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1. When someone asks you for a book recommendation, what is your go-to book?
Hm...this one is hard for me, because I read mostly scifi/fantasy, so... a lot of people aren't into that. I guess I'd probably say something like Lord of the Flies or Slaughterhouse Five. I really liked Slaughterhouse Five.
2. Do you buy your books, or are you a library patron?I would love to be a responsible library patron...but I'm not. I usually am for a month or so after I get my library card. Then I become bad at returning things, so I stop going. Usually if I want to read a book enough, I'll buy it. For my Kindle =)
3. E-readers, yay or nay?
I would love to be one of those hardcore people who is all 'DOWN WITH EREADERS, I ONLY READ REAL BOOKS' but I'm just not. I got my Kindle two Christmases ago and I haven't looked back. I love the way a book feels and smells, but you can't beat the convenience of a Kindle. Or how awesome I feel holding a gadget that not everyone has. Teehee.
4. What was your favorite book as a child?
This would require me to remember what books were read to me -- it was a lot. But I remember liking Goodnight, Moon. I should ask my Mom.
5. If you could be any character in a book, who would you be?
I would be any of the leading female dragon-riding characters in Anne McCaffrey's Pern series. Cause they're all kick-ass and AWESOME. Although, I do really like Menolly, Robinton and (more recently,) Kindan's stories.
6. What book would you love to see turned into a movie?
See above answer. Even if they were horrible movies I'd probably watch them. Pern is one of those things I couldn't ever get enough of.
7. What is your all-time favorite book?
Summon the Keeper and/or American Gods. Either is acceptable.
8. How many books do you read at once?
Usually only one. I don't really like to cross stories in my brain, it doesn't handle it very well. But I will sometimes stop reading in the middle of one story, read a completely different one all the way through, then go back to the one I was reading first.
9. What is your favorite book genre?
Sci-Fi/Fantasy. Probably more Fantasty than Sci-Fi.
10. Which Harry Potter book is the best? Or haven’t you read them at all?
Uhmmm....I think I stopped at 5? I don't remember them very well, I read them when I was in high school. But I like the Goblet of Fire movie the best...doesn't that count? (You may now call me a blasphemer, if you prefer.)
-C
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
the only exception
I don't even know where to begin. Let's try...Friday.
Friday, I met Nate after work and we decided to find some dinner. We wandered for a while, tried to get into a highly recommended sushi restaurant, Japonessa, but their wait at 6:30pm on a Friday was an hour and fifteen, so we decided to hit up our new favorite Irish bar, Kells. We were hungry but not starving, so we decided to sit by the window and try out the Irish Cheese Plate and a few Pasties. They were good, but not excellent -- the cheese plate was better than the pasties, but that could just be my cheese-lovin' tummy talking. While eating "dinner," we decided to see a movie and checked out the listings. We decided to see Insidious, but the next show wasn't until 9:25, so we headed over to Gameworks to kill some time. They had a 2 hour unlimited play for $22 deal going up, but since we only had an hour and a half before we had to go the theatre (which was right next door,) we decided to just get $30 worth of credits for $24 (a different promotion they were running.) We played DDR, Jurassic Park III and one of those coin dozer games to our little hearts content. The coin dozer game froze up in the middle, so we got 40 extra plays, which was exciting! We used the tickets we got to buy ourselves snacks for the movie.
Which. Was. HORRIBLE. Seriously, don't see it. It wound up just being strange and not really scary. The special effects were bad, the storyline wasn't very good and the acting was horrible. And I'm all for bad scary movies, but this was...just a bad movie.
Saturday, Nate had to work during the afternoon, so I stayed home and played Facebook games and watched National Treasure for the umpteenth time before meeting him after work, again! We wandered around to find somewhere to eat and decided on Blue C Sushi, since it was still happy hour for them. We got drinks, four rolls, edamame, gyoza and cream puffs for $25. It was awesome! The vibe is really cool, plus they have a conveyor belt, which we both want to try, but wasn't included in happy hour, so we put it off 'til next time.
