is it Friday yet?

I’ve uploaded some pictures so I’m going to post about them in just one post, rather than several.

My BFF (LOL!) Cat, in SF but temporarily in LA, sent me a belated birthday gift which I received last week! This year, she sent me some snacks she bought at Marukai. It’s a japanese store in SoCal. It’s her favorite japanese store when in SoCal. All that’s left in this pic that hasn’t been eaten is the Brown Rice tea and the Brazillian Pocky!

Fresh veggie haul from the backyard garden: eggplant!!!!

I think this is a record for us in terms of how long my dad has grown the string beans in the backyard! He brought them in the other day and measured them. He got so excited that he had me take a picture as proof of how long he was able to grow them. Sheez. They are just string beans!

33 inches long! Ever seen a string bean grown that long? Want further proof they came from our garden?

LOL! My dad had me take this pic a couple of days before he harvested those string beans! Sam is hanging in the back like a petulant child! My dad tried to get him to stand with him but Sam wouldn’t budge!

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I’ve been meaning to do this for a long time so I finally got around to doing it yesterday. Click on the thumbnail and you’ll see the larger picture with the notes.

Also, what’s in my cosmetics bag inside my bag. LOL!

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I just got back from watching The Dark Knight! It was my sister, Charlie’s, birthday so I went with her, our brother and her friends.

We saw a total of 5 previews before they showed the movie. Of course, I have to see “The Day the Earth stood still” since Keanu is in it! They also showed the trailer for “The Spirit” but I’m not really that interested in seeing it, even tho it’s another Frank Miller creation. Frank Miller wrote “The Dark Knight” comic books, if you didn’t know that already. It figures they show the trailer for Terminator: Salvation since Christian Bale stars in it as John Conner.

I’ll do a cut now before I start talking about the Dark Knight movie in case y’all don’t want to know before you see the movie.

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Anyone watch the season premiere last nite? I thought it was hilarious when the only Asian designer was saying how everyone else’s picks from the grocery store were just “garbage” and it turns out, his design was the worst! Total garbage!

I really wish that they wouldn’t allow people that have already established themselves in the market (such as designing for their own label and having a store for it) cuz to me, they seem to already be more established than the freelance designers on the show. Sure, these people haven’t introduced a collection on the runways but I’d rather see design students/freelancers in the competition.

It’s too soon to tell who’s going to be this season’s “bitch” and the funniest. I’m so glad the show is back!

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It sucks when you live in a household where most of the people work in the medical field and you don’t. Why? Because if they get exposed to something, you get exposed to it.

My baby sister is in dental school and she had to get tested for TB. I guess for the new semester or whatnot. The test came up POSITIVE! This doesn’t mean she has TB, just that she’s been exposed to it. It happens as anyone she’s treated in the school dental clinic might have TB. So, if she’s positive, that means EVERYONE IN THE HOUSEHOLD HAS TO BE TESTED! FUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!

There is a chance that it might be a false positive. She had her friend, a practicing nurse, give her the test (to be sure it was administered correctly!!) again so we will know on Saturday if it’s negative or positive. Charlie said she thinks the first test given to her, the person did it wrong. There is a raised bump and it looks like a positive but it really could be negative.

Either way, this pisses me off! No one wants to get needles inserted in their arm for any reason! I’m not scared of needles, just hate when the people inserting them fuck up and one has to be stuck with a needle again!

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

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Those of you using WP, they’ve released the new version of Wordpress a month earlier than the target date. Version 2.6 is out! Kinda funny that I’m blogging about this and I’m still using 2.3.3 but I’ve been so lazy to upgrade. I can’t use Fantastico to upgrade automatically for me as this install, I had done manually. Fantastico will only upgrade the installs that you had it do.

I might wait a week before upgrading to see if there are any bugs in this new version. Also, I want to wait and see if a ton of plugins are also going to be upgraded to work with the new version.

The one big new feature I like with 2.6 is the post revisions feature. It reminds me of Wikipedia and how you can look to see what was written prior to posting or if you had to update.

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I changed my blog theme again as I didn’t know there was some funkyness going on in the sidebar. I started using the WP sidebar widgets as it makes it easier for me to customize my sidebar the way I want it rather than the way the theme author wanted it.

