The Dinner Party

I'm having a mini, yet awesome, dinner party tomorrow for myself, don, emily, and eric. I really want to make a very delectable meal, but i cant make it for just myself! So i decided to treat the 3 people who have been taking care of my mental health for the last few months. Our Menu is as follows:

Caprese Salad
Lemony Fettuccine Alfredo with Asparagus
Oven-Fried Chicken
Golden Delicious Apple Pie

im quite excited at this prospect, considering i also acquired a few new additions to my kitchen:

A Knife set (FINALLY - it even came with 12 steak knives)
Dishes and Bowls (they are gorgeous stoneware - black outside and purple inside and the set came with 4 matching mugs)
Flatware (straight up awesome, no detail, just smoothness)
A cutting board that is the EXACT width of my small counter

although, obtaining these items was an ordeal. I went to Kmart with the intention of getting Custard Cups (the original idea for dessert was Lava Baby Cakes) and getting place settings and such if they were cheap. Well, the dishes were only $14 for settings for four (Dinner Plates, Dessert Plates, Bowls, Mugs) and so were the knives. The flatware was 10 and the cutting board was too, but i was ok with that considering it was the Martha Stewart Collection and the Kmart brand didn't make a wooden cutting board and i wasn't going to get a plastic one. So i get all my stuff (clearly, no custard cups since the dessert is Apple Pie) and walk back home. I get home, unpack all of my awesomeness to discover, much to my chagrin, that the dinner plates are all broken. After much hemming and hawing, and speaking with the Baron von Fishenstein, i went back to kmart to exchange the set. I thought it was gonna be a slight pain, but it was not AND i got the last set of purple/black dishes in the store. So i counted myself lucky.

all i need now are wine glasses (red AND white), a colander, and a complete spice kit and ill be totally set.

tomorrow, after i get out of class, I have to go buy everything for dinner and clean up the apartment and figure out how to get 4 people to eat in my little kitchen. im going to have to steal svets chair i think. needless to say, this is going to be a lavish evening where my friends will be spoiled rotten by my desire to play mommy. i cant wait!

then on friday, im going with to lunch with Professor Haas with Kyle and Jeff. Im positively swoooooning.

peace. love. penguin.
much heart.

Woah! Movies!

Today I watched:
300
Grindhouse (Planet Terror THEN Death Proof)

I still plan on watching/am watching now:
Kill Bill (vol. 1 & 2)
Sin City

I really REALLY wish I had Pulp Fiction and Desperado, just for continuity sake. These six movies are all 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon and shit. Aside from Tarantino/Rodriguez connections, obvi. I mean 300 is a movie adaptation of a Frank Miller comic of the same name, just like goddamn Sin City. Obvi, Sin City is directed by good ole Robby Rodrig, as is Planet Terror. With original scoring by the man himself. Clearly, Taranino's unique style and music choice is evident in his movies. Wow, I really forgot where i was going with all of this. I thought I had a better point to make.

In any case - Planet Terror was way better than Death Proof. Although, the ending of Death Proof was pretty hilarious, the plot and ridiculousness of Planet Terror was waaaay more awesome. Now I'm gonna finish reading Torts, watch the rest of Kill Bill vol. 1, pop in vol. 2, then watch Sin City if there is time and i hope that there is because I want to watch 6 movies today.

If i remember my rant, ill repost...

Pumpkinbreasts!

Thanksgiving went well. The fam came over and we had a delectable dinner that was made up of a crazy amount of food that got eaten for the most part. Dessert was to die for, and everyone got along pretty well. Jeff and Leigh actually showed up to say hello, which was nice and I finally got Laura to watch Arrested Development, superawesome.

Today I'm doing laundry, working on my Outlining, and watching movies.

Coming home was good, i like being able to see the sky. But i miss my hustle and bustle.

Watching: King Kong

Techno-Nerd Moment - You've been warned!

I'm thinking about switching to Linux.

why? honestly, i dont really know. but im tired of Microsoft. my computer is running super slow, i dont feel like learning how to manipulate XP and would rather learn how to use an OS that wants me to play with it. Plus this computer came with an inordinate number of useless programs. So the plan is to learn Linux, maybe turn my comp into a dual boot so I can get some practice using Linux without abandoning XP then during the christmas break make the ultimate switch over. This means i need to get an external HD so i can transfer all of my shit back and forth. I just need to make sure my iPod will be compatible after the fact and that I dont lose photoshop. Although, i think CS3 is out, so i need to upgrade anyway.

I'm very excited about this prospect. My dimly lit companion has been aching for some practice. I think that line only makes sense if you've seen/read Dexter. Dex's Dark passenger is his name for the urge, desire, to kill. my dimly lit companion just wants to nerd out and roll dice all the time.

I have to pick a Linux build and start playing with it. I do think I'll have to dual boot for a while and partition. if i just wiped everything and started anew id never figure anything out. but ill have to configure my wireless and shit. thats my biggest concern. I have somewhere around four million programs that control my wireless card, so i dont know which one is necessary. I have a Toshiba program, ConfigFree, and the Windows Wireless Manager. Admittedly, the WWM should be the only one i need, but since Microsoft likes to rape you mercilessly, i could see my computer crashing if i tried to remove one of the others. hopefully, i wont run into this issue with linux.

