Diary of a Low Budget Superhero

It's three minutes to midnight on Thursday. I've sipped my last drink of water until after my ultrasound in the morning. Gotta go in on an empty stomach.

Ultrasound?

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Well, that was an interesting three days. Interesting, frustrating, annoying three days.

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After the hubbub died down and things were quieter, Joe's mom contrived to get me alone, because she had something very important to tell me.

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I just spent some more time looking at the Cakewrecks site. PK posted it on Facebook a few months ago and I can't help checking in periodically to see what hell flour, eggs and butter hath wrought.

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I didn't bake so much as a brown-and-serve turd.

But oh my GOD, there's some holiday baking catastrophe going on over at Cakewrecks. I'm not even going to write any more. Except that this one is my favorite, and with this, I leave you to your day...

One of my two favorite local sushi places is gone. I have said for the last time "Joey, let's go to Unpronounceable!" I know we and our ilk are to blame...everyone who used to go out to eat without a thought that just doesn't anymore. In this economy, frugality reigns, baby!

Heh. All day today I have felt like being home instead of at work. Home with Joe, keeping warm and playing Wii games and cuddling. But I didn't get home until 8.

Right now it's 10:30, we have dined on Pear and Gorgonzola salads, and we're watching Andrew Zimmern's Bizarre Foods. Well, I am watching it, Joe is drifting in and out of snoozeville. How do you fall asleep when the Zimmern just ate some Pit Viper Ice Cream and said he's gonna be coming back from commercial to eat Pig Windpipe and giant fish eyeballs? Wake up, Joey! This couch may be just a bit TOO comfortable -- I'd never known him to fall asleep on the couch before. And he LOVES Andrew Zimmern.

Last time he fell asleep too, and Andrew Zimmern was eating in Ethiopia. Joe loves Ethiopian food! He once dated a lovely Nubian princess who taught him to make a few signature dishes. I never met her but I have a good sense for people, and I can tell this one is as true and good as she is beautiful, and the fact that Joe can still cook the dishes means she did a good job showing him. Too bad Joe slept through Zimmern trying Tibs and injera and fit fit! Mmmm, Tibs and injera. Tibs is a tomatoey kind of beef stew. Injera is this kind of flat bread, and like naan in Indian cuisine, you eat the main course WITH the bread. Scoop it up with your fingers, I mean, sans fork. Injera is so filling, we always order too much, forgetting how dense it is. Last time, putting some into my mouth with his fingers, Joe told me it's a sign of respect to feed someone by hand. That's what Andrew Zimmern reported too, whadda ya know.

I wonder how much the Italians influenced the Ethiopian cooking? Because it seems fairly Italian-esque to me. Delicious, tomatoey, saucy. There's been a lot of bad strife between Ethiopia and Italy, but isn't it hard, even when you're being invaded by another country, to NOT get influenced by that culture? Eritrea was once all Italian. Eritrea...those guys are kinda like...troublemakers, dude.

I should look it up. I'll do that.

I could see traveling around the horn of Africa for awhile. See some wild elephants and stuff. It looks breathtakingly beautiful on TV.

Speaking of TV shows, there's a new entry up in the "TV" category.