Pererro

I would like to apologize

2009-11-16T16:33:00.001-08:00

For the fact that we added to 2012’s opening weekend income.

Sincerely.

Yes, the movie as a whole was that bad.

There are isolated bits of genius. I would catch it on DVD or streaming, so you can cut through the torturous parts.

In other news, we went to the Farmer’s Market on Saturday, had a nice lunch there, got some bread from Thee’s Bakery to share at a potluck we went to where we met some other young-ish couples at a meet and greet for Gen Y/X couples who believe in the power of date nights and babysitting. Met some nice people. The hosts were most excellent party throwers. I even sang karaoke. Yes, again. Then we went to what was supposed to be a Twilight themed party at a local club, but was more just a generic goth club. Which was okay, but not terribly exciting. We were actually thinking about ditching it after a half hour, but then they switched DJ’s and the new DJ was a thousand times better, so we stayed. Glad we did. Got to dance to Concrete Blonde. Fun times.

Stayed at the Wilshire Plaza because David remembered we had a coupon with Expedia that was about to expire. So we also scored a free breakfast. Woo! (It was just one of those generic “hot breakfast buffets” like they have at the Residence Inn, but it was free, so there you go.)

The rest of Sunday got eaten up by errands and our attempts to coordinate going to 2012 with David’s parents, who mistakenly thought 2012 was playing in IMAX. Hoorah for cell phones?

And the movie turned out to be INSANELY LONG. So that ate up the rest of our day.

And now we’ve come full circle. Ta da!

Winging It

2009-11-12T13:48:00.000-08:00

I feel somewhat ashamed.

I went to the foodie Valhalla of Lake Forest – a center that houses the original Peppino’s (excellent Italian), an Inca Grill (Peruvian = yummy empanadas and Inca Cola), and the original reason I went there, a Japanese place that made David of all people like sushi.

But I was seduced by the newest resident – Buffalo Wild Wings. Although very new to Orange County (I believe this is only their second location, and it just opened this week), they are still a chain. So I felt sheepish getting buffalo wings to go when our lunch plans fell through. But wings are one of the world’s most perfect foods, and I’ve been trying to see if their spicy sauces live up to the hype. (I killed my taste buds long ago. I have a pretty high standard for spicy.)

So I got the “Hot” and took that back to the office. And the wings held up very well despite the 20 minute drive back. The skin was nice and crispy, the sauce was certainly spicy, but still didn’t hold a candle to the “Super Hot” chicken curry I got last week at the Curry House. So, I will have to return and try this Blazin’ flavor of theirs.

Maybe I will even take their “Blazin’ Challenge!”. Dun dun DUNN!

What's Cooking?

2009-11-09T14:02:00.001-08:00

Friday we went out with a group of foodies for the OCR’s Food Frenzy Blog’s 2^nd Foodie Fest at Lou’s BBQ down in HB. The food was good – great ribs, great tri tip, lots of little freebies like pretzel bites and baked beans. The turkey was only so-so, but other than that good times were had by all. We apparently underestimated how tired we were though, since after we got home we basically feel asleep and didn’t get up again until late Saturday morning.

We decided to try out our new mini deep fryer, so we headed out to gather up an ample amount of supplies, then set up in the kitchen. We made deep fried burritos (win), pasties with ground beef and potatoes (fail – mostly due to our attempts to use phyllo dough to get a flaky crust), fried mac n’ cheese (absolute win – we rolled up little balls of mac n’ cheese in panko bread crumbs and they came out just like the ones at Cheesecake Factory! Score!), and little fried pies with experimentation with various Halloween mini candy bars and chocolate pudding as fillings (epic fail! Pie dough + deep fry = gooey mess).

Next time we are going to try donuts and funnel cakes. Maybe some tempura veggies, chicken, and whatever else we can think of. Although the panko crumbs seem to be full of awesome, so we might just use those on other items, like chicken strips. We’ll see.

