I have the day off today for Martin Luther King, though I dreamed last night that I went to work, and there were all these people there whom neither I nor my co-workers knew.
Finished a couple of drafts this week, a short story and an essay. It was pretty painful. I’ll take another look at them later this week. Now I’m working on one for The Nervous Breakdown, which should be more straightforward (hopefully).
MB and I saw True Grit last weekend. We both enjoyed it very much, despite the fire alarm that went off just at the start of the exciting third act. Luckily, they let us back in almost immediately, and didn’t have to wait too long for the film to start again. Plus we got free passes, woohoo!
The girl in the movie was excellent. The whole time I kept picturing her as Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games movie.
Had a burger for the first time in six months. At Fish & Farm. It was worth it.
I finally straightened out my health insurance. I signed up online. It was surprisingly easy. Now just waiting for my little card.
I talked to my mom and found out even more stuff about my grandmother. I think I’ve written about how she sold her dumplings, potstickers, and scallion pancakes out of her house in Berkeley for 25 cents each, and how people would come from all the Bay Area to buy them. Well, she used that dumpling money to pay off the mortgage of that Berkeley house (true, that was just a few hundred dollars a month, but still), and was able to save up enough to buy ANOTHER house in San Jose (with my aunt as a co-signer). I had no idea about that San Jose house, and just love the idea of Puo-puo as this entrepreneur.
There is a story here. I even have a title. But it’s a secret!
Watching cartoons. MB and I watch a lot of animated shows. Family Guy, American Dad, Archer, whatever anime that happens to strike our fancy and which is not too weird or crazy (currently, Ghost Hound), and new fave, Bob’s Burgers.
Lately we’ve been catching up on Metalocalypse. Last night MB said, “You’re not into metal and you’re not that into cartoons, but even you love Metalocalypse.”
I’m definitely not into heavy metal music, but not into cartoons?!?! Hey buddy, I was watching them WAY before I met you, and I’m not talking about Tom & Jerry or Bugs Bunny. Then I started trying to remember all the cartoons I’ve watched regularly as an adult, pre-MB, post-childhood:
- The Simpsons
- Beevis & Butthead
- King of the Hill
- Aeon Flux (when it was on late night MTV, not the Charlize Theron movie)
- South Park
- Dr. Katz
- Doug
- The Rugrats
- Hey, Arnold!
- Nick at Night (back when it was like a Robot Chicken that made sense)
- Arthur
- Angelina Ballerina
- Chibi Maruko-chan (a Japanese cartoon I first saw in China, would love to see it again)
Not into cartoons – ha!
Your grandmother sounds amazing! I don’t even want to do the maths to figure out how many dumplings she must have made every month; I am just in awe!
i know, right? her mortgage was pretty low – let’s say $300 a month – that’s 1200 dumplings, 40 a day, which actually is about one would make for a family dinner. but to do that every day – i can’t even imagine.