Patiently awaiting....

I know you are all bursting with fruit flavors awaiting the results for the
Twin's Stadium Name-Off.
Please keep waiting, Mystery Judge has not given me the results yet. MJ is a very busy person and has better things to do then succumb to my randomisity. But MJ is kindly playing along.

But here is a little teaser, put your thinking caps on and think deep thoughts about my new contest:

Name the New "Dome" Dog

The Omnivore's Hundred

Here is a list detailing 100 foods every omnivore should try. I got the idea from my new favorite food blogger Someone's in the Kitchen with Brina.

The official rules are:
1) Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.
2) Bold all the items you’ve eaten. (I put them in red)
3) Cross out any items that you would never consider eating. (I will try anything once, so nothing is crossed out for me)

The Omnivore's Hundred:
1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp (and i harpooned it myself!)
9. Borscht (love me some beets!)
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari
12. Pho (my favorite comfort food)
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart
16. Epoisses
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn, or head cheese (yum)
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper (loved every burning minute of it!)
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters (STELLA!)
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut (slather my Dome Dog)
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar (I've had both but not together)
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects
43. Phaal
44. Goat's milk (this is all i drank until the age of 5)
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
46. Fugu
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone
54. Paneer
55. McDonald's Big Mac Meal
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini (my favorite chic drink)
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips
61. S'mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin
64. Currywurst
65. Durian
66. Frogs' legs (what didnt i eat in china?)
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini (heaven)
73. Louche absinthe (Red Dragon's Wondrous Punch! CRAAAZZZZY!!)
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill (i know, i know)
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
78. Snail
79. Lapsang souchong
80. Bellini
81. Tom yum
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant. (someday i will go to French Laundry and do this)
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare (that was the road kill)
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse ( i probably have and didnt even know it...)
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam (and puked every last bit of it up!)
92. Soft shell crab
93. Rose harissa
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake

Just the facts...

I said I would get back to "real" blogging so here you go. Last week was a good week. The things at work that were not so good have gotten better. Relief. I can't even remember all that I did last week, but i was fairly busy. The interesting part starts Friday when I was invited out by some cool teachers at my school. I guess they think I'm a swell girl so my presence at their happy hour was crucial. Special. I can't write about it because:

A) I work with these people

B) I work with these people

Let's just say it was all very interesting, fun, but very interesting. I like them.

Saturday I went with Kelly to visit Auntie Lori. We also went to an art fair where I bought this bowl, made by Kelly's BFF Sarah's sister Emily. Did that make sense?

And then Lori bought me this rad round red bracelet.

Then I got this henna art on my hand.

No wonder the cool teachers want me around.

I finally got to meet Coach, Lori's wonder dog, but I prefer to call him Craig T. Nelson. Get it?

If all that wasn't fun enough Lori took us out for Mexican and tequila and drank us under the table.

Lori, pain free and livin' large. PTL!

I also went to a girl's party of some of Kelly's high school\college friends and guess who surprised us, Heather of the EO!!! Now this is a little known fact I discovered about Heather and I. When little kids are naughty and say inappropriate things like "I drink poop", instead of keeping a strait face and being mature we bust up laughing. Well when its not your child, sorry... it's funny.

It was a fantabulous weekend. That is a real word, fantabulous. I was told recently by someone. But I can't say who.

Overheard:

Lori: I think I'm going to grow my hair out.

Kelly: But you told me to never let you do that.

Lori: Well I just want to grow out the back.

Kelly: And?

Lori: You know and have it flip out.

Kelly: Do you know what that is called?

Lori: No, what?

Kelly: It's called a Mullet.

Love. My. Family.

Time to go read some Sci-Fi, in my hammock, all the while pretending my yard doesn't need to be mowed and that those glares I'm getting from my neighbors are really love stares.

Some crazy for a Saturday....

I like Santogold. I like this song, L.E.S Artistes. This video blows my mind.

On the road again....

I will be taking a lil' road trip with my cuz cuz K this weekend. Off to the wild wild west, sans Will Smith. I will be back Monday with results from the Twin's Stadium Name-Off. According to the Mystery Judge as of right now he is kinda digging The Mary Kate and Ashley Olson Stadium (Go Ellen!)... but he has yet to see the final list of names. There could yet still be an upset.
See youz allz on Monday.

********Still time to guess********

Pick a new Twin's Stadium name (see previous post) and win a $5 Caribou Gift Card.
Contest closes Friday, September 19th at 11:57pm
*****There will be a mystery guest judge. Aren't you dying to know who!********

Don't Call it a Comeback...

I been here for years... Does anyone know that tune? So I'm back and ready to get my blog on.
K & K and I have been emailing back n' forth new names for the Twin's Stadium. I believe it will be called Target Field or something lame like that once it is finished...
These are a few that we came up with... So far Kelly is in the lead with the best name:
Paul Bunyan Ball Park!
These are a few other ones we came up with:
Spam Stadium
Dayton's Dome (ok that is what i would've named the current dome)
3M Field
General Mills Park
Ballpark of America
Nut Goody Park
Jenne-O Field (you lose we let Turkeys out in your dugout -KAV)
Getdney Pickle Park

If you can come up with a better name then Kelly's Paul Bunyan Ball Park you will win a prize...
Play Ball!