So it Finally arrived last night! My macbook pro. Sleek. Silver. Fast. It works so much better than my other computer running vista. Its not even funny how much faster it is. I have been a pc girl my whole life, and adamantly against mac's untill vista came out. but there is no choice now. Its ok, i've gone over to the dark side and its not all that bad.
I had been tracking the package all day, and it arrived at 12:21 pm, and I left work early and got to the front desk at 5 to ask for my package. They told me in the 5 hours it was sitting there they didnt have time to sort it and couldnt give it to me and could i wait. WHAT? I told them I couldnt wait and they needed to find it. 20 min later they finally looked for it and now Its all mine.
I have transfered over all my photos and half my music and I set up ichat and all those fun things. If you have a mac lets video confrence! Leslie already vetoed that...but it will happen...someday.
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Vegetate
Last night a small group of us went to try a new restaurant called Vegetate. Its a vegetarian restaurant. Diana and I were pretty excited to try it, but the boys were more than skeptical. The weird thing about this place was the location. It is located at 1414 9th street, which if you dont recognize the address its pretty much between the 9:30 club and the convention center in a totally dead area with nothing around it...but plenty of parking.
I started with a Chai, soy, and vodka cocktail. That alone was enough to convince me to go back. Best drink ever! but really small.
For appetizers we had a cheese plate, also really small, but again really yummy. Then for the main meal I got blue Cheese skillet cakes which were DELISH! (but small as well) . All the other dishes looked good too so I'll definitely go back to this place.
The only thing is that the desserts were terrible. TERRIBLE. They all sounded a little weird, but we decided to try them anyway. One came with a mound of Chocolate Ganoche on some lime puree surrounded by balsamic vinegar. The lime puree was the grossest thing ever! i cant even describe it. Diana got one with white cakes with a hint of lavendar and a shot of some ginger liquid. gross.
I started with a Chai, soy, and vodka cocktail. That alone was enough to convince me to go back. Best drink ever! but really small.
For appetizers we had a cheese plate, also really small, but again really yummy. Then for the main meal I got blue Cheese skillet cakes which were DELISH! (but small as well) . All the other dishes looked good too so I'll definitely go back to this place.
The only thing is that the desserts were terrible. TERRIBLE. They all sounded a little weird, but we decided to try them anyway. One came with a mound of Chocolate Ganoche on some lime puree surrounded by balsamic vinegar. The lime puree was the grossest thing ever! i cant even describe it. Diana got one with white cakes with a hint of lavendar and a shot of some ginger liquid. gross.
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
The prestige
Sorry that my blog seems to be turning into a movie review site, but after my controversial blog yesterday I feel like I should blog positively about some movie.
Last night we watched the Prestige. I had wanted to see it when it first came out but never made it, and it was on some movie channel last night. This movie was pretty awesome.
Whats better than a little Magic, Mystery, and Murder? Seriously! Oh yeah and it had some awesome movie science that may or may not be remotely close to real :) The characters were lovable yet awesomely evil and corrupt. At parts of the movie you were rooting for both sides to achieve different things.
This quickly moved up into the top three Christian Bale movies:
1. Newsies
2. Batman Begins
3. The Prestige
And for those of you who no longer trust my movie opinion after bond and there will be blood (probably mainly leslie) Peter also liked this movie for what thats worth.
Oddly enough I dont know anyone else who has seen the movie. have any of you? If not you should probably go watch it.
Last night we watched the Prestige. I had wanted to see it when it first came out but never made it, and it was on some movie channel last night. This movie was pretty awesome.
Whats better than a little Magic, Mystery, and Murder? Seriously! Oh yeah and it had some awesome movie science that may or may not be remotely close to real :) The characters were lovable yet awesomely evil and corrupt. At parts of the movie you were rooting for both sides to achieve different things.
This quickly moved up into the top three Christian Bale movies:
1. Newsies
2. Batman Begins
3. The Prestige
And for those of you who no longer trust my movie opinion after bond and there will be blood (probably mainly leslie) Peter also liked this movie for what thats worth.
Oddly enough I dont know anyone else who has seen the movie. have any of you? If not you should probably go watch it.
Monday, March 10, 2008
Do I look like the kind of person who cares?
So I watched Casino Royale this weekend. It was my first Bond movie ever. First off I think the guy that plays bond is a little lame and fake. I dont buy/like him at all. I mean the guy who PLAYS bond is super hot, I could go for him, but Bond...meh.
Second I knew that Bond drove some sweet Aston Martins etc and was looking forward to some great driving scenes. Besides literally driving around the corner, and one two second car wreck the only driving scene occurred in a Ford Mondeo. WTF
Third...where were the gadgets? The only gadgets he used were cell phones, tracking devices, and a defibrillator. LAME.
