Yep, sounds like October.
On Friday last, X took me out for some Cambodian Street Eats that were not in the Streets or in Cambodia but rather in the vicinity of the Delancie Station Stop on the F Train.
There was a threat of being whisked away to Crooklyn but instead a Rooster punishment was delivered.
At Kampuchea, roosters were everywhere to torture me - on matchbooks, plates and mason jars used as glasses. At least there was no rooster engraved in the backless seat (priviledged people should stop their complaining - there's nothing wrong with stools!), nor was there rooster on the menu.
If one were to expand the menu, you'd see pork and belly pork at that, which is exactly what X and I got -
Along with a crispy bacon sandwich with all sorts of yummies in it - a chili pepper sauce, carrots, cucumbers and great bread,
a goo'd time cat fish sandwich with the same dressings,
and a pulled oxtail sandwich? Yep -
We followed it by a soup infiltrated by pork:
Alcoholic beverages of mango and a lychee martini were had, and then it was off to Rice to Riches for coconut cream pudding for dessert. Yummy!
Thank you, X, for the goo'd times.
Saturday was fairly uneventful, until H1 grilled some lamb in the evening. It was then she had a bit of an asthmatic attack that she says I shouldn't talk about, thanks to a trigger of oven cleaner on the stove top and heat. It was horrid but she's okay now.
Oh yeah, we also baked cookies and we made a sugar cookie to represent the colour of H1's heart.
You're right Frass, it probably could be blacker.
Sunday, our cousins came over which was nice. Momma Hochie baked cakes that came out heavy thanks to a cold house and cold margarine.
After curry goat, channa & potatoes, beef pelau, roti, squash, cake, and pumpkin pie were eaten with joy, Boobey-Head, Luuuuuiiiisss, H1 and I headed off to the Jack O' Lantern Blaze at van Cortland Manor.
It was fun and frustrating trying to take pictures in the dark and some of the carvings were pretty spectacular. This year there was a Dinosaur exhibit, along with the Aquarium exhibit we saw three years ago, with pirates added. The snakes and spiders were also back, with a garden display (a pumpkin patch display? har har), skulls, bats and butterflies were floating about too.
Also new this year, were some awesomely carved white pumpkins, a scary clown patch, a pumpkin wedding and Thriller, complete with guitar riffs and cheesey music to boot, smoke screens and dancing zombies.
(click pictures to get larger view and the full effect!)
Snakes, Dinosaur Hatchlings, Spiders, Fish, Aliens, Oh My!
This clown looks awfully like drunk clown hiding in the bush. Runk like a skunk!
It was a pretty good weekend for the most part. It was quiet and sometimes entertaining...
No thanks to the peeps who are cut off!
Yeah, MC you're cut off as well because the wishes didn't come on the day but not really, because I always forget yours nor am I ever close to remembering.
No one's as clever as CLee who wished me Happy Halloween to distract from the fact that he was not the first to wish me well wishes.
Thanks to Alex for goo'd times with
Flight of the Conchords.
Thanks to Bughie J. for defeating Takuman or at least, them bidders who outsmarted me for the past month. And all the music, too.
Thanks to Frass for giving me a charcoal-less monkey and
D. Gray-Man figures.
Thanks to X for the Cambodian even though no tarantulas were harmed in the making of the meal and for a diamond filled kitty.
Thanks to Pumps and Jazz for waking my ass up at 2 and then again at 4.
Thanks to Momma HOchie & Papa HOchie for the sweaters.
Thanks to Bunji for my
Nightmare Before Christmas figures, with the bug-eyed Sally and the very toxic green Oogey Boogey.
Thanks to H1 for suffering to make yummy lamb, and for
Dragon Quest IV.
Thanks to Boobey for the Handisnacks,
D. Gray-Man manga and a Blaze ticket.
Currently listening to: "Dancing Choose" by TV on the Radio. I gave them a chance since the album
Dear Science got such great reviews (and made sure to research they're nothing like a band such as Panic at the Disco, since their names always remind me of each other) and I have to say, could they sound any more like some other bands I know? See: R.E.M. for "The End of the World" on this song, and a reminder of Bloc Party and others I know are out there. They're not bad though.
