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I am loving Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares...awesome show. Gordon Ramsay is hilarious. Today he pointed to a plate of profiteroles and told the Maitre d' of the restaurant, "your bollocks need to be that size. So grow a pair!" LOL!

But what is the point of bleeping out the F-word, yet not bleeping out the S-word? Are there varying degrees of obscenity when it comes to bad words? I mean, the local radio stations here bleep out the word "drug" in every song, as if you hear that word and suddenly have the irresistable urge to go out and buy some smack.

Anyway, I love BBC America. They don't censor anything in Europe, and that's what Lance and I are used to, so it always catches us off-guard when we see/hear things get censored. It's laughable, really, the extent to which it is done.

So...I'm wondering where this big storm is that we are supposed to be getting right now. There is no sign of it. We had a bit of wind earlier and it started to pour, but that was pretty brief. It was enough, however, to shear another board off our privacy fence, so now we have two to fix (one needs replacing entirely), and a third one that looks like it's about to come loose.

We had errands to run today (which did not, surprise surprise, include a run to HD). We had to pick up a few things at Target and then stop by the credit union inside the grocery store. We were there last night to open an account and Lance decided later on that we should've ordered checks. So we went back there today to do that. It was a bad time to go out. The playoffs just now started (Seahawks vs. Redskins, here in Seattle) and everyone was out trying to get their shopping and banking done before the game. So we met with crowds that were similar to what we dealt with a few days before Christmas.

Anyway, my agenda for today:
- finish laundry
- finish online application for job interview #2
- do more prepwork for job interview #1

I was reading back through some of the posts from my old LJ. Some of that stuff is so hilarious to me now. It didn't seem so at the time. It just reminds me of how far I've come since then, and how I still continue to struggle with some of the same issues.

Oof...

I am stuffed.

I made some pretty large baked potatoes, grilled marinated chicken, and carrots for dinner. I broke in my new toaster oven 2 days ago...since then, I've never once turned on my oven. The toaster oven is great, and the baked potatoes worked out well in it.

I broke in my grill pan today. We bought it back in October at the outlet mall in Belgium, but the movers came right after and packed it up. I grilled the chicken on it tonight and it was perfect. Love my grill pan.

I made a crazy marinade by just throwing together a bunch of stuff I had: olive oil, zesty Italian dressing, honey mustard, cumin, onion powder, garlic, salt and pepper. Probably sounds gross and looked pretty disgusting, but ended up being a pretty darn good marinade. The chicken had nice flavor and was really tender. But we didn't eat a lot of the chicken, on account of the baked potato being a meal in and of itself. So I'll have to find a way to use up the leftover chicken in the next couple days.

Bought a bag of dark M&Ms at Target today...they were on sale. Sorry I did that. Lance completely flips out whenever there is chocolate in the house, and even though I have my hiding places, he eventually figures them out. If he wants the chocolate bad enough, he'll find it.

It feels like a Sunday. I suppose because football is on...