Pho Ao Sen

You all know how much we love pho, right? If you don’t know what pho is or you didn’t read my last post on it, here is a refresher. In short, it is a bowl of absolute heaven. One of my favorite things in the world is going to get pho with Matt, Dave and Andrea and just chatting it up while we enjoy our little bowl of yumminess. Up until last week, we only frequented this one little hole in the wall Vietnamese restaurant by Fiesta Mall. Last week, one of my coworkers recommended this place on Dobson and Baseline. He said it had better pho than this other place that we go to. I believed him. I mean he is Vietnamese, so he should know.* Matt, Dave, Andrea and I went this place and it was visually a treat. The décor was very hip, charming and relaxing. So far, so good.

We ordered some appeteezers and some pho. To tell you the truth, I couldn’t taste the difference. It was really good. The only difference between this place and the other place were the prices and the ambiance. The prices for the items here were about 1 or 2 bucks more than at the other place. We were all able to eat (drinks, appeteezers, and pho) for around $30. Not bad. We were paying for a nicer place and a faster waiter. I think you have to wait an hour at the other place before a waiter comes to give you refills or your bill.

All in all, I really liked this place. And how can you not like a place with a slogan like:

“Pho Ao Sen: Simply PHO’nomenal”

We are going to NYC over Memorial Day weekend, so we are planning to hit up some great restaurants over there, including a Vietnamese one that I read about, so I will be posting more pho goodness.


* I feel like I need to say that I am just kidding, in case someone who doesn’t know me reads this and thinks I’m a complete ass. My friends know I was just channeling my inner Michael Scott.

T.G.I.T.

Thank goodness it’s Thursday…my favorite day of the week! I haven’t posted anything in awhile. I know it was about month ago (can you believe how fast time flies?) but I think I am still trying to get over my vacation. Anyway, why exactly do I love Thursdays? Three reasons: The Office, Lost, and I get every other Friday off so that means I get to stay up late. As you may know, I am a night owl (but I don’t have worms,) so I enjoy the times when I can stay up late just frittering time away... plus who can deny a night where we can get both our Jim Halpert and Jack Shephard on? Not I.

Here’s a picture of my favorite island that we visited on this cruise. It’s St. Johns. The only thing that would make today better would be me, Matt and the puppies lying on this beach all day and then retreating to our bungalow to watch Office and Lost. Ah, a girl can dream, can’t she?

P.S. I just wanted to throw a major thanks to Andrea for that last post. I read that on our flight back from FL and got all teary. She’s the best GD friend a girl could ask for.

Happy Anniversary!!!

Happy 1 Year Anniversary to Matt and Eunice! I couldn't have been happier that two of my best friends were married one year ago on April 14th, 2007!! Dave and I wish nothing but the best for the both of you and although you won't get to read this until next week, I wanted to post a little something to tell you guys that we love you and couldn't be happier for you! We wish you many-many more happy years together!!

Tomorrow is MY Pretzel Day!

Have you guys ever had a time when you’ve had something on your mind and you can’t do any work because you just keep thinking about that one thing and it’s like you can’t do anything else until you get this one thing out of your system? Well, I am going through that right now, except it’s been going on for like this whole week. It’s a disease that can only be cured by one thing and that thing is new Office. The Office returns tomorrow and Thursday’s will be right again and I couldn’t be any giddier! It’s like I am a chubby kid who was forced to go to some horrible fat camp by their parents and today is the last day of fat camp and all chubby kid can think about is the pantry full of ding-dongs and twinkies and ho-hos that await him when he gets home. There hasn’t been an hour this week that Andrea and I haven’t emailed each other with “squees” or speculation or just to express how extremely ecstatic we are for the show to return. I can’t wait for all the Jim and Pam goodness that awaits us (please Greg Daniels, at least give us that), the Michael/Jan awkwardness that will follow after what happened on “The Deposition”, and I’m still waiting for Dwight to show us what a warrior he is and how he will rise like a phoenix after Angela burned him.

Welcome back, Office! We missed ya.

Once

Matt and I watched the movie Once about a couple of months ago and I haven't been able to get it out of my head. It is a lovely little independent movie that deals with music, love and inspiration and was really beautifully shot. It is about meeting that person that inspires you to do more. This movie has a lot of music but is more than a musical. Confusing, right? What I mean by that is that the two main characters are musicians so we get to hear a lot of thier music but it's not a traditional musical where we hear the characters sing responses to each other which can get annoying. The way the music appears in this movie is really natural.

Speaking of the music in this movie, I have to say I loved it. About three weeks ago, Matt bought me the soundrack and I can't get enough of it. I have to admit, I'm a little obsessed with the soundtrack right now. It has beautiful songs such as the Oscar winning "Falling Slowly", which I must say, it was awesome to see them win. (Gotta love an Irish lad who says "Tanks!". I know he wasn't going for a joke there but it still made me laugh.) That isn't the only great song on the CD. The whole soundrack is a keeper. Some of my other favorites are "Lies", "If You Want Me", "Leave", "Say It To Me Now" and my personal favorite "You Must Have Fallen From the Sky".

On April 10th, Thursday's Are Right Again.

I just saw this promo of the upcoming season and had to post it. I know what you're thinking, "Ugh, more Office stuff". It's my blog so suck it.



This is all just footage of their first days back filming and it makes me extremely happy inside to know they are back filming the show. Also, I just read a spoiler that made me giddy beyond belief. It has nothing to do with Jim and Pam or anything like that but it's something that makes this basketball girl's heart very happy. (Shannon, I know you are just getting into The Office this season and you haven't seen the "Basketball" episode from season one, which you really need to watch because it's funny, but this casting side for an upcoming episode that I just read is right up our alley.)

Learning to Walk

So, Matt's been really into hiking the past couple of years and he's decided that he wants to take the dogs with him. He is scared that the rugged terrain will cut their little paws so he researched doggie shoes (yes, this shiz really exists) and he finally found some he liked and he thought would work well with hiking. This is what the shoes look like:

In theory, once you put them on your buddy, the dog should look as happy as this one:

In reality, the shoes bug the crap out of your dog and they can barely walk in them. I guess it takes some time for them to get used to the shoes. The first time Matt put the shoes on Daisy, I was at work, so Matt recorded it for me so I could see it when I got home. Now, I think I should say that I don't want to put them on her anymore because you can tell she doesn't like them, but I am posting the video because it was quite funny. It reminds me of those videos on the Discovery Channel that show newborn giraffes and cows learning how to walk. Enjoy!