We got a wee bit ambitious this time, because by the time we were done (hours later), we were horribly sore and we still had to clean up, which took a couple of hours because we don’t buy our coffee in cans (do they even sell coffee in cans anymore?), so we had to figure out what to do with the oil. And I had to mop the floor. And we had about a million dishes to wash. But it was fun and educational. (Deep frying is science in action! Just ask Alton Brown.)

And we had enough food to last us though Sunday, even with throwing out our rejects. Which was good, because we were dead tired on Sunday and gave up on anything beyond watching “Follow That Bird” (in honor of Sesame Street’s 40^th), and the “Ed, Edd n’ Eddy” marathon on Cartoon Network.

Now I'm almost tempted to watch the Oscars

2009-11-04T12:38:00.001-08:00

Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin co-hosting actually sounds entertaining.

If they cut the time limit for acceptance speeches to ten seconds, cut out all the musical numbers, and just let the hosts riff for most of the show, I would assure you I would watch.

Or… have Steve Martin do all the “best songs” musical numbers on his banjo. That would be AWESOME.

I’m not really getting all this brouhaha about the “It’s Complicated” movie, though.

As I understand it, the movie is coming out around Christmas and the Oscars aren’t until February. Unless the movie is a crazy smash hit, it’s not even going to be in theaters anymore by the Oscars, and it will be too early for it to come out on DVD. So, I’m not really seeing where it will benefit in any way from them hosting. If anything I think the movie’s performance is more likely to affect the Oscars – if it tanks it might make people less excited about watching, but it if does well, they might get a nice halo effect from that. Maybe I’m missing something here?

Okay, now you can play the Christmas Music

2009-11-03T10:30:00.001-08:00

I refused to acknowledge it until after Halloween.

I think we took pretty full advantage of the weekend holiday. We carved pumpkins in the afternoon to set out on the porch. I think they came out pretty good. The B based hers on Edvard Munch’s The Scream, continuing a tradition of less than traditional pumpkins (2007 was the silhouette of Texas, last year was just “BOO!”). I give her props for her very cultured inspiration. The museum trips are apparently paying off. ;)

Then we took a dinner break and visited Buccaneer Pizza. We had a random sampling of items and found the pizza to be the thing we liked the least. (They have very thick crust, whereas we are thin crust people.) But their sandwiches (or san’wenches as they call them) are full of awesome, and their pasta will make a good replacement for Fazzoli’s as a “pick up pasta on the way home for dinner” option, so that was a winner. (So much so that we revisited here on Sunday for more sandwiches.)

After that was trick or treating around the neighborhood. Since it was Saturday, I had ambitions of wandering beyond the usual handful of streets, but by the time we have finished the full circuit, the B had a pretty sizable haul and her feet hurt. It had been a good hour and half, so we called it a night and gave out candy instead.

We caught a couple of Halloween themed episodes of various TV shows – Back to the Barnyard continues to crack me up. The movie from a few years okay was okay, but the cartoon on Nick is really funny and surprisingly subversive.

Resident Evil 5 also got some play time because what’s more Halloween appropriate than fighting zombies? Also, we’re on the second round, which means unlimited ammo!

After the B went to bed, David’s dad took over watching her, so we could go out to the Halloween festivities at Club Skandal. They had a really cool band playing called Reloader. I highly recommend seeing them live if you get a chance. Very danceable industrial music. Lots of fun costumes. We were curious if they would stay open an extra house since Daylight Savings Time kicked in at 2am, but they closed at 2am/1am, which is okay, really, since that meant an extra hour of sleep for us.

Which is good because after an hour and a half of walking around the neighborhood, followed by 2 hours of dancing, we were pretty beat the next day. We spent most of Sunday being tired and watched “The 5^th Element” and eating Mexican food, which is as close as we came to celebrating Dia de los Muertos on the actual day. ;)

This is Halloween

2009-10-29T16:41:00.001-07:00

Well, okay, not quite yet.

But we got a head start on celebrating.

Visited the El Dia de los Muertos festivities at Hollywood Forever Cemetery last Saturday.

