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Happy holidays! This Christmas is the quietest one in memory, with just me and my mom hanging out. We had avocado with tomatoes on bread for breakfast, we're going to have hot pot for lunch, then have a Christmas Story-style dinner, at a Chinese restaurant. :)) Right now she's watching X-Files: I Want to Believe, while I am on the Pandemic forums and also learning how to play the bio-terrorist from the expansion. >.> I know, so Christmassy.

A couple of days ago [personal profile] adelagia, [personal profile] slitherhither and I played the Pandemic expansion and it is SO FUN. We played almost every variation/challenge other than the bio-terrorist and the combos. The only thing is that some of the rules are not as clear as in the original, and we had a number of questions. But then I found these forums, and Tom Lehmann, who co-created the expansion with Matt Leacock, actually goes to those forums and replies to stuff!! He answered one of my questions! I love the internetz.

Anyway, that day we played for so long that we went through T.'s 7-hour collection of oldies. >.> Also before we started that we went to a tacqueria and ate some delicious tongue tacos, and later ate honeyed chevre and Kerrygold garlic and herb butter on Macrina bread and crackers, while drinking sparkling pear juice. Mmmmmmm. Evidence of our activities. )

Dudes. The plain ramen from the other night was a HUGE success. I don't know if it was the new type of ramen we got or if it was the way in which we ate it (BOF style, putting the big pot of ramen into the middle of the table and using chopsticks to transfer the noodles, a chopstick-full at a time, out of the pot into individual bowls as we ate -- we did not use a lid, that would've been even more authentic), but my mom and I agreed that it was one of the most delicious ramen meals we've ever had. LOL! The specific type of ramen we used was new to us -- Sutah Hot & Spicy Beef Flavor. It's by Samyang, which is a brand we've eaten plenty of, but not this particular 'line' or whatever you would call it, of ramen. My mom and I loved it! We also ate some stir-fried greens on the side.

Finally, we saw Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol on IMAX the other night. I'll give you one reason to go see it, and you only need the one: Jeremy Renner. If you need more, I'll give you two: Josh Holloway and Simon Pegg. It's quite watchable, though the first MI is the best one. This one... the writing sucks but the action sequences are good.
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[personal profile] adelagia and I are ultra cool people. OK no, we are giant dorks. But we are so dorky that it almost becomes cool. Y/Y? Case in point: We spent hours -- literally hours and hours -- this weekend playing board games at Crossroads. Because you know what we discovered? The Uncle's Games there has a WALL of board games that you can take and play at the outside tables for free. It is AWESOME. We are not talking about your run-of-the-mill Monopoly/Life/Scrabble board games. We are talking about adult board games for serious board gamers (first introduced to me by the ultra cool herself [profile] romanticalgirl). The game we spent the most time on was Pandemic, which is a really fun BUT HARD SO HARD, cooperative game. I don't know how many times the world succumbed to disease before T and I were finally able to save it. We played so many times, you guys. You don't even know how accomplished we felt when we finally won, lol. After that we played Forbidden Island (by the same guy who made Pandemic), but that was child's play in comparison. We also played Lost Cities, which has the worst instructions ever, but once we figured it out we warmed up to it. We played until Crossroads closed -- but is it our fault that the place closes at 6pm on Sundays? WTF, amirite?

If I ever get a new house and move -- which is looking less and less likely -- I am totally going to dedicate a room to board gaming. I'm going to have a gaming table and have shelves filled with awesome board games. My dreams are small.

I have discovered the beauty and wonder of The Big Bang Theory. I love Sheldon to pieces. It took me a season and a half to like Penny. She was just so generic early on, and plus was such a stereotype, that it was hard to like her. But she's finally grown on me, and I actually like her and Sheldon's interactions (not necessarily in a romantic sense) the best... because they are truly opposites, and neither of them are sexually interested in the other, so their relationship stems truly from growing to like each other in their own ways. I also really like Koothrappali. Harold is meh, and I pretty much despise Leonard. They're both fairly shitty friends -- maybe that's what I don't like about them. The only thing that rubs me the wrong way about the show is that they continually perpetuate various stereotypes, particularly that no attractive woman could possibly be into science, video games, or science fiction/fantasy TV/movies. Maybe I find that particularly grating/insulting given how I nerded out above re: board games, but I know plenty of attractive, intelligent women who are interested in such topics. We don't all have to be dumb blondes who work at the Cheesecake Factory. (Also, I wish they'd created a fictitious place for Penny to work, because where she works is SO not the CF. Every CF looks the same, they have a distinctive interior design, and their uniforms do not look like they belong in some local diner.)

I found out a spoiler about S4/S5 (I'm only midway through S3 at the moment), so spoilery commentary here. )

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