What is it about March Madness that drives people to become zombies glued to the TVs, screaming and yelling as they check their brackets every five minutes? I don’t think Bob has gotten up to pee in five hours and he has recruited Kuma to be beer bitch.
So everyone is all up in arms about Twitter. I’ll be honest, I don’t quite get it, but since lots of people I respect seem to love it and there are great minds behind it, I figured I’d coin a new (previously not in Google — that counts, right?) phrase:
Twittersquatting – The act of reserving your personal login on a new service that you aren’t sure you’re going to like or even use, just to make sure you get your name. Example 1
So… maybe this thing is cool? I’m not sure, but I’ll figure it out sooner or later.
To sum up the weekend: yummy food. Starting off, we held a hot pot event over at the house on Friday night. Yao came up with the idea and we originally had it planned for his house but then he was introduced to Wii Boxing and is now hooked. Therefore, the dinner was moved to our house so everyone can unwind after dinner with some Wii action. The participants: Yao, Sheena, Ruud, Krissy, Kenny, Bob and me. Even though seven people came over, only five of us really had hot pot (Krissy and Sheena opted out and just ate bagel pizzas, edamame and crab rangoon-they are not big fans of weird things). This was our first time meeting Yao’s new roommate, Ruud and he’s pretty cool. He’s here from the Netherlands doing an internship. He’s only been here for a week and it seems like Yao has taken him under his wing. Ruud was there ready to try new things, which was awesome because not many people are willing to eat tripe (me included, yuck). I thought dinner turned out great, it was my first time having hot pot without my parents and I was a little nervous about it but Yao seemed to know what he was doing.
On Saturday night, Krissy, Kenny Bob and I went to the Melting Pot to gorge ourselves on cheese and chocolate (in my opinion, that’s what everyone should have for dinner). Since Krissy was on the Melting Pot email list, she told us about the Girl Scout special that was going on. When we got there, we asked if the Girl Scout chocolates were available yet and the waitress said that it didn’t start until Monday. Sigh, disappointment. But, she came back later and told us that she asked her manager about it and her manager said that we could be THE FIRST to have the Girl Scout chocolate fondues. Allright! We got to order the fondue before anyone else did – I felt so special. Big fan of the Thin Mint fondue (it has caramel Bailey’s)!
As soon as you put anything in the toaster, Kuma will run into the kitchen no matter where she is in the house or what she is doing. She is waiting for that hit, that toke, that just one fix. That’s right, it’s that glob of peanut butter. We decided it’s much more fun seeing her lick an empty jar than just throwing it away.
Why does it keep running away from me?
Thanks for the help!
When I heard about the tornadoes that touched down near White Plains, MO last week, I immediately called Laura and Freddie to make sure that they were both okay (I was sure they were, it was also a great excuse to talk to her about us coming down to visit in the next couple of weeks). Well, I didn’t hear from her and a soon forgot about it until she called last night. Apparently, they had moved to Wichita and had been living there for TWO WEEKS already! And to think, I was going to going take a weekend to visit! HA! Wichita’s a little further than West Plains! Laura was afraid of me yelling at her for moving without telling me and she was not wrong. Here I was worried that she was at home, pregnant during that crazy storm, but no, instead, she was cozy in her new apartment in a different state. Man, now we have to drive even further to visit them. I pretty much told her that the next time they move, they better move to St. Louis or move somewhere cool, not another freakin’ town in the middle of nowhere or else we weren’t going to ever visit.