man, diet soda tastes like ASS. i'm drinking diet dr pepper (so as not gain any soda weight), but it in NO WAY tastes like regular dr pepper. aspartame has such a nasty aftertaste.
so i watched _american idol_ last night. i was glad that the gray-haired man (travis?) made it to the final 44, but i was sad to see the young cowboy dude go. true, he didn't have the best singing voice out there, but i just loved his humility and innocence. he had never been on a plane before, and never seen the ocean in his life. watching him soak the experience in made my heart feel sort. *sniff*
i found a bug in my code today. as much as i complain about work, i have to admit, debugging can be fun. it's not always 100% fun, but it's satisfying stuff to weed out a bug and fix it. it's like progress or something like that.
for lunch, my young coworkers J and C took me to cupertino village. there was a grand opening of this dumpling house called "HC dumpling" or something like that, and damn, their shanghai steamed juicy buns were the best i've had. they were full of juice, and i liked the wrapper's consistency.
i've been having problems sleeping through the night. these past few days, i've been incredibly dehydrated at night into the morning. so much so that my lips have started to crack, my tongue itself is dry, and i get this white gunky shit on my lips. i don't know what's going on, since i am drinking a lot of fluids at the office. hopefully this is just a residual symptom of my illness, and it'll go away as i approach 100% health.
so i was shopping at safeway last night (i got some milk and a box of apple jacks), and i was perusing the frozen foods section. i have a soft spot for stouffer's tuna casserole, so i picked up two of those. i also saw that they had swedish meatballs and pasta, and for whatever reason, they sounded really good, so i also got a box of those. and i ate it when i got home. damn. swedish meatballs! they were really good. stouffer's makes some good stuff, although it isn't exactly healthy food. the swedish meatball dish was 500 calories!
one of my biggest regrests through the years is not learning how to cook from my mom. granted, my mom didn't make gourmet food or anything, but it was just good, homestyle cooking. there are some dishes that she makes that i absolutely adore, even though i haven't had them in years. and what makes me incredibly sad is that her knowledge of cooking will eventually disappear into oblivion.
is _brokeback mountain_ any good? i've heard mixed reviews, and of course, knowing that i garnered 8 oscar nominations makes me curious about the film. i mean, it's just a love story about two gay cowboys, right? what could be so good about that? where's the conflict? *ponder*
after lunch in cupertino village, the three of us got pearl tea at fantasia. i don't know why people like fantasia; the stuff isn't that great, and i prefer q-cup anyways. but yeah, i got a drink, and i ordered the guava green pearl milk tea. it didn't taste like guava at all, which was disappointing. i love guava. i remember back in the day when juice club (pre-jamba juice days) carried the guava gulp smoothie. so fucking good.
i gotta do my taxes sometime soon. i think i've gotten all the W-2's and 1099's in the mail, so all i need to do is come into the office one of these weekends and hammer it out. i've been using turbotax online, and it's pretty good, i have to say. very easy and self-explanatory and quick.
ok, have a great day people!