6 posts tagged “food”
my dress is awesome, but this dress is more awesome. i'm really, really sad i didn't see this one before purchasing mine. :T
thk said that if i sold my original dress for 90% of what I paid for it, he would be ok with me purchasing this other dress. psh. there's only 3 months before the wedding! he knows that most dresses take 5-6 months to order/arrive so he knows he's safe from another dress purchase. booo. i'm so sad about it.
on our three-months-until-the-big-day-versary, thk greeted me at his door when I arrived after a long, long, super long day at work (almost 16 hours!) with a surprise- dinner! he made this awesome dried fruit, spinach, and goat cheese salad with orange balsamic vinegar dressing, a super spicy etouffee with sausage, chicken, and shrimp, and a flourless chocolate cake for dessert. AWESOME! the best part is that the chocolate cake was baked in one of his mom's jigae pots. hahaha. i hope someone buys us some baking pans off our registry. heh.
He also picked up a bottle of this plum wine-
not sure where he got it but it was fairly decent.
Friday at work, I dropped two cans of soda on my big toe. It's been slowly turning more and more green with each day and it's only a matter of time before my toenail falls off. :( I've always liked my feet and now, i'll have to wear closed toe shoes on my fucking wedding day because who knows when this toenail will finally fall off? and then how long it'll take to actually grow back!? gd myself for being so clumsy.
thk loves arby's.
pshhhh. don't pretend as if you don't enjoy an arby's melt every once in a while, too, smothered in processed cheese and eight packets of horsey sauce.*
ok, ten packets.
given a choice, thk will choose arby's 7 times out of 10 for a fast food meal.
my first choice? Wendy's. always.
their 99 cent menu is to die for- 5 chicken nuggets? 99cents! a bacon cheeseburger? 99 cents! side cesear salad? 99 cents! small frosty? that's right! NINETY NINE CENTS!
this morning, i knew the gods were smiling upon us because of this little news blurb.
and when i emailed thk the article, he responded exactly the way I hoped he would-
but will it become one super restaurant like
wenbys?
or arbendys?
with a 99 cent menu of wendys and slightly higher priced roast beef?
i sure hope so.
seriously. this man is my soul mate. I'd been thinking about the potential behind "Wenby's" all morning, haha!
mmmm, Wenby's.
*thk swears he "HATES MAYO!!" but hello? horsey sauce? isn't that just mayo + horseraddish? or am i mistaken?
*updated to add:
i just got this email-
my stomach is SO HOT right now. =( i swear the girl gave me more than 12 wings. if i got to sip a little bit of water, i totally would have won the challenge. it was just so dry =(
anyhow, mike owes us half the dj cost and ryan owes me anytime we go out this week. but i also almost died in the john this morning. last night, after i took my contacts out, some of the oils must have got in my eyes because i couldn't stop crying. not like sobbing, but tears just keep coming out because my eyeballs were so hot.
=(
HAHHA! ok, i'm sorry for laughing but how adorably cute. :)
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mike, ryan, and thk like to go eat buffalo wings together.
a lot. and often. lots and lots of them at once.
one place they frequent is Buffalo Wild Wings for their 25cent wings on Tuesdays or 25cent boneless wings on Thursdays. Normally, they eat a few wings, drink a few beers, and go home.
this evening, however, mike makes a deal with thk. Mike says he'll pay for our wedding DJ if thk can complete the "blazin' challenge"...
what is the blazin' challenge?
The website states:
Rules & Details
Below are the official rules, and not so official commentary, about the Buffalo Wild Wings Blazin' Challenge.
1) Go to your nearest Buffalo Wild Wings.
2) Tell your server you want to take the Blazin' Challenge.
3) Shortly thereafter, 12 wings spun in our signature Blazin' sauce will arrive. (Close your eyes, lest they singe your retinas.)
4) When the server says, "Go!", you have 6 minutes to down all 12 wings. (No help from friends, family, or gremlins.)
5) You cannot use a dipping sauce or consume any other food during the challenge. (Not that it would help cool the heat radiating from the wings and the ticking clock.)
6) If you eat all 12 Blazin' wings in the allotted 6 minutes, you have earned the right to purchase a Blazin' Challenge t-shirt. Your picture will be placed on the Blazin' Challenge Wall. (If you don't succeed, you won't receive anything. Except maybe a wet nap.)
thk calls me and tells me of mike's generous offer. thk also tells me he has no plans to participate.
