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Pieces of Fall

I have about 3 drafts that I have started to write and then I remember I have soup on the stove or knitting to finish or Facebook to stalk, and I never get back to it. The main excuse for not writing as much is that Fall is here and we are enjoying it. We promise there will be more posts soon. They will be filled with fun and excitement just for you!

In the meantime enjoy some photos of the latest and greatest!

Apple Tasting at the Portland Nursery.  I made tiny pies with the apples we purchased and they were delicious!

Reconnecting with old friends:

Hanging out with the nephew:

A day of shopping in Seattle and Michael’s favorite Pina Colada:

Ezra’s first race!

If I could spit nails right now I would!

I am so mad right now.  And I am mad that I am mad!  Yesterday Lori told me that she wanted to see Paranormal Activity.  This was a surprise to me because she would rather chew on glass than watch a scary film.  She saw the trailer and it piqued her interest.  So I did what most people do, I obtained a copy for us to view and we invited the neighbors over to watch.

Turns out the real horror of the film was watching the goddamn piece of boring sludge.  I want to tear my intestines out because that would provide more satisfaction.  It seemed to me that 70% of the film was spent watching the people sleep and something happened of no fucking consequence.  The last time I was so angry at a film was when I watched Rachel Getting Married and I was subjected to watching a dishwashing loading contest.  What the fuck??  Oh, the drama of loading dishes!  If you haven’t seen that film don’t.

I created an account on IMDB.com just to write the following comment:

Paranormal Activity (2007)

Sets a new standard (as in the standard that Plan 9 set long ago…), 24 October 2009

The worst movie I have ever seen!! Plan 9 From Outer Space has been displaced from it’s number 1 spot on that list. I watched this with my fiancé and a couple of friends and we all could not stand this film. There should be a way to give negative votes to drag down all those other high scores.

I don’t understand all the high praise for the film. Did we all watch the same movie? How can anyone compare this to the Blair Witch Project? That film had real emotional tension and drama. This film had us watching someone sleeping!! Sleeping!! Oh, the horror of sleeping and a door moves! AHH! Run away! No, wait now they are standing…is that?…nope, nothing she went back to sleep.

Don’t make me hit you in the face with your IKEA glass!

Thursday after another ten hour day of work and lots of stress over very stressful things I made the Mc Hale pick my bike and me up from work and we were going to the mall because it was free gift time at Clinique.  And I am a total sucker for free shit,  even if it means some heinous shade of lipstick that I will never wear.   Anyway-I got in the car and instead of  wanting to go to the mall,  I yelled “I need a lemon drop!”   Particularly, a lemon drop from Paley’s and a cheese plate so that I could decompress and, well, I know that I previously talked about a drinking moratorium, but c’mon!  Is this really the forum for this?!

So we went to Paley’s and they were booked solid and I decided we should try out Le Bouchon because I had seen it many of times before but the Mc hale yelled that they were just trying to be like the real Le Bouchon  (in America) which is the “bow down bitches” of all the Le Bouchons which happens to be located in the Venetian in Vegas and we don’t get there much.

So we went to Le Bouchon in Portland.  We were the only two people in the restaurant and at first we thought they were closed.  I sat there smugly and talked about how we should not be assholes and eat at the same 5 restaurants we do all the time forever because places like this need our business too!  And when our waitress came we were reminded of why we only go to our favorite 5!  She looked like she just stepped out of a double wide and I am not being  judgmental but if you work at a french bistro you should probably know how to answer the question of “what kind of cheeses are these?”   AND! The drinks were unbearably disgusting but the most disgusting part?!  They were ten dollar drinks!  I only pay ten dollars for drinks when I am dragged to a stupid meat market club for someones bachelorette or something terribly uncomfortable like that.

You wanna know why I am really angry at Le Bouchon though?   When it came time to pay the bill the waitress had enough nerve to circle the tiny note at the bottom of the receipt that tells you  that 20% of  $80.00 is $16.00!  And this is when I had to refrain from hitting her in the face with the Ikea water glass that she never refilled for me.  We walked away $80.00 poorer with bad tastes in our mouths and guilt from cheating on Paley’s.  I think we will continue to stick with our favorite 5.