I love my 3 day weekends!! This one was spent like most of my other weekends: boardgames, movies, eating!

Friday – we spent the night at Andy’s on Thursday after playing Settlers of Catan. There’s nothing like playing a GOOD game of Settlers. Unfortunately, the ultimate champion of the night was boyrobot but it was a heated race and fun nonetheless! We ate at one of my favorite viet places in Westminster, Brodard (their spring rolls….yum!!) and then went to go look at houses. Yes, boyrobot and I are shopping for houses….nothing serious yet but we just want to see what’s out there and which way the prices are heading. We probably won’t be buying until 2009. Instead of looking at houses that were in our price range, Andy took us to go see the houses he was thinking of buying…yes that meant looking at $1M + houses. It was nice to dream of a “one day” for us. There was one house especially that tugged at my heart. It had a super pimp movie room + game room. A game room is a must in my future house. I’m such a kid at heart!

Saturday – our friend Fong and Mike invited us over for some lasagna. Before dinner we decided to go shopping at Century City and then catch a movie. We bought some dress shoes for Mike and then stopped by Tiffanys to look at some wedding bands for fun. I like this one:

Nice and simple!

We ended up watching Jumper because we couldn’t bring ourselves to watch our original pick, 10000BC after seeing it’s rating on Rottentomatoes (8%?!). Jumper was entertaining but completely ridiculous. The best part of the movie is seeing all of the places around the world. It makes me want to travel soon again! Then we went back and ate some yummy lasagna, texas toast, and peanut butter cookies. Our other friend Igarta brought over a cake he and his gf made and we spent the rest of the night installing hacked apps onto boyrobot’s IPhone and playing “who can guess the song first” while Mike was uploading songs to his Ipod. We’re such apple whores! At around 1am we started watching King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters. The movie was funny and made me such a fan of Steve Wiebe (down with Billy, the pompous coward!!). You’ll have to watch the movie to see what I mean. Now all I want to do is play Q-bert!

Sunday: After sleeping in, even later than normal because of the time change (grrr!) we decided to get up. I wanted to get a tshirt from UCLA and also check out a future possible wedding ceremony site, LA Exposition Rose Garden. Right before we left I looked up the directions only to find out they are closed from January until March 15th. Doh! I guess we will have to wait til next week. We still headed to UCLA anyway and I took this picture with the bear.

I’m a dork and accidentally had the camera on manual with some weird setting so the pic is all blue. Oh well. I still got my tshirt!

Lastly, we ran a quick experiment at McDonald’s. A lot of people were complaining that McD’s has an “eat in” tax. It’s completely ridiculous! It’s just the sale tax labeled wrong but a lot of people have been blogging that McD’s charges you extra if you eat in so you should always order to go. Well I hope this picture ends that debate! hehe

Click the pic if you need to see a larger version!

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Man asks friend to shoot him in the arm so he doesn’t have to go to work – umm, talk about hating your job
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A blog about penguins – for all of you penguin fans out there!
Perks of working at 37signals – the best one is by far 4 day work weeks. My company works 9/80 so we get every other friday off and i LOVE the 4 day weeks!

The coolest cutting board ever!! space invaders!!

A lot of people joke about wishing someone could pay them to be lazy. Well this guy made it a reality. He set up a website and people pay him to stay in bed. Why didn’t I think of that!! He makes money by the ads posted around the border of the site. All he does is pledge to stay in his bedroom for 23.5 hours a day. He’s on day 21!

Sleeping Rich

Hmmm, I wonder if I can get people to watch me surf the web all day long….

Pretty neat!

Hilarious!

This video was actually sort of painful to watch: Parents stuff an XBOX with clothes and give it to their kid.

But then I went to the video page and read that it was just a joke since the kid sneaked a peak at the gifts the night before and that he actually does end up getting an XBOX. phew! One of the funniest comments I read on the video was “and thus a serial killer was born” heheh.

Ok, so I’m not that excited about planning a wedding (btw, thanks for all of the super helpful comments!!!) but I can’t WAIT to go on my honeymoon. We haven’t officially decided where we’re going yet but Belize is at the forefront. There are a few reasons why we’re leaning towards Belize:

1. It’s named one of the most romantic places on several lists. In fact, the first one I ever saw read like this

Ian Anderson’s Caves Branch Adventure
BELIZE
Chaperoned by a local guide, a daring couple can hike 90 minutes through the rugged rain forest of central Belize, then rappel down a dark, 300-foot limestone sinkhole in the forest floor to a series of underground caves ending in the ultimate secluded honeymoon “suite”: a candlelit chamber decked out with champagne and a bed strewn with flowers.
ONE-NIGHT CAVE ADVENTURE $575; 501/822-2800; www.cavesbranch.com

I know it sounds a little unconventional but it’s totally something we would love to do! Also, check out this list that lists Chaa Creek Cottages as a top 50 romantic place. The opening splash page is mesmerizing to me.

2. It’s a little different from other honeymoon places, yet also has the whole relaxing beach scene.

It’s also home to the Great Blue Hole!

3. It has a lot of interesting things to see and do. We’re very adventurous-do-anything-once type people. I can’t wait to do cave tubing

And to check out the rainforest, jungles, the mayan ruins, and many other natural reserves.

4. It’s not too costly. Belize and other places in Central and South America are one of the few places where the dollar is still strong! After our wedding and our plans to buy a house, we’ll probably be strapped on cash so it would be nice to go somewhere where the dollar can stretch a bit more so we can have a nice honeymoon!!

So yeah, those are the main reasons why we’re considering Belize. We tossed around the idea of Bora Bora or Fiji as well but it seems like everyone is going there. It would be nice to stay in one of those overwater huts though! :) Very pricey though…maybe one day! Any thoughts on Belize?

FAQs about a guy who has no sense of smell
Drinking a cup of black tea once a day reduces your risk of Parkinson’s Disease by 71% – this is good to know especially if it runs in your family!
How to make a bag in an hour – i have no excuse not to make one!
Guess a person’s crime by their mugshot – some funny pics
Countries ranked by current account balances – i’m not surprised we’re in last but it’s definitely surprising to see the other countries compared to us. we’re POOR!

I love eating clam chowder and other soups in a bread bowl. But where do you buy the bowls?! Now you can make your own using Pillsbury refrigerated biscuits (which are probably very unhealthy but OH SO GOOD!).

How to make these biscuit bowls:

1. Lightly crumple several 25×12-inch sheets of foil into 3 1/2-inch balls. Set the balls onto cookie sheets.
2. Press or roll each biscuit into a 5 1/2-inch circle.
3. Place each circle of biscuit dough over a foil ball. Shape gently to fit around the foil, forming a bowl shape. Make sure the dough does not touch the surface of the cookie sheet.
4. Bake at 350 degrees F. for 15 to 18 minutes or until golden brown. Carefully remove biscuit bowls from foil balls.

Yummy!!!

Click here to watch/listen to this awesome track created by 2 iPhones and a Nintendo DS. Very impressive!

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Create music with your DS using Electroplankton