It’s hard to believe that in just two months, we’ll be able to see places like this:
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(Left: St. Basil’s Cathedral, Moscow. Right: The Hermitage’s Winter Palace, St. Petersburg.)
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Happy, happy birthday to miss Bethany!
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Enjoy the day!
New Jersey Pork Chop
This is the pork chop that I had for dinner tonight:
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Becky and I thought that it looked like New Jersey. I’d sell it on eBay, except I’ve already eaten it. It was delicious. The recipe: put frozen pork chops in slow cooker. Cover with italian dressing. Cook on low for eight hours. Yum.
Census, part 1
Tubes of chapstick residing at the Wood household as of 2/22/05.
In the ‘key box’ by the door (1) 7UP flavored tube, (1) Cherry 7UP flavored tube.
In the drawer under the microwave (1) unopened Softlips in cool cherry flavor
On my bedside table (1) Marshmello flavored tube
In the bathroom drawer (1) Unopened “classic” Chapstick, (1) unopened “Merlot” colored, shimmery Burt’s Bees tube.
In my desk drawer (1) Medicated Chapstick
In Peter’s desk drawer (1) Vaseline brand Lip Therepy, (2) unopened Chapstick with Lip Moisturizer
In a purse I hardly use (1) Softlips cool cherry flavored tube.
In the bag I carry to work (1) Chapstick with Lip Moisturizer.
total: 12
Quarters and Ocean’s
I seem to always find the best deals while shopping with ***Jenn|http://junefourteenth.blogspot.com***. Last time it was some cool cheap stuff at Ikea in Paramus and this time the bargins were found in the $1.00 section of Target. Now, you might think that $1.00 is pretty cheap, but we found a section that was 75% off. That’s right, foks, lots of good junk for just a quarter! So, we filled a little basket with our treasures and off we went on our merry way!
Later in the evening we hit the Loews theater for a showing of ***Ocean’s Twelve|http://oceans12.warnerbros.com/flash.html***. I must say that I enjoyed it. The cast was entertaining and there were a number of great cameos. I loved Ocean’s Eleven which was a shiny, slick, clever movie. It’s sequel felt more like a frat party and it was nice to be invited.
A very nice evening all around and made even better by the discovery on Monday morning of the current airing of “Ed” on TNT 🙂 WooHoo! Shave my Poodle!
Boxy
***Art|http://kizoku.blogspot.com/*** just got back from a ***trip to Peru|http://kizoku.blogspot.com/2005/02/lessons-learned-in-last-216-hours.html***. He brought the folks at work some nifty little boxes. They are carved from some sort of nut. Here’s mine:
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Boston.com: Weblogger Meetup Article
Today at Boston.com there’s an ***article|http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/02/20/bloggers_of_the_hubunite_and_bring_your_toys_to_dinner/*** on the Boston Weblogger Meetup that I attended last month. Thanks to ***Steve Garfield|http://www.stevegarfield.com/*** for ***pointing it out|http://offonatangent.blogspot.com/2005/02/if-you-dont-go-out-nothing-happens.html***.
Speaking of Boston Webloggers, there’s another meetup coming on ***February 28|http://blog.meetup.com/3/events/3946716/***. I’ll probably be there, though my RSVP is officially ‘Maybe’ at this point.
Flippin’ Sweet Pics
Tonight Becky and I hosted a small but fun Napoleon Dynamite viewing party at our apartment. One of the highlights was the taking of Glamour Shot photos. All of the photos from tonight, including the Glamour Shots, can be found ***here|http://gallery.prwdot.org/nd_party***.
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Note: If you had your photo taken at the party, and would like a full-resolution copy of your photo, just let me know. I can email it to you or make other arrangements for you to pick it up.
Update
I captionated the photos in the gallery… enjoy!
My (Self-Assigned) Title
Chief Purchaser Of Unnecessary But Nonetheless Yummy Grocery Items
I think that the proclivity that caused me to assume this title is something that I picked up after 20 years of living with the King POUBNYGI, my father (Mom, I am sure you can chime in with some examples…). Becky is usually far too sensible, health-conscious, and thrifty to make such purchases herself, so the extremely difficult task usually “falls” to me.
Tonight I picked up a bag of “Hint of Lime” Tostitos, a package of AriZona diet iced tea mix, and two half-gallons of Edy’s ice cream. (Side note: at Stop and Shop, there is almost always at least one brand of ice cream that is on sale. This time it was buy-one-get-one-free for Edy’s ice cream.)
A POUBNYGI’s job is never done.
My Royal Diadem
My middle name, Ryan, means ‘little king’. It is appropriate, therefore, that I just received a ‘little crown.’ The dentist attached the final part of my root canal work, a dental crown for my top left back molar. This process actually only took about five minutes and wasn’t painful at all. He just had to pull off the temporary crown, put in some cement, and stick in the real crown. It is custom molded for my tooth, so it fit perfectly. In the same appointment, he also filled in one last cavity. And that’s it… no more scheduled dentist appointments until this summer, when I go back for my six month checkup.
So, kids, if you would like to avoid all of this, brush at least twice a day, and floss at least once a day, and get in to see your dentist for a checkup every six months. It’s cheap insurance for what is a very pricey bit of work. Thank you for your attention. This has been a public service announcement from World Wide Wood.