I have fallen...

So, earlier in the week I had posted about wanting to make the "Falling In Love" pie from the movie Waitress. I finally got around to it late last night and... Oh, it is love. Chocolate, some more chocolate and a little more chocolate. Everything a girl could ever want. Mmmm Hmmm.

It's really easy to make too. The hardest part was waiting at least four hours for it to set. Since I started so late, I had to go to bed without trying it knowing that I would get to eat some in the morning. Well, I was up at 5:00 this morning and downstairs opening up the fridge at 5:01. The ingredients are very basic, nothing too fancy. But it tastes gooood. Real good. The only thing I changed from the original "Falling In Love" pie was that I used a graham cracker crust. No big deal.

Chocolate Lovers must try this pie. Like... Tonight. Google it and get to it! And if you haven't seen Waitress yet, run out to Blockbuster and rent it. It will give you something to do during your four hour wait.

"Falling In Love" Chocolate Mousse Pie. Enjoy!





If you want to get all fancy, add some chocolate shavings. I did. I like fancy stuff.

I don't care if I talk about my cats too much

I love my cats. I really like taking pictures of them. This is Damian. He likes getting his picture taken.

He will pose for you like this to show how regal he is.

Then he will show you his thoughtful side.





He's a big yawner. I love that about him. Um, someone could use some Crest Whitening Strips.



Still yawning... although it looks like a sneeze.

Another Zoo Trip. Pictures!

American Idol Talk

Last year, I was just about over American Idol.

This year, I'm all about it again. The instruments add more to it, I think.

My picks for the winner? David Cook or Brooke White.

I would definitely buy anything Jason Castro put out though. He could come in 3rd and that would be fine with me.

Brooke White makes the kind of music I really like and that's why she should win (haha).

Can't understand the fascination with David Archuleta though. I mean, he sings great. He's a cute kid. But... he's not who should win. Most of the polls and stuff always have him on top. I don't get it.

Some Movie Talk

I have a huge problem sitting down for two hours and watching a movie now. I can barely do it anymore. I feel like I'm being trapped, wasting away precious hours of my life on a movie with actors playing characters that get on my nerves and plot situations that are basically ridiculous. (But I can sit for HOURS on end watching episode after episode of tv shows on dvd.)
Every time J says "hey, wanna watch such and such?" I say "No!" and run away like I'm trying to escape a prison sentence.

But every once in a while, I'll actually commit to one and sit down to watch it. And last weekend, I actually watched three. The Queen, American Gangster and Into the Wild.

I absolutely loved all three. I had wanted to see The Queen for a while. I love Helen Mirren and I had always wanted to see the movie because it was about how Queen Elizabeth II dealt with the aftermath of Princess Diana's death. One thing I found really interesting was the portrayal of the effects the media/tabloids/newspapers had on some of the decisions that were made. I think people sometimes get numb to the fact that the media has such a strong influence on everything around us.

American Gangster was LONG! It took a while to build up because there was so much story to go through. But the end was absolutely fantastic. There were some pretty intense scenes when everything finally went down. I was like "This is awesome!" because I'm all about the action, baby. The last scenes with Russell Crowe and Denzel were, in my opinion, some of the best movie scenes I've seen in a long time. Kind of like Pulp Fiction in a way with how good Samuel L. Jackson and John Travolta were together. Although, not too much could ever come close to those two.

And Into the Wild was so good. This movie had me crying a lot. What a sad story in the end.

Received from Netflix and needing to be watched: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Margot at the Wedding and Deadwood Season 1 Disc 2.

Recipes from the movie Waitress... YAY!

I have written about the movie Waitress previously. It was my favorite movie of 2007 and it's now one of my all time favorites. A big part of the movie is pies. Jenna, the main character, is a master pie baker and creates all kinds of different pies with real interesting names. I was recently looking at one of the food blogs I always read and saw a pie that reminded me of Jenna's "Marshmallow Mermaid" pie. I started doing some web searches and found a few of the pie recipes from the movie.

