The price is right!

In an effort to help us Gawain win the Biggest Loser competition , I have been trying to buy more veggies and fruits. Just 5 servings is an easy one point. Actually we really like veggies and fruits any way, and tried to eat plenty before the competition. I'm sure you know that they aren't exactly cheap.

Enter Lee's Market.

A couple of months ago we were at a party and some friends told us about this market where all of the produce is really, really cheap. Like they had bought 2 avocados for like a dollar. Dude! I had just bought one avocado that day for like 2 dollars! They said that it was in White Center and I should check it out.

Ok, I have a confession to make. I am TOTALLY TERRIFIED of White Center.

Yes, it is basically only 2 blocks from my house, but seriously, it is like one of the ghettos of Seattle. You only have to say "White Center" and people you are talking to are like "Ohhh...." like "Oh dear I can't believe you are still alive." Like seriously, in the first couple of months that we lived here, our car was broken into 3 times, the second time, the stereo and speakers were stolen and the third time the starter was destroyed in an effort to start and steal the car. The main drag of white center has at least 3 porno shops, which like to display the nativity scene at Christmas time and there is just overall general seedy-ness. I hate to stereotype, but, there you go.

ANYWAY, I decided since times are tough and money is tight I would overcome my fear and go to this Lee's market and check out the produce.

Pictured below is a typical trip to the market. Please guess how much I spent.

Go on, guess!

Can you believe everything pictured above (except the dog) was only $9.10???? I'm serious! I can barely believe it myself!

It works like so:

Already bagged things are $1.25. Anything not bagged is either 3 for a $1 or 2 for $1 or some insanely cheap amount per lb. In fact, I go in there so often, sometimes the nice lady behind the counter just lets me have stuff for free (like a single jalapeno pepper or a tiny little thing of ginger). There is a catch, in that they don't always have the same things (like for a while they had a giant bag of romaine hearts for $1.25, haven't seen that in a while) but if you aren't picky they have lots of stuff to enjoy. The best thing we've found twice now is a bag of about 50 key limes for $1.25. at the store 1 lb (about 30 limes) is 4.99, and it takes 22 limes to make our favorite dessert. The quality is actually suprisingly good for the price you are paying. I see them outside pulling off the bad bits of lettuce and bok choy and just putting the good stuff in bags. They may be smoking while they are doing it, but hey, I wash it all of when I get home anyway, right?

Here's to hoping you have something as equally awesome in a ghetto neighborhood close to you!

In which I geek out on you

A couple of weeks ago I got an email from Gawain announcing that there was a raffle at work to go see the Battlestar Galactica series finale at the Science Fiction Museum!  Holy crap!  So awesome!!  We love Battlestar Galactica!  I emailed back as quick as I could type to enter right away.  He said he already had and our chances were pretty good since he was pretty sure there weren't many other awesome people (read: geeks) interested in such things.

A couple of days later, I got another email from Gawain:

CONGRATULATIONS!! 

The following employees will be placed on the VIP list for the season finale viewing of Battlestar Galactica on Friday, March 20 in the JBL Theater at the Science Fiction Museum:

Loi Nguyen
Gawain
Walt Glass
Bill Davis
Gemma Mercado

No tickets are necessary.  Your names will be on a VIP list at the Museum.

Oh my gosh!  So awesome!  We are on a VIP list?  We get to watch it on a big screen!  We may win fabulous prizes!  We are very excited to get to go.  Now, the only thing to decide is to dress up as characters, or just make a t-shirt and what should go on that t-shirt....(make sure to click on the pictures so you can get the full effect and make an educated vote)

Should we go as Apollo and Starbuck?

President Roslin and Admiral Adama?

or Gaius Baltar and Caprica 6?

Or what is your fabulous idea for a t-shirt?  We are getting excited! (also because Gawain's parents are going to let the Professor spend the night at their house...yippiee we get to sleep in!)

The story of a boy and a girl

******WARNING!: THIS IS A BONAFIED OOEY GOOEY MUSHY LOVEY DOVEY POST! IF SUCH THINGS MAKE YOUR STOMACH TURN PLEASE LEAVE, I DO NOT LIKE CLEANING UP VOMIT!**********

Boy meets girl



Girl becomes crazy stalker-like obsessed over boy



Boy leaves on 2 year mission



Girl tries to forget boy, but just can't



Boy comes home to find girl engaged to someone else (hey, he told me not to wait!)



Girl and "other man" break up(Not because of boy, but it could have been....)



Boy woos girl



Girl didn't really need to be wooed, but is wooed right away



Boy proposes to girl



Girl is estatic! All her dreams are coming true!



Boy and girl are married(married!)



Boy and girl live happily ever after.....



The end!(or the beginning?)



Happy fifth wedding anniversary Gawain!
I hate to say it this way, but you are my dream come true
I love you!
(Hey, I said at the beginning, if you didn't like the mush, then head for the hills!)

*note: Our anniversary was actually Feb 21...sorry Gawain...I couldn't find all of the pictures I wanted!

The Monster Zucchini

Gawain has been very diligent this year and cleaned up the yard and planted a garden. Its been great to enjoy the fruits of his labor all summer. We've been enjoying zucchini, eight ball squash, cucumbers and tomatoes. Soon to be enjoyed are butternut squash and pumpkins! We accidently let this one go and look what happened!



Someone decided to come in with the monster zucchini. I promptly screamed, took a picture, and then killed it. Slugs must die!

Who knew Nine Inch Nails could sound so good?

So when the Professor came home, since we love music so much we knew that we would have to instill this love for it in him as well. We also didn't own any lullaby type things to lull him to sleep with, so I just created a playlist on my ipod that had things like Dido, Coldplay, Jack Johnson, U2 and John Mayer on it. Gawain quickly got tired of listening to this playlist and decided to take the matter into his own hands. After searching the internet this is what he came up with:



That's right. He totally found hard rockin' songs in a lullaby format! They sound pretty neat, and what's more, Professor X loves them! We now have in our possession the lullaby formats of Green Day, Nine Inch Nails, Coldplay, Bob Marley, and No Doubt. We found that you could have lullaby renditions of Slayer songs, but decided that NIN was as hard as we were going for our baby.

Green Day totally rocks!!!