Went to Benihana restaurant today. The $30 coupon is a really good deal. Makes me want to sign up with another e-mail address so I can get another coupon. Would that be evil of me? >_>;
Month: January 2011
DMV Morning
Today is my birthday and to celebrate it I went to the DMV in the morning. My driver’s license expired and my new one didn’t arrive in the mail. The check cleared 3 weeks prior, but I have nothing to show if I get pulled over. Even if the chances of getting pulled over is slim, I don’t want to risk it.
It only took me less than 5 minutes to get my temporary license, but 1 hour and 15 minutes to wait in line for it. I got there 15 minutes after they opened, too. Too bad there isn’t a line for people whose business takes them only all of 3 minutes. I would have been in and out in a flash.
This made me late for work, and my chiropractor appointment. This also meant no time for a free breakfast at Denny’s. Darn.
All the chain restaurants want you to sign up for their mailing list these days. The one restaurant that I did get a birthday coupon to has Friday, Saturday, Sunday blackout dates. Darn you, Benihana! …I’m still going to Benihana because it’s a good coupon! $30 off!
The best I could do on a short notice was a free guacamole coupon for El Torito. Dragged Adamu and Penny with me for lunch.
For dinner, Adamu and I did nothing. Both of us were too full from lunch. Well, we did go to Mousse Fantasy for cake. I had the chocolate cake, and Adamu the chocolate mousse cake.
Best part of my day, I found out in the freezer section of Nijiya were jars and jars of Niijima kusaya! It’s very expensive for $14, but if I ever get the munchies for fermented fish, I know where to go now!
Norton Simon
Today was the one year anniversary since I started dating Adamu. We decided to go to the Norton Simon Museum. Well, I decided that because I saw the museum on TV from the Rose Parade. Adamu took a day off.
Since we got there late (drama at home, and stuff), we only got to see the South and Southeast Asian art along with the Hiroshige wood block prints.
After the museum closed, I demanded that we pay a visit to the Apple Store on Colorado Blvd to beg the gods of Apple Computers to grant me a Verizon iPhone. I don’t know if it worked.
Dinner was at the Cheesecake Factory. I haven’t eaten there in years. Lunch was at In-N-Out.
Cookies!!
I baked mint chocolate chip cookies. I gave some to Laura and the Wassermans. The ants got the rest.
Ok. I didn’t throw away the ant infested cookies, but slowly eating them instead. My dad said that they weren’t attacking the cookies just yet. I think he was lying to me so I would eat them. After a year of eating expired foods, I don’t think a bunch of ants crawling over cookies is going to hurt me.
Happy New Year 2011!!
This year, I spent my New Year’s Eve over at the Papa and Mama W’s house. It’s where baby Ume was as well. They made a lot of food for not that many people. Adamu was invited as well.
Before we even went there, I had to prepare the osechi to eat on New Year’s Day. I prepared burdock root, lotus root (frozen), satoimo (frozen), dried shiitake, atsuage (which I found is called tofu cutlet in English), konnyaku, snow peas, and carrots. Adam watched me stumble around the kitchen. He really couldn’t help me as the instructions were in Japanese. I got it out from Kyou-no-Ryouri magazine.
I finished cooking at around 9:30 PM.
Mama and Papa W are always nice. Since I drove, I didn’t want to drink too much. Since Adamu drove from L.A., he didn’t drink much either. Since my mom was looking over baby, she didn’t drink much either as well. There was a lot of food to eat, too. Deep fried wontons, latkas, shrimps, crab and cheese stuffed mushrooms. At my mom’s suggestion, I brought cake from Italian Tomato, green tea tiramisu. I don’t think it had any mascapone cheese. I left them some sake for New Year’s Day.
Franklin was there and I had to make fun of his constant attention to his new smart phone. We also took turns playing Angry Birds on it. Heheh.
One thing I was surprised about was Dick Clark being on television. I had forgotten that he suffered a stroke. It sounded like he had a tough time speaking, but it was cool (and creepy) that he still wanted to host.
I think we left around 2 AM. Adamu left immediately after we got back to my place.
I didn’t go to sleep until 4 AM.
I woke up at 8:30 AM to begin cooking ozouni. I finished around 10:30. It came out good. We also ate the osechi I made the night before. My dad thought it was too light, but he likes his food salty. We also busted out the sake, too. Happy new year! Kanpai!