This has been a move ive wanted to do for a while now, i wish i had done it when Scaduto told me he had made the switch since then i could have used his expertise, but now i must go it alone.

END TECHNO-NERD MOMENT

Ahh, that was nice. Well, today is going well. I've got half of my Torts readings done, I have another 30 pages to read, then its onto Civil procedure. Then i will be cleaning/packing and baking pumpkin bars. I need to call brooklyn and see if they want to come for Perishables Potluck tomorrow night. If they do, i need to go buy dishes. But i want to get rid of some pork and chicken before i go home and i have eggs and milk that need to be disposed of as well. If nothing else, I'll make Kyle dinner and we can sit and bitch for a while.

Going home in two days sounds pretty good, neh? I have to start outlining and studying for finals but there's no reason i cant have a little fun. (Read: This weekend is gonna be a shitshow.) Maggie and John are coming to thanksgiving dinner, so thats me, shano, mom, fred, tilly, maggie, john, maybe bill (yuk). Thats an 8 person dinner. THEN dessert with the fam. Maybe I'll bake some stuff. Yeah, ill get mom to let me do the dessert baking, that will be awesome. it will be lavish and decadent. Red velvet cake and gourmet cookies. Brendan is not gonna know what to do with me...

Dessert with the Fam is always interesting. Freddy and Irene and Lorraine will probably show up. Katie definitely is, and i hope Mark comes too, although after last year's embarassment i dont know if that shit is gonna work (for those of you out of the loop - mom got hella faced and said to Mark and Shano; "if you two weren't cousins, you'd be fuck buddies"). its doubtful that any of the other boys will come, but Colleenie beanie may come, which would be awesome. on top of all of this, I have the friend factor - bdan, jess, lauradora, and the dalpe boys, plus anyone else thrown into the mix. And, of course, LilSis and FaveSis. So there is a very large potential for a substantial gathering of people at 482.

there is moderate excitement brewing today. I also just finished my cafe au lait with a shot... is it bad i want to walk back down to the bean and get another one??
yes, amy, it is
...shit.

back to torts. see you kids in h2o soon.

Hello Rabid Readers

Yikes! Its been a few days since i've updated... ok, here's the scoopification.

Imma be home tuesday around 4pm. Brendonious Maximus is gonna pick up yours truly. woot.

also, today i cleaned my apartment... not my room though, thats tomorrow's task since im going to pack at the same time, and i dont feel like doing that yet. the bathroom is all shiny and clean and free of soapyness. the kitchen is reorganized and switched up. i moved my fridge all by myself AND i was able to set up the table so we can put the microwave on it, so i finally got it off the floor. but now we have a huge empty space so i think i might get one of those sidebars from the antique shack on houston. but ill need to get some people together to help me carry it. i do really like this new set up, its giving me way more counterspace to work with, especially since im planning on making pumpkin bars tomorrow for pre-thanksgiving goodness - and snacks in torts because i <3 my torts section.

this weekend:

outlining
writing a research memo
reading harry potter
playing guitar hero.

sleep. glorious sleep.

an old draft i forgot to publish...

Today I:

-Got all dressed up for school! I looked totally awesome.
-Tried to participate in CivPro, but didn't get called on.
-Went to a lunch my CivPro Professor was speaking at and talked to him about taking one of his higher level mental disability law courses, woo and yay. This all started when he mentioned a book i read for psychopathology and apparently teaches it in MDL, so woo, taking that class.
-Barely sat through torts. i was too busy trying to DL Dexter.
-came home, pwn3d my oral presentation. im going to get up early-ish and condense my notes.
-watched 2-ish episodes of Arrested Development
-watched 4 episodes of The Pretender
-watched 2 episodes of Dexter
(for a while there, it was like i was back in the boys papasan)
-made a tasty dinner of cheeseburger and fries
-I baked a cake! From scratch. Yellow cake, which unfortunately came out a little dry, with chocolate cream cheese frosting. i was making it because i had a craving, and now that its almost two, im not eating it. i will most likely be bringing it to brooklyn tomorrow night to eat while getting drunk with brother and playing risk/halblerns

i have to study for this research final AND edit Haasie McHaasenstein's book. And hang out with the section.

have i mentioned that I <3 C section> because I do. they all rock.

Running Riot!

there may be a spiderman 4.
im actually upset.

also - im in the library clearly updating my blog, not completing research OR reading Civil Procedure OR reading Contracts OR reading Torts OR studying for my research final, which is friday, OR editing Haasie McHaasensteins book.

really, i just want to go back home, put on my pajamas and play kingdom hearts. but no, i have to do research on New York General Obligations Law §5-326: Agreements exempting pools, gymnasiums, places of public amusement or recreation and similar establishments from liability for negligence void and unenforceable in order to determine if this Horse Show is a recreational or instructional facility. Does it sound tedious and boring? Well, it should, because it is. I wish i could hide on 4 and do work, but you cant have snacks there so im on 7 doing too much e-research and getting hella bored and distracted. I've only found two really good cases - and thats only because one cites the other. I need 4-5 to write a good memo and I have a presentation due on it on tuesday. I can fudge another 3-4 but they're not really on point, none of them deal with riding facilities but similar issues have arisen...

anyway. i should get back to work on this shit. its already taken me far too long to get my act together and i have a bunch of other work i want to accomplish before the library closes at 10 tonight.