Due to various reasons that may or may not have to do with our obsession with finishing Resident Evil 5, we left much later than we meant to. As in after 4pm.

So, we were stuck in traffic all the way up to Hollywood, then tried to go to Pink’s (it’s right down the street), saw the super long line and skipped it in favor of a local Fatburger.

We’ve been to the Fatburger location down in Irvine, and it was okay, but really expensive. This was still really expensive for a hamburger, but the burgers we got were HUGE and full of awesome. The B has found her new favorite burger – a chili cheese burger from Fatburger. But only that location in Hollywood. I must admit – their chili was pretty darn good.

Then with full stomachs (we had previously only eaten a cinnamon roll that day), we headed off to the cemetery. We had completely underestimated the popularity of this event, despite it getting a shout out in Rachel Ray’s magazine. The first lot we tried was full, so we ended up parking on the east side of the cemetery in a parking structure that was not clearly marked, so luckily most of the tourists must have missed it. There I applied the professional grade face paint we had picked up a couple weeks ago (David has sensitive skin and I hate getting cheap grease paint in my hair) to go with our all black outfits and skeleton gloves. (I will post pictures later.)

Then we walked down to the cemetery (about a block-ish away), and realized that there was a giant line of people waiting to get inside. So we stood in line and pondered the street vendors, eventually picking up a couple light up items for the B so we could keep track of her better inside. About a half hour later we finally got inside and it was really cool. Lots of colorful, interesting alters (again, pictures later), including one for Dr. Seuss. We tried to check out the stage, but the place was PACKED anywhere that didn’t have actual graves. We got some pan de muerte (a loaf of bread coated in cinnamon and sugar – very tasty), and hung around various parts of the cemetery, enjoying the costumes, the sites, the music, and the strangely festive yet creepy atmosphere. We got there so late we actually ended up staying until closing time. Fun was had by all. (And the B is less scared of cemeteries now.)

We finally finished Resident Evil 5, but it had a whole bunch of goodies for us (like a shotgun with unlimited ammo!), so we’ll be diving in for round 2 of zombie hunting action this weekend. The second time around should go a lot faster, though, since now we know how to beat the puzzles, and can skip the cut scenes.

For now, there are Halloween preparations to be completed!

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2009-10-29T15:48:00.001-07:00

Test?

If I was in charge of the world...

2009-10-28T12:26:00.001-07:00

Police would be too busy doing important stuff to bother with investigating things like this:

http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/10282532/Cops:-Woman-offered-sex-act-for-World-Series-tix

And no one would EVER say ‘f-bomb’ again. Blah.

-DS

This Week

2009-10-23T09:52:00.000-07:00

Well, I was left early twice last week due to illness and was out Monday. So that SUCKED.

Been pretty busy - working on the recycling budget this week. Finished it yesterday. It's a lot - we have to take back 60-80% of what we manufacture in a lot of states. Fascinating, I know.

Dieting is going well - down 33 lbs since we started Serious Dieting in the last week of March. Puts me right at the 1 lb / week mark which is Healthy Sustainable Weightloss.

Just got a raise, with backpay to July. WOO

Do you have a costume yet? - BurgandySkies

2009-10-22T13:53:00.001-07:00

I just got my fairy wings in the mail. The ones at the costume shop were cheesy looking so David found a place that makes cute handmade wings. The small wings don’t cost much more than the store brands and they are much cooler.

(www.artofwings.com)

We’ve been sick for the past week, but are finally feeling better, which is good because we have a full roster of plans for this weekend.

While we’ve been sick, we finally got around to playing Resident Evil 5, which is AWESOME. I’m finding the controls to handle much better than L4D, and the sheer variety of scenarios, vehicles, and weapons is impressive. (Maybe L4D2 took some notes – I hope so.) Also, after much time has been put into games like Fallout 3, it’s nice to be playing a game we can both actively play, instead of me just watching, figuring out puzzles, and playing navigator. And it’s good training for the zombie-apocalypse. ;)

(No, we still haven’t seen Zombieland, but we plan to. Might not happen until it’s at the dollar theater, though.)

