This year, I started taking really good care of my teeth. I would try to brush after every meal (when I was home) and before bed. After each brushing, I would use a fluoride rinse (Act) for preventing cavities once a day, and Crest Pro Health Rinse for the rest of the brushing sessions.
But somehow, my teeth were looking worse and worse. Kiwi started noticing it about 3 months ago. There were brown stains developing at the sides of my teeth near the gums, where apparently my toothbrush could not reach.
I kept on with the brushing and rinsing and flossing, but somehow my teeth were still brown. I finally googled. And found out that people have been complaining about the same problem. Apparently because they've all been using Crest Pro Health.
I am really, really, upset at this. How can this happen? Mouth rinses are supposed to protect your teeth, not make your mouth look like you've been eating shit. I am stopping its use right now. Too bad I actually have a full 1 litre bottle of Crest Pro Health sitting in my bathroom cupboard. I also have a full, unopened tube of Crest Pro Health toothpaste I bought to try after I was done with my current Colgate toothpaste.
I think I will have to throw these out. I can't give it to someone. Then someone else will have ugly teeth. ARGH!
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Monday, July 28, 2008
Minda Webber Books
I finished the set of books written by Minda Webber. Currently I'm really into the sci-fi/fantasy genre. Particularly supernatural creatures like vampires and werewolves. Her books were kinda blah to me.
Their flavour is more along the lines of light-hearted romance plus puns in a supernatural setting. Too much romance, not enough supernatural. And I loathe puns and tongue-in-cheek references.
I need to find more books that aren't filled with stupid fluffy women melting in a hunky vamp's arms.
Their flavour is more along the lines of light-hearted romance plus puns in a supernatural setting. Too much romance, not enough supernatural. And I loathe puns and tongue-in-cheek references.
I need to find more books that aren't filled with stupid fluffy women melting in a hunky vamp's arms.
No More Trees
I am a treekiller. Actually, we paid people to come in and cut down all the trees on our property.
We had to do this because -
1. The property is small, trees were growing very close to the house.
2. Tree branches were tangling in the power and cable lines. There was a broken branch actually danging off a line.
3. Mini trees were starting to grow in our gutters.
4. There were small trees growing right next to the house, if we did not remove them, they would most likely break through the foundation.
5. There were small trees growing between our chain link fence and the neighbour's wooden privacy fence. If left to themselves, both fences would be damaged, ours would warp and theirs would break.
6. On the other side of the yard, our chain link fence already has wood growing along/into the fence. Totally awful.
We had to hire two companies to do this. The first one did not complete the job properly. But that's another story altogether.
But the second one hired did an outstanding job. I would definitely hire Charter Oaks again if I need them in future. (Probably would have to every year to get them to trim the neighbours' trees along the fence line that grow into our service lines.) The arborist who gave me the estimate was punctual and polite and informative. The tree service team was also punctual, and very courteous and cleaned up after themselves. The old dude who came to grind the stumps did a great job, although he seemed to have woken up on the wrong side of the bed. The lady who was my contact always called me back promptly whenever I left a message.
I am happy that Kiwi should only need to climb up on the roofs one more time this year to clean the roof and gutters. I always worry when he does that. I would gladly hire someone to do it, but he would rip my head off for "wasting" money on something that he can do himself. But if he falls and hurts himself, we'd probably pay 100 times more for medical bills.
We had to do this because -
1. The property is small, trees were growing very close to the house.
2. Tree branches were tangling in the power and cable lines. There was a broken branch actually danging off a line.
3. Mini trees were starting to grow in our gutters.
4. There were small trees growing right next to the house, if we did not remove them, they would most likely break through the foundation.
5. There were small trees growing between our chain link fence and the neighbour's wooden privacy fence. If left to themselves, both fences would be damaged, ours would warp and theirs would break.
6. On the other side of the yard, our chain link fence already has wood growing along/into the fence. Totally awful.
We had to hire two companies to do this. The first one did not complete the job properly. But that's another story altogether.
