First class baby

I flew to SF this week for work. I had never flown Virgin America before, so I thought I'd try them out, hearing good things. When I checked in on my SEA->SFO leg, the kiosk prompted me to upgrade to first class for $50. Hey, I'll pay $50 for that kind of new experience! It was awesome! Fully reclining seats with footrests and my own tv and full meals, free games and movies and booze (though none for me at 10am).

I also upgraded on the way back, this time with a jack and coke.

Late Sunday Night, No Time for a Good Title

It seems I haven't blogged a lot in the last few weeks. No real excuses here, but blogging has not been on my priority list. I think it's got something to do with Rebecca's macbook being busted and her using the battery from my macbook, because her battery is officially dead. My macbook has sat for a few weeks, and I still haven't set up my desktop. I've been stewing about a few things to post, and I guess I'll write about that later.

Rebecca mentioned that we joined Twitter. Yeah, we'll see how long this lasts. I already have one random follower after a day. Hopefully it won't be a complete waste. It's interesting so far, but I don't think I'm qualified to pass judgement on it.

McDonalds... like a Baobab tree. Yeah.

Really?

Like the unique African Baobab tree, which nourishes its community with its leaves and fruit, McDonald's has branched out to the African-American community nourishing it with valuable programs and opportunities.

Twitter quitter

You know what the kids are doing these days. Well, I don't either, I'm way old and almost 30, but I heard that Twitter is something that is popular. Bob has been wanting to sign up, so he did last night, so I did too.

Being in the internet marketing space, I know a few things about Twitter already - namely, that it has an abysmally low retention rate. About 70% of people that sign up don't return the next month. For comparison, Myspace and Facebook have about a 60-70% retention rate. This is all according to Nielsen.

So, will Bob and I join the ranks of twitter quitters? Unsure. But you can follow us:

Bob @jimmythesquid
Rebecca @neffbot

Cooking?

So, again with the time intensive hobbies in fits and starts (I'm sure one day, I will take up large loom weaving or something like that).

We acquired, through the generosity of Macy's gift cards as wedding gifts, a Le Creuset dutch oven. I really want to use this beautiful piece of cookware.

However, over the past few weeks I have attempted to "throw together" some recipes in the slow cooker from leftover ingredients. Let's just say that I do not have the necessary cooking chops to throw together anything. Or at least anything edible.

So, tonight I strictly followed this recipe for potato soup. It just finished simmering for 2 hours, and we tasted it... and honestly I don't think it is very good. I think I put too much onion in it. I don't know how much onion 1/2 lb. of onion is. Apparently it is not one whole huge onion. Probably something between a whole huge onion and no onion at all.

Also, 1% milk is not the same as heavy whipping cream. That is all.

Update: Letting the soup sit has made it more delicious. With tons of cheese and sour cream (which is how I'd eat it anyways), I say it is definitely edible.

Star trek! And crafting!

Bob and I are, courtesy of my employer, going to see Star Trek this afternoon on the big (imax) screen! Yay for a free movie at a better theater than we'd go to ourselves! We'd, of course, be going anyways.



Also, last night I indulged in some time away from the computer and instead made a new shirt! I followed this wonderful tutorial and it turned out exactly like the picture - but coral colored instead of white. It was lots of fun!

If you don't have a sewing machine handy, I would still recommend to you this tutorial on how to make a beautiful chrysanthemum-type flower brooch/pin/whatever. You can also just stop at step 3 and end up with a cool, messier-looking flower. All-in-all, a wonderful crafting evening with the gratification of a finished product that I'm wearing today :)

Posting need not be well thought out

So much has happened these past few weeks that was bloggable, I just haven't gotten over the hump of "I need to blog this... and this... and this... and now it will take too long to do it properly so I'm not going to post at all..."

Anyways, this weekend Bob and I went to Macy's and used our gift cards we got as wedding presents to buy some awesome houseware stuff. The reason we went this weekend was the friends/family sale, which gave us 25% off of nearly everything, so we were able to stretch our gift card money further and get more fluffy towel/sharp kitchen knife/small kitchen electric goodness.

Then, to celebrate, we cooked for most of our meals this weekend!

On top of the normal excitement that I get from buying things, the shopping trip was just a big blessing to us. We felt so grateful and blessed that people thought about us and gave us gift cards. We got to shop without spending any of our actual money. It was so awesome.