home from work and log on to see how many turns I have. It’s bad, especially since my computer is still not 100% fixed and I’m relying on J to give me time on his. Super lame. I’ve gotta get this laptop situation under control!!

Posted by Caro in Random, Things to do
22Mar
0

The Devil Made Me Do It

“The Devil” of course referring to Ambien.

“It” being oversleep this morning….By almost an hour and a half!!

It’s been a while since I’ve taken these little magical happy sleepy pills, but after a few weeks of  increased sleeplessness, I decided it was worth a try to dabble into my prescription once again. I passed out hard. I woke up, a little dazed, knowing immediately something was wrong.

Yep, 8:29am. Checked the alarm just to make sure I had actually set it last night (I’ve been known to do stupid things like not turn it on, or choose PM over AM). Sure enough, it was set to 7:12am, ON.

Ah how I had forgotten the power of the Ambien. Alarm went off and I didn’t even flinch.

2 cups of coffee later, kinda awake. I see why I stopped taking these things. Don’t think I’ll try one again for quite some time!

Posted by Caro in Discoveries, Health, Life, Work
21Mar
0

The Beatles

I’m not sure if I’ve ever added this to my top albums page, but the entire Beatles Anthology needs to be included in it for sure!

Posted by Caro in Discoveries, Music, Random
21Mar
0

Amazing Guitar

This is AMAZING.

I’m almost never a fan of a guy with a guitar. but I could watch this indefinitely. Thank you Sim, for finding this!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo7-cUYB7y4[/youtube]

Posted by Caro in cool, Discoveries, Random, Videos
19Mar
0

Seasons

It is March 19, 2010.

Today is the last day of winter; tomorrow is the first day of spring.

ummmmm…..

Can someone please explain to me how it’s technically still WINTER and I’m ready to drive to the beach in my air conditioned car??? It’s hot as fuck today and I can’t handle it.

Mother Nature: I liked the cold better. Get your stuff together already!

Thank you.

Posted by Caro in Life, Random, Rants and raves
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