Since when has pistachio ice cream not been green? Misti found this awesome recipe for 'watermelon sorbet slices', and it calls for pistachio ice cream for the 'green' outer part of the watermelon, with strawberry sorbet and mini chocolate chips for the 'red' inside part of the watermelon. It's very tasty, but as it turns out, the Häagen-Dazs pint of pistachio we picked up wasn't green. It wasn't anything a few drops of green food coloring didn't fix, but the whole point of pistachio has traditionally been to be green (or so we and the recipe thought).

Got my mom hooked up with an AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) account on Mother's Day, so now she can chat with her kids remotely. She seems to like it a lot. Heather's been in town for Mother's Day, and she really likes little chunko Jared. He's been doing this thing lately with sticking out his tongue and laughing. It's really hilarious.

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Misti loved her Mother's Day flowers, but has really been ecstatic about her two 'new' DVDs of some classics she's been wanting to see for awhile: "The Sound of Music" and "The Princess Bride". She's owned The Princess Bride on VHS forever, but the DVD has the added interviews, commentary, and makings of/behind the scenes stuff that really add value to a title. Becky really likes The Sound of Music, of course, and now runs around singing 'Do-Re-Mi' at the top of her lungs.   =)

Jennie Carrick at work's son's school did a confection fundraiser, and we scored some Gateway rainbow cookie dough. Here's what our hand-sculpted cookies looked like before:

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and after baking:

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Misti discovered that the Godzilla theme song (written by Akira Ifukube) is one of the same songs that they use in 'Charlie's Angels'. And both of those, remarkably, resemble the 'Addam's Family' theme, too. Ah, good, old fashioned copyright infringement. Who needs the Internet to infringe. Not the movie industry.   =)

Picked up another pack of Pop Weaver Butter Light popcorn last night. I used to try to procure the 'healthy' popcorn, but Pop Weaver's 15 pack costs the same as the healthy brand's 6 pack and most other generic 8 packs, so this choice has been an economic 'no-brainer'. Besides, Wallymart's always out of the healthy choice.

I tried some of Keebler's new Scooby-Doo! cheddar goldfish-like crackers recently, but they pretty much blow. Saurus doesn't like them, so I ended up eating the whole, unhealthy, yellow dye #6 and sodium-laden box.

I was slightly dismayed to find out that the gas mileage claims are false for hybrid cars. Linux update: my Linspire computer wouldn't boot this morning at all, yeah! Linux blows even more.

The Wallon.A virus is out today, as is another Mac OS X trojan horse (AS.MW2004.Trojan). I find it more than a little odd that McDonald's new "I Am Asian" site doesn't offer content in any, ummm, Asian languages. Hello?!