Fourth the story left a lot to be desired. I like movies where you are thinking the whole movie and trying to figure out the puzzle. With this movie you didnt really do that.
I probably wont ask to see any more bond movies, but i'd go along to another one and give it a second chance.
Second I knew that Bond drove some sweet Aston Martins etc and was looking forward to some great driving scenes. Besides literally driving around the corner, and one two second car wreck the only driving scene occurred in a Ford Mondeo. WTF
Third...where were the gadgets? The only gadgets he used were cell phones, tracking devices, and a defibrillator. LAME.
Fourth the story left a lot to be desired. I like movies where you are thinking the whole movie and trying to figure out the puzzle. With this movie you didnt really do that.
I probably wont ask to see any more bond movies, but i'd go along to another one and give it a second chance.
Friday, March 7, 2008
Blog Comments
I hate when you read big blogs like wwtdd or obama's blog and after the article instead of just commenting the first commenter claims his or her spot with "yes! 1st!" so everyone knows and then they can leave thier actual comment.
I think i'm going to start doing this on the blogs where I am one of the few commenters, even if i'm not first. Probably mostly on Joe's because I think i'm the only commenter there so its even more amusing to me.
I think i'm going to start doing this on the blogs where I am one of the few commenters, even if i'm not first. Probably mostly on Joe's because I think i'm the only commenter there so its even more amusing to me.
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Super Mario Galaxy
So for about a month now we've been playing super mario galaxy on the Wii. I try my best at each level, get frustrated, and hand over the controller and the level is beaten.
For any of you that dont have this game or a wii, its a two player game, and while the second player doesn't control mario, they play a very important role in holding off bad guys and collecting star bits. So When I play the second player I feel like I can take some amount of credit in beating the level.
There are 120 level exits each resulting in a star, and 120 stars beats the game. Or so I was told.
Well after 90 stars we were given the opportunity to play the final level. The first half of the level took a few tries, but the bad guy was beaten on the first try!
Roll Credits.
So we've beaten the game, saved the princess, and now returned to the original map to get the final 30 stars. There are two weird things about this, 1. all the characters still tell us to help save the princes...how did she get caught again? We totally saved her. 2. there are new levels that we couldn't access before, so i guess you have to beat the game twice in order to get all 120 stars.
Oh also, the end of the game tries to be all deep. You beat the bad guy, his star implodes and with it sucks in the rest of existance, but they explain that every time a star dies new stars are born carrying with it parts of everything before and then dumps you out in a higher resolution world that resembles earth. So this game is attempting to be both deep and scientifically accurate at the same time. interesting.
For any of you that dont have this game or a wii, its a two player game, and while the second player doesn't control mario, they play a very important role in holding off bad guys and collecting star bits. So When I play the second player I feel like I can take some amount of credit in beating the level.
There are 120 level exits each resulting in a star, and 120 stars beats the game. Or so I was told.
Well after 90 stars we were given the opportunity to play the final level. The first half of the level took a few tries, but the bad guy was beaten on the first try!
Roll Credits.
So we've beaten the game, saved the princess, and now returned to the original map to get the final 30 stars. There are two weird things about this, 1. all the characters still tell us to help save the princes...how did she get caught again? We totally saved her. 2. there are new levels that we couldn't access before, so i guess you have to beat the game twice in order to get all 120 stars.
Oh also, the end of the game tries to be all deep. You beat the bad guy, his star implodes and with it sucks in the rest of existance, but they explain that every time a star dies new stars are born carrying with it parts of everything before and then dumps you out in a higher resolution world that resembles earth. So this game is attempting to be both deep and scientifically accurate at the same time. interesting.
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
F- You Parking Signs and new Nats Stadium
So I read online maybe a week ago that there were going to be new parking restrictions for the area around the new Nationals Stadium.
I figured that not only would they wait till baseball season to impliment it, but also it would only be in effect on game day.
WRONG.
Last night I got to the area, and tried to park. To my dismay all the signs were new. One side of the street was resident parking only until midnight, and the other side was two hour parking till midnight.
I found 10 spots (i counted) that are 9:30-6:30 like a million blocks away. All the rest are 7Am-midnight.
Seriously? I basically can no longer get there before 10 if i want to try for half the street, and if i cant find parking there i guess i just have to wait till midnight to go to the other side of the street. F- that. I'm staying home.
I figured that not only would they wait till baseball season to impliment it, but also it would only be in effect on game day.
WRONG.
Last night I got to the area, and tried to park. To my dismay all the signs were new. One side of the street was resident parking only until midnight, and the other side was two hour parking till midnight.
I found 10 spots (i counted) that are 9:30-6:30 like a million blocks away. All the rest are 7Am-midnight.
Seriously? I basically can no longer get there before 10 if i want to try for half the street, and if i cant find parking there i guess i just have to wait till midnight to go to the other side of the street. F- that. I'm staying home.
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