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[sarea]

My boss is jealous of my new machine, because it is eons better than his. Bwahahahaha. He keeps telling me, though, and I'm just like, ohmygod, just ask for one of your own. Sheesh.

You learn all sorts of cool things from your friends. Because of seldon, I'm going to pick up Garbage's new album today at lunch, and empressvesica tells you how to get rid of unsightly hickeys bruises. Neat!

My favorite coffee drink is a tall vanilla soy latte, but lately I've been getting it without the vanilla (to cut down on my sugar intake, and because there's a hint of vanilla in the soy milk they use). Lately, I've also been having to order it "extra hot" meaning "hot at all, and not lukewarm." I haaaaaate that stupid McDonald's Coffee Lady who prompted everyone to start serving hot drinks lukewarm. Hate her, not just because of that, but because she also represents the defects in a society that let what I would consider a frivolous lawsuit be successful. It's disgusting.

Want to post the answers to that favorites meme, but when I do I'd actually like to link to files of all the songs so you can enjoy them. That might take awhile. <g> Maybe on the weekend...

Alias tonight, though I've been forgetting to watch. I figure I'll just catch up with this season on DVD, and maybe it'll be more tolerable then. Can't wait till Arrested Development S2 is on DVD. That show just pwns.

Also, I've heard that the movie Ice Princess is disappointing, and that it suffers from A BAD SCRIPT. Normally, given what it's about and the fact that it's a Disney movie, I would have assumed that ... but I had such high hopes, due to the fact that Meg Cabot wrote it. And it has Kim Cattrall! And Michelle Kwan! I love a good GP movie, but it sounds like there's no P to be had ... and this review comes from people who are normally much more tolerant of these kinds of movies (meaning they did not despise things like Ella Enchanted the way I did).

P.S. How I wish, wish, wish that there were a Mexican bakery near me.

Comments

[elle-blessing.livejournal.com]

I have it on good authority that a *sugar-free* vanilla soy latte is also very good :)...However, my personal favorite is a tall iced non-fat white-chocolate peppermint mocha....yes, it's full of sugar, but that's the way I love it :)...Also, I think this obsession of coffee is very unique to us Washingtonians *wink*

[sarea-okelani.livejournal.com]

Sadly, I hate sugar-free things, so I'd rather do without. Your drink sounds the yum! However, I'd probably also get it full fat, because that's another thing I liked about my coffee (until I switched to soy) -- nonfat was just not the same. I'm also a big fan of the frappucino. :D

No kidding re: coffee obsession. I remember my first Mariners game, where the line for coffee was longer than the line for the women's restroom. That completely blew me away at the time, but now it's something I'm used to. <g>

[ropo.livejournal.com]

Yeah, sadly Meg wrote the story but not the screenplay, otherwise the dialogue might've been better. My main problems with the movie were that parts of it seemed slow, and that it didn't have that spark that an ice skating movie should have, despite most of the actors being good. Sigh. Rental.

[venetianglass.livejournal.com]

I saw Ice Princess and didn't think it was that bad. But, you could have much different movie standards than I do.

[mr-spivens.livejournal.com]

but because she also represents the defects in a society that let what I would consider a frivolous lawsuit be successful.

The lawsuit wasn't frivolous, but the McDonald's press machine did a really, really good job of making people think that it was.

[seldon.livejournal.com]

P.S. How I wish, wish, wish that there were a Mexican bakery near me.

Is this a good time to confess that I lived next door to a "panaderia"? ;) My grandmother was a baker, and she had her own bakery next door to my house until she passed away. Many memories of my childhood take place among flour and sugar and water... Her concha and yema were delicious, but i was her campechanas which I liked the most. When I behaved she would give some dough and let me shape and bake my own bread :)

I remember that, once a year, as the Day of the Dead approached, my grandmother would place an enormous sheet of nylon in our garage (which didn't have a roof on those years), and over that sheet she would drop an enormous quantity of sugar and dye. The sun would dry the sugar and make the red dye "stick", so it could be used to bake pan de muerto ("bread of the dead" - bread with colorful and intricate decorations made of sugar) for the Day of the Dead. To this day, that is the memory I associate with that celebration.

[sarea-okelani.livejournal.com]

Hmm. That sounds a lot like there is only one right answer, and the implication is that I have been snowed under by the McDonald's PR machine. I work in PR, so I like to think I have a healthy sense of what's spin and what's not. Also, I can make up my own mind about what I would consider frivolous -- and this woman's lawsuit is a case in point, imho. Sorry, we'll just have to agree to disagree.

[jade-okelani.livejournal.com]

*pounces on Carlos*

I've missed you so!! And now you're making me want to live next to a Mexican bakery, too. Damn your eyes. DAMN YOUR EYES, SELDON.

[sarea-okelani.livejournal.com]

Dude, so can you bake?? If so, I'm so visiting! :D I'd love to find a great Mexican bakery, but I fear that even if I found one, it wouldn't be a good one. :( I want to go to one that someone else (aka, the writer of the article) has already vetted out. How I wish I still were in LA.

That is such a cool process for pan de muerto (Spanish words I actually recognize!). I love reading about cool stuff like this ... this is so obvious, but ... all the various cultures rock! :D It's amazing how creative humankind has been through the years.

[seldon.livejournal.com]

DAMN YOUR EYES, SELDON.

I <3 U 2 ^*^

[seldon.livejournal.com]

Dude, so can you bake?

I can put the dough in the oven and wait until it is cooked. Mixing the dough, though, is something I still haven't exactly perfected...

I'm so visiting!

Now, now, don't tease me ;)