"It's weird how the fires didn't hit LA tho. Didn't it start in Malibu?"
16 years ago
The best fake food.
Japanese people make the best fake food ever.
My sister (I don't remember which one did it first so I'm just going to say "my sister") brought back some O'Zack Gyoza chips from Japan once, wow. The taste and texture of these taste like Gyoza... it's amazing. They're light, crispy and tastes like Gyoza dipped in just the right amount of soy sauce, vinegar and chili.
Just picked up these grilled corn cookies from Nijiya... they taste just like slightly charred grilled corn, yum! I mean, not just the sweet corn taste but just the right amount of charring from leaving on the grill that extra minute. Amazing.
My sister (I don't remember which one did it first so I'm just going to say "my sister") brought back some O'Zack Gyoza chips from Japan once, wow. The taste and texture of these taste like Gyoza... it's amazing. They're light, crispy and tastes like Gyoza dipped in just the right amount of soy sauce, vinegar and chili.
Just picked up these grilled corn cookies from Nijiya... they taste just like slightly charred grilled corn, yum! I mean, not just the sweet corn taste but just the right amount of charring from leaving on the grill that extra minute. Amazing.
Nanny Cam
I wish I had a Mac at work so I can iChat with Lulu and watch her during the day :(
Steve got a new iMac at work a few weeks ago so I set him up to iChat with Lulu this morning before I left.
She was MIA all day today and just popped on-screen 20 minutes ago to sleep on the couch. She must have been sitting by the window the whole day.
Steve got a new iMac at work a few weeks ago so I set him up to iChat with Lulu this morning before I left.
She was MIA all day today and just popped on-screen 20 minutes ago to sleep on the couch. She must have been sitting by the window the whole day.
Pumpking Carving Party
Went to my first Pumpking Carving Party/Contest/Event ever. Well, for some reason I remember carving a pumpkin before but I can't recall the exact situation... maybe I helped carve one in elementary school as a class activity or something... but anyway, it was not as fun as I thought it would be... it's actually a lot of work. (And pumpkins smell)
Steve did most of the hard work... he cut out the top, cleaned out the insides, scraped the insides, did most of the stenciling, cut out the shapes... well actually he did almost everything. I just helped with the stenciling and cleaned up the picture afterwards, making the lines sharper and polished the shapes and edges. So in other words, he carved the pumpkin and I made it pretty. :)
And here is our finished pumpkin! We picked one of the hardest stencils in the book but I think it came out pretty good. Except Steve accidentally cut off one of the spider legs so we had to make it 6-legged instead of 8-legged. :(
The other pumpkins came out really good too! The winning pumpkin was the cat sitting on the moon... she was the first one done... it literally took her like 15 minutes to carve while it took about 2 hours for the rest of us!
Steve did most of the hard work... he cut out the top, cleaned out the insides, scraped the insides, did most of the stenciling, cut out the shapes... well actually he did almost everything. I just helped with the stenciling and cleaned up the picture afterwards, making the lines sharper and polished the shapes and edges. So in other words, he carved the pumpkin and I made it pretty. :)
And here is our finished pumpkin! We picked one of the hardest stencils in the book but I think it came out pretty good. Except Steve accidentally cut off one of the spider legs so we had to make it 6-legged instead of 8-legged. :(
The other pumpkins came out really good too! The winning pumpkin was the cat sitting on the moon... she was the first one done... it literally took her like 15 minutes to carve while it took about 2 hours for the rest of us!
The new Dog Sitter
Every time I leave the house in the morning I feel a pang of guilt about leaving Lulu home alone for the whole day. I do what I can to make sure she has at least an hour or two of entertainment during the day -- I'll leave some classical music on (hey, it made Moley smarter when he was a puppy), I'll hide little treats in her beehive toy for her to paw out or I'll leave the TV on for an hour (sleep!). However, there was never anything good on the TV -- I don't have Animal Planet anymore and she's uninterested in anything else.
Then I remembered about a cat DVD I saw on an infomercial once... it was a DVD full of chirping and flying birds to keep cats busy. What a great idea! So I went to Petsmart to hunt one down. Unfortunately they didn't have the exact one I was looking for, the Kitty Show which takes extra care to film birds from afar so they are life-sized, and to always show the bird from land-flight-back to land so cats don't get confused when they fly off screen. So instead I got her a Dog Sitter DVD... full of birds, ducks, squirrels and other small animals dogs are interested in.
Well, I was a little disappointed but I guess I couldn't really expect her to sit here for hours on end watching this DVD. The actual scenes are not that great... they add animal sounds that don't match (i.e. rooster crow on a scene of a monkey riding a dog)... wait I need to elaborate on this. This is the dumbest thing I've ever seen. I guess they have these rodeo monkeys that they strap down to dogs while they herd goat and stuff. I mean, this is retarded.
Back to my story. The scenes weren't that great -- they fast forward through a lot of stuff so the birds look unnatural, they do close-ups of parrots that take up the whole screen, I mean it doesn't even look like a bird anymore. So anyhow, in the whole DVD, there is maybe only a 5-minute segment that Lulu is mesmerized by.
It's a bunch of scenes of little birds fluttering around. Ooooooh she watches so intently as they bounce around eating their seeds.
Cute.
Then I remembered about a cat DVD I saw on an infomercial once... it was a DVD full of chirping and flying birds to keep cats busy. What a great idea! So I went to Petsmart to hunt one down. Unfortunately they didn't have the exact one I was looking for, the Kitty Show which takes extra care to film birds from afar so they are life-sized, and to always show the bird from land-flight-back to land so cats don't get confused when they fly off screen. So instead I got her a Dog Sitter DVD... full of birds, ducks, squirrels and other small animals dogs are interested in.
Well, I was a little disappointed but I guess I couldn't really expect her to sit here for hours on end watching this DVD. The actual scenes are not that great... they add animal sounds that don't match (i.e. rooster crow on a scene of a monkey riding a dog)... wait I need to elaborate on this. This is the dumbest thing I've ever seen. I guess they have these rodeo monkeys that they strap down to dogs while they herd goat and stuff. I mean, this is retarded.
Back to my story. The scenes weren't that great -- they fast forward through a lot of stuff so the birds look unnatural, they do close-ups of parrots that take up the whole screen, I mean it doesn't even look like a bird anymore. So anyhow, in the whole DVD, there is maybe only a 5-minute segment that Lulu is mesmerized by.
It's a bunch of scenes of little birds fluttering around. Ooooooh she watches so intently as they bounce around eating their seeds.
Cute.