But the second one hired did an outstanding job. I would definitely hire Charter Oaks again if I need them in future. (Probably would have to every year to get them to trim the neighbours' trees along the fence line that grow into our service lines.) The arborist who gave me the estimate was punctual and polite and informative. The tree service team was also punctual, and very courteous and cleaned up after themselves. The old dude who came to grind the stumps did a great job, although he seemed to have woken up on the wrong side of the bed. The lady who was my contact always called me back promptly whenever I left a message.
I am happy that Kiwi should only need to climb up on the roofs one more time this year to clean the roof and gutters. I always worry when he does that. I would gladly hire someone to do it, but he would rip my head off for "wasting" money on something that he can do himself. But if he falls and hurts himself, we'd probably pay 100 times more for medical bills.
Impromptu Fondue
Sunday evening, I was feeling a little munchy even after dinner. So I sliced up some fruits. Strawberries, mangoes, and the last golden kiwi. I arranged things prettily on a plate, took two forks, and brought it down to the basement - Kiwi's computer den.
He really liked the look of it, and then I just said - how about chocolate fondue? Hmm, sounds good.
So we came back upstairs. We peeled about 20 Hershey's Kisses, I added a little milk, and microwaved the concoction in my pyrex measuring cup. Then I stirred it all up into a thick, ooey, gooey chocolatey mess.
Brought out some plain and strawberry marshmallows, and we dug in.
It was good. Really good.
This was my first time making fondue of any sort. I think it was pretty good for a first try without even any proper chocolate sauce recipe. We shall be having it again. Soon, I hope.
YUM!!
He really liked the look of it, and then I just said - how about chocolate fondue? Hmm, sounds good.
So we came back upstairs. We peeled about 20 Hershey's Kisses, I added a little milk, and microwaved the concoction in my pyrex measuring cup. Then I stirred it all up into a thick, ooey, gooey chocolatey mess.
Brought out some plain and strawberry marshmallows, and we dug in.
It was good. Really good.
This was my first time making fondue of any sort. I think it was pretty good for a first try without even any proper chocolate sauce recipe. We shall be having it again. Soon, I hope.
YUM!!
Gaming At Home
We had borrowed 2 new (to us) games from the CABS library.
First we played the Ark of the Covenant. It is the first religious game we've played. It's based on the Carcassonne style of game, and we enjoyed it. To be honest, I thought if you changed the pictures a little, and named things differently, it would be called another name but would play exactly the same. It really isn't a religious game at all.
Next we played the card game version of Ticket to Ride. I don't really care for it. I've only played the regular Ticket to Ride once, but the card version is way too complicated. And it involves having a good memory. Maybe other people would enjoy it, but both Kiwi and I have memory issues, so it's not a good game for us. We discussed maybe playing it again, but this time not needing to flip the cards facedown, and changing the gameplay a little. But that would make the game too easy. Hmm, Ticket to Ride card game for juniors, perhaps? Anyway, I was too irritated with the game to want to play it again, even with easier rules.
First we played the Ark of the Covenant. It is the first religious game we've played. It's based on the Carcassonne style of game, and we enjoyed it. To be honest, I thought if you changed the pictures a little, and named things differently, it would be called another name but would play exactly the same. It really isn't a religious game at all.
Next we played the card game version of Ticket to Ride. I don't really care for it. I've only played the regular Ticket to Ride once, but the card version is way too complicated. And it involves having a good memory. Maybe other people would enjoy it, but both Kiwi and I have memory issues, so it's not a good game for us. We discussed maybe playing it again, but this time not needing to flip the cards facedown, and changing the gameplay a little. But that would make the game too easy. Hmm, Ticket to Ride card game for juniors, perhaps? Anyway, I was too irritated with the game to want to play it again, even with easier rules.
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Long CABS day
Woke up around 8.30am on Saturday, only after 4 hours sleep the night before. We got to CABS around 10am. Picked up a free game - Arkitecton.
Kiwi and I played several games -
Queen's Tower with Nathan and Terry.
