i went to st. john’s bar and grill last night and had the beg for mercy cheesesteak. the cheesesteak was a lot hotter than i expected and by the end of the sandwich i really was begging for mercy. the cool thing about st. john’s is that they have very good daily specials. we got cheesesteaks because they were half off. what ordinarily is an eight dollar cheesesteak was only four. cheap!

it’s been a while, but i’ve been meaning to blog about a chocolate tasting that i went to. it was at this chocolate shop in san francisco called bittersweet. they basically will select several chocolates and give you a history of chocolate making and specifics about the particular chocolate that you are eating. it was very much like a wine tasting. who knew that there was so much history and care into chocolate making. the chocolate themselves were quite good and i must say that i was pretty full when done.

tomorrow is thanksgiving and i’m going to wake up at the butt crack of dawn to go golfing with my dad and my brother. i don’t know why i agreed to go. i don’t like waking up early and i haven’t golfed in years. in fact, it has been so long since i last golfed that my brother took my clubs and i don’t have a set of my own anymore.

oh well. my brother is psyched about it. he has been playing more lately and he is ready to have some friendly competition. my sister was in town over the weekend, so we actually celebrated thanksgiving early this year. that means that there will be no thanksgiving dinner at my parent’s place.

this will be the first thanksgiving that i can recall where i won’t be spending it at my parent’s place. i actually will be spending it with my fiance’s family. i think a few years back it would have been a pretty stressful event to have dinner with the significant other’s family because i would fear that they would just judge me all the time. in my family’s dinners, we never brought anyone home for dinner, so that thought is just weird for me. it isn’t that my family is terribly unfriendly, it’s just that we never brought home our significant others.

this year, my sister and i both brought back our significant others and it was fine. dinner was nice and we all ate a nice dinner. it wasn’t as stressful as i thought it would be and it was just fine. i guess that’s how it is going to be from here on out, though. we’re going to split holiday dinners and the like.

i went bowling a few days ago. it was quite a bit of fun. i went to the moonlight lanes in sunnyvale. games there cost $3.25 each!! and that’s supposed to be the CHEAP rate. sheesh.

anyhow, i bowled a 142, 146, and i think 157? something like that. i just can’t seem to break out of that range. oh well, they were pretty good scores for not having played that much. i kind of miss the weekly bowling outings. i wonder if we can get that started up again…

forty-two brownie points if you know the next line of the quote above without having to look it up.

but it HAS been cold lately, let me tell you! so cold that i got a holmes whisper quiet heater fan. my room has been getting cold at night and i’ve been looking for something to replace my old, super loud heater that keeps me warm, but up at night. it’s quite nice.

i logged into epinions to write a review of the new heater that i got and i found out that waiting in my account is $75 worth of credit! man, i need to write some more epinions! that may be my new income!

dear britney,

i know it has been a long time since last i wrote to you, but we’ve both been pretty busy, haven’t we? i hear through the grapevine that you text’d k-fed and made him the fed-ex. good for you, girl! it’s about time that you got rid of that freeloading loser. i know, i know, you had good times with him and you had to go on and on about your love life with him on the awful tv reality show chaotic that you thought would be a good idea.

lemme tell you something, brit, you’re not that innocent. i know that you are stronger than yesterday, and i’m glad that you ditched the loser because you drive me crazy when you do stupid stuff like that.

your bestest fan,
wilco.

i was hungry on the way to work so i decided to stop by carl’s jr. and pick up a loaded breakfast burrito. it was more substantial than the taco bell breakfast burritos back when they still had them and it was quite tasty. this may become a more regular breakfast item for me when i’m hungry. i’m not a big breakfast person, but this was a good treat.

what started off as a quick 10 minute visit to the grocery store to pick up a few items for dinner ended up becoming a 30 minute browse through safeway. what should have been a $10 purchase of a few key items ended up becoming $70 worth of groceries. i don’t know how it got that out of hand.

but now i am armed with three bags of candy to help me through the night.

at work we have all of these halloween candy dishes, but nobody has put any candy in them. i’m sad that they cannot fulfill their candy dish destiny so i’m going to put some candy in the candy dishes tomorrow.

my company’s fantasy basketball league has started up. i missed the draft and ended up getting some less than favorable picks for my team. oh well, i guess i’ll just see how it all works out when the guys start playing games.

i’m currently in first place for my company football league. i wonder how long that’ll take place. my roster is changing pretty dramatically every week. i’m not sure if this strategy of mixing up players every week is going to pay off as i’m losing some key players in the off weeks, but it’s take me this far so far, so hopefully it’ll work out well. football is so much more stressful to me because there is so much more pressure to make the right choices since the players only play once a week.

on to other news, i’m going to go watch beach blanket babylon this weekend. i’ve heard mixed things about them, so i guess we’ll see how i like. either way, it’ll be fun to get out in the city.

i completely missed the start of 30 rock. i’ve been scrambling to try and find the lost episodes that i haven’t seen yet to see if it is worth watching regularly. i really do like heroes, but i do feel like the story is moving along a little too slowly for my tastes. we are only just now starting to see the heroes come together, but it’s taking too long! i want to see all the heroes and their superhero outfits already!

it also looks like standoff has been cancelled. that’s too bad, i thought that the show had a lot of potential. oh well.

it’s a week away from halloween. i wonder if i should dress up for work this year…