After Blue C, we went home for a quick stop before meeting Meghan & Matt (our new Seattle friends -- Nate knows Meghan from college) at 88 Keys, a piano bar in Pioneer Square. It was fun and loud, and we made friends with our waitress, Andrea. It was her first night, and she was running around like a chicken with her head cut off, but she did an awesome job! We sang very loudly and laughed and tried to talk, in spite of the noise level. Afterwards, we hung out at our apartment for a while and had nachos (which nobody wanted when Nate asked, but everyone ate when they were placed on the coffee table,) and smoked some hookah. And got into arguments about which ways to point the wheels when parking on a hill. It was fun.
Sunday we got up around 12:30pm and made it out of the house by 4:30...ish. We walked down to Sur la Table at Pike Place to try and find a sugar bowl. We didn't find one (that I liked enough to buy,) but we tried the $5000 espresso machines and decided that they are awesome. We also checked out the soda makers, which I think are cool and would like to get at some point. We hit up Ross afterward and got a new shower curtain liner, sheets and an ice cream scoop before heading home.
Monday morning it was difficult to get up, and I wasn't feeling well most of the day, but Nate got out of work at 1pm and saw my tweet about wanting a bagel and a smoothie, so he brought me a "smoothie" (aka a gelato milkshake with strawberries and coconut. That counts, right?) and a beautiful bouquet of flowers because it was our Two-Year Anniversary.
We didn't do gifts because we've been spending too much money lately -- and there will be plenty time for gifts -- but we did make a reservation to eat at Japonessa after work, so he met me at 5pm and we walked over.
The food was uh-maze-ing. We had Tempura Brie with a Raspberry sauce for our appetizer and two rolls for dinner: Seattle Crunch and Super Bad Boy.
I liked the Seattle Crunch a lot, but the Super Bad Boy was too spicy for me. It tasted good, but my mouth was on fire. And Nate laughed at me, because to him it wasn't spicy at all. Boo.
The rolls were both super rich, so we have leftovers. Nom nom nom.
We watched 'Love and Other Drugs' when we got home, which was ok. It was cute, and there were some good moments, but not great. I did laugh quite a bit, though.
There's sun on the horizon, at least for a week or so, which is fine by me. I hope it stays sunny for this weekend, so I don't just get to experience it from the conference room window.
I'm jamming out to this song today:
-C
Friday, I met Nate after work and we decided to find some dinner. We wandered for a while, tried to get into a highly recommended sushi restaurant, Japonessa, but their wait at 6:30pm on a Friday was an hour and fifteen, so we decided to hit up our new favorite Irish bar, Kells. We were hungry but not starving, so we decided to sit by the window and try out the Irish Cheese Plate and a few Pasties. They were good, but not excellent -- the cheese plate was better than the pasties, but that could just be my cheese-lovin' tummy talking. While eating "dinner," we decided to see a movie and checked out the listings. We decided to see Insidious, but the next show wasn't until 9:25, so we headed over to Gameworks to kill some time. They had a 2 hour unlimited play for $22 deal going up, but since we only had an hour and a half before we had to go the theatre (which was right next door,) we decided to just get $30 worth of credits for $24 (a different promotion they were running.) We played DDR, Jurassic Park III and one of those coin dozer games to our little hearts content. The coin dozer game froze up in the middle, so we got 40 extra plays, which was exciting! We used the tickets we got to buy ourselves snacks for the movie.
Which. Was. HORRIBLE. Seriously, don't see it. It wound up just being strange and not really scary. The special effects were bad, the storyline wasn't very good and the acting was horrible. And I'm all for bad scary movies, but this was...just a bad movie.
Saturday, Nate had to work during the afternoon, so I stayed home and played Facebook games and watched National Treasure for the umpteenth time before meeting him after work, again! We wandered around to find somewhere to eat and decided on Blue C Sushi, since it was still happy hour for them. We got drinks, four rolls, edamame, gyoza and cream puffs for $25. It was awesome! The vibe is really cool, plus they have a conveyor belt, which we both want to try, but wasn't included in happy hour, so we put it off 'til next time.
After Blue C, we went home for a quick stop before meeting Meghan & Matt (our new Seattle friends -- Nate knows Meghan from college) at 88 Keys, a piano bar in Pioneer Square. It was fun and loud, and we made friends with our waitress, Andrea. It was her first night, and she was running around like a chicken with her head cut off, but she did an awesome job! We sang very loudly and laughed and tried to talk, in spite of the noise level. Afterwards, we hung out at our apartment for a while and had nachos (which nobody wanted when Nate asked, but everyone ate when they were placed on the coffee table,) and smoked some hookah. And got into arguments about which ways to point the wheels when parking on a hill. It was fun.
