11-25-2010

Nicole made these sweet potatoes for Thanksgiving, then we went to her parents so she could help make dinner. This is what her dinner-making outfit looks like. This is what the saying "too many cooks in the kitchen" looks like. I just uselessly sat in the kitchen and watched the grown-ups cook the turkey and cut it up with an electric turkey saw. Since Thanksgiving is so much about the turkey, I decided to cheat today and eat meat without being guilty. Really, I decided to eat everything and not be guilty. See, everything. Then we drove home to teach Mushroom to be thankful for turkey.

P.s. I was not a part of that line of yahoos camping on the sidewalk in front of Best Buy in the rain. We just drove by to make fun of them and take pictures.

11-24-2010

I took the day off work today to paint all day in preparation for the show I'm in next month.

After Nicole got home, we reenacted one of my high school rituals of eating a ton of Taco Bell in the theater parking lot before going to a see a movie. We saw the new Disney movie Tangled which Nicole loved. There were even children so elated by the movie that they were dancing in the aisles as the credits rolled (super cute). I considered it, but I think I would have had a very difficult time explaining to their parents why a strange man with a moustache was taking pictures of their children at a kid's movie and what a "blog" meant.

Finally, Cleveland has very few things to be proud of, so when we have something even halfway good everyone goes crazy over it. Great Lakes Brewery's Christmas Ale is one such craze-initiating Cleveland thing to be proud of. As a non-beer drinker, I never really got into the hype, but gave it a fair shot tonight when we went to said brewery with friends (Hi, Gina). Yay! Wooo! At least I can palate this one, but I still think beer taste like stale bread water. Go Cleveland!

11-23-2010

11-22-2010

The super evil looking pod still looks super evil...especially at night.

(See 10-4, 10-13, and 10-26 if you have no idea what this is about).

11-21-2010

Although a topic of debate for the the last thirty years, it's still not dead.

This is do-whatever-creative-stuff-you-want Craft Night at my house with Tony and Barb. We drawed, painted (yes, I use a plate), clay animal maked, and filled an entire bottle with candy wrappers...all set to the best soundtrack ever. I don't think I've ever linked to other websites on here before, but check out tonypretomusic.tumblr.com and feel jealous that my painting sessions in my basement get a live set from a DJ this awesome.

11-20-2010

Remember the ring Nicole got in LA on 9-25 and the picture I took on 10-6? They've joined forces to create the nerdiest/cutest/awesomest cat super power ring ever.

I know I blog about/eat at Melt wayyyy too much for my own health and well being, but Nicole got this special Turducken sandwich that they have this weekend only. That's turkey, duck, chicken and bread stuffing grilled cheese, and probably illegal in most civilized nations.

Speaking of other things I do too much regardless of my health and well being, last weekend I posted about Four Loko (which has since been banned by the FDA). To make up for my trashiness, here's the ultra fancy drink of this weekend. Single malt, Cask Strength, OMGZ-best-Scotch-I've-ever-had-this-is-going-to-be-a-good-night-whisky-hooray!

My "because no one is making me wear them" tie collection is growing with $5 vintage ties from the 60s.

11-19-2010

I'm posting this as an extra picture instead of the main one, because I'm really hoping that my day will improve and that a yellow icecube coming out of the dispenser at work isn't the best picture I take all day, but grosss outttt!

So my day did get better thanks to Nicole's craving of Chinese food. A few days ago, I told her about a place I went to for lunch that put mushrooms in its vegetable eggrolls (pretty much the next step in the evolutionary chain of eggrolls), and she's been wanting to go there ever since. In addition to the mushroom eggrolls, they also advertise a vegetarian hot and sour soup (though after looking at hot and sour soup recipies, I'm beginning to suspect false advertising). Regardless, as a non meat-eating person, it's very difficult to find soup that isn't made out of a meat stock so it's very exciting to find places that have soups I can eat.

After dinner, we went to walk around the near by bookstore and have little-kid-quality fun. Inspired by Nicole's super weird fortune cookie fortune, we found a random book on the shelves and left a small note for whoever ends up buying the book. This probably seems really lame to read, but was way more fun than it sounds.

