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I need red turtle shells, not banana peels!
While I was writing up yesterday’s post on my chicken dinner, I was thinking how absurd my whole aversion to cleaning a chicken is. I mean, I’m not the most squeamish when it comes to stuff like that [now gory movies are a horse of a different color!]. I’ll practically fight you for the scalpel on dissection days in Biology class but you tell me to stick my hand into the cavity of a chicken and clean it out and I shrivel faster than a salted slug.
Suddenly I’m all, “EEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWW GROOOOOOOSSSSSSS!” I don’t know why exactly. It’s not terribly horrendous of a job but I find myself needing to talk myself through the entire ordeal. “It’s not that bad. It’s not that bad. It’snothatbadit’snotthatbad. IT’S NOT THAT BAD.”
It’s all so odd. I’m hoping to wean myself off that gross out reaction because I’ll have to do it several more times, and you know, again at Thanksgiving with the turkey. Though I think the innards are all handily contained in a bag. Is that so? Because if so, someone needs to start doing that for the chickens.
I also realized that I may need to take a break from playing Mario Kart DS. I’ve played it before with no problems but suddenly I have to actually play the game and hope I at least make it to third place. Before I had no trouble working my way through and ended up sweeping all of the races. I think the game got smarter. Or maybe it’s this new version I have. Either way it’s FRUSTATING. Oh so frustrating.
I’m way more competitive than I should be which is why I find losing to suck infinitely hard. I can feel my frustrating flowing through my body and I want to shake my DS whenever that stupid Princess comes sliding in to beat me out of first place. And if it weren’t for me being in public, I would absolutely be yelling at the game.
In fact, I came thisclose to yelling, “You damn dirty ape!” out loud after being knocked off the track by Donkey Kong this morning.
It takes a lot of self control to keep from yelling in anger or celebration [for the times that I manage to win] but I’m sure anyone watching me could tell how I’m doing just by looking at my face.
Sheer comedy.
I will not be the one teaching our kids how to lose gracefully.
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Last night I met up with Fineman, a friend from college, to catch up and grab dinner. It’s been YEARS since I last seen him, since we all up and graduated from the University. He was actually one of the first people I met when I moved in. Anywho, he was in town for a convention so we managed to hook up for a bite to eat.
His coworker Jeff joined us and we headed on into the night through the downtown crowds to Hana Zen for sushi. I had spent the previous day looking for sushi recommendations from friends and on yelp and had a few ideas of where I could take them and Hana Zen was on my list and ended up being the winner as the concierge at their hotel recommended the same.
Either way this was probably the most sushi I had ever eaten. Serious. While I don’t abhor sushi, I don’t make a habit of indulging either. I’m more of a “meh” kind of person towards sushi but hey, I’m usually always up for trying a new dish. As a timid sushi novice, I let Fineman and Jeff make most of the choices [I did request an ebi nigiri though – nice and fresh and light and lemony] and we ended up with a ginormous platter of sushi: ebi [shrimp], tuna and yellowtail nigiri, probably the best California roll I’ve had to date, a Dragon Roll, a Spicy Tuna roll, the Hana Zen house roll [which was my second favorite of the night], Sunset Strip roll and the 49er roll which I wasn’t too fond of. I think it was the thin slice of lemon on top. I think I was also a little grossed out by the roe but to be honest, that was more mental than anything else.
Sorry I don’t have pictures [yet again] but I really have to say that I quite enjoyed this sushi experience. Enough to say that next time someone suggests sushi I’d totally be down. I know huh. At first we weren’t sure if we had ordered enough or too much sushi but we ended up finishing the entire platter and were all completely stuffed.
Afterwards we wandered down to the Metreon to check out the arcade and stumbled upon the most crane games we’ve ever seen collected in one room. It was so stupidly fun. Both Fineman and Jeff came up empty. We tooled around in the arcade for a little bit before I had to call it a night and drag my tired self back home.
All in all it was a fun time. I’m glad I finally got to hang out with Fineman after all this time and I’m looking forward to introducing him to the bf. There are still quite a few people the bf needs to meet, all of whom keep begging me to bring him around. It’s not like I’m hiding the bf! It’s just that a lot of times our schedules just don’t meet up unfortunately. Hopefully we can get the stragglers soon.
Now I’m craving California rolls. Boo urns.
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