I called my Boyfriend.

New Food Adventure

Fixed chicken salad 2 Ways tonight. Here's Chicken Salad: The 1st Way (sorry I don't have pictures - we ate it before one could be taken cuz I couldn't find my camera):

Warm up a skillet. MedHigh
Throw in 2 or 3 tablespoons of olive oil.
While that's heating up - slap chop some mushrooms, onions, and garlic. I don't measure anything, but if you must - I guess it would be 1 c shrooms, 1/2 c onion, and 3 cloves of garlic.
Throw in a pinch of salt, a couple of shakes of Everglades seasoning, and let saute...stir it up every couple o'minutes.
Get some rosemary - ours is outside so I snipped off a sprig, tore off the leaves, and used the other side of a knife to bruise the leaves to bring out the oils. I learned that from Take Home Chef.
After the veg has done its thing for about 10mins or whenever you remember it's still on the heat...throw in the beat up rosemary.
Cover and turn off the heat.
Let that hot mess chill out for a little bit.

So you can focus on the other recipe -Chicken Salad: The 2nd Way:
Chop up about 4 stalks of celery. Throw that in a bowl and then throw in a couple of handfuls of sunflower seeds. Get a lemon, lime, and an orange. Cut them in half and dig the seeds out. Juice the halves (one each) into the seed/celery bowl. Take a cluster of red grapes apart and cut all the grapes in half and throw them into the bowl too. Then open a can of chicken (they were a 2fer sale), throw that in with about a half to 3/4 cup of plain fat free yogurt and 2 pinches of salt. Mix all that shit up and put it in a container and into the fridge.

Forget about that one until lunch or dinner tomorrow with either some flat bread or crackers. Its like a waldorf salad now.

Go back to your hot mess on the stove - which is now less hot.
Throw it into a different bowl (not the citrusy good one) with 2 pinches of salt, and a 1/2 cup mayo.
Eat that mess with crackers or warmed up flat bread.
Or throw it in the fridge and remember it tomorrow for lunch and have to decide which of the 2 Ways you'll turn into lunch.

MOVIE!!

Here's the deal - starting today - I'll only review movies if I think they're good. If they're boring I probably won't mention them here, cuz....What the hell for? If a movie sucks or is incredibly boring (like Terminator), why even talk about how bad I think it is? You can go waste $10 and find out for yourself.

I'm not one to say, "Oh, man - this really smells like shit.....Here, smell it."
So I won't do that with movies either.

Oh! I also won't mention movies I haven't seen....cuz....well.
Duh.

Anyway - here's what I thought of "Drag Me To Hell":

First I should tell you that I LOVE Evil Dead 2. One of my all-time faves. I remember seeing it over at my friend Angela's house cuz we weren't allowed to watch rated R movies in our house. I must've been like 10 or 11, I think.
So when this came out and it was Sam Raimi's return to the genre, I was pretty excited. And then I saw the rating. Friggin' PG-13. PG-13 "horror" movies usually suck. They show all the good stuff in the trailer on tv so when you go to see it, there's nothing scary anymore cuz you've seen it all already. This movie had quite a bit shown in the trailer, but it totally didn't suck at all!!
IT WAS GREAT!!
It had all the Sam Raimi trademarks in it - fun camera tricks, mud, eyeballs popping out, a talking animal, thunderous booming and unsettling noises....
We jumped atleast 3 times. And yes, I said, "we". Usually in scary movies, Matt does all the jumping.

Hmmm...now to decide on a rating system.
I will give this movie.....

4 1/2 out of 5....

Oh wait - if I'm only going to review movies I like, then there's really no point in giving it a rating system. They'd all end up being 4 or 5 stars - cuz I like them.

This movie kicked ass and is much fun!!!
I'm so excited that another Evil Dead movie is in the works for release in 2010.

And now I will drift off to sleep while George Romero's Diary of the Dead is playing on one of the movie channels.

BOOK!!

Just finished it!!

Here's my review:

It was good.

The End.

That would be funny if that's all I really had to say about a 650 pg book.
This was the most Clive Barker I've ever read. The very first Barker book I read was "Thief of Always" when I was like 13 or 14. After that I listened to "The Damnation Game" book on tape. That was pretty cool - good gross imagery. I really don't remember too much of either story.
This Barker book also had good gross imagery. In a nutshell, it's a classic 'good vs evil' story with a cast of a handful of characters and a bunch of spiritual themes & symbolism.

I think my favorite part was the Lix. I won't say anything more than that.

There's a good intro by Clive and its difficult to read it without hearing his raspy voice.

Moral of the story: There's only the mind and a show. A Great and Secret Show.

Birthday Wishes Do Come True

Carrot cake cupcakes from my mom.
I also got 3 bottles of 3 Olives Rootbeer Vodka.
And blank canvas.

And a bunch of other stuff that wasn't on the list. I made off with some great birthday booty this year.

Alas, there were no naked movie stars doing jumping jacks or cartwheels.

Maybe next year.

What I learned this week....

Chewy Atomic FireBalls are really good.

I REALLY like avocado. To the point of "addiction".

Beer burps during quiet parts of movies make me laugh.

I don't eat this stuff, but I still can't get into the jeans I was just wearing 3 months ago. Even though I've been bustin' my ass and going to the gym almost every day (6 days a week) doing cardio for 30-60 mins a day and lifting 3 days a week.

I need to be more patient.

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air song gets stuck in one's head quite easily.

I need to catch up on my birthday goodies blog(s).

Across our great nation, at least 50 people die every year from autoerotic asphyxiation.

The Twilight deleted/extended scenes were better than what they kept in the movie.

Getting up at 5 a.m. every morning isn't so difficult.