since friday evening, it has been a complete blur. i have been working close to non-stop friday, saturday, and parts of sunday. monday crept up with more issues and i didn’t leave the office until around 8:30PM. yesterday was another long day, but not as bad and i think the brunt of it has finally died down and we are officially out of panic mode.

it’s a good thing, too, because getting out of panic mode timed pretty perfectly with the launch of our project.

somewhere in all of the business, i was able to make a batch of chocolate chip cookies. 4 dozen cookies were made and i brought them into the office yesterday. all but 4 were left when i came into the office today. crazy, huh? i didn’t even get to eat that many, so i think that another batch will have to be made soon.

i’ve been battling with making cookies for the last 4 weeks or so. i would take the butter out of the fridge and intend to make it, but by the time the butter has had time to get soft, i was too tired to make the cookies. finally, i made them, but when i took them into the office, they all disappeared very quickly. 4 dozen!

looks like i will have to make more cookies!

our doorbell is located upstairs. it is not very loud. this becomes quite the problem when we have people or we are cooking in the kitchen downstairs and people ring the doorbell. we just don’t hear it.

on numerous occasions people have rung the doorbell and there is no repsonse from us. today, i am happy to report that that problem is no longer plaguing this household. i got a door chime extender. all it really is is a sound-activated remote control which then activates a separate doorbell. so far it has worked great in my testing, but so far no one has rung our doorbell since i installed it…

• Most expensive meal I have ever eaten: the French laundry in yountville http://twitpic.com/6erwa #
• I couldn’t believe it so I had to take a picture of the pizza dinner christi had with me. http://twitpic.com/6hbiz #
• Brought in a chocolate chocolate chip muffin to work, but there is krispy kreme in the office! What to do?? http://twitpic.com/6jg3f #
• I don’t drink too much diet coke… really… http://twitpic.com/6k5ov #
• Qcup in Cupertino now serves bulgogi?? http://twitpic.com/6oubg #
• Just finished 4 hour debugging session. I am so tired. #
• Just had dreyer’s mud pie ice cream. It is fantastic! http://twitpic.com/6uymp #

i was shopping at safeway today and my total came to $9.98. when giving me my change, the cashier asked me if i wanted my two cents. without really thinking about it, i told her “no” and took my purchase and headed over to my car.

halfway to my car, i started to think about the transaction. i don’t think that i have ever been asked if i want my change before. i wonder, though, if this is safeway’s secret plan to get little bits of change from each cash purchase. no matter how little it is, this little bit could add up to something pretty significant. pretty sneaky!

i don’t think that i would have ever come to this point, but i think that i may officially be steaked out. i made a costco pack of rib eyes last night and after eating one, i was done. i don’t think that the joy of eating steak would ever leave me, but it just wasn’t as delicious as it once used to be. what is happening?

what’s next? i’m going to crave salad or something? i don’t know, but i still have 3 more rib eyes waiting to be eaten….

• Sometimes I forget how liberal I am living in the bay area and how conservative CA is until something like today’s ruling on prop 8 #
• Eating lunch at a place called sushi express…except they aren’t so expressy. #
• Just ate a salad, miso soup, sashimi, gyoza, tempura, ca roll, and chicken teriyaki bento box. It was kinda big. #
• Cup o’ ice cream anyone? http://twitpic.com/62vl7 #
• Mmmmm http://twitpic.com/65o3r #
• Yountville is dangerous. http://twitpic.com/6deih #

i just bombed the house because we have been having a rash of spider sightings lately. not a night has gone by where we haven’t seen a spider, so it was time to do something about it.

we got the fogger started and went out to dinner. and all of places we went to have PIZZA for dinner. christi got a small artichoke hearts, chicken, and no cheese pizza. i got a large mushroom and pepperoni pizza. mmm. we each ate half a pizza. i was telling her that half a small pizza is like one quarter of a large pizza. she didn’t believe me and i did the math and she still didn’t believe me.

mmmm…pizza.

it’s been a real drought of good tv shows lately. with all of the season finales that have come to pass, there aren’t too many shows left that i look forward to.

now that i have to find new ways to entertain myself, i have been catching up on tv shows that i have been meaning to watch. i am about halfway through with smallville season 6. i cannot believe that lex and lana are an item. i know this is old news to probably everyone else, but man, that really bothers me.

my parents had to get their house fumigated for termites so all the food in their house had to go. my mom gave me the contents of her freezer and so i had to make room in our freezer for all of this newly found food.

a week or so later, christi’s grandmother made her all these rice cakes for her, her brother, and her dad. all of these needed to fit in the freezer too. our freezer has never been more full.

it is so full, in fact, that when i open the freezer door, the two drawers are stuck together, so i have to pry them apart to get to the contents of the lower bin.

this has had a detrimental effect to my ice cream supply. i was running low on ice cream and now i can’t stock up on any until some of this freezer space is cleared out. i’m down to half a carton of ice cream now. it’s ridiculous. i need to go make some room and buy another 5 or 6 cartons as soon as i can.

speaking of running low, the office has run out of diet coke and so i am now forced to drink caffeine free diet coke. it just doesn’t taste right.

it seems pretty obvious to me that celebrity status actually makes a big difference in my level of interest of what you have to say when it comes to twitter. i don’t know very many people in real life who tweet, so the bulk of the people i follow are celebrities of some sort.

like, is it really interesting that someone is going to take their first nap in years? it doesn’t seem that interesting. but when @brookeburke tells you that she’s about to take a nap, it somehow is just fascinating. i don’t get it myself, but that’s how it is.

is it a little pathetic that i got excited that @lisaloeb4real is following me? they played lisa loeb while i was at lowe’s today. speaking of lowe’s, i went to the customer service center and asked if they could print a registry for me. they said that they don’t do registries and so i asked if she meant that they can’t print them online. no, they don’t do registries, she says. so i tell her that that’s weird because i made one online and i was just looking at it the other day. she asked someone else about it and they printed up the registry for me. she was nice about it and apologized for the confusion.