For some weird reason, I could never get any of the Twitter plugins for WP to work right in my sidebar so I had to stop using the official Twitter one when I used my previous theme.

When I was trying to see if I could get the Twitter flash badge to work on this theme, it wouldn’t because I was using the WP widgets. So, the old lightbulb flashed above my head when I realized I could use a WP widget for Twitter. A quick search and I found one that worked PERFECTLY in my sidebar!

Yesssssss!

Twitter is so addicting as it makes doing mini blog posts so much easier! There are so many Twitter apps you can download from online so you don’t have to sit on the official Twitter page and read/post from there. I’m using Twirl and Twitkit with Twitterfone both off and on.

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I dragged my sleepy butt outta bed early this morning and drove an hour and half to Ripley. Why? It’s their annual tomato festival! Tomatoes are my favorite so I just had to go. I’ve put off going every year but this time, I was determined to check it out!

The drive was uneventful but finding the festival was just a little tricky. When we got there, we found that not many people had arrived so half the booths were set up! We waited around in the shade as it was starting to get humid hot. By 10:30am, people were arriving and the food stalls started cooking!

My mom insisted we try the fried green tomatoes! It’s a country favorite of hers! These weren’t as crispy crunchy as usual BUT they made up for that as the person who fried them used BACON FAT in the oil!!! The green tomatoes turned out soooo delicious! They gave us 8 HUGE ripley tomato slices for just $2!

They had the usual funnel cakes, corn dogs and all the other festival food that makes your mouth water. I just took pics of the food stall I got the fried green tomatoes at.

There were several Model T Fords that showed up to be shown off! The local car club of tomato farmers brought their antique cars out. I love how one old country gentleman owner said “I treat my Model T better than I treat my wife!” He got the stink eye from the wife and is probably going to sleep in his precious car tonite! LOL!

We didn’t stay long as my mom wanted to buy tomatoes to bring home. She got 2 huge cases of tomatoes at $12/case! Not bad considering how much these giant tomatoes fetch at the supermarket! Are we going to eat them all, HELL YES! Half the cases were green tomatoes so they don’t spoil so fast on us as we eat the ripe ones. Our own garden tomatoes are starting to ripen with a couple here and there so by the time we finish both cases, we can start on our own vine tomatoes.

Heading out, we stopped at this booth! YES, PORK SKINS!!!! These were home fried as they hardly had any salt and were the most crispy pork skins I’ve ever had! They were so light too! We got a gallon size bag for $2 and saved them for home. We like to dip them in vinegar as we eat them.

YUMMY!!

On the way home, we stopped in Covington and had a quick brunch at Country Kitchen. I’d never heard of this restaurant before and thought it was a local one but turns out, it’s a chain around the country. The food is not bad and they give very generous portions. Their best item are their pancakes. My parents were in awe of how good they were!

My meal was the basic breakfast. I gave my pancakes over to my dad. Heh, I regret that now after I took a bite after finishing my own meal.

So, curious as to how big the tomatoes we got are?

Street Fighter Chung Li Pinky St. is just 2″ tall! These tomatoes are more than 2″ wide! LOL! She was tempted to punch them but I told her not to or she’d get her body swapped out and end up wearing pants! Hehe!

The tomatoes are so juicy and sooo tasty! I ate BOTH as a snack! I just cut them up in small pieces, added a little salt and scarfed them down! To me, eating tomatoes like this is like eating watermelon (tho I don’t eat watermelon).

I hope we go back next year and get more tomatoes!

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This wasn’t me! Saw this video clip on the Flickr blog and had to share:

The girl got struck by lightening! Said that it hit her left hand and traveled thru her body and came OUT of her right hand! She was standing on her balcony, holding onto the metal rail while it was raining. Um, not a smart thing to do during a thunderstorm.

The lightening strike slammed her body back (you can totally tell) and she said that she experienced aftershocks of sorts,…like the current running thru her body 24 hours later.

WOW! And she captured it all on video too! Amazing she survived with no serious injuries!

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• Feet still hurt from shopping with mom. Ugh. She bought a lot and I came home with nothing. Typical. #
• Tasha, GET YOUR ASS IN BED AND SLEEP!!! #

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