Bunny’s TMI

So last month was crazy with my sweetie working until anywhere between 12am and 3am and on the weekends and being stressed himself for a research paper. Then the week after that was working on his demo reel for Pixar. And in March I had over a week straight of daily migraines. Plus all of April I have a bunch of doctor and physical therapy appointments, a bunch of meetings, and am working for ReproGraphics up to about 2 hours a day. So I’ve been feeling pretty worn out too.

The good news is that my back (sciatica) and migraines seem to be doing much better. Just icing my back for 10 minutes 1-3 times a day has really helped, and no side affects like the Naproxen. Naproxen is basically Aleve, so I might try that when I run out at a lower dose and see if that works without upsetting my stomach.

Lots of plans today (haircut, cookie baking, working in Meow’s yard possibly & then MM’s graduation bbq), so I’m off!

A coworker brought in some espresso truffles from Starbucks. They came in purple wrappers with no branding and she didn’t bring the package in, so I don’t know who actually makes them, but they were fabulous! A rich chocolate flavor, and the coffee flavor was as strong as it could be without edging over into being yucky. Mmmmmm. I want more! They disappeared fast.

And Google to the rescue! They were: Milk Chocolate Caffè Mocha Truffles though the reviewer on that site didn’t care for them.

Ghirardelli Intense Dark Citrus Sunset (60% Cacao) - This is what I wanted the Newtree one to be like, only this is more orangy than lemon. The texture was just right, and the orange was sweet and tangy but didn’t overwhelm the chocolate flavor. I’m not sure I tasted the caramel crunch, but it did give it a nice little crunch.

Lindt Excellence Toffee Crunch Milk Extra Fine - I split this with MM, sooo yummy! So their milk bars can be good too. I just don’t get why their truffles are so bad. I actually tried one again recently thinking maybe I was remembering wrong. Nope! They still fall in the “not worth wasting calories on” category. This bar however I’d happily get again, smooth, creamy and great toffee crunch and flavor.

So I was biking home for lunch and I saw this large hawk slowly flying around and over the big empty field between Kaiser and IHOP (where I see all the bunnies in the mornings usually - looks like sometimes more than um… 15-20ish of them). I stopped for a while to watch it. It had a large white patch on it’s back at the base of it’s tail, and papa found a picture for me: http://buildyourownbirdhouseplans.com/images/Northern%20Harrier%20by%20Walter%20Ammann.jpg

It’s a Harrier Hawk, aka Marsh Hawk (cause they like to fly low over marshes).

So found this totally randomly today while looking how to post stuff via IM. But I thought it was pretty awesome. This couple has been married 83 years! That’s longer than the average American life span I think. And they have 186 descendants, all the way down to great-great-grandchildren. Plus half of their six kids have been married over 50 years!

http://www.mindsay.com/news/couple_celebrates_83_years_of_marriage.mws

My sweetie just left for the airport to head to his Microsoft internship interview up in Redmond. Fingers crossed!

Also, this is my first blog post using imified (imified.com) to post via IM. So consider it a test!

We went to Bistro 33 last night with a bunch of friends for dinner.

Just so I don’t forget this, I tried their Turkey Club Sandwich (or whatever it’s called) without mayo and that was good. The fries seemed really bland to me, so that made it easy not to eat them. Plus they were the skinny ones but right in that zone of not soft enough but also not crunchy enough to be good. I tried a bite of BW’s spinach lasagna and that was sooo yummy. So next time hopefully I remember to order it. Also, JG mentioned that their french onion soup was a tad bland. I don’t recall liking it, but I don’t recall hating it either, so that sounds about right. We didn’t have the chocolate pate this time, but that was really good. I hope to try making my own sometime.

Also, I managed to cram in my workout before we left, which was good because we were tired when we got home. I did forget to run by the pharmacy though, so that will have to happen today. But for now I need to get ready and go for my blood donor appointment.

I finally got set up on LinkedIn, though there is still quite a bit more I could fill out and plan to do so at some point. I was surprised how many of my contacts already are set up there, I think more than I have on MySpace and Facebook put together. I have not checked Friendster in ages, I think that is the only other one I am on.

ARGH! The apostrophe bug is back. I can not type the apostrophe without the quick search coming up. I have used the about:config option I found on Lifehacker, but it seems to need to be reset regularly to keep working. I HATE this feature of Firefox, it is the only thing I dislike about it. And I can not believe how many times I tried to type the apostrophe in this paragraph. Time to redo the hack and restart Firefox.

I finally have some time to clear out my mailbox and get somewhat up to date here. I think some of this I may have made time to blog about, but not all of it.

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We finished off the last of the most recent batch of bars from CostPlus World Market yesterday. I don’t really like their truffles, so I wasn’t expecting to like this bar, but I think it’s been one of the best so far. Part of the problem with their truffles might be that the only ones people seem to buy are the milk and white chocolate, I don’t even know if they have dark truffles.

We got the Lindt Excellence Chili Dark. It had a good dark flavor without being bitter, and the chili hit just the right balance of being firey, but not overwhelming the chocolate. It was also nice and smooth and soft. They don’t list the percentage, so it’s probably on the lower end of dark to get that texture. This is definitely one I’d be happy getting again.