And now I have that damned Loverboy song stuck in my head. But I digress.
I realize that it's only Thursday, but I'm already looking forward to the weekend. Here's what's on tap for our weekend.
Friday
Our book club is meeting to discuss our latest read, "Self Made Man" by Norah Vincent. The book is an account of the author's year and a half that she spent dressed and living as a man in order to find out how men think. It's a fascinating read and I would really recommend it even though I'm not typically into non-fiction books. I'm looking forward to discussing it with our (all-female) group.
Saturday
Avitania emailed and asked if we would be interested in going to the Buttrock Suites show with them on Saturday. Ever since we've been playing Rock Band, butt rock has abounded in the Lynch household. I've heard more Iron Maiden and Rush in the past week since high school. Cole is also buying all of the songs on iTunes so I'm forced to listen to Enter Sandman at least once a day. I hope the show has some Judas Priest or Scorpions at the very least!
Sunday
We're headed to a Super Bowl party on Sunday which is really quite funny since neither of us like sports - especially football. I'll occasionally watch part of a Seahawks game with Cole, but only because football looks really cool in HD. Seriously, looks like little tiny men are walking across the screen - in tight football pants :) Chris and I will probably stand around and gab with the other wives. I'm sure alcohol will be involved as well.
I'm sure I'll be working on homework as per usual. Since my dad's surgery is next week, I'm desperately trying to get ahead so I can be there for him. That's it on our list. What are your plans for the weekend?
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
I'm a bad mom...
... because I've never made Cole a lunch that looks like this.
Seriously, this is one lucky kids' real lunch. Looks like his mom spent hours dying the rice blue to make a sky, crafting Canadian geese in not one, but TWO different poses. Don't even get me started on the "grass" and the little eggy yellow sun.
Bitch, please...
I thought I had seen it all in the "I will out-mom" you competition. If you're a mom, you'll especially relate. It's not good enough that you make your child a healthy lunch anymore, you have to actually style the damned food!
One of the message boards that I read has a weekly "bento box" thread. Thinking it was about Japanese food, I opened it only to discover that moms are out there making beautiful lunches like this that I guarantee their children won't appreciate. They sure get the oooh's and ahh's from other moms though. Whatever floats your boat...
Now that Cole is a teenager, he's just lucky that I even get up with him in the morning. On the rare occasion that I actually make a lunch these days, it certainly doesn't look like that. I do try to cover all the important teen food groups, however. There's the "crunch" group - Cheetos, the "sweet" group - Oreos, the "obligatory sandwich group" - tuna. Occasionally, there's even something somewhat healthy such as a banana or apple, all packed in PLASTIC sandwich bags in a brown PAPER lunchbag.
I'm probably so going to mom-hell but I'm sure I won't be alone :)
Sunday, January 27, 2008
The Weather-Boy
I always find it interesting to discover what people are into-where their obsessions and passions lie. I've always been a bit of an obsessive myself. When I like something, I REALLY like it. I want to know everything about it from top to bottom. I'm like that with music, and I always had little obsessions as a teenager.
With a teenage boy, you'd expect that his obsessions would run toward girls and cars, and while Cole definitely likes those things, he has but one true obsession
The weather.
Seriously, no kidding. The weather. His internet time isn't spent so much spent on myspace as Weather.com. He knows the temperature etc., of most major cities. He loves to check to see if they have the local weather "correct" as per his observations.
Lately, he's been obsessing about whether or not we'll get snow. Snow isn't a big occurrence in the Seattle area so he's certainly not the only one to get excited at the prospect. I have a teacher friend who gets downright giddy at the possibility of a snow day, and as a student myself, I certainly love a day off!
Snow is in the forecast for the next few days. We had about 10 minutes worth yesterday and then it quickly melted. When he got up this morning he asked me if anyone had gotten snow. I told him that there wasn't any outside but I hadn't really given any thought to any other areas. Sleepy as he was at 8 a.m., he was immediately on weather.com to see if there was any measurable snowfall in the area.
He claims that he wants to be a pilot when he grows up, but we shall see. Who knows, maybe you'll see him on tv in a few years discussing the snow forecast :)
With a teenage boy, you'd expect that his obsessions would run toward girls and cars, and while Cole definitely likes those things, he has but one true obsession
The weather.
Seriously, no kidding. The weather. His internet time isn't spent so much spent on myspace as Weather.com. He knows the temperature etc., of most major cities. He loves to check to see if they have the local weather "correct" as per his observations.
Lately, he's been obsessing about whether or not we'll get snow. Snow isn't a big occurrence in the Seattle area so he's certainly not the only one to get excited at the prospect. I have a teacher friend who gets downright giddy at the possibility of a snow day, and as a student myself, I certainly love a day off!
Snow is in the forecast for the next few days. We had about 10 minutes worth yesterday and then it quickly melted. When he got up this morning he asked me if anyone had gotten snow. I told him that there wasn't any outside but I hadn't really given any thought to any other areas. Sleepy as he was at 8 a.m., he was immediately on weather.com to see if there was any measurable snowfall in the area.
He claims that he wants to be a pilot when he grows up, but we shall see. Who knows, maybe you'll see him on tv in a few years discussing the snow forecast :)
Friday, January 25, 2008
Txori - heaven on teeny tiny plates
Since Chris "worked from home today" (read: played Super Mario Galaxy), we decided to go downtown for drinks and an early dinner. One of the joys of having a teenager is that we can set him up with a pizza and a friend and he's good for the night. So we ordered some Papa Johns for him and headed to Txori in Belltown.
