Well where to start. I got the pictures from spin the bottle a while back and they were freaking awesome. Sorry I'm not going to post them here I don't think. I left the CD in the cart when I went to Walmart to get prints and had to drive back to get them, there's no way I want to leave that CD laying around somewhere.

So, I pretty much bought a couch. I'm going with "camel" color (it's a microfiber). It bothers me to spend so much money on a freaking couch but I do like it and I had little success in finding anything else I was sure about. At least I won't have to listen to my mom nag me about it every time I talk to her.

The Longhorns and the Cowboys lost this weekend. That sucked. I was expecting the Lions to lose of course. I'm glad to hear they didn't embarass themselves though.

I've been doing the power clean on Wednesdays lately. It's a very fun lift and the first Olympic lift I've done. I'm not sure that my form is all that great and that I'm doing everything right, but there's not much I can do about it. I also started front squats a couple weeks ago, those are interesting as well. I also bought a new pair of running shoes that I get to try out tonight. I'm a little worried that there's not enough cushioning for me, but I wanted to try something out that had support for a high arch and compensated for my pronation.

I've been doing a ton of cooking lately. I made LinDze's Swordfish, Bok Choy, & Wasabi Wine Reduction with great success. I did cut down on the soy sauce as per ana and I think it may be one of the best dishes I've ever cooked. I also made lm's Salsa Bravo with slightly less success: 6 serrano peppers without seeding any of them made it a bit too spicy (I doubled the recipe). Overall I did like it though and I like it as a way of getting vegetables. I'm going to make another batch tonight and seed a couple of the peppers instead of using them straight. It's very convenient and I like the idea of spicy/tangy coleslaw. I've developed my own recipe for chicken burritos which calls for me bake the chicken in the oven and then shred it with forks (my sister's idea), which ends up being a lot easier than chopping up 3 raw chicken breasts. Gives the brown rice time to cook as well, I could probably even boil beans rather than using canned, but I'm not quite that dedicated.

If you have good, relatively easy recipes, feel free to post them here and I'll probably try them at some point.

I guess it's not surprising that cooking has turned out to be such a fun hobby for me, I was always in the kitchen as a kid, trying to help out my mom (and get fed). I really wonder at times if I am in the wrong profession.

Speaking of work, it's been a really slow week this week so I sort of volunteered for a two week project that starts next week. I hope I didn't bite off more than I could chew, it sounds like a compressed schedule and kind of a jerk manager. I don't mind if I have to work extra hours, but I'm not skipping workouts, nor meals. Period. Well except for maybe Monday, if I'm still feeling a bit overtrained. We'll see I guess.

I've been attempting to win Civ 4 with Mao on immortal, using slavery (heavy whipping) and a specialist economy, but I haven't gotten very far at all. I get pretty crammed in and the AI grows exponentially faster than me, well I may have solved that but I need to do a better job on my relations I suppose. I'll probably take another go this weekend.

I started the Johnny Cash movie again and got much more into it this time...and then the disc stuck. Well I finally got another from netflix but I haven't had time to finish it yet...maybe tonight.

I also just started reading Ursula Le Guin Earthsea series and I really like the first book (A Wizard of Earthsea). It starts off very fast and the characters are pretty interesting. I can't wait to get into the meat of the story.

Well that's pretty long and pointless. Anyway life is alright, it could be better if I didn't suck so much, but all I can do is try.