Sunday we got up around 12:30pm and made it out of the house by 4:30...ish. We walked down to Sur la Table at Pike Place to try and find a sugar bowl. We didn't find one (that I liked enough to buy,) but we tried the $5000 espresso machines and decided that they are awesome. We also checked out the soda makers, which I think are cool and would like to get at some point. We hit up Ross afterward and got a new shower curtain liner, sheets and an ice cream scoop before heading home.
Monday morning it was difficult to get up, and I wasn't feeling well most of the day, but Nate got out of work at 1pm and saw my tweet about wanting a bagel and a smoothie, so he brought me a "smoothie" (aka a gelato milkshake with strawberries and coconut. That counts, right?) and a beautiful bouquet of flowers because it was our Two-Year Anniversary.
We didn't do gifts because we've been spending too much money lately -- and there will be plenty time for gifts -- but we did make a reservation to eat at Japonessa after work, so he met me at 5pm and we walked over.
The food was uh-maze-ing. We had Tempura Brie with a Raspberry sauce for our appetizer and two rolls for dinner: Seattle Crunch and Super Bad Boy.
I liked the Seattle Crunch a lot, but the Super Bad Boy was too spicy for me. It tasted good, but my mouth was on fire. And Nate laughed at me, because to him it wasn't spicy at all. Boo.
The rolls were both super rich, so we have leftovers. Nom nom nom.
We watched 'Love and Other Drugs' when we got home, which was ok. It was cute, and there were some good moments, but not great. I did laugh quite a bit, though.
There's sun on the horizon, at least for a week or so, which is fine by me. I hope it stays sunny for this weekend, so I don't just get to experience it from the conference room window.
I'm jamming out to this song today:
-C
Monday, April 18, 2011
a feast and harvest
Here's a few pics of how this weekend went. This pretty much sums up the whole weekend, except that we did a million things other than eat sushi. We just didn't take any pictures of anything else. I'll update soon!
Friday, April 15, 2011
feel the fire burning
So, my hips and thighs are driving my insane this morning. To explain, I think I have this thing they call 'RLS,' except that while the actual sensations sound similar to what I go through, the way that it effects my body doesn't sound typical to anything I read, mainly because it doesn't disrupt my sleep, it actually goes away when I sleep -- and sometimes sleeping is the only thing that will make it better. There were rare occasions when I used to work retail and I was REALLY tired where I'd get the sensations while standing, but that's another time and place. It isn't usually enough to interrupt my daily life, so I haven't spoken to el doctor about it, but it canmake long movies and/or long plane/car rides somewhat uncomfortable (e.g. back when I was in college, that 13-hour flight to China was a doozy! It's a good thing we could get up and walk around for most of it.) It's probably caused by the fact that I don't get enough iron, which I used to take supplements for, but I got lazy and now I don't. Go figure.
In any case, my sister sent me these tweets:
In any case, my sister sent me these tweets:
Hilarious.
Yesterday night, Nate and I checked out Trader Joe's and Safeway for some groceries. We spent too much money, but we got some yummies, including some new stuff we haven't tried before and some different snacks than we normally get. I also discovered the brussel sprouts are cheaper there than at Uwajimaya. Too bad they're both too far away to walk from our current location, and they aren't in the free ride zone. Boo.
I really wish I could go to NYC this weekend for ICCA finals, but even if I could, they are sold out! Yay for them, bad for me. Oh well.
It might be sunny more than rainy for the next ten days! Score!
-C
Thursday, April 14, 2011
close enough to normal (wee bit wednesday...a day late!)
{one} have you ever fainted?
(my 'bad idea' face)
I have to be having a bad hair day? My go-to hair style is always, always a ponytail.
nope. but i do read my google reader on a daily basis. gotta get through all my blogs!
I go through phases, but I like watching Robert Irvine (Dinner: Impossible & Worst Cooks in America.) I used to really like Bobby Flay, though.
Grey's Anatomy! Or How I Met Your Mother.
nope! we don't really drive our car, so there's no point.
mmm....Tangled? I'm a sap. (to answer your question, Nate: i watched it while you were at work because you didn't seem interested. so just WATCHTHETOWNWITHOUTME.)
-C
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