Txori (pronounced chor-ee) is a Basque pintxo bar that I've been really anxious to try after reading all the rave reviews on Chowhound. it's the "little sister" of The Harvest Vine, a tapas restaurant in Madison Valley, and also one of the best restaurants in the city. While Harvest Vine serves small plates of tapas, Txori serves pinxto which are basically one or two bites. But what these two bites lack in volume, they make up for in taste.
The space is tiny. Literally a hole in the wall that we would have walked right by if we didn't have the address. When we got there, there was only one other couple so we had the place to ourselves for a short time. The menu is small, but somewhat daunting. We've been to tapas lots of times but I knew this was a bit different. Same with the wine menu. Luckily the bartender was really friendly and helpful. He sat down right next to us and walked us through the menu. Of course, everything looked so good that we could have ordered one of everything and been just fine.
As I mentioned in a previous blog post, I'm trying to overcome innate pickiness so this was a great way to test my palette. I made some surreptitious notes on my iPhone so I could remember what we loved (and blog about it of course).
Here's a sampling of what we dined on:
Wine
Me - Protos Roble tinto 2005
Chris - Lansaga 2001
Pintxo (most all of these come on a small sliver of toast)
Grilled pear, blue cheese and walnut toast (amazing!)
Chorizo cocido
Braised oxtail tartlet
Duck confit salad with orange (yum!)
Veal and pork meatballs with sherry sauce
Monkfish and rice
Vinegar cured anchovies with jamon crab sauce
potato tart with bechamel sauce
cured tuna with caviar
chocolate mousse
I think we may have had a few more but these were the best of the bunch. The grilled pear was my absolute favorite, and now I can't wait until August when our pear trees start producing. My least favorite was the anchovy toast. Not so much for the flavor but the texture was weird.
So if you're in Seattle, you must check it out! They're open from 11 a.m. - 1 a.m. so you can just drop in and savor the wonderful flavors.
Txori (pronounced chor-ee) is a Basque pintxo bar that I've been really anxious to try after reading all the rave reviews on Chowhound. it's the "little sister" of The Harvest Vine, a tapas restaurant in Madison Valley, and also one of the best restaurants in the city. While Harvest Vine serves small plates of tapas, Txori serves pinxto which are basically one or two bites. But what these two bites lack in volume, they make up for in taste.
The space is tiny. Literally a hole in the wall that we would have walked right by if we didn't have the address. When we got there, there was only one other couple so we had the place to ourselves for a short time. The menu is small, but somewhat daunting. We've been to tapas lots of times but I knew this was a bit different. Same with the wine menu. Luckily the bartender was really friendly and helpful. He sat down right next to us and walked us through the menu. Of course, everything looked so good that we could have ordered one of everything and been just fine.
As I mentioned in a previous blog post, I'm trying to overcome innate pickiness so this was a great way to test my palette. I made some surreptitious notes on my iPhone so I could remember what we loved (and blog about it of course).
Here's a sampling of what we dined on:
Wine
Me - Protos Roble tinto 2005
Chris - Lansaga 2001
Pintxo (most all of these come on a small sliver of toast)
Grilled pear, blue cheese and walnut toast (amazing!)
Chorizo cocido
Braised oxtail tartlet
Duck confit salad with orange (yum!)
Veal and pork meatballs with sherry sauce
Monkfish and rice
Vinegar cured anchovies with jamon crab sauce
potato tart with bechamel sauce
cured tuna with caviar
chocolate mousse
I think we may have had a few more but these were the best of the bunch. The grilled pear was my absolute favorite, and now I can't wait until August when our pear trees start producing. My least favorite was the anchovy toast. Not so much for the flavor but the texture was weird.
So if you're in Seattle, you must check it out! They're open from 11 a.m. - 1 a.m. so you can just drop in and savor the wonderful flavors.
Hoping to redeem myself a bit
I found out I made a major faux pas yesterday and I'm hoping to redeem myself a bit today.
Last week, I was supposed to spend the day with a friend going to lunch, scrapbook stores and what not. Well, I canceled because I just had too much on my plate. I felt bad but she knows how it is during "school time" so she said no biggie and that was that. Fast forward to earlier this week-I emailed her to see if she wanted to go to lunch and she said that Friday would work out for her. She also said that she was another year older and wiser.
Heh, ooops.
So I surmised that I had forgotten her birthday. I emailed and wished her a happy belated birthday and said I would take her out on Friday to celebrate. So yesterday, I ran into her and asked her when her actual birthday was so I could put it on my calendar.
You guessed it. The day I canceled out on her.
I felt horrible! I literally got teary-eyed because I felt so bad! Ugh. I wish she had said something when I canceled because birthdays are way more important than school! So now I'm on my way to take her to lunch and to the casino - one of her favorite things. I hope she'll understand and forgive me.
I'll let you know!
Last week, I was supposed to spend the day with a friend going to lunch, scrapbook stores and what not. Well, I canceled because I just had too much on my plate. I felt bad but she knows how it is during "school time" so she said no biggie and that was that. Fast forward to earlier this week-I emailed her to see if she wanted to go to lunch and she said that Friday would work out for her. She also said that she was another year older and wiser.
Heh, ooops.
So I surmised that I had forgotten her birthday. I emailed and wished her a happy belated birthday and said I would take her out on Friday to celebrate. So yesterday, I ran into her and asked her when her actual birthday was so I could put it on my calendar.
You guessed it. The day I canceled out on her.
I felt horrible! I literally got teary-eyed because I felt so bad! Ugh. I wish she had said something when I canceled because birthdays are way more important than school! So now I'm on my way to take her to lunch and to the casino - one of her favorite things. I hope she'll understand and forgive me.
I'll let you know!
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