Hey, Jess and I are going here tonight for something really different to do. We got a Half-Off Dining gift certificate from WVII (This channel is sooo horrible. No link), so we figured we would give it try.
This should be really fun! Cooking but not using any of my own resources or materials. Nice!
Update: So we had our first Dinner Store meal last night which was Sweet Potato Burritos. Now, this sounds like an odd thing to put in a burrito, but it was amazing! So yummy!!!
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Animal Weirdness
I bet there is a lobsterman Down East that would love to get a hold on this bad boy:
NEW YORK - A 140-year-old lobster that was destined to adorn a dinner plate is back in the ocean after a seafood restaurant in New York City granted him a reprieve.
NEW YORK - A 140-year-old lobster that was destined to adorn a dinner plate is back in the ocean after a seafood restaurant in New York City granted him a reprieve. The 20-pound crustacean, named George, was returned to the wild Saturday in a rocky cove in Kennebunkport, Maine, less than a mile from the summer home of former President George H.W. Bush.
I bet there is some serious meat in those claws!!! George lives to scavange the bottom of the sea for dead things again another day...
Thursday, January 01, 2009
Marley & Me
Hello!!! I live!!! Jess and I just got back from seeing Marley 
& Me and then going to Scott and Esther's for homemade pizza.
Scott and Esther were actually supposed to go to the movie with us, but it was sold out when they got there only 15 minutes after we bought tickets. Who knew that a 3:00 show on a Thursday would sell out. Combine school vacation with people looking for something to do when it is 9ยบ outside and I guess you get a sold out film on a Thursday.
And I have to say this was a great movie. Jess has been reading the book, so she had a pretty good idea what the movie was going to be about, but leave it to Hollywood to mislead the rest of the population that was ignorant about this film to make it look like a light-hearted comedy, which is wasn't. Oh sure it had some funny parts that we laughed at, but there were some heavy topics, one being, lookout, spoiler alert, the dog dying at the end of the film.
Now, we being adults of relatively sound mind, could handle that. We knew it was coming, you knew it had to be. Or at least, I would have thought so. But to the dozens of 10 year old and under kids at the film with their clueless parents, apparently the obvious was lost on them. Or they believed the trailer that this was going to be a comedy with a crazy dog and a crazy owner doing crazy things. Sure, those elements were there, but that was not what the movie was about. I certainly wouldn't have taken my kid to see this. But, I actually knew what the story was about.
Owen Wilson did a great job bringing the character of John Grogan to life on the big screen, and while I usually can't stand Jennifer Aniston (I think I've seen every episode of Friends. At least twice...), she brought believable emotion to the character of Grogan's wife on the big screen and actually did some acting for a change.
This is a great film for the husbands/boyfriends to take their lady too. Of course, I was choked up for the last 25 minutes of the movie, so make sure you bring some tissues. Because if I cried, you know she will.
And the preview for Bride Wars looked awesome!
& Me and then going to Scott and Esther's for homemade pizza.Scott and Esther were actually supposed to go to the movie with us, but it was sold out when they got there only 15 minutes after we bought tickets. Who knew that a 3:00 show on a Thursday would sell out. Combine school vacation with people looking for something to do when it is 9ยบ outside and I guess you get a sold out film on a Thursday.
And I have to say this was a great movie. Jess has been reading the book, so she had a pretty good idea what the movie was going to be about, but leave it to Hollywood to mislead the rest of the population that was ignorant about this film to make it look like a light-hearted comedy, which is wasn't. Oh sure it had some funny parts that we laughed at, but there were some heavy topics, one being, lookout, spoiler alert, the dog dying at the end of the film.
Now, we being adults of relatively sound mind, could handle that. We knew it was coming, you knew it had to be. Or at least, I would have thought so. But to the dozens of 10 year old and under kids at the film with their clueless parents, apparently the obvious was lost on them. Or they believed the trailer that this was going to be a comedy with a crazy dog and a crazy owner doing crazy things. Sure, those elements were there, but that was not what the movie was about. I certainly wouldn't have taken my kid to see this. But, I actually knew what the story was about.
Owen Wilson did a great job bringing the character of John Grogan to life on the big screen, and while I usually can't stand Jennifer Aniston (I think I've seen every episode of Friends. At least twice...), she brought believable emotion to the character of Grogan's wife on the big screen and actually did some acting for a change.
This is a great film for the husbands/boyfriends to take their lady too. Of course, I was choked up for the last 25 minutes of the movie, so make sure you bring some tissues. Because if I cried, you know she will.
And the preview for Bride Wars looked awesome!
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