tugboats are slow

Acupuncture made me one sleepy lady today. I got to see a (now pregnant) Julie and it was really nice to see how well she's done with her clinic. Josh and I had lunch on the waterfront and it was so gorgeous and sunny, albeit a bit windy, and then we watched the tugboat races on Elliot Bay. Tugboats are kinda slow. It made me even drowsier.

Now Josh is snoozing on the couch while I think of 5 million things I need to get done for school before I head off to get my brows waxed and then engage in drunken debauchery at Hopscotch with Valarie and Joe.

I'm worried I won't be prepared for the hike I'm going on with the girls in the morning, but I'll just have to do my best not to get too drunk. I hate the effects of being drunk anyway. I have no capacity for quick recovery anymore.

We ate at a great new Thai restaurant on Phinney last night, Tangerine Thai. It was yums and super cute. I'm excited to eat there on hot days because the front of the restaurant has one of the bay door/walls that open onto the sidewalk. Great place for that type of venue.

Okay, enough procrastinatin'. Oh-Jarred slapped me yesterday. Twice. In other words, his "vacation" is over and I hate school again. Boo.

Food and TV from the couch

Tonight we ordered delivery from Szechuan Bistro, on 85th at Greenwood. We got enough food for both of us to have dinner tonight and lunch tomorrow for under 30 bucks. Good deal! Initially, I had a hard time finding an online menu, but fervent searching finally led me to this. I hate trying to figure out what the options are with the person on the phone, so I was grateful for my internet find.

We ordered Sesame Chicken for Josh, Dry String Beans with Tofu for me, and hand shaven noodle in hot szechuan sesame sauce and veggie eggrolls to share. My favorite was the peanut sauce drizzled just on top of the noodles. Overall, I didn't care much for all the grease they use. I rarely eat oily things, so this was total overload for me. The homemade noodles were awesome, but the sauce they were in was essentially an oil soup. The dry beans were good, but the tofu was so fried it was unrecognizable as bean curd. The eggrolls were unimpressionable. Josh's sesame chicken looked to me to be just like the orange chicken at Panda Express and probably had the same corn syrup content. Naturally, he loved it. We would probably order from them again, but I won't be craving it anytime soon. Grease, grease, and more grease! I shudder to think what the people in the kitchen must smell like when they leave work every night.

American Idol was a bit of a snooze fest for me tonight. I can't wait til they whittle it down to the best. I thought the Australian guy rocked and I have a small crush on David Cook. That kind of talent is hot. I've already downloaded his version of Lionel Richie's "Hello" from iTunes and plan to download tonight's "Billie Jean" as soon as it's available. Seriously brilliant. I'm a fan. Josh and I tried to determine tomorrow night's bottom three and think it will be Ramiele, Chikezie and Brooke White. I think Chikezie might go, which saddens me. What a cool guy. But he bored me tonight, so it'll make sense to me if he's gone. Kristy Lee Cook should be cut from the ranks (long overdue), but she literally played the "Proud to be an American" card, so naturally middle America will vote for her as their Republican hero. It's so annoying because it's just prolonging the inevitable.