Tower of Babel with Terry an Carlo. Quite interesting game.
Super Munchkin with Karin and Steve.
Dragonriders with Karin, Steve, Tim, and Cara. Total waste of time.
Carcassonne the Discovery with Heather, Trent, and Michael.
Eurorails with Michael.
Left just before 3am Sunday.
TIRED !!
Kiwi and I played several games -
Queen's Tower with Nathan and Terry.
Tower of Babel with Terry an Carlo. Quite interesting game.
Super Munchkin with Karin and Steve.
Dragonriders with Karin, Steve, Tim, and Cara. Total waste of time.
Carcassonne the Discovery with Heather, Trent, and Michael.
Eurorails with Michael.
Left just before 3am Sunday.
TIRED !!
Monday, July 21, 2008
Reading list
In the past week, I finished the entire series of the Haunted Bookstore Mysteries by Alice Kimberly. Not really a great achievement, seeing that it was only 4 books. Or was it 5? Well anyway, it's an okay read. Somewhat lighthearted. Absolutely no sex scenes, seeing that the female protagonist is still sexually inhibited and prissy.
Maybe she will lighten up in the future. Who knows? She just admitted (in the last current book) that the kiss shared with the ghost was pretty good. What a breakthrough!!
I also finished the latest book in the Odd series by Dean Koontz. I wish there were more Odd Thomas books. I think he's a pretty interested character.
Maybe she will lighten up in the future. Who knows? She just admitted (in the last current book) that the kiss shared with the ghost was pretty good. What a breakthrough!!
I also finished the latest book in the Odd series by Dean Koontz. I wish there were more Odd Thomas books. I think he's a pretty interested character.
Toys for the Kits
After dinner at Mozart's on Saturday, we walked to the nearby PetPeople store, and bought some toys for the kits. Just because 7 or 8 toys scattered across the living room floor just wasn't enough.
Kiwi picked out 2 largish catnip balls, and 1 catnip sock. I found something interesting, it's called a paw-breaker. A very hard sphere of compressed catnip. It does smell very strong.
So far, the most popular new toy was the sock. Bebe liked to clutch at it and kick it and lick it. He was so into it, he fell off the table while wrestling in it. And ripped up my one and only table cloth.
The squishy nip balls were ignored, and the pawbreaker is missing. We shall continue to monitor the situation.
Kiwi picked out 2 largish catnip balls, and 1 catnip sock. I found something interesting, it's called a paw-breaker. A very hard sphere of compressed catnip. It does smell very strong.
So far, the most popular new toy was the sock. Bebe liked to clutch at it and kick it and lick it. He was so into it, he fell off the table while wrestling in it. And ripped up my one and only table cloth.
The squishy nip balls were ignored, and the pawbreaker is missing. We shall continue to monitor the situation.
Weekend Summary
On friday evening, Kiwi managed to come home somewhat earlier than normal. He took a shower, we went for a quick dinner at China Buffet near Hudson and High. We got to CABS somewhere before 9pm. There were still some games left for the give-away, but only 1 choice left. So we took it. Women and Men. Uh, okay then.
We were supposed to meet 2 friends of ours. We were somewhat surprised to see that they weren't there yet. But oh well. We started playing a new game with Michael and two others (I forget their names), called Fury of Dracula.
About 3 turns in, our friends arrived. So we had to abandon our current game (so sorry! ) and hang out with them. I taught them how to play Carcassonne. After 1 game, they were very tired, and left.
So we grouped up with Nathan and JB to play Tinner's Trail. Then we played Garden Competition with Nathan and Jeff.
By this time, it was 3am Saturday morning. We just went home and slept.
Saturday afternoon, we went out grocery shopping. We bought lots of fruit!! Mangoes,, plums, peaches, pluots, golden kiwis, and yellow tomatoes. Fruit makes me happy. Mangoes make me very happy!! :)
We also had a very early dinner at Mozart's Cafe near Weber and High. The baked emmanthaler appetizer was AWESOME!!! I had schnitzel and spaetzel, and Kiwi ordered pork and sauerkraut. After getting home, I started fixing cabbage rolls.
