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I turned 34 today and it was a very good day. :) I talked to my mom and my mother-in-law in the morning and my wife went out and brought us a couple of tasty breakfast sandwiches from this little coffee place nearby. I got a lot of art supplies to play with--including my very first set of gouache!--and some really good books and movies. J got me a pencil sharpener that I was super jonesing for and I am, perhaps, the most excited about that.
It's the little things. :)
Then we went to see Captain Marvel and it was so good, y'all!! It was probably the best origin movie after Iron Man and I am really excited to see how the character deals with things in the aftermath of Avengers: Endgame Part 1. I had seen Brie Larson in one or two things in small roles, so wasn't super familiar with her as an actor. She is super charming and charismatic and pulls off the role extremely well! I look forward to seeing more of her. The de-aging on Samuel L Jackson is CRAZY effective. He just looks like he does in Pulp Fiction, basically. There's no weird uncanny quality to it at all. Goose the cat was, obviously, the real MVP and deserves an Oscar.
We had a late lunch/early supper at Din Tai Fung which is the soup dumpling place. I'm not 100% why they're basically the only place around that does soup dumplings. They're just regular steamed dumplings but, in addition to the normal filling, there's also a little blog of really gelatin-rich broth. When the dumplings cook, the gelatin melts from the heat so the filling gets surrounded by a little pool of broth. You get a really tasty juicy brothfest when you eat the dumpling.
I live in Seattle so there are a LOT of Chinese restaurants--including dim sum specific places--but Din Tai Fung is, like, THE place to get soup dumplings. I suspect partially because of this, they are much more expensive than pretty much any other Chinese food place., so we don't go there super often. At our normal dim sum place, for $20 we can basically eat until we want to die. A similar quantity of dishes at Din Tai Fung came to over $60 before tip. And, like, don't get me wrong! Din Tai Fung isn't sleeping on their other dishes--it's all REALLY good! But definitely exclusively for special occasions.
J got me an Oreo cake but I am still too stuffed to have any. I have committed to cake breakfast.
I don't know what am going to do about J's birthday. It's on the 21st and I just... I don't have any money, you know? And, like, I know that you don't have to have money necessarily to have a good time, but I can't really pay on my own to take her to a movie and a nice dinner like she did for me today. I always bake her a cake for her birthday and I'll do that once she lets me know what kind of cake she wants. Maybe I can do some art for her? It's been a while since I did anything really substantial for her. I've designed and had printed a few t-shirts and did a little Pumpkaboo watercolor that she can keep on her desk at work and some years ago I did cover art for a fanfic she wrote. But it's been awhile since I did anything to really knock her socks off. I have a little bit of time to figure something out!
I had a good job interview on Friday. I like the place, the work seems pleasant enough, and it's easy to get to on the bus. Here's hoping!
It's the little things. :)
Then we went to see Captain Marvel and it was so good, y'all!! It was probably the best origin movie after Iron Man and I am really excited to see how the character deals with things in the aftermath of Avengers: Endgame Part 1. I had seen Brie Larson in one or two things in small roles, so wasn't super familiar with her as an actor. She is super charming and charismatic and pulls off the role extremely well! I look forward to seeing more of her. The de-aging on Samuel L Jackson is CRAZY effective. He just looks like he does in Pulp Fiction, basically. There's no weird uncanny quality to it at all. Goose the cat was, obviously, the real MVP and deserves an Oscar.
We had a late lunch/early supper at Din Tai Fung which is the soup dumpling place. I'm not 100% why they're basically the only place around that does soup dumplings. They're just regular steamed dumplings but, in addition to the normal filling, there's also a little blog of really gelatin-rich broth. When the dumplings cook, the gelatin melts from the heat so the filling gets surrounded by a little pool of broth. You get a really tasty juicy brothfest when you eat the dumpling.
I live in Seattle so there are a LOT of Chinese restaurants--including dim sum specific places--but Din Tai Fung is, like, THE place to get soup dumplings. I suspect partially because of this, they are much more expensive than pretty much any other Chinese food place., so we don't go there super often. At our normal dim sum place, for $20 we can basically eat until we want to die. A similar quantity of dishes at Din Tai Fung came to over $60 before tip. And, like, don't get me wrong! Din Tai Fung isn't sleeping on their other dishes--it's all REALLY good! But definitely exclusively for special occasions.
J got me an Oreo cake but I am still too stuffed to have any. I have committed to cake breakfast.
I don't know what am going to do about J's birthday. It's on the 21st and I just... I don't have any money, you know? And, like, I know that you don't have to have money necessarily to have a good time, but I can't really pay on my own to take her to a movie and a nice dinner like she did for me today. I always bake her a cake for her birthday and I'll do that once she lets me know what kind of cake she wants. Maybe I can do some art for her? It's been a while since I did anything really substantial for her. I've designed and had printed a few t-shirts and did a little Pumpkaboo watercolor that she can keep on her desk at work and some years ago I did cover art for a fanfic she wrote. But it's been awhile since I did anything to really knock her socks off. I have a little bit of time to figure something out!
I had a good job interview on Friday. I like the place, the work seems pleasant enough, and it's easy to get to on the bus. Here's hoping!
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Date: 2019-03-13 08:09 pm (UTC)From:Man, you'd think there'd be more soup dumpling places there! I can say without fact that I have now explored dim sum parlors in three different cities and all of them featured soup dumplings. I'm even tempted to see if I can make my own if I ever get my dough game on point. Even some of the supermarkets I see will sell them and Trader Joes has their own iteration of it (with very filling in them though, so you have been warned).
Glad the job interview worked out! Fingers crossed the feeling is mutual.
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Date: 2019-03-15 06:29 am (UTC)From:I haven't actually looked in a while for more soup dumplings. Maybe I'll have better luck since Din Tai Fung has been in Seattle for a few years, now. It just seems so weird!! Like... What kind of violent pressure is Din Tai Fung exerting on the dumpling-makers of Seattle to keep them away from filling those dumplings with tasty, tasty soup??