dynagirl » personal http://www.dynagirl.com hasn't gotten around to a redesign since 2004 Fri, 22 Jul 2011 14:14:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 My Favorite Day http://www.dynagirl.com/2011/04/08/my-favorite-day/ http://www.dynagirl.com/2011/04/08/my-favorite-day/#comments Fri, 08 Apr 2011 23:57:34 +0000 Miriam http://www.dynagirl.com/?p=3468 The jazz is on the stereo, the steak is seasoned, the olives are stuffed with blue cheese, and the gin’s in the freezer.

Why, hello, Friday Night! It’s lovely to see you again.

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western electric noteworthy
One of the many neat things about this phone is that I’ll have somewhere to stash the phonebook besides under the couch. The chalkboard is reversible to cork, which is nice, since even thinking about chalk sends me screaming into the other room.

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via BoingBoing

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Copy this list into your blog, including these instructions. Bold all the items you’ve eaten. Underline any items that you would never consider eating.

  1. venison
  2. nettle tea —no way
  3. huevos rancheros
  4. steak tartare
  5. crocodile
  6. black pudding
  7. cheese fondue
  8. carp
  9. borscht
  10. baba ghanoush
  11. calamari
  12. pho
  13. PB&J sandwich
  14. aloo gobi
  15. hot dog from a street cart
  16. époisses —pretty sure I had this delicious stinker in Paris; I’ll check my notes
  17. black truffle
  18. fruit wine made from something other than grapes
  19. steamed pork buns
  20. pistachio ice cream
  21. heirloom tomatoes
  22. fresh wild berries
  23. foie gras
  24. rice and beans
  25. brawn, or head cheese
  26. raw Scotch Bonnet pepper oh hells no
  27. dulce de leche
  28. oysters
  29. baklava
  30. bagna cauda
  31. wasabi peas
  32. clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
  33. salted lassi —but that’s an idea (I don’t care for the sweet ones much)
  34. sauerkraut
  35. root beer float
  36. cognac with a fat cigar
  37. clotted cream tea
  38. vodka jelly/Jell-O
  39. gumbo
  40. oxtail
  41. curried goat
  42. whole insects
  43. phaal — again, not a masochist!
  44. goat’s milk
  45. malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
  46. fugu — and won’t ever
  47. chicken tikka masala
  48. eel
  49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
  50. sea urchin
  51. prickly pear
  52. umeboshi
  53. abalone
  54. paneer
  55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal
  56. spaetzle
  57. dirty gin martini — the only way to make a martini
  58. beer above 8% ABV
  59. poutine
  60. carob chips —gross!
  61. s’mores
  62. sweetbreads
  63. kaolin —except in Kaopectate, etc.; ask me again when I’m pregnant
  64. currywurst
  65. durian —yuck
  66. frogs’ legs
  67. beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
  68. haggis
  69. fried plantain
  70. chitterlings, or andouillette
  71. gazpacho
  72. caviar and blini
  73. louche absinthe
  74. gjetost, or brunost
  75. roadkill
  76. baijiu
  77. Hostess Fruit Pie
  78. snail
  79. Llapsang souchong
  80. bellini
  81. tom yum
  82. Eggs Benedict
  83. pocky
  84. tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant — but I think that three visits to Sanford counts
  85. Kobe beef
  86. hare
  87. goulash
  88. flowers
  89. horse —find me some and I’ll cook it!
  90. Criollo chocolate
  91. Spam
  92. soft shell crab
  93. rose harissa
  94. catfish
  95. mole poblano
  96. bagel and lox
  97. Lobster Thermidor
  98. polenta
  99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
  100. snake

via Sara with No H

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Well. Sad all around… but this, too, shall pass. I like Mike McCarthy, a lot. I think he and Brett Favre actually worked well together; Favre seems to need a tough lead. Look back to the Rhodes and Sherman years… or Infante… eesh. We’ve got a good coach, and a good team, and Aaron Rodgers has a lot of potential. He’s been studying under the best for three years now. Breathe deeply and think of the ocean. It’ll be OK. (And my lady-shaped Bart Starr jersey arrived in time for Monday night!)

…And after reading this about Rodgers – as Bob (of Milwaukee’s Bob and Brian Show) put it on Thursday, when Steve Czaban asked if watching Favre would be difficult, like watching your ex-girlfriend dancing sexy-like with a new hunk: “No! I like our new girlfriend. She’s cute,* and not crazy.” Amen!

*…very cute.

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We also got a new air conditioner last week, after the forty-year old Carrier gave up the ghost. They figured the old unit’s SEER value was about three, and the new one is thirteen. It’s also so much nicer / more efficient that it needs to run a lot less, so it’ll be interesting to watch our usage over the summer. Then again, with the way the cost of energy has been going, the bill will probably stay the same even if the use plummets.

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2001 Audi Allroad

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“Whereas, the winter of 2007-2008 will go down as one of the most severe in Madison history with record snowfall, strong winds, freezing rain, below zero temperatures and now, on top of it all, Brett Favre retires (for cryin’ out loud), and

“Whereas, these conditions make us better, hardier people of higher character than our friends who have fled to places like Florida where they can’t even get a primary election right; and

“Whereas, even with those advantages, we’ve had ENOUGH already; and

“Whereas, Madison has never been a community that simply accepts the status quo whether that be the results of national elections, the realities of nuclear fallout, general market conditions, or, for that matter, mere astronomical forces; and

“Whereas, Spring is a state of mind brought on by the thought of paddle sports and the sight of sleek new canoes and other cool canoe gear;, and

“Whereas, Madison has been described as so many square miles surrounded by reality; and

“Whereas, Madison has been growing at a nice pace which must mean that reality is therefore shrinking; and

“Whereas, reality is overrated.

“Now, therefore, be it resolved that Spring officially begins in the City of Madison at 2 a.m. on Sunday, March 9.”

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]]> http://www.dynagirl.com/2008/02/29/2047/feed/ 0 finally a grown-up (sorta) http://www.dynagirl.com/2008/01/20/finally-a-grown-up-sorta/ http://www.dynagirl.com/2008/01/20/finally-a-grown-up-sorta/#comments Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:17:26 +0000 Miriam http://www.dynagirl.com/?p=2042 Luna chair from Hjellegjerde, designed by Odd KnutsenI bought my first furniture that isn’t used and didn’t come from Target! A few weeks ago we saw these funny-looking chairs (in way uglier colors), and I sat down. I thought, “hunh, that’s really comfortable,” and moved on… then slowly got obsessed. Yesterday we found them again at Century House Leather Gallery, and in the car on the way over to the other location that had the colors I wanted (OMG xanadu), I thought, “Wow. My ass actually misses that chair.” The guy at the store said they call it “the buttbucket,” which is probably easier to pronounce than “Hjellegjerde Luna.” I like its OMNOMNOM face.

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