We also watched “The Adventures of Baron Munchausen” – which is a fun, but underappreciated, Terry Gilliam movie. I love the sequence on the moon, and the torture song is classic Eric Idle. (He doesn’t perform it, but he wrote it.)

I’m finding Netflix to be a treasure trove of movies and television shows I’d forgotten about. We’ve also been watching Mystery Science Theater 3000 on there, but David is a Joel fan-boy, so the Boo and I have to watch the Mike episodes when he’s not around.

We continue to expand the Monsterpocalypse armies. They came out with new sets that include giant apes and bugs, so been having fun with that. The Boo is building a King Kong themed army. She participated in her first tournament with us, so that was some family fun, even if none of us won any prizes this time.

And lastly, we got ring tattoos, because I never wear my ring, for various reasons that are practical in nature, but it still bugs David that I don’t. Also, we’ve been together for 12 years and been through enough things that would have broken up other couples long ago, so I’m thinking we’re safe here. Nothing too fancy – just our names on each others ring fingers. Also American Vintage Tattoo was doing some crazy $25 deal two weeks ago. If you want to know more you can read about it over at the Register – I emailed OC Deals gal about the trip, and she thought it was cute so she posted the whole thing. (http://ocdeals.freedomblogging.com/2009/10/13/cheap-tattoos-a-love-story/)

Ok, that’s all I got for you people right now.

Not that there was a public outcry for posts or something.

- BurgandySkies

Blah blah blah

2009-10-15T23:32:00.000-07:00

Instead of going home I got stuck in a 4 hour meeting. And then another hour meeting. But I left a bit after that. Woohoo.

Sick

2009-10-15T12:09:00.001-07:00

I’m sick and I need to go home but I’ve been too busy all morning to let the Director know. It was easier before they fired all the managers. Grr!

Email Update - BurgandySkies

2009-10-05T13:01:00.000-07:00

Since our last update:

Monsterpocalypse is becoming a regular weekly thing wherein David’s coworker Charles comes over and we play for a couple of hours, trade figures, and hang out. Unlike a regular D&D game, the Boo can play (and likes playing), it doesn’t have an open ended time frame (games last about an hour) and it’s a relatively cheaper hobby.

Been watching “Chopped: Champions”, but I guess that’s over now. We thought the execution of the Champion edition was a little lacking in anticipation. In theory it was supposed to be a last-chef-standing competition, but it didn’t seem to work out that way. I think it would have been better if they’d done 4 different competitions with previous champions, then had a 5^th with those winners.

“The Next Iron Chef” looks to be more fun, but that’s on Sunday nights, so we’re probably going to miss most of that unless they rerun it during the week or something.

We traveled down to Vista and watched Rachel perform in “Cats”. The show was really good, but next time I think we’ll get assigned seating. We got lawn seats, which sounded like a good idea at the time – the theater is outdoors and has grassy areas in between the regular seats, so if you get there early you can scope out a spot, eat a picnic dinner, and watch the show in relative comfort. Except “relative comfort” becomes nominal when the show is totally sold out. So, we were a bit cramped to say the least.

Last Sunday, I ran a session of “Geist”, which is White Wolf’s new ghost hunting RPG. Very similar to their “Hunter” series, but now they’ve found an excuse to give you cool superpowers. I’m going for a bit of a Constantine or Hellboy vibe. I even put a copy of the “Don’t mess with me, lady. I’ve been drinking with skeletons.” panel on my GM folder. (I would love to get that quote on a t-shirt, but have been unable to locate one.) It looks like I’m going to be running that once a month at a local RPG shop, so we’ll see how that goes. First game went well – the group seemed most amused with the donut loving ghost haunting the Block’s Krispy Kreme (my “chronicle” is set in modern day Orange County).

This past weekend David dove back into writing after a multiple month hiatus. I got to read the beginning pages and I think he’s onto something really meaty and interesting. So, a good portion of this weekend went into work on that project. However, we also found time to pick up some Halloween costume pieces, have a little BBQ dinner with my parents, go out dancing, and visit Oktoberfest at Old World Village in HB.

