Last Friday I decided to make fried rice.  I found a pretty good fried rice recipe in the Taste of Home Cookbook a few months ago and I think I have the process pretty much down.  But first I forgot to pay attention to the rice and, um, oops.  Not so much with the able to use it.  So we went to the store to buy more rice.  When we got home I got busy preparing everything and discovered that I had also forgotten about the fact that I had thrown away our peas and carrotts mixed vegetables because of all of the times I let them thaw out completely by accident during the Dental Week of Hellishness.  Um.  Whoops again because I was not about to ask to go back to the store.  But! Guess what I discovered and you probably already knew?  Fried rice when made with frozen corn and broccoli is just as yummy as it is with peas and carrots! In fact, I’ll go out on a limb and say that Friday’s batch was my best batch yet!  I have decided to name it Summer Rice because the colors (yellow and green) were all pretty and summery.

On Saturday I learned that my vacuum cleaner is falling apart.  I learned this when it somehow melted through one of its “make the brush turn” knobby things which then became dislodged and got sucked part way up into the mechanism before the vacuum cleaner went all “hey! what the hell is that thing?!?” and decided to spit out incredibly hot chunks of plastic all over my freshly vacuumed carpet.  Thankfully I was almost done with the first round of vacuuming.  Sadly, this was the day I decided to use some carpet deodorizer and discovered that the vacuum cleaner, before it tried to melt through and eat itself, had barely sucked any of it up.  I later learned that Will knows how to replace melted through knobby things with extra finagled wire hangers.  Even though I was mostly terrified of my new Frankenvacuum, I ran it over the floor another time in an attempt to get up the rest of the Glade.  It mostly worked.  And it felt like I was trying to push a car that was out of gas and chugging along on gas fumes across my floor.  Also? Poppy now REEKS of blackberry Glade smell even though we gave her a thorough wipe down and made sure that her fur was Glade free.

On Sunday we went downtown so Will could get some work done and I could…hang out while he got some work done and then we went to see the Proposal.  The Proposal is a pretty cute movie that does exactly what you want it to do: it makes you laugh and gives you a good excuse to chow down on overpriced popcorn for a couple of hours.  During the movie Will and I leanrned something awesome:  we can both use straws again without accidentally injuring ourselves (we were both prohibited from using straws for a few days after having our wisdom teeth removed)! This is an amazing development! We spent the rest of the afternoon drinking things through straws and, eventually, giving ourselves jaw aches…just because we could!

Yesterday we went to dinner at a friend’s house where we learned…that it is fun to have dinner with our friends (okay, technically we already knew that)!  We met some other friends of theirs and I bonded instantly one of them as he is a fellow Idaho escapee.  Sure we moved when I was four but it still counts!  I also learned that I am kind of in love with my Costco membership.  We went in last night to get beverages because Will offered to bring drinks to our friends’ house and I very nearly purchased a forty ounce bottle of Pantene Conditioner and a ginormous bag of ginormouser baking potatoes.  If only we hadn’t been trying to hurry.

Today I did not learned that it is worth it to buy the more expensive trash bags because the box that was only eighty nine cents at WinCo last week? Was eighty nine cents for a reason. Never again will I be sucked in by the lure of crazy cheap trash bags. Because hauling out the entire trash can and having to hoist it up over my head to dump its contents into the dumpster while trying to keep the lid of said dumpster from crashing down upon me? Was not an adventure I ever wanted to have.  This? Helped me to learn that I really need to spend some more time with the Wii Fit.

Tomorrow I hope to learn whether or not Wii Cheer is worth buying as I may or may not have rented it from Hollywood Video.  It may or may not be up against All Star Cheer Squad as a fun new game for the Snarke House (for me anyway–I bet there aren’t enough fancy sports cars in the world to get Will to try it).  I am kind of afraid that the lack of moving space in our living room will cause me to accidentally put out my own eye…which, if we’re being honest here is something that I could do perfectly well in a completely empty room.   Also? It is expensive as hell to rent Wii games from Hollywood Video if you do not have a Power Play membership. Holy cats!