Ones like:

Baby Screamin’ Its Head Off in the Middle of the Night and Ruinin’ My Life Pie (aka No Crust New York Style Cheesecake)
Falling in Love Chocolate Mousse Pie
I Don't Want Earl's Baby Pie
I Can't Have No Affair Because It's Wrong & I Don't Want Earl to Kill Me Pie


I think I'm going to try to make the Falling In Love pie this weekend. I've tried coming up with my own weird pie names and recipes. Like... "How the Hell Am I Going to Pay Off This Credit Card?" pie. Or "I Can't Go to Work Anymore Because It Just Makes Me Sick" pie.

I'll post some pictures if I get around to making it. I'm SUPPOSED to be on a diet but... yeah.

Who Forgets Their Five Year Anniversary?

Whoops! That would be me. And J until I reminded him.

Good thing I got this fancy calendar for Christmas with all these stickers that say "Birthday!", "Party!", "Appointment!" and, of course, "Anniversary!". I was so enjoying putting those stickers on for every little thing going on this year that I actually ran out of them. Some people had to get "Appointment!" for their "Birthday!" sticker. Oh well.

This is the calendar I use at my work. Luckily, I had remembered back in January to mark April 4th as me and J's 5th year anniversary. Although, I'm really bad about flipping the page to the next month when a new month rolls in. Sometimes, I'll actually be two months behind. And this is at my work, mind you, a calendar I look at every single day I'm there. Instead of taking the calendar down, flipping to the current month's page and hanging it back up I'll just pull up the previous month's page and look real quick at the current month. I have done this my whole life. It's even worse at my house. My calendar here is still on January. And I just recently wrote down my April 22nd dentist appointment on the April page after flipping up the two previous months. And I still didn't change it to the current month. I think it might border on that I refuse for some reason.

Anyway...

Like I said, luckily I had remembered back in January to mark April 4th as me and J's 5th year anniversary. And on April 4th, my good friend at work asked me about something having to do with dates in April so I flipped to that month and low and behold, there was the big pink "Anniversary!" sticker staring me in the face. My first thought was "Oh shit" because for a split second I actually thought I had missed it totally. Then I realized our anniversary was that day and made a point to text J so he wouldn't be the only one who forgot.

The anniversary came and went. I can't believe it's already been five years. Oh my god.

One more thing... don't worry if it seems like I forgot your birthday this year. I'll catch you in a couple months when I've finally got the calendar page turned and am staring at the big purple "Appointment!" sticker going "Oh shit..."

Podcasts = My New Addiction.

Podcasts! I am in love with them right now.

In my iTunes, I currently have 398 waiting for me to get to. Good thing I have a boring job and can mindlessly work while my brain pays attention to topics ranging from things like One Minute Russian lessons to what it's like attending the Culinary Institute of America. Podcasts are generally pretty short so it's hard to get bored with them.

The number of podcasts I subscribe to on iTunes had to be cut down drastically. My laptop hard drive was completely filled up at one point with them and I had to learn to let go of a few. I will be alright.

The ones that made the cut and get to stick around:

Amateur Traveler
Mandarin Chinese
One Minute Russian
Learn to Speak Spanish
NPR Movies
NPR Story of the Day
My Trivia (ten trivia questions and I never get more than two or three right, damn it!)
The Ricky Gervais Podcast (hehehe)
The Lost Podcast with Jay and Jack (oh my god, love this one and it updates twice a week!)
The Official Lost Podcast (yes, I'm obsessed with Lost... so what)
That's What She Said (podcast on the tv show The Office. These guys are serious, they do a 1.5 hour podcast on a half hour show.... but I can listen to the whole thing and not get bored.)
A few Old Time Radio podcasts. Love me some 1940's and beyond radio mysteries.
Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
Legal Lad's Quick and Dirty Tips for a More Lawful Life
Money Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for a More Richer Life... hmm. a pattern with the quick and dirty? yes! oh baby!


And what is my most loved podcast of all, you wonder? The one that I actually get excited about when it updates? The one I get upset about when it's over? Why, that would have to be the LSAT Logic in Everyday Life podcast. Not sure how I found this one exactly but I am so glad I did. The guy that does it takes current event situations and applies LSAT principles to them to find flawed logic. It's really interesting to hear arguments deconstructed and analyzed without all the emotional crap that usually goes along with it.