Oktoberfest is free on Sundays if you print out the flyer from their website, but if you’ve never been, be warned that it gets pretty crowded and you’re going to want to get there early. We got there just before 3pm, and were unable to find a decent spot to watch the dachshund races, so we’re probably going to go back in a couple weeks. However, we did enjoy tasty apple strudel, apple schnapps in test tubes (via the jagermeister girls), heavenly pretzels, and some boisterous German music. So, not bad for an afternoon outing. The Boo got a chicken hat to commemorate her love of the Chicken Dance – I’ll post pics later if I remember.

And that’s all I’ve got for you for now.

-Burgandy

Song/Video Pick of the Day

2009-09-26T10:06:00.000-07:00

Abney Park - Airship Pirates

Add a little Steampunk to your day. This was shot at The Edison in LA - which we will go to someday!

So, what happened to us? - BurgandySkies

2009-09-22T09:32:00.001-07:00

Mostly we’ve just been busy. The lack of comments on here was a little discouraging – I must admit I was feeling as if I was talking to a wall for a while there.

So, since the last post:

I turned 31. (Happy Birthday to me!)

I’ve been bumming around the OC Register’s blogroll, since it’s one of the few websites the IT filter doesn’t complain about.

We’ve been exploring Los Angeles – visiting the Farmer’s Market, a restaurant called Luna Park over on La Brea that has some of the best pizza ever and gourmet s’mores, Shoreline Village in Long Beach in pursuit of hats and pirate gear (we were at least toying with the idea of attending one of the local pirate-themed festivals), and taking the Boo to the American Girl store at The Grove because she really likes the books, and it’s right next to the Farmer’s Market, so it’s conveniently located.

My best friend from elementary school, Shirin, got married in a non-traditional Persian wedding. She doesn’t really consider herself a Muslim, per se, so they had a more cultural wedding, rather than a religious one, but still with a great amount of ceremony and traditions represented. To emphasis the “non-traditional” nature, they had a woman officiating, who kept apologizing for the old fashioned and occasionally sexist traditions that Shirin and her fiancé nonetheless kept in tact. The wedding was LONG, with a much bigger emphasis on dancing and family than food, which is to say we didn’t eat until nearly 4 hours after the ceremony, and they very nearly forgot to cut the wedding cake. One of my ex-boyfriends who broke up with me because he realized he was not into girls (David in the 909, for those of you who remember the MLOSLI series of posts), was at the wedding, which made things nice and awkward. Although actually we took the opportunity to finally settle old business and it looks like we may salvage our friendship from so long ago after all. So there was that.

We did manage to squeeze a trip to the beach during Labor Day weekend, but we had a major sunscreen malfunction and my skin is still recovering from sunburn damage.

We took a short trip to Vegas to attend a show with our buddy Joe. And by short, I mean that we left on Friday and came back on Saturday. That was a little exhausting, but it was a fun spontaneous trip.

We spent 2 Fridays attending parties at Dave & Busters with David’s co-workers, and I did karaoke for the first time. It was fun, and I was happy I can still carry a tune pretty well, even if I have a surprisingly low singing voice for a girl. But it lets me nail songs like “Sweet Emotion” and “Somebody Told Me”, so there you go.

Other than that – been working, playing Monsterpocalypse (a collectable figure game, similar to MageKnight, except with giant monsters that knock down little plastic buildings – the monsters are obvious versions of Godzilla, King Kong, etc. – it’s much fun, and the Boo is loving it), watching “Chopped” on Food Network, and watching “The State” complete collection. I got it for my birthday, but been having to watch it one episode at a time, which takes forever. Also, the DVDs are pack with fun extras, like The State attending some high school’s prom, which is hilarious.

Ok, so now you know. And knowing is half the battle.

- BurgandySkies

CONSPIRACY - JULIE SCOTT - DAVID SCOTT - CRIKITS - LAPD - MORE

2009-09-21T02:08:00.000-07:00

WELL,,,,

Julie Ann Scott a.k.a BUrgandyskies.............

