I'm sipping 木瓜牛奶, literally papaya milk, but in English probably better described as a papaya smoothie. In my case I also threw a frozen banana in there. Papaya milk is one of the most popular smoothie drinks in Taiwan. Most fresh fruit drink and bubble tea places serve it ( Read more... )

I originally planned to make red beans and rice for dinner, but when I went to the pantry to get the rice, I discovered that I only had one cup left in the open bag. There was a closed bag but unopened rice bags intimidate me. I don't have the rice bag ninja skill where you cut the right thread and pull and it all comes out in a minute. I end up ( Read more... )

"Pregnancy Insanity" is the head or subhead of one of the chapters in a pregnancy humor book I've read and it's a pretty apt term. I think I'm in the throes of it now. I just put a pizza in the oven but I don't even think I'm hungry ( Read more... )

So the semi-bolognese I mentioned in my previous post (where I just dumped extra lean ground beef in the crock without browning it first) came out well, but probably needed more seasoning in general. I was using no salt tomatoes, so I needed to add more salt than I did, and I think I just underseasoned in general considering it was crock pot ( Read more... )

It felt so weird yesterday with no hockey games going on. Haha.

So in the pre-playoff lull, let's evaluate my predictions!WEST: I did really well here! I got 7/8 teams right, and the team I got wrong was picking Nashville instead of Detroit. Also, I picked the top two teams (Chicago and Anaheim). Not bad ( Read more... )

We went to Steveston, a wharfside town south of Vancouver, for lunch today with Gordon's sister. We had planned to have lunch somewhere in town but when she showed up in her car rather than on the bus I couldn't resist the opportunity to go somewhere more exciting. This was my first time in Steveston. We had fish and chips and gelato, and the sun ( Read more... )

This weekend is Vaisakhi, the festival in which Sikhs party like it's 1699, aka the year that Sikhism coalesced ( Read more... )

It's been an up and down time ( Read more... )

Today was kind of terrible/awkward. I'm just glad it's over ( Read more... )

Baby names that are towards the top of my list, in rough order of how they appeal to me currently:

BOYS:
Tobit/Tobias - nn: Toby. I favor Tobias (the traditional English transliteration, and the more common name), Gordon favors Tobit (the current English transliteration). We both like the book of the Bible and the two characters of that name ( Read more... )