A Thousand Miles From The Place I Was Born

As I mentioned in my previous post, CCB is here for the weekend. We have been pretty busy and my Google Reader has been mightily neglected, so in case you were wondering if I was still alive, HERE I AM!!! Things are going great!!! And since I only have about 30 more hours with CCB, this will be the last you’ll hear from me for a day or two. But before I go, here’s a little sampler of what our weekend has been like:

• We had a lovely dinner sans Lauren at our favorite sushi joint, Tsunami, where I enjoyed my favorite Don Juan roll with the eel sauce that comes with it, and the sweet/spicy sauce from the DTH roll.  It makes your eyes roll back in your head, people… it’s THAT good.
• We discovered that Ryan Adams and Mandy Moore are engaged.  While we love, love, LOVE Ryan Adams, we’re scratching our heads over the engagement.  Partially because we heard they had broke up, partially because every picture we’ve seen of the two of them makes it look like Mandy can barely tolerate his presence, and partially because The Hell, Ryan?  You’re so cool and she’s so… Mandy Moore.
• We caught up on our TiVo’d episodes of Lost.  I know I say this after every single episode, but… um… WTF?
• We also saw this on The Soup that made us laugh our butts off:

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• We had a great Valentine’s Day dinner party with Lauren and some friends.  I made something that is my monthly Daring Bakers Challenge, and I can’t discuss it until the designated posting day, but suffice to say it was YUMMY and you will hear all about it very soon.
• We played the new Wii that CCB bought me for my birthday (because I’ve been dying for the Wii Fit) and Lauren kicked all of our butts at bowling.  I’m not even kidding.
• Oh, and we may or may not have visited a couple of jewelers.  No big deal, nothing purchased.  But it’s a start!