Also, since I have a t-shirt and jeans kind of job, I've been wearing ties just for fun on the weekends. This is only partially inspired by the movie Up.

11-18-2010

Yesterday, my moustache turned one month old, so I bought it a present. It's grown a ton since 10-17.

This is a sad lonely chocolate covered donut that someone put on the free counter at work. It was there all day and no one wanted to eat it. Its existence initiated a discussion about what type of inside was under the chocolate coating. I naturally assumed it was that dry yellow-cakey inside, but my coworkers seemed to think that it would be chocolate inside and out. Of course, the only solution to this sort of disagreement to make wagers before cutting the donut open to see who was right. The next step of course is to take humiliating photographs of my coworkers doing laps around the office and akwardly doing push ups in the middle of the floor for losing the bet...then posting them on the internet. It was such a good time we that started making more bets involving physical activity as punishment like shooting dry erase markers with a Nerf dart gun. The moral of this story is that my job is pretty much better than yours.

P.s. I had two computers rendering at the same time though the whole office Olympics...I really do work too.

11-17-2010

Today, my boss asked me to take some pictures around work to use for various stuff. Here are some of my favorites.

Sometimes we fight at work.
Our IT guy is never at his desk.
Oh, you know...just working in my office by the fire. I might play some bass later if you want to stick around.
Every day is Halloween here.
Cutting edge technology.

11-16-2010

The place where I work is "interesting" in a lot of ways. This office is one of my favorite most interesting parts. Not even exaggerating, a lot of the electronics randomly strewn about were worth luxury car/house money when they were brand new.

11-15-2010

The Pizza Hut buffet is a hallowed and unholy lunch time tradition of deliciousness and gluttony. Here are three good ways to get there.

P.s. I can no longer even think about pizza without this Youtube song getting stuck in my head, so I'm spreading this curse around to anyone who reads this (like The Ring, but way creepier). Beware though...this really will haunt your dreams for the rest of your life.

11-14-2010

I don't really spray paint and take pictures, but my moustache may or may not be a permanent fixture at a local skate park now.

This is the perfect end to a very good weekend.

11-13-2010

So today, Nicole and I went shopping for new fall shoes/boots/stuff. Recently I've been really into dressing kind of boarding school fake preppy so I got some penny loafers. According to the internet, for good luck, you're supposed to put a penny from your birth year in one side and a penny from the year you got the shoes in the other.

Then we went to Charlie's photography show and to see Jesse's paintings with friends. Woody was very excited about the tips/shot money he collected for the after party. A lot of people were excited about the after party and all the manly activites that it entailed. Like going to the gay bar down the street. Woody liked it, Victor not so much.

11-12-2010

We went to a local design company's open house show to go snoop around and see their cool custom designed studio space, but we got there a little too early and it's kind of awkward snooping around when you're the only people at the show. So naturally, we just ran away down the street to the Happy Dog for dinner.

Luckily, my fried Matthew's band Running just so happened to be in town and playing at a party house/show space called The Cool Ranch. Now I know I've previously ranted about my love of divey hole in the wall concert venues as opposed to nice clean ones like the House of Blues (I think this was brought on last time Matthew was in town actually). House shows are even better. Instead of having to deal with a cash bar, you get to do fun things like get booze from a gas station on the way and drink out of bags like a homeless person. My gas station selection was a Blue Raspberry Four Loko. Touted as a "blackout in a can" college student killer, and on the verge of being pulled from the shelves/already illegal in some states, I thought that this energy drink with booze in it would a perfect pairing for the occasion. Unfortunately, I failed to consider how much sugar (60 grams) they put in the stuff. Although the alcohol, caffeine, and other nasty stuff did their best to make me loko, I think my high blood sugar issues directly canceled any and all effects and I might as well have drank a bottle of neon blue colored water. At least the show was a blast.

P.s. Lou Dobkins seconds the motion that the House of Blues sucks, and that girl watches Adventure Time so we all know that she can't be wrong.