Haagen-Dazs

...Frozen Yogurt and five ice cream are SO yummy! The best froyo flavors we've tried are the Dulce de Leche, Vanilla Rasperry and Vanilla Honey & Granola. We also recently tried the five Brown Sugar flavor and it was really great. They're not super-low calorie, but they're really not bad considering how good they are. Totally worth it!

At the Movies

I am really feeling the need to discuss something that has become socially acceptable that I really don't understand. Since when is it okay to ask people to move down at the movies so that everyone in their group can sit in your row together? I CANNOT stand that. Last night we went to a movie and when we sat down, there was one seat between me and the people next to me, and two seats between Matt and the people next to him. When the movie was about 10 minutes away, this girl comes up and asks us if we can move down two seats so she and her two friends could sit together. Wtf? There were a shitload of seats available, but they just wanted to sit in our row. So then, at this point, we're practically in the middle of the row which I hate because I like to sit on or as close to the aisle as possible so I can leave easily during the movie in case I need to go to the bathroom or get a refill or something. Then, just before the movie starts, some woman goes to the end of our row and starts shouting and asking everyone to move down one seat so that she and her husband could sit together on their date night. Like 10 people were going to have to move down. We ignored her and I think the people next to us did too. I feel like once in a while this is acceptable if the theater is really packed and there really are no seats available and the previews have already started and you just want people to sit down and stop pacing up and down the stairs. But when there's a ton of empty seats and people just want to sit in a certain row? I really think that's NOT ok. I really wish we had a movie theater with assigned seating here.

Cupkates

We were on Fourth Street the other day and the Cupkates truck was there. I've been wanting to try their cupcakes since I first heard about them, so I was really excited. We tried their S'mores and Vanilla flavors and both were good, but the S'mores was pretty awesome. It had marshmallow on top, a chocolate cupcake and a graham cracker crust on the bottom. Yum! The only problem was that when we asked for a fork, they told us they didn't have any. Why? Because the city of Berkeley won't let them. Of course. Apparently you can't have any eating utensils, even if they are disposable, in your food service truck if you don't have a dishwasher. Whatever. I really, really, really hate Berkeley.

Hoarders

Since there's pretty much nothing on TV on Saturday nights and we only have Tivo in our living room, we resorted to seeing what On Demand had to offer last night. We came across Hoarders, a show that profiles people with hoarding disease, and man is it fucked up to watch. Seriously, it's so freaky and sad that it's almost unwatchable, but we couldn't tear ourselves away. The creepiest one was probably the cat lady, who not only had a house full of shit, but took in a crapload of cats who pretty much all ended up having babies in her house. Basically, she lost track of how many cats she actually had because there was so much shit in her house, and her neighbors ended up calling Animal Control on her. They came and got as many cats as they could find out of her house and they took 80 cats away and - get this - half of them were dead. As in, they found a bunch of cat skeletons. SO fucked! Another profile was about a compulsive shopper mom whose kids got taken away from her because of the unsanitary living conditions in her home. When the people came to clean out her house for her, she was going through all the crap and couldn't bear to part with a Slurpee cup. Yeah. And after she pretty much had her entire house cleaned out for her, she still didn't have her kids back six months later because she still hadn't parted with the 1400 boxes of shit she was supposed to get rid of that was in storage. Holy crap, it was crazy.

If you're okay with watching situations that make you really uncomfortable, I'd give Hoarders a try. But don't watch it late at night because after watching it, I couldn't fall asleep!

The Blue Angels kick ass!

Don't get me wrong, I'm way too lazy to go anywhere near San Francisco during fleet week, but one of the benefits of working in the city, is for the few days leading up to fleet week, the Blue Angels fucking strafe my office. It's super loud and pretty disturbing, but so awesome at the same time. It's insane to think of the stuff that they do, and it's pretty cool to see the underside of their planes just a few hundred feet over our heads. Here's to forced nationalism, the glorification of warfare, and flying really fucking fast.

Halloween Costumes

I'm someone that really appreciates a good Halloween costume and sometimes the bad ones are just as entertaining. Take the slutty Gryffindor student for example. Who would have thought that someone would think to make THAT into a trashy costume? And they even managed to make a slutty schoolgirl dog costume which I think is pretty funny. Then of course you have the kid dressed as a donkey and the bear with...its legs cut off? Not sure what that's all about.

Man Shops Globe

I was so stoked to find Man Shops Globe on On Demand. It's a show about Anthropologie's buyer at large Keith Johnson who goes to flea markets and fairs to gather their 'found' objects for their stores and catalogs. It's such a fun show and makes me want to shop SO badly! I've said for a long time that if I had unlimited funds I would totally re-furnish my house exclusively from Anthropologie. They have awesome housewares, furniture, art, bedding, etc. The show premieres on the Sundance Channel on 10/7 at 10 pm, but you can watch episodes On Demand before they air. Cool!

The bed below was featured in the first episode - after Keith bought it in France they reproduced it and are now selling it.