i made dinner last night. family recipe steak, garlic bread, stuffing, and rice. it was quite delicious, though very unhealthy. i think that i’m going to have to make more healthy food, otherwise i’m sure that my arteries will clog up with all of this fat. perhaps i will try to make a healthy meal for every unhealthy meal i make. heh…ok, perhaps i should be more realistic. i will try to make one healthy meal a week. that ought to be doable, right? yeah, i think so.

i also made spinach dip last night for the first time. it was the first time i used frozen chopped spinach. i may have to use that in my lasagna next time. we’ll see. it was pretty good though. i remember when my mom used to boil spinach and serve it up for dinner. that was sort of good too. i wonder if you can make spinach soup. hmmmmm.

i’ve been watching tv while on my bad commutes to work. over an hour just sucks. oh well. but today i was able to watch two episodes of medical investigation. this is great for me catching up on my tv. so far i’ve been barely able to keep up with the downloading of shows to watch them, but i’m still a little behind.

i am really digging this show though. i’m not sure what it is about it, but it seems pretty cool. the main character seems a little unstable, but i guess that’s ok. i sort of like the strong, silent type like that of grissom in CSI.

aside from that i think that the commute has been bad, but i’m getting used to it again. oh well, gone are the days of the happy commute, i guess. i wonder if this means that i need to shift my hours again? hmmmmmm.

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so it seems another weekend has come and gone. i feel particularly more sore this weekend than weekend’s past, though. saturday was spent playing in a volleyball tournament. jen, cathy, de, and i played in the last shindig tournament of the season. it was quite fun. we took second place in our pool, and third place overall. no prizes this time. =( but still it was fun and the weather was nice, though a little overcast on saturday.

sunday, however, was supposed to be a day of wine tasting in napa, but we awoke to the thunderous rainstorms that crept out of nowhere. and it was raining HARD. so now that the napa plans were cancelled, shirley and i decided to relax, lounge, and enjoy the rest of the day.

and that was the weekend.

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now i guess i have been just in denial, but when i read about how [url=http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=796&e=2&u=/eo/20040919/en_celeb_eo/14963]britney got married again[/url] in a hush hush quicky marriage over the weekend, i think that i’ve just about given up on her. i don’t get it. what in the world is going on here?

oh well, i guess it’s just another monday…

i know that i have a weakness for donuts, but man…mini powdered donuts are just insanely addictive. i’m almost through half a box of them. dammit.

netflix just asked me to come again for another focus group! this means that there’ll be ANOTHER two free months of netflix membership! sweet! i remember the woman who ran the focus group told me that she might be interested in contacting me again after they’ve done some more development so i’ve been anticipating that they would contact me.

ahhhh, free membership. gotta love it!

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today was a reasonably decent traffic day. it’s a good thing too because it’s friday and i really need some of this time to just relax and take it easy. really, really need that. i have to pick up a few supplies for tomorrow’s volleyball tournament today, but i’m thinking about using the burger patties from the last party so that should greatly simplify the process.

i’m glad that it is friday, though. i’m quite tired out and i’m looking forward to just relaxing through the weekend. not too sure what exactly is in the works, but i think that i may be going to napa on sunday before volleyball. we’ll see.

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some things just work better on paper than they do in real life. proof of this came in the form of an experiment last night. i decided to try and make fried oreos. now, most people when they hear of this cringe in terror. oreos are bad enough as is, but fried oreos? that is surely terrifying, no? no.

but after frying up a batch of oreos and trying it out, the novelty of it quickly ran out and i must say that though it was fun to try out, i don’t think that i will do it again.

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my blog entries seem to be growing farther apart and fewer. perhaps i’m taking a page out of [url=http://sushisis.tangledweave.com/]carol’s[/url] book. on friday, we celebrated nelson’s birthday by going to dave and buster’s. shirley and i ran a little late but when we got there, we found out that we were dining in the show room. the show room is dave and buster’s karaoke room where people can belt out to their favorite tunes.

let me tell you, there was some bad singing that night. more bad singing than good singing…much more so. but then again, i can’t sing worth a damned so it was a good thing that i didn’t go up there and embarass myself.

we retired back to [url=http://www.phamily.org]paul’s[/url] where we had ice cream cake from coldstone. i think that i personally like baskin robbins’ ice cream cake more, though, but the coldstone cake was also quite good. i tried to take a few pictures with the s400 in low light, but they all ended up rather blurry. sigh.

i need to get a fast lens for my camera. not sure which one to get, just yet. maybe the 50mm/1.4.

saturday, i went to this guy’s housewarming party up in hayward. he has a nice pad with interesting colored walls. saw a whole bunch of aphio folk there, none of which i recognized that i didn’t meet already meet very recently. sophia made me some kind of tasty drink and i saw a few familiar faces and made some conversation. joe and i agreed to exchange info and perhaps play poker sometime.

sunday was spent in the morning helping trang set up her new classroom. i did some cleaning, some organizing, and put up a board. johnny, jen, ray, shirley, and i were all there on hand to help her out. we broke for lunch at barney’s in berkeley where trang treated us to lunch. this was my first barney’s experience. their burgers are pretty good, they use only the finest of ingredients. but i felt that the burger was a little bland and too meaty. yes, they do use ground chuck and that’s quite good, but there’s more to a burger than just the meat. it’s all in the spices. i like my burgers more. but, their turkish coffee milkshake is to die for.

and then there was sunday volleyball on the new team. have some good players on the team, so we’ll see how we end up doing. i made a few mental errors and kept getting in the way of the setter. i’ll try harder to be better. but i got some good hits in which was good so i’m hoping that i’ll continue that trend this week.