Maybe I've had too much real Italian food and my taste buds are starting to get acclimatized... but the grilled shrimp caprese at olive garden was not all I hoped it would be. I mean it was good...the shrimp was grilled well...but it was either too garlicky or too salty or too cheesy. Or maybe all of the above. I think Olive Garden has been making their pastas too saucy, at least the one here, and this detracts from their dishes. Oh well. 

This may be the last of the spring pictures because it should be clear that winter has lost the battle. And all these freakish cold days are just desperate cries for attention. Really, the only season winter can beat is fall.

The march towards spring continues. Take that winter! Despite all your best efforts i wore flip flops yesterday and i hear the crows and other birds returning as i text.

Here's to hoping that this is the movie where a Harry Potter film lives up to or surpasses the book...Also, I just wanted to try out this live streaming of a trailer. I know, I played right into their marketing strategy.

[The Hulu live trailer was here when it was...well, live. See youtube link below for the trailer.]

Edit: So the trailer is epic, more epic than the previous trailers for this movie. And I know the book was epic (HBP is one of my favorites in the series). So the question remains, will the movie be epic too?

More evidence i've collected to prove to myself that this is just a cold spring, but spring nonetheless.

I'm starting a new segment where I blog about what I've downloaded on eMusic this month. When I first joined eMusic, I wasn't sure if I'd eventually run out of things to download, 50 seemed high, but I figured I'd try it out, and as soon as it started to get hard, I'd cut back to 30 a month. That was October 2007. Two and a half years later, I'm still finding tonnes of stuff to download, and if I had 75 downloads available this month, I think I would have used it up. This is not to say that I'm completely happy with eMusic. I would prefer a rollover system, where my unused downloads rollover to another month, at least for 3 months. I'm also unhappy with their customer service, which is practically nonexistent, and when you do find someone, they're unsufferably rude. But enough, I digress.

I just had an amazing 6 oz filet topped with steak butter and haricot vert at jim gould. If it weren't an etiquette dinner, I'd have taken my camera out to take a picture. Steak should always taste just like that.

So my rug crocheting project is on hold because I'll be crocheting blankets! Now I know I have a number of options. I can go the granny square route, which has maximum portability and is kinda fun. I did, however, stumble upon these two adorable patterns:

Maybe i just want to believe, but dandelions are a sure fire sign of spring!

Today i spotted the first signs of spring. Yay! I'd be in a good mood - but ranting blog post to come later.