randomness

There is a man who sounds just like Cheech outside my window declaring that he just saw a "big ass squirrel."

I passed the math test. By *one percentage point*. Still, a B in the class. Must take deep breaths and be okay with this.

I have the best ever dish for Iron Chef Family Dinner. Mom is bringing me pumpkin bloom on Sunday, so I will be doing Pumpkin Bloom Tempura. Marking the second ICFD for which I have had to contend with hot oil.

The Blake Babies album came in the mail yesterday. It extra-super rocks!

Yesterday, outside the Republican Party Headquarters down the street from my office, I saw the largest of large SUVs with the license plate "GWBIN04." Shudder.

Had dinner with S. & C. tonight. C. just got his BMW. This has been his life's goal so far, so I'm happy for him, but it's a little hard for me to get that excited over a car that cost that much. Dinner was fun though. Haven't seen those kids in a while, plus I skipped out on the fair Saturday. Just as well, S. thinks she got food poisoning, possibly from a deep fried Twinkie. Ick.

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Eka Pada Rajakapotasana was the pose we worked on in class tonight. That’s one legged king pigeon pose (picture here ). Our teacher had a story about a woman who started working with this one at age 50 and got it at age 60. So I think I have some time to work on it. This is actually one of my favorite poses, despite the fact that I’m nowhere near doing it without props (mostly blankets under the front leg hip). It’s such an opener for just about everything.

I forgot to tell the funny story from last night about C. at dinner. I got to the restaurant first (the Japanese Steakhouse, where they cook your food at your table) and he and S. walked in a few minutes later. Apparently C. has joked around with the owner before. However, he hadn’t seen him in about 9 months. But when he walked in the owner ran up front, and the two of them proceeded to pretend to fight each other for several minutes. S & I were cracking up because the owner is built just like C except he’s much smaller, so it was very comical. Then the owner yelled, “Do you know sumo?” and grabbed C. around the waist and picked him up. C. then called him an ant, saying he could lift hundreds of times his own weight. All in all, quite funny.

Must run to the shower now. We are having a surprise bday drink for B. and I’m going to be late already.