Last Saturday I lost my glasses. I looked all over the house for the damn things to no avail. I figured if they were at the house the cleaning ajumma would find them. Alas, it was not to be. I even went back to the last bar I had visited that night but no luck (they didn’t speak English there so I had to do that whole hilarious pantomime routine). Anyway, this morning they appeared out of the blue in the gap between my nightstand and the bed. A place I know I had looked for them at least twice. That’s the thing about losing your glasses, you need them to find them.
Yeah, I know this is without a doubt the most lame post I have ever written. Don’t hate me because my life is full of such wonder and excitement.
Actually, I have been wearing my three year old glasses all week. Other than having no depth perception and barely being able to read typeface on the computer monitor they still work fine.
Funny thing is I went 11-1 in dart legs this week and threw enough marks to move back into the top spot in my division. Hopefully I am out of my slump as we have the stretch run coming up and our team is 8 legs out of first. Now I just have to decide which glasses to wear Monday night.
On a topic that is more interesting than my eyewear (to me at least) I am hosting a small dinner party tonight. I am having the Korean friends who took me to the soju hut a couple of weeks ago over. Menu includes tossed salad with all the fixin’s, sweet taters, and grilled rib eye steak. Appetizers will be polish sausage (also cooked on the grill) and boiled shrimp. For dessert I am baking a carrot cake which I will serve with vanilla ice cream. My plan is that they will leave knowing why Americans are so fat.
John…that menu sounds great. The Goat is quite a wheel in the kitchen as well, so in the spirit of the Iron Chef, I would like to propose a head to head match up where the secret ingredient is ……….. drum roll ……… KIMCHI!! …. cymbal crash…
Kimchi is the shrimp of the earth. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, sautee it. There’s, um, kimchi kebabs, kimchi creole, kimchi gumbo, pan fried, deep fried, stir fried. There’s pineapple kimchi and lemon kimchi, coconut kimchi, pepper kimchi, kimchi soup, kimchi stew, kimchi salad, kimchi and potatoes, kimchi burger, kimchi sandwich… That’s, that’s about it.
Yeah, nothing that that “Bubba Gump” kimchi. I actually have some kimchi in the fridge, I just need to remember to break it out. Hmmm, kimchi in the sweet taters instead of butter and cinnamon, that could work!
I can pretty much make anything with even the tiniest amount of kimchi. For example, I only need a microscopic amount to make my Thai red curry chicken with pineapples and mushroom taste wonderful. On the other side, John does make a really mean carrot cake I had the pleasure of a sample on Duke’s going away party. I least I think it was the creation of LTG…I was pretty damn pissed.
Anyways, where do you live? I am invading and taking all of your food.
I don’t remember the carrot cake? All I remember is alcohol and the fear of leaving. Now trying to find away to get kicked out of the USA and back to Korea.
Duke, glad to see you are still among the living. You need to come back if for no other reason than to redeem your current SIDL ranking.
Hope you are well. We miss you.
Well not sure about my redeeming my status, will need to get some practice in before I do that. Have played a couple of times here in soft tip leagues and I do know I was more challenged there. So you never know, maybe get lucky and another job will open up and move back. haha