c’mon c’mon – the von bondies

my latest tune on repeat (thanks to opening credits from ‘rescue me’):

comparing ‘rescue me’ and real firefighting stories…

well, i will say this…

in an episode where an apartment with a weed grow ops went up in flames, the crew went in and came out pretty much high. they were all giddy and laughing like little school girls.

and laughing at the word ‘bong.’

i asked doug, “could something like this happen to you?”

his response was, “of course not. we put on our o2 masks BEFORE going in.”

“oh.”

that pretty much sums it up.

tv does not equal reality. at least in this case.

mortal kombat, dry pasta and denis leary

another weekend come and gone and once again, plans to sit down and blog just never happened. on one end, i’m sad that i’m not blogging as much. but on the other side of the coin, i’m glad i’m living my weekend to the fullest.

we didn’t do anything major this weekend. saturday was rainy so we stayed in. except for saturday morning, when i went shopping at costco to replenish some supplies and ended up coming back with a ps3 game – mortal kombat vs dc universe.

needless to say, we geeked out all afternoon on the ps3. chaeli was in love with our new combat game. and then we ended up watching the last half of bullet proof monk (we saw the first half before – never got to finish it). i asked her if she liked watching these types of martial art combat movies. and she nodded with enthusiasm. it totally reminded me of my own childhood – i grew up watching b-rated kung-fu and karate movies with my dad.

so i looked up mortal kombat and streetfighter dvd prices. they were awful movies but i can’t help it. any chance to educate my child’s geekiness in the world of video game characters and comic books is pretty much a priority for me.

i know – they were bad movies. but the cult following was pretty big and yes, i admit – i’m one of the numbers that make up that cult.

we ended saturday night with some very thick AAA rib grilling steaks (thank-you, costco), garlic mashed potato and steamed brocolli.

sunday was a nice sleep-in morning, followed by a pancakes and sausage brunch – and some fresh blackberries to go with my pancake (it’s my latest thing – i’ve been buying them almost weekly). after some more geek-out time between doug and chaeli, i asked that we stop before the rest of the day gets wasted away.

we got ready and headed out for a walk in a nearby park with a fenced-in dog park. before leaving, we caught the ice cream truck and enjoyed a treat – even hobbes.

sunday evening, doug made a dry pasta that called for string beans, soy beans, asparagus, grilled chicken cubes and sausage – with a garlic and lemon, oil-base sauce. he sprinkled it with some toasted bread crumbs and parmesan cheese. best home made pasta i’ve had in a long time.

in between all these low-key activities, i have been watching Rescue Me – i’m near the end of season 2 and am totally hooked. what is it about denis leary’s character? i love him and hate him – sometimes going back and forth. it’s definitely the bad-boy image. sometimes, he is like a hero but then he’s a scumbag.

and yet – he gets all the women. while it’s fiction, lets be honest. this happens in real life pretty much all the time.

on david beckham’s underwear

i know this is old news but as usual, it takes me awhile to catch-up.

this commercial – the one where all the women at work have been nagging me to see – the one where david beckham poses in H&M’s underwear – was aired during superbowl. and it was all the talk the next day.

[by the way... i didn't watch much of superbowl. unlike most people in north america, i don't really get football. i tried to catch halftime but only caught the last three minutes. my thought? what a sweet deal. she performs for 7 minutes and gets paid millions.]

so last night, i remembered to pull it up on youtube.

my thoughts?

i don’t like the underwear. at all. and while beckham does have a gorgeous face and beautiful physique, i actually was turned off by the white undies. completely. the only scenes where he looked beautiful to me were the head shots.

oh… and that come-hither-charming look at the very end because the man does have a fabulous smile. i’ll give him that.

i suppose i’m one of the rare few that just didn’t get the hoopla.

guilty pleasures no. 40

i can’t help it. after completing all seven seasons of buffy, i found myself yearning for more slayer stories.

thankfully, i found out that buffy’s world continues with season 8 – only through the comic book series from dark horse. i’ve purchased the first two volumes and am reading them on my ipad.

read more from guilty pleasures no. 40.

guilty shy – guilty pleasures no. 38

guilty pleasures no. 38 – oh those damn vampires again…

randomnous valentine

• i’m not a big fan of valentines and if it weren’t for chaeli, i would do anything for this day. but like a good mom, i did whatever needed to be done to prep for her valentines day party at school – including a 30 mini spring rolls contribution for their food list. as for doug and i, we did get a chance to go for sushi this past saturday while chaeli stayed with my parents. it wasn’t for valentines – just a regular date-night/outing because we haven’t had one for so long.