This is my first time doing this dish. And I ran out of cabbage using only 1/3 of the meat/rice mixture. Anyway, just dumped the rolls and tomatoes and sauce in the crockpot, and put the extra stuff in the fridge.
Kiwi and I started playing these 2 new games we borrowed from the CABS library. Aquadukt was just "okay" only. It's a 50% chance and 50% logic game. Not too bad, but not as good as Carcassonne. The other game, Dungeon Twister, was totally lame. I suppose for myself, if I wanted to play an RPG type game with characters, I like it on the playstation or on the computer. I'm too impatient to fuss around with dice rolls, or board games.
After we were done with the games, we were both hungry. We finished the entire pot of cabbage rolls. The only thing left was the sauce. That's an entire head of cabbage between us! Kiwi wanted more, so I promised him that I'd go out on Sunday to buy more cabbage and fix more cabbage rolls for him.
So Sunday afternoon comes along, and we wake up. After a light breakfast? lunch? meal, we went to Aldis to pick up 2 heads of cabbage, and some other groceries. So while Kiwi was mowing the lawn, I prepared twice the amount and used up all the meat.
There was leftover cabbage, so I threw that in a saucepan with some turkey stock, and I also had some leftover turkey meatball soup, and it was pretty good. For me anyway. Kiwi apparently is not a fan of cabbage unless it's cabbage rolls and sauerkraut.
We played India Rails, and after that long, intensive game, it was time to chow down on cabbage rolls part two. Kiwi had a whole plateful of cabbage rolls. I had about 3, together with some garlic toast, and some turkey cabbage soup.
We were supposed to meet 2 friends of ours. We were somewhat surprised to see that they weren't there yet. But oh well. We started playing a new game with Michael and two others (I forget their names), called Fury of Dracula.
About 3 turns in, our friends arrived. So we had to abandon our current game (so sorry! ) and hang out with them. I taught them how to play Carcassonne. After 1 game, they were very tired, and left.
So we grouped up with Nathan and JB to play Tinner's Trail. Then we played Garden Competition with Nathan and Jeff.
By this time, it was 3am Saturday morning. We just went home and slept.
Saturday afternoon, we went out grocery shopping. We bought lots of fruit!! Mangoes,, plums, peaches, pluots, golden kiwis, and yellow tomatoes. Fruit makes me happy. Mangoes make me very happy!! :)
We also had a very early dinner at Mozart's Cafe near Weber and High. The baked emmanthaler appetizer was AWESOME!!! I had schnitzel and spaetzel, and Kiwi ordered pork and sauerkraut. After getting home, I started fixing cabbage rolls.
This is my first time doing this dish. And I ran out of cabbage using only 1/3 of the meat/rice mixture. Anyway, just dumped the rolls and tomatoes and sauce in the crockpot, and put the extra stuff in the fridge.
Kiwi and I started playing these 2 new games we borrowed from the CABS library. Aquadukt was just "okay" only. It's a 50% chance and 50% logic game. Not too bad, but not as good as Carcassonne. The other game, Dungeon Twister, was totally lame. I suppose for myself, if I wanted to play an RPG type game with characters, I like it on the playstation or on the computer. I'm too impatient to fuss around with dice rolls, or board games.
After we were done with the games, we were both hungry. We finished the entire pot of cabbage rolls. The only thing left was the sauce. That's an entire head of cabbage between us! Kiwi wanted more, so I promised him that I'd go out on Sunday to buy more cabbage and fix more cabbage rolls for him.
So Sunday afternoon comes along, and we wake up. After a light breakfast? lunch? meal, we went to Aldis to pick up 2 heads of cabbage, and some other groceries. So while Kiwi was mowing the lawn, I prepared twice the amount and used up all the meat.
There was leftover cabbage, so I threw that in a saucepan with some turkey stock, and I also had some leftover turkey meatball soup, and it was pretty good. For me anyway. Kiwi apparently is not a fan of cabbage unless it's cabbage rolls and sauerkraut.
