Movies

This post is totally unrelated to the last one, I swear.

I really want to see the movie Rachel Getting Married. Not just cuse it has a cool name, it also looks really good, and like my type of movie.

Here's the catch. Noone will see it with me. (although laura just said she might when we get back from new years, but chances are it might not even be in theaters by then)

Peter, my movie buddy, has already seen it. That F*^%er! He saw it back in wisconsin and claims some of his female friends picked it and he had no choice. Dont you think thats the type of movie you'd be like "oh i think i'll wait to see it with Rachel". I havent met these friends of his, but you are on warning!

If there was a movie called "Peter wins the world series" clearly i'd wait for him, and turn down any other offers to see it!

i guess its just that time of year

If you read my blog and DIDNT get engaged over the past week let me know. I figure if we go with didnt fewer of you will respond since just about everybody and their brother got engaged this holiday season.

Dont worry i'm not included in that.

stolen internet part II

So last night the option was 1981 trivial pursuit, or Star Wars trivial pursuit.

We opted for 1981 trivial pursuit. WRONG CHOICE. not only were the categories all difererent but they were all dated, and unless you were around then you cant answer almost any of these 27 year old questions.

So after attempting that we moved over to star wars trivia...now i knew peter knew a lot of star wars stff, but this was ridiculous! he could quote any scene the questions were taken from. wtf. Next time i'm bringing a book

On Stolen Internet

Well, i've almost made it through christmass. All I can say is that its world longest holiday. First you have christmass eve dinner, then you just sit around chatting all night. And then you have the morning stockings and presents and brunch etc. Then you have a little downtime during the day awkwardly waiting for another meal.

I'm used to one meal and then maybe hanging out a little after and thats it. The presents do help though :)

Currently everyone is reading to themselves in the living room while i was sitting there eatting cheese, so i decided to come back upstairs and play on my computer a bit for lack of anything else to do. Next year, I"ll bring a book. Lesson learned.

Almost the holidays

This weekend was pretty fun. some of which I cant blog about. some of which I can.

We went to Lindsay and Chris's holiday party "cookies and cocktails" which was delish all around, and enjoyed playing guitar hero.

I mad a LOT of latkes. my entire apt smells like them. it was nice at first, now it sucks.

Also I got to see the Mann/Farmer/Criss/Gwinn contingency. Had lots of balls. LOTS. and got lots of wonderful presents, most of which I cant blog about either.

The next few days might be a little sparse on blogs. Tomorrow i fly to new hampshire, and unless i can figure out how to get my computer on peter's parents' wifi i probably wont be able to blog, then I return to dc for the weekend and Dan and Beth's wedding at the rod and reel (hehehe, thats for you jessica, since its no longer called the rod and reel) Then BACK to new england but Boston this time. so its going to be a busy few days.

Thats all i have for now....

Girls Night

Last night i went out with the girls, and paul who was a stand in for a last minute cancellation.

after some "holiday festivities" our night ended at coco sala which was AWESOME.

The mac and cheese "main course" rocked. it was a perfect little mac and cheese tartlet. Oh and i got a pear martini thing which was out of this world.

A ms mathers and i split our dessert because it sounded overwhelming. we were right. we got coco grownup. you can see one of the courses on my tumblr rsoxrach.tumblr.com

The first course of the dessert was a gellatenous coffee thing and a boston creme donut.

The second course was some malted chocolate drink, a peanutbutter icecream thing covered in chocolate, a chocolate cupcake, and bananas foster

The dessert of the desserts was a cheesecake lolly pop covered in pop rocks, and a chocolate cone filled with mint chip stuff. DELISH. Thanks lindsay for being such a great date.

I got home to a very tired peter awaiting a cuddle, to his dismay I was "pre hungover from all the chocolate". lol. I'm still feeling it today.

West Wing Season 2

Costco was selling west wing seasons for 15 bucks each, so we bought season one as i mentioned earlier, but waited on the next few seasons because i figured it would be there when we needed the next few seasons.

I was wrong

So we ordered season 2 on ebay (since normal stores sell it for 50 bucks). It arrived last night with NO protective packaging. The DVDs were ok, but the box was ruined. We were annoyed to start off with.

Now comes time to watch them since season 1 ended with a cliff hanger (which i'd seen before since i watched the series when it first aired on tv).

SEASON 2 DISC 1 WAS MISSING! wtf. They gave us TWO disc 2's :(

So i've emailed the guy to see what he can do about it. I'm NOT happy.