• i’m glad that justin beiber didn’t win last night. nothing personal against the kid – well, except for his hair – but it felt good to see esperanza spalding take the award for best new artist. she might have not won the hearts of teenie boppers more interested in getting a date with bieber, but her talent and lovely personality was definitely dserving of such an award. bravo, esperanza! bravo!

• so i got chaeli to point out her new boyfriend – i must say, he’s the best looking kid in class. way to go, chaeli! but i learned that he’s also one of the students that gets into trouble often. so young and she’s already going after the bad-boy image.

• our roof is leaking again – propery management didn’t fix it as they said they would two years ago and so now, we’re looking at a worse leak then before. i’ve been spending a lot of my free time communicating back and forth with them – and basically nagging them to do it right this time. they are responsible for not only fixing the roof but also fixing any water damage the leak might have caused (and not just the cosmetic parts of our interior – but any material inside the walls and/or attic that the water has touched so they are not hotbeds for mould spores).

• we have now acquired an ipad and have been wasting our time with plants vs zombies.

netflix, lazy weekend and other random updates

• my mom is back from china – a very long three weeks. so this past friday, we found ourselves, once again, at my aunt and uncle’s place for dinner. hobbes also got fixed that day so while he was able to join us and was definitely excited to see the extended family members, most of his time was spent just dozing off.

 

• i really wanted to start decorating the house for christmas but as it turned out, we had a very lazy weekend. other then getting some cleaning and laundry done, we all spent the majority of our weekend indoors to keep hobbes company as he recuperated from surgery. evidently, this also included a large amounts of potato chips. i officially feel a bit sick this monday morning.

 

• netflix – it’s kind of neat to be able to stream movies through our wii. but at the same time, there were some much anticipated movies and tv shows not yet available to us… in canada. so, while i have no problem taking advantage of the one free month, and i may even pay the $8 for another month, i’m not at all that wow-ed by the whole deal. i am, however, really happy to finally get a chance to watch seasons 5 & 6 of ‘the L word’ - and even the last part of season 4 to help refresh where everything was left off. chaeli is enjoying the 23 animation series of ‘avatar – the last airbender’ while doug is going to enjoy some british sitcoms as well as the three seasons of robin hood (which i never knew they made into a tv series).

i love geeks

so i’ve finally got a chance to watch season 1 of The Big Bang Theory.

truth be told, i wanted to watch this from the first year but never got around to it AND my anal rententive side can not just start watching a show not just in mid-season but not from the beginning of the first season.

it’s a sin to start in season three – i need all the background stories and also to see the character development.

anyway – i love these four geeks. especially sheldon. he’s a pain in the ass but… is it wrong for me to think that he’s the cutest one?

hmm…

no wonder everyone kept on telling me that i should watch this show.

random confessions

i suppose i have a narrow mind about people with narrow minds. i guess i can’t help it. but basically, i don’t know how to talk to these people. because they seem to want to argue with me about everything and anything – right down to my personal preference in underwear colour.

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i have family friends of my parents and some relatives who, whenever they see my parents, give them a present to pass on to chaeli.

my parents then tell me that i have to call so-and-so (and never wait more then 24 hrs) to thank them.

to be honest, i hate doing these calls. because i never asked for theses presents. it’s one thing if it’s around christmas or her birthday, in which i can sit down one afternoon and write out thank-you cards (of which normally never get mailed but hey… it’s the thought that counts, right?) but when it’s multiple times in a year from various people, that’s just a LOT of people to call.

and i’m not a phone-person as it stands.

so this most recent duty-call is for one of my aunts (whom i’m not close to). for the first time, i think i’m going to lie and say that i did call when my parents ask me the next time i see them.

if they find out it’s not true, i’ll either fake a, “really? but i’m sure i called” or a “hmm… i wonder who i was thanking, then?”

think either would work?

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i use to have a crush on michael damian (from the young and the restless).

i honestly blocked this out of my mind but then i was at the gym, watching the music station and they did this feature on actors/models “moonlighting” as singers.

it was so bizarre. i’m working out, sweating away but every now and then i would look up and think to myself, “hey… isn’t that scarlett johansson? she sings? and why is ron howard in a jamie foxx video? wait… jamie foxx has a video? since when?”

anyway, they showed this early 80′s video and it was michael damian’s song. at first, i couldn’t put my finger on who it was that i was watching until it dawned on me that he was a soap opera actor.

i loved him on y&r and will forever be completely ashamed of this fact.