"ILLEGALLY" Abandon's Her Blog...

Where Is David N. Scott???? He has NOT Commented Recently.....GOOD GRIEF, Do You Knwo Who Else Has Not "COMMENTED" Recntly???

JOHN RAMSEY.

Is this a "COENCADINCE"????? Maybe So>>>>I Have Fioled "LEGAL" Document's on teh Subject...

A "COUPLE" year's ago, David Scott's Friend Rodger Jacobs tried ti "COVR-mE-uP" Regarding my "LEGAL" Signature's>>>>>>Is The 'ENTIRE" Perrero Site Involved???? Could They Be "ABANDENING" It Just So No-on "rEEDs' My Blog's and Comment's on "CERTAIN" Aspect's of Major Case's??/ Hmmmmm, It 'JUST" seem s so Fishy....

Hello?

"ANYBODY" Reeding?

cRIKITS....

"CHIRP CHIRP CHIRP"

"MORE" CRikits

tHis Silence "SURE" Is "InCREMINATING"!!!!!!!

Harry "O.G." Martini181
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The Karl Rove subpoena Case's and Saga
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Oh look - Another Email Post (Burgandy)

2009-08-25T15:36:00.001-07:00

It’s like getting postcards from my desk.

Except that I don’t wish you were here.

Well, maybe I wish you were here and I was wherever you are.

Assuming you are somewhere fun.

In theory I can get in to Disneyland for free tomorrow for my birthday, but since no one else can get in for free with me and it’s a Wednesday, that’s probably not going to happen.

Stupid Disneyland and it’s stupid promotions.

On the upside – David got me a really cool burgundy and black velvet mini dress that looks like something a Victorian era ballerina would wear. Also, Joe got me “The State” on DVD which arrived yesterday.

Checking in (Burgandy)

2009-08-19T15:37:00.001-07:00

Here I am, once again posting via email.

We’ve been busy with social gatherings this past week, mostly at our house, mostly with a friend of ours who is here from out of state to attend his grandmother’s funeral and a professor friend who is making the most of his final summer days before he has to go back to teaching college.

David’s eye has cleared up thanks to rather hardcore round of antibiotics.

We visited a very cool restaurant called Bahooka’s up in Rosemead with a very cool group of goth/punk parents. Conversation topics included rules about tattoos in the modern work environment and how hard it is to find other moms with similar interests. The restaurant is pretty cool, with a South Pacific islander theme, complete with fish tanks EVERYWHERE. They shot part of “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” here. They also had good ribs and teriyaki chicken.

This coming weekend is looking like it will closely resemble this past weekend, but with less Bahooka and more indie music.

But next week is my birthday!

Utter Nonsense

2009-08-15T10:45:00.000-07:00

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She pick the color

She wrote the words

It's Burgandy's POST!

Hello From Inner Space (Burgandy)

2009-08-12T09:25:00.001-07:00

Last week we took a long weekend holiday and went to Vegas.

Originally the trip was supposed to involve going to that Star Trek Convention I posted about a few months back and meeting the Shatner.

Instead, David got sick with some weird eye infection and we spent most of the time at my parent’s timeshare. Which is okay because it’s basically a huge condo with a full kitchen, so I made a grocery run, our friend Joe came over, we enjoyed the pool facilities, discovered you can check out board games, and generally found that life off the Strip is actually a pretty relaxing good time. It also helped that it was unusually cool this weekend, averaging in the 90s instead of the lower 100s.

At one point we did venture to the Strip and visited what used to be the Coca Cola and M&M attractions, which are now more like giant stores with some tourist trap style things like a 3D movie (M&M) and a soda fountain (Cokeworld). The best of these was Coke’s soda fountain, because we were at least still able to get samples of Coca Cola products from around the world, most of which were pretty good. For $7 we got 16 of the 4 oz. samples, which was a great deal since we split it between 4 people.

