WTF is the deal with poppy seeds?

So yesterday I decided that i'd make these good poppy seed cookies (hamentashen actually) that i found a recipe for online. The filling is entirely poppy seeds, honey, and raisins.

Not too hard right?

I went to wegman's during lunch since it was a dulles day. Three of us scoured the grocery store looking for poppy seeds only to find some small and expensive white poppy seed baggie (i'd need 2 or 3). I then asked an employee who informed me that they do not sell black poppy seeds.

Next was to Whole Foods where I ran into Chris who also helped me look. I checked the grain isle where they had buckets of sesame seeds and similar things, and the baking isle...no poppy seeds to be found.

WTF its not like this is a rare ingredient! What about lemon poppy seed cakes? Lots of people make them! infact the Ear cake on ace of cakes was made of that right here in baltimore, so I know poppy seeds must be somewhere!

I've given up for now, but might try safeway if i become ambitious again. not likely

Rachel Net

I'm pretty proud of myself. I set up my wireless in my apt. I didnt want to spend 200 bucks to buy the mac brand airport so I bought a linksys which doesnt support macs but I set it up anyway.

My only problem right now is that I cant seem to set a password on it, so basically everyone in my building can hack into rachelnet right now.

I'll give it a few more shots because I have some ideas. but If i dont get the password working by the weekend....well I dont think I have any other options so I guess i'll just keep going as is.

Now i'll be back to being online a lot, so if you want to ichat or video ichat with me or video confrence ichat lets go for it!

wow please ignore how geeky this blog was.

Another Movie

So last night I watched Indiana Jones the raiders of the lost ark for the first time. Overall I liked it and will watch the next two, plus the newest one when it comes out. I had two major complaints though (besides the little things that didnt hold up to the test of time)

1. The Snakes. I was told that there weren't that many snakes and I wouldn't see too much of them and it wouldn't be too bad. It was bad. Very Bad. I didn't know if i wanted to puke or cry and ended up just closing my eyes and hoping it would go away. It was probably the worst snake involvement in any movie besides Snakes on a Plane and Anaconda, both of which I clearly didn't see.

2. I feel like the ending was kinda a cop out. I wanted Indy to kick ass and kill the bad guys. ***spoiler*** (if there happens to be one other person who hasnt seen it) Instead they just open the stupid box and G-d comes out and melts everyone's face off. I mean thats great and everything, but dont you think that at the time of the Nazis G-d had a little more to worry about than the minions of the big head honcho? I feel like if those powers were released into the world they could have done better and let indy take care of these guys.

The Greatest Car Ever

I keep meaning to blog about this, and i dont think I have, but if i did I apologize.

So there is this amazing car that I see a minimum of once a week. Its a fairly new white Nissan maybe an 06 or 07. Its always parked up on capitol hill area.

Inside the car are 3 life size white tiger stuffed animals and 3 or 4 smaller ones. Its a whole family of white tiger stuffed animals. They are all across the back seat and one stretches up the middle to the front seat.

I haven't even gotten to the best part. Every single one of the tigers is wearing a redskins ear warmer.

One day I saw this car driving, and the man in the driver seat had his arm around the tiger that goes up to the front seat, and he was petting the tiger as he drove.

Wow. I wonder what this guy's apartment is like!

My new Computer

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.

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.

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.