alas poor ghostrider

oh man. yesterday christina made a tortilla de patatas for us for dinner, and it was the besttttttt. if you don't know what that is, here is the wiki ! but don't bother to go there because i'm going to tell you what it is ! it's like... sort of between an omelette and a quiche? it's a big egg thing with potatoes and onions in it.



i was super exhausted when i got home so i dozed off for awhile and woke up to a text saying my tortilla de patatas was ready, which clearly indicates that i have the best roommate. while we ate dinner we watched king of queens episodes that i DVR'd. i'm sure i've mentioned it, but i'm weirdly into "king of queens". i think kevin james is the cutest/nicest, and also i think the show is genuinely funny. i also like that the couple on the show is realistically working class? haha. like if they have to get a home repair done that costs $400 they freak out and have to borrow money or can't go to the dentist.



unfortunately though, for how much i love it, i'll never be able to keep up with the DVR because it's seriously on tv like 8 times a day? on two different channels ! i feel like i'm being crushed under the weight of my crappy tv interests now. maybe this weekend i'll make an effort to watch as many episodes as i can !

after dinner, i leveled my priest with paul for awhile. he signed on his paladin and carted me and his warrior around on his grand ice mammoth (which is a mount with 2 extra seats so you can bring friends along):


actually, i'm not sure if he has this one or the traveler's tundra mammoth

and we did ragefire chasm and wailing caverns and got from level 14 to level 23 in a couple of hours. jesus christ, wailing caverns takes forever ! i still had a good time, but i didn't get a raptor hatchling.


hee hee hee

i appreciate everyone's feedback yesterday about online classes. the overall impression that i'm getting is that they're easy but by no means super super easy, and that the people in the classes will be mature, but there will probably be some infuriating boneheads. that sounds reasonable ! the only thing i'm worried about now is like... how do i know what books to get? i haven't been in school in so long that i can't remember how to find this stuff out.



i'm only worried because i'm a little lazy and i might forget to check if i am not explicitly told where and when to look. actually, i just read what i wrote and it sounds like a baby going to college so i'm going to make an effort to like do the basic things i need to do to have a life and take care of myself.

oh ! oh ! hey ! remember how a few weeks ago, i was talking about the mcelrath salty dog chocolate bar? i got a bunch of them while i was in sacramento at the nugget market grocery store, and i can't find them anywhere in philly. anyway, i checked my mail yesterday and found this package from caroline:



i seriously burst into tears when i opened it because it was so thoughtful- i'd JUST been talking about this chocolate bar to someone else the night before, and to have two randomly appear in my mailbox was like... the best, sweetest thing ever. caroline is the best.

i guess i should get some work done now. busyyyy week, next week will be twice as busyyyyy, and then i have to work all weekend. this weekend, i plan to mostly chillax and hang out with mouse before he goes on tour. hayyyy.

p.s. i love the phillies
p.p.s. i had to go to the bathroom and i got two phonecalls in a row and now i don't have to go anymore and i am afraid i'm going to get blood poisoning.

ooh, i think i'm getting a tumor

last night i went out to dinner with jeanne after work ! i haven't seen her in forever, and i don't know why, because she's the best coolest funniest person ever. we went to pietro's, which is a restaurant that has 2 other locations in philly/south jersey, which may as well be mcdonalds here, but whatever. we both got the pappardelle alla toscana (fresh wide ribbon pasta in a cream sauce served with sun-dried tomatoes, red onions, shitake mushrooms, marsala wine and pecorino cheese), which is my favorite, and i have to ask myself why i never make pappardelle at home?



i tend to make soup based off of this recipe (but um, not like that at all? fake chicken broth, farfalle, WHITE BEANS, olive oil, a pound of spinach, and lemon/apple cider vinegar) and i think i want to try making it with pappardelle, but i never have any around !

after dinner we got frozen yogurt- we went to, um, scoop deville instead of one of the pinkberry ripoff places because those places tend not to have real chairs and have fluorescent light that makes me look mustachey. i got vanilla frozen yogurt with pistachios and dark chocolate chips and it was the best ever (buuuuut that's what i always get there !). i also picked up a lindt touch of sea salt bar because i'm obsessed with sea salt and chocolate:



but it definitely isn't salty enough and didn't compare to the BEST sea salt chocolate bar ever, the mcelrath salty dog



i ate like.. 4 of these? while i was in california. i wish i could find them online but a box of 10 is $50 and i could eat that in like 15 minutes.

anyway, on my way home i got a nosebleed and puked at the same time and thought i was getting the crazies because jeanne was telling me all the details of the crazies remake at dinner ! but i don't really feel crazy and i haven't hacked anyone up yet or anything. it was miserable though and i felt really sorry for myself and very alone on earth and had to walk into qdoba to get napkins !

when i got home, i regemmed and reenchanted all of my rogue's gear (which set me back 3000 gold !!!!!) and then we raided. the new 5% buff made everything pretty trivial, though we still wiped on bloodqueen before calling it. the most exciting news is that a new dagger dropped !



unfortunately i was in various states of gems/enchants/daggers all night so i can't tell if my dps improved (i also had to disable my damage meter because i think it was causing disconnects).

one last thing ! jeanne was talking about st elmo's fire, which i've never seen and i looked up some pictures of it- what the fuck could this movie be about?????



like, why is there a grandma there? why is ally sheedy dressed like paula poundstone? why is rob lowe dressed like the neighbor from empty nest???? why are 2/3 of them wearing their ties like necklaces????? why is demi moore... doing what she's doing? i hate it. i hope i never see it.

p.s. mouse has off this week but he's visiting his new nephew scott (i've gotten lots of informative texts like, "scottie likes pooping") and doing band stuff. i hope we get to hang outtttttt.