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so in my new-found semi-healthy-livin’ approach to life i’m scaling back a little on the whole red-meat-eating… a lot actually…
now i drink tons of water… eat lots of vegetables… and have a bunch of gas…
apart from the gas part (which i don’t mind so much and am actually sorta proud of (but my family thinks is funny)) it’s a grand rippin’ success…
so anyway… back to meat… i like meat… red is best… i’m a carnivore… screw the whole vegetarian ‘edamame for protein’ routine… that’s why there’s steak as far as i’m concerned… as a wise man once said (i think it was homer simpson) “if god didn’t want us to eat animals why did he make them out of meat?”…
and gosh diggity darn it when it comes to cookin’ the cow there’s nothing that rocks my world like pan frying…
i kid of course…
it’s the grill baby… as the charcoal and/or propane gods meant it… and quietly… humbly… without fanfare or celebration… i have become an above-adequate grillman… but today… today… i was a god among men with tongs in hand…
love-of-my-life karen is departing this eve and heading off for a weekend of tennessee-style debauchery with some amigas… to celebrate her (short-but-none-the-less-groovy) “vacation” we decided to have steak for dinner… the beef was procured…
and the beef, my friends, was rocked… to sing my own praises i must say that these t-bones of love were the best cow parts that i have ever taken responsibility for… the best of the best… the most wonderful of the wonderful… the planets – they aligned for these steaks… now all we have is the memories… good ones…
so i guess i still like meat…
wow… what a sweet weekend… flew by as usual but we got to do some cool stuff…
on saturday k and i went to have dinner with my former colleagues from r.s. hughes… ’twas my amigo bob’s 50th birthday… fun was had and i can’t say thanks enough to my old work pals for inviting us along… i’ve been out of the official workforce for ten months now and have done an admittedly crap job of staying in touch… so it was awesome to see everyone and get to catch up a little… happy birthday bobby!!!…
and sunday afternoon our friend deb had a friggin’ insane blowout holiday open house thingie… kinda funny – five years ago that woulda meant all our circle o’ friends got together and had a liquor-fueled odyssey… nowadays it means there was a very high chillun percentage and all the craziness that comes along with that… was lotsa fun… santa made an appearance… many kids had fun… many kids freaked out… i was amused by pretty much everything… especially the fact that santa had a pretty wicked scottish accent… not that i’m saying he doesn’t or anything… ‘s just he reminded me of a friend of ours… a lot… an american friend… who doesn’t have a scottish accent… weird…
so another turkey day has come and gone… thanksgiving is my favorite holiday… i look forward to it all year and i’m sad when its over…
festivities are usually held at our pals the wheelers’ house but this year we hosted as d&d had just welcomed the newest wheeler, gregory, a mere four days prior…
the only downside was that the tugboat was under the weather with yet another ear infection(s)… a quick trip to our amogo the pediatrician on thanksgiving day morning confirmed this… t’was a bummer but he was a trooper… and i guess he was sorta drugged… so he slept a lot and had fun when he was up…
so we had a bunch o’ folks over… drinks were had… food was had… more drinks were had… we’ve got a great group of friends… and hey… i’m thankful for them… what an appropriate day to have ‘em all stop by, eh?…
mmm… popsicles…
friday… serious downtime recovery day…
saturday… chilled pretty much all day… in the morning we packed up the hotrod minivan and went to brunch at our friends andrew’s and christy’s place where we watched some div 1-aa college football… specifically unh vs. colgate… christy’s a colgate alum… somewhat unfortunate on this particular saturday as they got pasted 55-21… was fun to hang out though…
and sunday… watched the seahawks improve their record to 9-2… was a pretty exciting game… wish i coulda been there in person for that one… the last time i saw so many second (and third (and fourth)) chances awarded was during the beloved buckeyes season of 2002-2003… i’m hopin’ similar results await them seahawks… that’d be cool… in the eve our pals scott and kristin and their daughter montana came over… we had fun and drank wine… by the time it was all said and done i think it took me about a minute to fall asleep…
what a great weekend…
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been on a bit of a health kick lately… and as a result i’m paying lots of attention to nutritional info of all the stuff i eat…
i saw this on boing boing… one of my favorite websites…
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i like sushi… a lot… not for everyone i know… and there’s a few places within the realm that i’ve yet to dare to venture…
however… since coming to seattle 10+ years ago and being introduced to sushi by a friend of mine i’ve developed a taste for the stuff…
karen digs it too… and on the advice of our pal kristen we’ve got a new favo(u)rite… izumi… we’ve been there a couple of times and i’ve gotta say it raised the bar pretty significantly from all i’ve had before…
highly recommended…
