It Started with a Journal

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 adelagia, 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.