We played India Rails, and after that long, intensive game, it was time to chow down on cabbage rolls part two. Kiwi had a whole plateful of cabbage rolls. I had about 3, together with some garlic toast, and some turkey cabbage soup.
Monday, July 14, 2008
Weekend
We woke up late Saturday morning, and went out for an Indian lunch buffet at Amul India on Sawmill Road, north of Hard Road. It was a new place for us, and we initially turned into the wrong parking lot, and discovered the Hoggy's restaurant on Sawmill !!!
The food wasn't terribly great, but it was not awful. Kiwi preferred this restaurant as compared to the other one we had last week, or was it the week before that. But I think I liked the other one much better. The other one had more variety of meats - goat curry and chicken curries. And garlic naan !! But he likes this one better, sid that his stomach did not make any protests against this one.
Personally, I found it rather bland. And the chicken curries were made with sliced white meat. Way too dry. Bleaugh.
After lunch, we drove to Dayton to visit Kiwi's dad. Kiwi-dad's girlfriend brought her 15 year old dog to come live with them, and I really enjoyed hanging out with her. I think I like dogs that are a little older, not puppies. Older dogs are much more laid back. So Penny the chihuahua and dachschund mix was my little girlfriend for the day. She was so sweet. Kept demanding scritches from myself and kiwi-dad-gf.
We went for dinner with them at a local greasy spoon. Yuck, I'd never want to go back to the Hasty Tasty Pancake house ever again. I have nothing against greasy spoons, but the food was really awful. Only thing that was decent was the garlic toast.
When we finally got back to Columbus, it was about 1.30am sunday morning. After cleaning up, we played a game of Eurorails. Then went to bed.
Woke up late late late, went out to Linens and Things to get some stuff, then dinner at Hoggys at Polaris. It was excellent food as usual.
The food wasn't terribly great, but it was not awful. Kiwi preferred this restaurant as compared to the other one we had last week, or was it the week before that. But I think I liked the other one much better. The other one had more variety of meats - goat curry and chicken curries. And garlic naan !! But he likes this one better, sid that his stomach did not make any protests against this one.
Personally, I found it rather bland. And the chicken curries were made with sliced white meat. Way too dry. Bleaugh.
After lunch, we drove to Dayton to visit Kiwi's dad. Kiwi-dad's girlfriend brought her 15 year old dog to come live with them, and I really enjoyed hanging out with her. I think I like dogs that are a little older, not puppies. Older dogs are much more laid back. So Penny the chihuahua and dachschund mix was my little girlfriend for the day. She was so sweet. Kept demanding scritches from myself and kiwi-dad-gf.
We went for dinner with them at a local greasy spoon. Yuck, I'd never want to go back to the Hasty Tasty Pancake house ever again. I have nothing against greasy spoons, but the food was really awful. Only thing that was decent was the garlic toast.
When we finally got back to Columbus, it was about 1.30am sunday morning. After cleaning up, we played a game of Eurorails. Then went to bed.
Woke up late late late, went out to Linens and Things to get some stuff, then dinner at Hoggys at Polaris. It was excellent food as usual.
Friday, July 11, 2008
Books
Part of the reason why this blog was created, was to record the books that I have been reading. However, I find myself reading more than I have blogged. Which is okay. Just defeats one of the purposes of this blog.
Anyway, it's still my blog, and I get to say what goes or does not go in it.
Anyway, one of the books I finished this week was "From Dead To Worse", the Sookie Stackhouse series by Charlaine Harris. I really enjoyed this series alot. I just wish there was more of it to read. I can't wait to find out what happens next!
Another book was "Undead & Unworthy", the latest Undead novel by MaryJanice Davidson. Ditto on the feelings.
Still trudging on with the Nightside series by Simon R. Green. I am starting to develop a liking for the protagonist John Taylor. But I got so irritated in the first 3 books about all these stupid cryptic hints about who his mother was, I googled it and thus felt much better.
