If you’re looking for a quick low-calorie lunch, and you like Chinese food, I highly recommend the box lunches called Easy Snax by Tiger Tiger. The one I tried the other day was Sweet & Sour jasmine rice. It didn’t look too appetizing when I was mixing the rice packet with the sauce because it looked a little oily, but after microwaving it, the texture changed and the rice was fluffy and soft. The flavor was just right too. What’s best is that you can stick it in your desk and eat it on a day you forget your lunch or don’t feel like going out to grab something. It even comes with a fork. I’m definitely going to buy more. I got it at Meijer in the Asian foods section.
Month: July 2006
Dane Cook’s HBO Special
Want to know what sucks about work? It gets in the way of fun. Seriously, what a drag. During the day I usually have XM’s The System playing (you get free online streaming when you subscribe). Yesterday morning, don’t ask me why, but I started thinking about XM’s comedy stations and wondered if they ever played Dane Cook. So I went to look what was on and dammit if it wasn’t a Dane Cook special right then and there! Here’s where work becomes a drag: I couldn’t listen to it. He swears and that would be inappropriate and unprofessional to have that coming out of the speakers even though I have them low enough that you can’t hear anything unless you’re in my cubicle. Regardless, I wouldn’t feel right listening to something like that at work even if I had a pair of headphones. But man, that stinks. I have a feeling it’s the same stuff we heard at his show in April and since we missed a good portion thanks to the idiots who arrived late and couldn’t find their seats, I’d like to see/hear it again. Luckily he’s got an HBO 90-minute comedy special airing on September 4th. According to his website it’s 90% new material and some stuff hasn’t been heard anywhere (which I’m assuming also means Chicago). I can’t wait!
Oh and not that he reads this, but my condolences to Dane; he recently lost his mother to cancer.
No socks
We ended up at the mall yesterday after work so Joe could get his eyes checked at Sears and order some new contacts. While he was having his exam, I walked around the store and looked at clothes. I didn’t really see anything I liked other than a black t-shirt with Hello Kitty on it playing a guitar. Cute, but not worth $13 in my opinion. I also was on a mission to get socks. I don’t have enough comfortable (that being the key word here) dress socks for work and the ones I do have are ever so surely falling apart. I also have a hard time finding socks to wear at night that aren’t too thick that my feet sweat or too thin that they freeze. I found some at Sears less than two weeks ago that fit that inbetween area perfectly and wouldn’t you know it, they don’t have any more. Knowing my luck, they stopped making them. It wouldn’t be the first time I’ve run into that issue.
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We went to Target yesterday to get some groceries but they were running on emergency generators due to a power outage. They weren’t closed, but it was very dark inside and rather eerie. I wish I had brought my camera: it was like a crime scene with yellow tape sectioning off the frozen and refrigerated foods to keep customers away in an attempt to stop the food from spoiling. We ended up leaving because most of the stuff we really needed fell into that category.
Since I was leery about going back to Target (who knows if any of the food started to spoil but was kept on the shelves), we went to Meijer this morning. Whenever we go there, we end up spending over an hour inside. We lucked out and finally got Joe’s daughter’s scooter for her upcoming birthday. She wanted any color but red and for weeks now we’ve been checking Target and all they had was red ones. The one we got, the only one left, is black, plus the checkout girl used a coupon from their Sunday ad for $6 off. Awesome!
Meijer has a pretty decent pet section so I was checking out their pet supplies because I still might end up buying a free-standing wheel and den for Peanut if she continues hiding all the time. I also like looking at the hamsters they sell. Surprisingly, they were all awake and running around. There was a really cute female who looked just like Peanut, just a much darker grey. She had light colored fur around her eyes. Soooo cute. Too bad you can’t house Syrian hamsters together (they will end up killing one another), I might have bought her otherwise.
We also grabbed some stuff we know the kids like to eat. I have all the dinners planned out for this coming week (they are staying with us from Tuesday through Sunday) and enough beefaroni, soup, and tv dinners for lunches too. So Joe should be all set (he’s off and I’m working). The girl wants spaghetti this week so we’re using the opportunity to teach her to be less of a picky eater. I am making spaghetti on Saturday night only if she doesn’t give us a hard time with meals during the week. Hopefully that will go well!
Joe washed my car inside and out and waxed it too while I balanced the checkbook. I feel very productive. I need to start getting up earlier on the weekends all the time. We were up at 8 am today and it felt good to get things done early. While I cherish my sleep, it’s the worst feeling waking up at noon and realizing half your day off has been wasted in bed. The day seems to last longer when you get up earlier too.
Peanut update
Still can’t get Peanut interested in coming out of her cage. She’s got a huge bug up her butt. If she knows we’re awake, she doesn’t come out at all. She waits until we’re upstairs sleeping, then we hear her wheel going. Seeing as how we didn’t go to bed until 1 am last night, and she’s awake by 9 pm at the latest, I’m taking that personally. I just now tried to get her to come out by showing her the elevator which she would always climb into so I could lift her out, and she looked it over and then ran back into her den. I’m going to check her cage to make sure she’s not sick and I’m thinking about getting rid of the den temporarily. I don’t know, maybe that’s mean, but I’d like to get a removable den (this one is snapped into the cage and supports the wheel too) and wheel so I can control how much she hides from us. I don’t want to just give up and accept that I’m there to feed her and clean her cage and that’s it. That doesn’t seem like any fun for either one of us, so somehow I am going to get her out of her antisocial mood. One thing I read was to give treats outside the cage, so I’m only going to give them to her when she is out playing to encourage her to come out and play. We’ll see how that goes. It’s just so weird how she changed. I never had her out of her cage so long she’d become exhausted, so I’m not sure why she stopped enjoying it. Hamsters are weird. I can’t wait to get a cat.