-Rachel

Holiday Party

Every year there is a holiday party in my building, and every year I skip it in all its awkwardness.

Not this year!

This year i had a partner in crime so we swooped in, got lots of food, and left. It was worth it. We only chatted with one person, and he was pretty nice, so all in all it worked out pretty well :)

Weekend

For starters the Dark Knight on Blu Ray is beyond awesome. We had some drinks, and some chips and dip and all that fun stuff and mike, tristan, katie, and treon ended up coming over. The Imax scenes were so crisp and clear it was ridiculous. Then we watched one of the bonus features on the gadgets in the movie. The car is pretty cool.

Sat we spent the day over the bridge with the Mann/Criss/Farmers. It was Jonas's birthday which as predicted was a lot of fun :) so many cute little kids running around.

Boston Bruins

Last night we went to the bruins caps game (Thanks Jordan!). Sorry Leslie, Tim Thomas was not in goal :( they probably would have been better off with him though :( .

Peter gets lots of points though b/c we were sitting next to two redskins cheerleaders...or maybe dance team i cant remember what they said. Anyway he didn't even look at them other than to tell them that we were not infact watching the team they were cheering for...the buffalo bills.

At one point they even got up and did some little dance routine and practically shook their asses in peter's face and he still didn't flinch.

I was trying to decide if their noses and boobs were real, we decided they werent.

Too bad the bruins lost though :(

Dark Knight

Obviously we bought the dark knight on blu ray last night. I cant wait to see it with my 50" blu ray set up, its going to be almost as good as when we watched it on IMAX....Almost. If you want to watch with me let me know :) We can order a pizza, put on the movie and grab some beers. sounds like a good night to me!

Road Rage

Some parts of my drive people are big jerks, and generally i like to give them the finger. who does that? me.

1. Like if there is a long line to turn, i understand people need to jump in at some point , but if you wait till the last minute I'm not going to let you in. Everyone else waited in line and its just not fair. You are going to get the finger.

2. This one happened twice in the last week. If there is just a little space between me and the car infront of me, and almost noone behind me for like 4 car lenghts or more WHY go infront of me? there isnt enough space, its dangerous, and you are a jerk. Just go behind me like a normal person. This one gets a honk and the finger.

3. I HATE it when people tail me with a suv or high beams when i'm going above the speed limit. esp if noone else is on the road. jsut change lanes and go around me. Also you KNOW you are blinding, so f'you. i hate you so much. this one just gets me to not go faster and possibly go slower.

i'm sure there are more. i hate other drivers on the road.

Weekend Fun

The weekend was fun and productive.

First off i'm moving again, signed everything this weekend :) Cant wait. Jan move so maybe a party or something shortly after. After inauguration of course b/c things get crazy then.

Sat night we went out with the mann/criss/farmers to georgia browns and the movie Milk. I had never been to that restaurant before and it was awesome! I highly recommend it. And Milk was so good. Very sad as expected, but so great, how could you not love Harvey Milk. I'll probably go see it again and then buy it.

Benders Game

Thats right, last night we watched the newest in a series of futurama movies.

This one was called Benders Game.

It was really funny. If you like Dungeons and Dragons, Lord of The Rings, and Star Wars you will love this movie. It combines/pokes fun at all three.

Then i watched the commentary after and realized that the writers were never meant to be seen in hd. oh well.

watch the movie

Awesome

So we did buy the blu ray player. and we did buy wall*e and set it up and watched last night.

1. wall*e is just as good and cute and sweet as i remember. and burn*e (although i think it should be burn*a to go with the axiom or earth theme) was cute too.

2. blu ray players ROCK. everything looked awesome. i cant wait to watch everything in blu ray!

Blu Ray Tuesday!

Last night peter and i went to best buy and target to see if we could get a blu ray dvd player even though black Friday was over. It turns out we had two options.

1. 300 bucks for the sony lower model which we read reviews of and knew was good

2. 160 insigna that we had never heard of

The best buy guy told us the insigna wasn't that good and to get the sony, and then falsely told us there was a sale. when we got to the register with the sony we found out there was in fact no sale.

We left the store with no blu ray, and went home to research the insigna, which i like because my smaller tv is that brand anyway. Turns out insigna is best buy's own brand. who knew!

Also it turns out that this player is perfectly good for my purposes since i have no crazy sound system and dont care to upgrade downloads and stuff. So tonight we are going back to get the insigna and Wall-e and Iron Man!