Anyway, it's still my blog, and I get to say what goes or does not go in it.
Anyway, one of the books I finished this week was "From Dead To Worse", the Sookie Stackhouse series by Charlaine Harris. I really enjoyed this series alot. I just wish there was more of it to read. I can't wait to find out what happens next!
Another book was "Undead & Unworthy", the latest Undead novel by MaryJanice Davidson. Ditto on the feelings.
Still trudging on with the Nightside series by Simon R. Green. I am starting to develop a liking for the protagonist John Taylor. But I got so irritated in the first 3 books about all these stupid cryptic hints about who his mother was, I googled it and thus felt much better.
Saving electricity - clothes rack
I have always been wanting to hang-dry the laundry. Kiwi has always been against it. My thing is to save money on electricity, and his thing is that hanging clothes outside to dry makes the clothing stink like the city.
Personally I don't find this city or even this neighbourhood very polluted at all. But I suppose he has "standards" because if his clothes are hung outdoors, it's supposed to smell like the country. Eh, whatever.
So our compromise is to dry the clothing inside the house. Which took me about a week of walking around the various local stores, and looking online, before finding a drying rack that I'm used to using back when I was in Singapore.
I finally had to order it online. The 65 feet Eagle Clothes Drying Rack. Argh, so expensive. But I should recoup the investment eventually.
When it was delivered, Kiwi sneered at it. He said it looks flimsy, and not big enough. I'm not sure what he had in mind, but I'm the one doing the laundry, so I get to pick! *I* like it. It's exactly what I used to have, except for the colour.
It is now set up in the pantry area, right next to an air vent, in front of the glass brick windows. I think that's the best area (in terms of air-flow and sun) but rather unsightly. But I don't want to be hanging it in the dark, enclosed basement laundry area. EW.
There's a full load of whites hanging on it right now. And when I say full, I mean it was a load that filled up the washing machine. Eight bath towels, some kitchen towels, and a whole week's worth of Kiwi's whites - undershirts, assorted t-shirts, whitey-tighties and socks.
After hanging the whites, I actually called Kiwi at work, and told him what I did, plus there was still room to spare on the rack. He sounded reluctantly impressed. But said he'd have to come home and look at how I did it. He knew it was a large load of clothes. He had carried the dirty laundry down to the basement last night for me.
Anyway, I'm so boring. Going on and on about laundry.
Personally I don't find this city or even this neighbourhood very polluted at all. But I suppose he has "standards" because if his clothes are hung outdoors, it's supposed to smell like the country. Eh, whatever.
So our compromise is to dry the clothing inside the house. Which took me about a week of walking around the various local stores, and looking online, before finding a drying rack that I'm used to using back when I was in Singapore.
I finally had to order it online. The 65 feet Eagle Clothes Drying Rack. Argh, so expensive. But I should recoup the investment eventually.
When it was delivered, Kiwi sneered at it. He said it looks flimsy, and not big enough. I'm not sure what he had in mind, but I'm the one doing the laundry, so I get to pick! *I* like it. It's exactly what I used to have, except for the colour.
It is now set up in the pantry area, right next to an air vent, in front of the glass brick windows. I think that's the best area (in terms of air-flow and sun) but rather unsightly. But I don't want to be hanging it in the dark, enclosed basement laundry area. EW.
There's a full load of whites hanging on it right now. And when I say full, I mean it was a load that filled up the washing machine. Eight bath towels, some kitchen towels, and a whole week's worth of Kiwi's whites - undershirts, assorted t-shirts, whitey-tighties and socks.
After hanging the whites, I actually called Kiwi at work, and told him what I did, plus there was still room to spare on the rack. He sounded reluctantly impressed. But said he'd have to come home and look at how I did it. He knew it was a large load of clothes. He had carried the dirty laundry down to the basement last night for me.
Anyway, I'm so boring. Going on and on about laundry.
Cat Vaccinations
I brought the 3 furry kids to CWA on wednesday, to get vaccinated during Dr Erin's spay/neuter clinic. $30 for everyone for rabies and distemper. Next I will have to take them to Petco to get a shot for FIV.