Sunday turned out to be too late to get tickets to see Shatner speak, so instead we packed up, visited Jason’s Deli for lunch, then headed out, stopping in Baker for the “All You Can Eat” pancakes advertised by a little pancake house off the freeway. You can’t beat the price ($3.99), but they tasted more like how my pancakes turn out when I make them with Bisquik. So… next time we’ll just go to the Bob’s Big Boy there instead, I think.

David’s still recovering from his eye issues, so probably not much more posting this week until that clears up.

- BurgandySkies

That right-wing poster...

2009-08-07T20:58:00.003-07:00

I'm sure you've seen it. It's been making the rounds on blogs and about town.

And I have to admit I'm slightly offended...

Still Here, just busy (Burgandy)

2009-08-04T15:18:00.000-07:00

So… been busy.

Last Wed – Went to Disney concert at the OC Fair thanks to free tix from the OC Register. Ate too much fried food and went on the giant Ferris wheel.

Friday – Birthday party for one of David’s co-workers at a local El Torito. Good times.

Saturday – Muzeo in Anaheim to see the magic of movie creatures exhibit thanks to free admission via BofA’s “Museums on Us” program. The Boo may have found her calling now that she realizes creature building studios combine her love of robots and art.

Saturday Night – Went to a goth dance club in LA while the Boo spent the night at her grandparent’s house. Good times.

Sunday Afternoon – Lunch with one of David’s other co-workers at Dave & Busters.

Sunday Night – Dinner with Jen (she used to comment on here LONG ago) in Temecula.

Monday – Spent most of the morning dealing with the fallout when it turns out our house was robbed while we were gone on Sunday. Luckily no one was hurt and only a few valuables were taken before the burglars apparently realized someone was home. Unluckily one of the items taken was David’s business laptop, causing no end of chaos.

And it’s been unusually busy here at the office, but thought I’d take a break for a bit and update everyone.

We’ll be out of town on an early birthday trip this weekend, but might do some mini-posting via the phones.

- BurgandySkies via Email

A bit disenfranchised, but...

2009-07-28T20:51:00.000-07:00

Every time I hear about the Federal Bureaucracy exspanding or the deficit soaring I wince a little and think Libertarian thoughts.

But then every once in a while something comes along that reminds me what a complete and utter moron Sarah Palin is.

And all I can say is..

Obama 2010!

Why we've been busy (with links!)

2009-07-27T18:13:00.000-07:00

Last Thursday - Joined a group of foodies from OC Register's Food Frenzy column at Slaters 50/50 burger joint to do their first group review. Had giant burgers and more fried finger foods than you can shake a fryer basket at. Slaters prides itself on odd ball burgers (like the PB&J burger we sampled) and southern fried goodies like fried pickles and sweet potato fries. Read all about it here.

Friday - Went back to Bliss to enjoy their fresh crepes, which were more heavenly when they didn't have to survive the car ride home. Also they have comfy couches and flat screens that run the Food Network. Ah... bliss indeed.

Then introduced David's parents to Battlestar Galactica. They immediately got one of those week passes to Blockbuster so they could watch the rest of the episodes this week. Which is good since season 4.5 comes out on Tuesday.

Saturday - David's company picnic, where we were chased by yellow jackets who wanted to steal our yummy street tacos. Also enjoyed bacon wrapped hotdogs while the Boo enjoyed the bounce houses, face painting and balloon animals.

Afterwards we watched a couple more episodes of BSG with David's parents. After the Boo went to bed, we went out to Club Skandal, where we watched Gentleman Junkie, which is actually a really good (if very indie) goth band, and then danced until the lights came on and everyone scattered like moths.

Sunday we went down to Laguna Beach with David's mom and sister, and braved the pounding surf. My hair STILL has sand in it.

ALIVE

2009-07-27T11:30:00.001-07:00

Yeah, so – we are alive and all.

Been super busy. This weekend we went to a crepe/yogurt bar, my company picnic, watched the BSG pilot miniseries with my parents, saw Gentlemen Junky at Club Skandal, and hit the beach for most of Sunday. Tired and sandy.

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