Rambliness...
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Work has been hellishly busy lately. I want to say more, but frankly, to give it any more time than I already have is way more than it deserves.
My cousin and I went to Chez Shea for their 3-for-$15 lunch yesterday (her suggestion)! It was good, but I must say, I'm glad![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
corianderstem and I ended up going to Crush instead. We basically split everything:
Appetizers:
- smoked salmon mousse with salmon caviar, flatbread, and arugula
- cream of broccolini soup
Entrees:
- natural beef burger with the usual fixings
- bouillabaisse (prawn, mussels, rockfish, and a toasted baguette with spicy rouille)
Desserts:
- vanilla bean crème brulee
- rhubarb and some-other-fruit cobbler ... darn, can't remember the other fruit
Everything was good, but in an expected, not extraordinary, way.
My cousin and her husband have unpacked their super expensive copper pots and are ready to give them to me, woot!! I'm going to try and make it over there either on Sunday or on Tuesday so that we can go to the 3-for-$30 dinner at Spring Hill, as that will be the last day of the promotion. It'll depend on if the La Compagnie de Provence soap I ordered has arrived by Sunday, as I'm planning to give one of the bottles to my cousin, who loves the scent of lavender.
In house hunting news, my dad has suggested that maybe it's not a good idea to be buying a second home right now. Sigh. Honestly, he's worn me down so much by now with all his back and forth that I don't even care anymore. It's not like I'm dying to take on another mortgage, and if I miss out on this opportunity, well, it won't be the first nor, I'm sure, the last time.
Well, my bracket is pretty much ruined. Stupid Memphis. Seriously, wtf! I'm just cursed. My self-made brackets are crap, and now when I've followed a perfectly legitimate computer-generated bracket, it too is crap. Sigh.
Borders has their 40% off coupon circulating, so I took the opportunity to get City of Glass, the last book in the Mortal Instruments trilogy, and the Watchmen comic. I've heard that the movie is a lot better when you know all the backstory. :D
Sometimes, I really wish I still lived in L.A.. A ready-made list of NY-style pizza places!! If I could only find ONE such place here, I'd be happy.
I've been watching Angel again. I'm on the S2 finale, with them all stuck in Pylea. BTWjade_okelani, I finally see what you were on about all those years ago about the sudden change of personality in both Angel and Cordy. I still don't think I mind as much as you did/do (and I definitely agree that they could have achieved the same thing, particularly with Cordy, with a little time and patience, rather than just making it a presto-change-o thing), but at least I finally see it.
Speaking of Joss Whedon shows, I have seen the famed sixth episode of Dollhouse. Yeah, it was better than many of the other eps, but not so much so that it just blew everything else away. In a way it actually was a fitting sixth episode, building on all that had come before. What was superior about it was the bits of humor we got (the interviews).
I thought the first meeting between Echo and Ballard was a bit contrived (though I was rolling at her horror over the 'porn house'), particularly afterward, when he as the heart to heart with the client. The actor who plays Ballard still does less than nothing for me. I liked his neighbor girl, and am not sure if I'm glad or disappointed that she's a doll (which was not exactly a surprise -- but the reveal was pretty cool). It's all getting a bit too interwoven and complicated, like Alias. And the reveal of there being 20+ Dollhouses also reminds me of Alias, SD-6, and all the SD cells. I'm still not sure what their intentions are with Ballard (and I must admit I'm intrigued by what Echo told Ballard at their second meeting, about the true intent of the Dollhouses) and why they keep stringing him along and giving him something, rather than giving him nothing. Seems more dangerous to me.
I can't remember if it was the ep or the interview w/ Joss that revealed that people are not there of their own free will, but I thought that the very first scene of the series negated that. It seemed to me that Caroline was choosing -- albeit reluctantly -- to join Dollhouse, because it was her only option. It wasn't like someone kidnapped her and forced her to join (unless something happens after that scene that we're not yet privy to).
Finally, I'm curious about who reprogrammed Echo. Seemed like Boyd was in on it -- he deliberately seemed to lead Topher out of the room to keep him busy, so that whoever could have the opportunity to mess with the programming (plus, there has to be more to Boyd than meets the eye). Or maybe that was just opportunity that whoever did it used? I'm pretty sure it's not Alpha, as it seems a little too cerebral for him, and I don't see why he would 'help' in that way anyway. His M.O. seems to be just to mess with Echo, and not in this way. The question is, who did it? Topher's bitter assistant? Seems the likeliest candidate, and yet also a little too obvious. And how/why would she and Boyd be in cahoots?
Meanwhile, I have made THE most delicious chicken carbonara two days in a row. It's very simple. Unfortunately no photos of it have come out looking as good as it tastes, so I'll just keep trying.
My cousin and I went to Chez Shea for their 3-for-$15 lunch yesterday (her suggestion)! It was good, but I must say, I'm glad
corianderstem and I ended up going to Crush instead. We basically split everything:Appetizers:
- smoked salmon mousse with salmon caviar, flatbread, and arugula
- cream of broccolini soup
Entrees:
- natural beef burger with the usual fixings
- bouillabaisse (prawn, mussels, rockfish, and a toasted baguette with spicy rouille)
Desserts:
- vanilla bean crème brulee
- rhubarb and some-other-fruit cobbler ... darn, can't remember the other fruit
Everything was good, but in an expected, not extraordinary, way.
