mint brownie phenomenon

So the cover of cooking light this month has some amazing looking mint brownies on it. I promptly cut out the recipe and stuck it in my purse to make.

Later, chatting with laurie in MN I found out she had seen them too, and we decided to wait and make them together when she came to DC. Then I got an email from Leslie that she also had cut it out and already made them and they are fabulous.

This same thing happened a minimum of 10 more times. I dont know what it is about mint brownies, but I'd say its safe to say this is probably the highest selling cooking light ever!

So tonight Laurie and I are making them. I am beyond excited. So if you want to try them you can try some of mine :) Just let me know.

http://find.myrecipes.com/recipes/recipefinder.dyn?action=displayRecipe&recipe_id=1714574

Caps VS Bruins

Tim Thomas Saves Nothing!

You might recall from last year I blogged about some crazy bruins fans cheering things like "tim thomas saves lives"....Well this year they had the most pathetic loss ever to the caps.

I guess there is a promotion where if the Caps get 6 Goals everyone in attendance can get a free lb of wings at austin grill. I saw that sign and laughed, its pretty rare for a hockey game to score that high. almost impossible i said.

Moments later I wished I had kept my mouth shut. With a final score of 10-2 We sure got our free wings.

Also there is this segment during the second intermission called "up close with the caps" where they follow some players off the ice to some day time activity. This time 4 of them took a segway tour (like my parents did when they visited). They started to get cocky, and green decided to weave around some planters...and hit one dead on and fell over. it was hilarious. They replayed it like 5 times and then flash to ugly, but hat trick earning ovetchkin laughing hard.

Despite the loss for my hometown boys it was a good game.

Stupid Rite Aid

Sunday night we were meeting some of my college friends at ben's chili bowl for dinner, but arrived a little early and decided to kill some time by going to rite aid.

I picked up some hair clips and got in line where we kinda hugged a bit, but nothing inappropriate by any means. Its my turn and the guy at the registrar tells us to get a room!

Flash back a couple months and this was the same rite aid that had kicked out a gay couple for hugging in their store resulting in a planned "hug-in".

Turns out they are equal opportunity jerks. At least Peter and I didn't get kicked out though.

oops

So for about a year now people have been complaining about the douchebaggery that is Late Night Shots, the invite only social network. Dcist has also been writting about the reality tv show they are making based on it.

This whole time i couldnt shake the feeling this sounded familiar, so I went back in my gmail and realized that thanks to Lindsay Mathers I actually have a profile up on that site. She invited me in Nov 2006, and for some reason I decided to sign up. So i guess i cant mock these people anymore because it turns out I am one of them...I guess i'm an unofficial db.

so if you want an invite let me know ;)

Ticketmaster's hidden words

You know how when you buy tickets on certain sites (like ticketmaster) they have the additional skewed word that you have to type in? Well they skew it so computers cant read it...but i'd say at least 50% of the time i cant read it either and have to have a second chance with new words. Its kinda sad.

Starbucks Failure

So yesterday evening all the starbucks closed to Re-Train all the employees. I think the only thing it did was un train the employees.

This morning I went with my new personalized starbucks card that declares that I am an "engineer extrodinaire" thanks to my dad. I've never had to repeat "ice grande skim chai" more times. Thats a pretty easy drink compared to what friends get. And then it took three tries to get my muffin. no joke.

Oh well, maybe it takes a day for the training to sink in.

Usually I wouldnt really care about how bad it is there, i just think its funny that its only hours after they got trained.

Stupid Pigeons

You might recall my pigeon problem last year? well they are back. I have one pigeon on each balcony perching on the light.

Peter insisted we get one of those scary owls to scare me and the pigeons.

So we set off for home depot. We walked in and announced to the lady working there "we have a pigeon problem".

"so do we" she replied. then laughed.

Awesome.

She led us to the scary owl section which was amidst a bunch of birds and even some pigeons and was covered in pigeon poop. clearly they dont work.

Onwards to marshall's garden section! We ended up buying two small bunny statues. These will be good for two reasons. First, we can put on one each light taking away the pigeon spot, and second both statues show bunnies stealing eggs so maybe it will scare the pigeons into not laying their eggs on my balcony again for fear of the bunny stealing them!

so far its working, we'll see if it lasts.