Oh my, oh my. Shaun’s daddy just called to tell us that he’s sending a package of fresh frozen cod up to us, and he threatens that the next package will be *swoon* king crab. We’ve still got–scallops? I can’t remember. No, shrimp! Frozen in the stand-up (as I call it) freezer. Hm, if the weather gets nicer this weekend maybe I can talk Ted into grilling a bunch of shrimp. I believe Shaun’s parents’ll be here, and my parents, and Emily’s in town, and we can get Coby to…
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cooooold and naaaasty
It is cooooold and nasty out, and yet I’m in quite a good mood. I have a Whole Bunch of work to get done today, so expect it to be generally pretty quiet on the western front, but I thought I’d at least post to say I’m alive. It’s AAAALIIIIIIIIIIVE!
van helsing, take 2
I liked Van Helsing better the second time, but then, I thought I would. :)
just stuff
*So* sleepy. Donno why exactly. Just am. Stupid allergies are kicking my butt. Not sleeping particularly well, which, y’know, probably has something to do with the so-sleepiness. o.o I’ve got Allegra, which is helping, but I’m still feeling snorfly. Stupid allergies. Mom and Dad came over for dinner last night, for Mother’s Day, and Ted made a completely astounding rockfish ‘in paper’, which is basically a light poach with onions and garlic and fennel and some lemon juice and put it all on top of parmesan risotto, and it was…
Van Helsing
You know how Highlander IV was a surprisingly good movie until about the final third, where it all inexplicably fell apart? Well, probably not, because I think I was one of the six people in the world who saw it, but nevermind that. The theatre release (I haven’t seen the director’s cut) just dissolved into a total lack of a story in the last act. Van Helsing was like that, except exactly the other way around. It was unmitigatingly awful and then somehow pulled it all together for a startlingly…