Movie Review, Monday morning, blah blah blah.

• Finally saw Garden State this weekend (M and I had our anniversary chinese take out and a movie Saturday night).  Loved it with huge big piles of loving.
• In research news, I closed my survey last week and have started coding data.  Whoohoo!
• The reunion of the original cast of Rent was underwhelming.  Am I wrong in thinking that Jesse L. Martin was in the original cast?  Because he certainly wasn't on stage last night (but Taye Diggs in glasses and a bow tie?  hee!  so much adorable!) 
• Also, we are probably in the minority in America in having felt torn between watching the Tonys and the basketball game.  Plus I had baronessmartha telling me I need to watch In Plain Sight as well.
• I am feeling very productive today, despite having not actually done much but swim most of a mile. 
  
• It is to the point that the only part of swimming which I don't enjoy is dealing with my goggles.  I have NEVER liked goggles, but I also really can't stand water in my eyes (like, even in the shower, I can't stand water in my eyes).  And the goggles I have, well, I can't go more than about three laps (half a lap of freestyle) before I have water sloshing in my eyes.  It's annoying.
• We have pretty much decided that we are going to be a public-transit family come fall, as much as we can.  M will buy two metro passes through work (pre-tax, whoo!) and we will make use of the handy park&ride lot at UB on a daily basis.  So, yay for that.
  

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Today's lunch:

I hadn't made this curry in AGES. See, M doesn't like it much. But since I switched to WW Core, I've been making things that I like and he doesn't for my lunches. (Which means I'm eating a LOT of curry for lunch. Not complaining, not even a little bit.)

The basics go like this:
Take about a cup and a half of onion, a bunch of garlic, some fresh ginger, and desired quantities of cumin, coriander, and mustard and blend/process all that into a paste.*
Chop up one tomato into smallish pieces.
Saute the onion stuff in appropriate amounts of oil until it thickens up.  Add the tomato, cook for about 5 minutes.  Add 2 cans of drained & rinsed chickpeas, some tumeric, cinnamon, salt, and water** and cook for about 10 minutes.

I serve it over couscous, but it would be good with rice or any other grain, really.

*Our food processor needs a new blade and the blender doesn't do well with type of stuff.  I blended until about half of it was a paste and left the rest rough-chopped.  I think I like it better with some chunks of onion & garlic anyway.
**I had put some water in to facilitate the blender-chopping so I didn't add any in the cooking.

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Dood...

We were sitting innocently eating our dinner tonight.  There was a storm rolling in, one of many we're supposed to get this evening/tonight.  And then...

An enormous clatter...  the enormous clatter of GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL raining down from the sky.  We scampered out onto the porch to watch it fall... for about five minutes it fell really REALLY hard.  Piles of hailstones everywhere.  When it slowed down, we came back in and ate some more dinner, going back out when it had stopped to investigate what hail is like (for TRex - M and I know full well what hail is like).

Of course we ended up with lots of drama surrounding the finishing of dinner because of all the disruptions, but such is life.  There was exciting weather!  And science experiments to conduct!

I got some pictures but they're still in the camera.  It was pretty damn impressive.

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