My cousin and her husband have unpacked their super expensive copper pots and are ready to give them to me, woot!! I'm going to try and make it over there either on Sunday or on Tuesday so that we can go to the 3-for-$30 dinner at Spring Hill, as that will be the last day of the promotion. It'll depend on if the La Compagnie de Provence soap I ordered has arrived by Sunday, as I'm planning to give one of the bottles to my cousin, who loves the scent of lavender.
In house hunting news, my dad has suggested that maybe it's not a good idea to be buying a second home right now. Sigh. Honestly, he's worn me down so much by now with all his back and forth that I don't even care anymore. It's not like I'm dying to take on another mortgage, and if I miss out on this opportunity, well, it won't be the first nor, I'm sure, the last time.
Well, my bracket is pretty much ruined. Stupid Memphis. Seriously, wtf! I'm just cursed. My self-made brackets are crap, and now when I've followed a perfectly legitimate computer-generated bracket, it too is crap. Sigh.
Borders has their 40% off coupon circulating, so I took the opportunity to get City of Glass, the last book in the Mortal Instruments trilogy, and the Watchmen comic. I've heard that the movie is a lot better when you know all the backstory. :D
Sometimes, I really wish I still lived in L.A.. A ready-made list of NY-style pizza places!! If I could only find ONE such place here, I'd be happy.
I've been watching Angel again. I'm on the S2 finale, with them all stuck in Pylea. BTW
jade_okelani, I finally see what you were on about all those years ago about the sudden change of personality in both Angel and Cordy. I still don't think I mind as much as you did/do (and I definitely agree that they could have achieved the same thing, particularly with Cordy, with a little time and patience, rather than just making it a presto-change-o thing), but at least I finally see it.Speaking of Joss Whedon shows, I have seen the famed sixth episode of Dollhouse. Yeah, it was better than many of the other eps, but not so much so that it just blew everything else away. In a way it actually was a fitting sixth episode, building on all that had come before. What was superior about it was the bits of humor we got (the interviews).
I thought the first meeting between Echo and Ballard was a bit contrived (though I was rolling at her horror over the 'porn house'), particularly afterward, when he as the heart to heart with the client. The actor who plays Ballard still does less than nothing for me. I liked his neighbor girl, and am not sure if I'm glad or disappointed that she's a doll (which was not exactly a surprise -- but the reveal was pretty cool). It's all getting a bit too interwoven and complicated, like Alias. And the reveal of there being 20+ Dollhouses also reminds me of Alias, SD-6, and all the SD cells. I'm still not sure what their intentions are with Ballard (and I must admit I'm intrigued by what Echo told Ballard at their second meeting, about the true intent of the Dollhouses) and why they keep stringing him along and giving him something, rather than giving him nothing. Seems more dangerous to me.
I can't remember if it was the ep or the interview w/ Joss that revealed that people are not there of their own free will, but I thought that the very first scene of the series negated that. It seemed to me that Caroline was choosing -- albeit reluctantly -- to join Dollhouse, because it was her only option. It wasn't like someone kidnapped her and forced her to join (unless something happens after that scene that we're not yet privy to).
Finally, I'm curious about who reprogrammed Echo. Seemed like Boyd was in on it -- he deliberately seemed to lead Topher out of the room to keep him busy, so that whoever could have the opportunity to mess with the programming (plus, there has to be more to Boyd than meets the eye). Or maybe that was just opportunity that whoever did it used? I'm pretty sure it's not Alpha, as it seems a little too cerebral for him, and I don't see why he would 'help' in that way anyway. His M.O. seems to be just to mess with Echo, and not in this way. The question is, who did it? Topher's bitter assistant? Seems the likeliest candidate, and yet also a little too obvious. And how/why would she and Boyd be in cahoots?
Meanwhile, I have made THE most delicious chicken carbonara two days in a row. It's very simple. Unfortunately no photos of it have come out looking as good as it tastes, so I'll just keep trying.
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Date: 2009-03-27 11:43 pm (UTC)We went to Ralph Brennan's Jazz Kitchen at Downtown Disney yesterday, and ordered a bunch of stuff, all which was definitely enjoyable, but I got this soup sampler, which included their house Jambalaya, house onion soup, and their soup of the day, which I was SO LUCKY was a "Shrimp and Corn Soup" that the waitress assured me was phenomenal. And it was. Oh, it was. I'm trying to find copycat/clone recipes, but so far nothing seems quite right. But it was the most delicious soup ever, and I'm like, I can't believe I want to go back to Disneyland right now to have a whole bowl of it instead of just a small sampler.
Hahahahah, re: Cordy and Angel. I think it wouldn't bother anyone not heavily invested already (like, fanfic heavily invested, which you never were/still aren't) to be really put out by it. But I'm relieved you finally see it. :)) Oh I was mad. Now when I watch it I'm not all disgusted, but I still wonder why, when they usually take their time with everything else, they decided to be so jarring and awful. It just got worse in season 3, as they took them further and further w/out giving it time. And then Cordy's hair *traumatized*.