...ok, everyone...it is now officially winter in chicago...we got our first big snow today, and although it's nothing like the blizzard of '79 which was what greeted my family our first winter in the u.s. of a., we still got a respectable amount of accumulation out there...and of course, since i was too lazy yesterday to go pick up my hard drive which i had purchased online from compUSA, i had to trudge out into the blinding wet whiteness this afternoon...i had to take 2 trains, the blue & red lines, to get to the store on chicago ave., and i had the worst train karma today...missed all my trains by seconds, pretty much doubling my commute time...i was pretty soggy by the time i got home...
...ok...i have a confession to make...i totally smell like garlic right now...you see, i went to a manduh making party @ miss mia's...manduh is a traditional korean new year's dish...it's basically dumplings...we made veggie ones with lots of tofu and apparently LOTS of garlic...i must have gotten some of the juice from the dumpling filling on my body somewhere, but i have no idea where...and ergo i smell like garlic...i don't mind too much but teddy doesn't seem to be taking to my new fragrance to well...i suppose it doesn't help that we were also munching on kimchee in addition to the dumplings...it was quite a riot making manduh with miss mia & her kickass korean chicas...i met a bunch of really cool fellow korean gals, including janet of wanamaker whom i'd seen open up for life at sea last month...none of us was what i'd call an expert on actually MAKING the manduh, but with a little collaboration and some creative uses of normal kitchen accessories, it actually came out quite yummy...yup, with a bit of some korean homecooking we're well on our way to world domination...
alrighty...would anybody like to install my new hard drive?
been listening to--
rooty--basement jaxx
only with laughter can you win--rosie thomas