Princella was a totally vicious bitch. Gave me two good scratches on the hands. The other two boys were totally wonderful and well behaved, they didn't even flinch when the needles went in. I love my boys.
Princella was a totally vicious bitch. Gave me two good scratches on the hands. The other two boys were totally wonderful and well behaved, they didn't even flinch when the needles went in. I love my boys.
Sunday, July 6, 2008
Long Weekend
On friday, we had a late lunch and went to CABS. We met 2 new people, we played a bunch of games. Carcassonne, Tricky Town, Eco-Fluxx, Wits and Wagers, and Liar's Dice.
The club closed unusually early at midnight, so we borrowed two games and went home to play Starship Catan. I won!
*****
Saturday, we woke up late-ish, and went to Schmidt's Sausage Haus, and met with 2 new friends I met online a few years back. Spent a whole lot of time chatting, and later the four of us went to Denise's Ice Cream to eat ice cream (obviously) and play Fluxx and chat some more.
I ordered coffee oreo, my kiwi ordered banana, and buttered sweet corn. They all tasted good.
After we went home around midnight, the two of us played Carcassonne The City (I won), and a rematch of Starship Catan. Kiwi won this time.
*****
Sunday was a day of lazing around at home. We played Empire Builder original.
The club closed unusually early at midnight, so we borrowed two games and went home to play Starship Catan. I won!
*****
Saturday, we woke up late-ish, and went to Schmidt's Sausage Haus, and met with 2 new friends I met online a few years back. Spent a whole lot of time chatting, and later the four of us went to Denise's Ice Cream to eat ice cream (obviously) and play Fluxx and chat some more.
I ordered coffee oreo, my kiwi ordered banana, and buttered sweet corn. They all tasted good.
After we went home around midnight, the two of us played Carcassonne The City (I won), and a rematch of Starship Catan. Kiwi won this time.
*****
Sunday was a day of lazing around at home. We played Empire Builder original.
Friday, July 4, 2008
Spaghetti
I made spaghetti.
Well, kinda sorta.
The pasta is from dried, tri-colour rotini.
The sauce is from a jar, with all sorts of stuff added in it. Ground beef, onions, olives, mushrooms, spinach, grape tomatoes.
I did not use any seasoning, except for oil and salt in the water for the pasta.
YUM!
Well, kinda sorta.
The pasta is from dried, tri-colour rotini.
The sauce is from a jar, with all sorts of stuff added in it. Ground beef, onions, olives, mushrooms, spinach, grape tomatoes.
I did not use any seasoning, except for oil and salt in the water for the pasta.
YUM!
Books by Simon. R Green
I'm trying out a new author. "Something From The Nightside" is the second book of his that I'm reading. I'm a little bored by it. Or rather, I find my thoughts wandering whilst reading. I get up to do things whilst reading. I'd rather mess around on the computer than read it right now.
This does not bode well for the other 8 or so books of his I borrowed from the library. We'll see what happens.
This does not bode well for the other 8 or so books of his I borrowed from the library. We'll see what happens.
Thursday, July 3, 2008
current events in the house
I am sitting cross legged at the edge of the bed, typing this on the laptop. Bebe is sprawled out on the blanket over my legs, pretending to be dead. There is a book, face down beside me. I got somewhat bored reading it.
Right now, my online games of interest are Tribal Wars (just started playing about 2 weeks ago) and Universe Wars.
Feeling a little lonely, because my kiwi is not back from work yet.
Tomorrow will be the 4th of July. We're not going out to a BBQ, nor fireworks show. Instead, we will be at CABS. All day, as soon as we wake up and eat something.
Right now, my online games of interest are Tribal Wars (just started playing about 2 weeks ago) and Universe Wars.
Feeling a little lonely, because my kiwi is not back from work yet.
Tomorrow will be the 4th of July. We're not going out to a BBQ, nor fireworks show. Instead, we will be at CABS. All day, as soon as we wake up and eat something.
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