today i ate rutabaga.

while dinnering at palate food+wine with dan, mike and cat, we ordered a roasted rutabaga dish. i've never had it before, and it roasted very nicely and was quite tasty.

today i started reading the story of edgar sawtelle.

wikipedia says:

The novel is a retelling of Shakespeare's Hamlet in rural Wisconsin. The titular character is a mute boy who, after his father is killed, runs away from but then returns to his usurped home, hoping to prove his suspicions that his uncle murdered his father.

it's the third book i'm reading on my nook, after tokyo vice and eating animals.

today i saw coffee wearing a jacket

while lunching at LAMILLCOFFEE today in silverlake, dan ordered an "eva solo" coffee. this is the description on the menu:

In the industry, coffee tasting is called, ‘cupping’.  This brewing method creates a cup in the same extraction process that a professional coffee taster would use.

it came out in a little carafe with a jacket! that's got to be about as cute as coffee gets.

on a side note, we were at lamill to meet up with crystal - who i haven't seen since my freshman year of college! - and her boyfriend who recently moved to los angeles.

today i saw snuggies for dogs.

while doing some shopping at bed bath & beyond yesterday, we walked by a section of pet accessories and furnishings - and they had snuggies for dogs! how ridiculous is that?

today i had a beer float.

juney and lucy had another tasting for their grain venture, and mike supplied the beer. lucy made an almond gelato which mike paired with a sour cherry belgian ale to make a super delicious beer float. the other foods were delicious as well!

today i watched the princess and the frog.

i think i stopped watching disney 2D animated movies after their rendition of hercules, and then they stopped making them not too many years after. i've been super excited for the princess and the frog (which i keep calling the princess and the pea for some reason) but kept holding off on watching it, but this week at work we finally received the screener for it. i felt it was great visually, though it kept reminding me of other movies, and i felt the music was just okay. definitely worth watching however.

today i saw my dad fly a helicopter.

it was just a little toy helicopter, but he was having so much fun and had the happiest expression on his face like a little kid.

today i learned to ice skate backwards.

well, kinda. dan had attempted to teach me once a year earlier, and i wasn't very good at it at all. in fact, if he weren't pushing, i couldn't move more than a few inches backwards. we decided to go skating tonight and i was much better this time! i'm still not great, and my feet get out of synch pretty easily, but i was able to pull him around the rink a couple times (a very slow couple of times). i did manage to take one pretty nasty fall, though that was while skating forwards - and now i have some lovely bruised knees to show for it.

today i had mee krob.

ah, mee krob. i've seen it on menus of many thai restos before, but never ordered it. i don't know if it's a real thai dish (in the sense that, for example, chop suey isn't a real chinese dish and completely made up), but it sure is tasty.

today i saw mark mcgwire confess to steroid use.

it's a sad, sad day.