Honey! DO YOU EVEN KNOW HOW HOT THEY ARE?!
omeffinggod!! MAN UP!
We couldn't even finish the "fire" wings last time. I can't eat 12 "blazin" ones?!
MAN UP!
mike calls me an hour later.
jennny... your mans... he almost made it! he ate all 12 but in 6 minutes and 40 seconds!
shut up! he did?! omg, my poor poor honey.
yeah, i told him i would pay for half the dj.
seriously?! awesome, mike.
a few minutes later, thk calls me.
honey! *pant*pant* did mike *pant*pant* tell you? *pant*pant* i almost did it!
HAHAHHA. yes, babe. good job! your poor mouth! was it super super spicy?
and tongue. *pant*pant* and stomach! and butt, too, honey. *pant*
HAHAHHA!
and instead of *pant*pant* taking my photo for the Wall of Fame, they're gonna take my pic for the "Almost Wall of Fame" *pant*pant*
so... here's the story of how thk earned a credit towards our wedding DJ services- at the cost of his asshole. I can not WAIT!!! to tell this story to our kids :)
Birthday tradition- the three of us get together for dinner and spend hours gabbing. with jane in law school and prepping for the bar/her own wedding and grace globe trotting for work- she's in mexico today and heading to China again for two weeks tomorrow after having just returned from China and San Francisco, these 3x/year guaranteed meet-ups are priceless.
i had an incredible scallop salad to start, the suckling pig with risotto, and finished it off with the best.panna.cotta of all time complete with blood oranges and champaigne sauce. mmm. soo good. thank you girls for treating me to such a fantastic meal!
After treating me to two private birthday dinners and one birthday dinner with his folks, thk got together with our friend Will to throw me and Will's ladyfriend Kelly a joint birthday party. What was supposed to be a small group of friends getting together for drinks ended up being a full blown table-serviced club-fest with over 30 friends and cake (and some pregaming in the parking lot out of kelly's trunk all collegeghetto style, heh)!
(these photos are out in order. i mean, i wouldn't start out the night drunk and licking ass, right?) it was the best birthday party of my life and i was so grateful to have so many of my good friends come and celebrate with me. the best thing about the whole thing was how loved i felt- grace showed up even though she had to be jetting off to yet another country the next morning, letisha came all the way from playa del rey and totally brought the party in her handbag, and thk made sure Kelly and I had a drink in hand all night long.
this is my last year celebrating my birthday (technically) single and thank god, right? because how fantastic is it to know that for the rest of my life, i get to celebrate my birthday, and every other day, with steve? soo fantastic.
my days of dancing on tables (and falling off of them) and drinking until my liver aches (and it still does. stupid, i know) may be numbered but I don't think I'll ever get over hearing about random "wtf happened after we left?!" stories that include walking out on the bill at denny's at 3am, checking into the motel 6 after you realize everyone left you behind and your phone battery has died so you can't call anyone, calling an escort to your room "only to use her TMobile phone" and finding your sim card won't fit into your phone, and $850 charges on your cc the next morning... haha!
We took care of a lot of wedding to-do items on Saturday, including picking out linens, place settings, tableware, table sizes and shapes, as well as attended our first food tasting session at our venue.
I was a little worried that the mandatory caterer for the venue would suck ass but other than the crap crab cakes, everything else was pretty delish. I think we're going with the phyllo wrapped chicken with spinach and tri tip for saturday night's reception.
Allowing me to sleep in on Sunday morning,
thk got up early to let the dogs out,
change my brake pads,
check my oil and fluids,
find a nail in one of my tires and fix it with a tire plug
rotate my tires,
pick me up a spare tire since I’d been driving around without one for the past 4 months,
and wake me up to a deluxe breakfast from McDonald’s.
seriously.
And then, after all that, I yelled at him, just a little, when he didn’t line up the template perfectly with the patterned paper for our wedding invitation envelope liners because I’m an anal ass.
Want me to help you?
Yes!
How do you do this?
You line this corner right here with this corner right here, then you trace this template like this, making sure to get two complete patterns above this line and three patterns below this line, like this…
Like this?
No.
Like this?
No. like this.
Like this?
NO! GOD!!
Honey, how about if we go in the living room and I’ll sit behind you and watch tv while you work and give you moral support?
Ok.
And after that was done, thk, his parents, and i spent the rest of the night folding tissue paper flowers a la martha stewart. I read the directions online incorrectly and thk's pops figured out how to make the flowers correctly. hehe.
i'm pooped but it's monday and back to the daily grind. :)
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