We have a snacks cabinet.  A cabinet-o-snacks, if you will.  We love our snacks cabinet, and we do our best to make sure it is happy by keeping it full of the snacks that provide it with purpose and use.

The snacks cabinet is very unassuming at first glance, a regular cabinet just like any other:

Once you start taking a closer look, the impression begins to change:

And once the door has been opened, the full glory of the snacks cabinet becomes evident:

Look on my snacks, ye mighty, and despair!

…

I want some fuckin’ Oreos.

-Because I said so

Today we are feeling charitable. Very charitable. Right now is the start of our first giveaway during the Blogathon.  You guys and gals are competing for some very cool goodies.

How might one win these great freebies?

Post a comment!

For the next 24 hours (6 PM PST 7/25/09 – 6:00 PM 7/26/09) when you comment on this blog, it counts as an entry. You don’t need to spam the post with crazy comments so please keep them on topic. Replying to other commentors is encouraged, so don’t think you can’t start up a nice little Harry Potter conversation. Also, feel free to get creative with your posts.

Here’s the twist. Want more entires? DONATE! Obviously we are blogging like crazy to help raise money for our charity, Reading is Fundamental, so when you donate to our charity that counts as an entry.

And like any crazy infomercial, they always follow up the good stuff with “but WAIT! There’s MORE!” If, for example, you donate $1.00 to our cause… that donation won’t count as 1 entry, it will count as 10. See how we did that? We knocked off the last 0, and counted the rest as entries.$2.00 will get you 20 entries, and $3.00 will get you 30.. so on and so on and so on. Hell, if you want to donate $100.00, that gets you one THOUSAND entries lol

Oh, I should probably add that we are giving prizes to TWO people, not just ONE, so competition is going to be fierce.

And now… I present to you the PRIZES:

First Place wins two items: Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince promo poster and a slap wrist bracelet for the official video game that Electronic Arts put out. Cute thing is that the bracelet are in Gryffindor colors.

Runner Up wins one item: Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince promo poster.

The contest is only available to people who live in the CONTINENTAL United States. Sorry Hawaii and Alaska, it costs too much to ship there. Sorry to all of the other countries too.

Winners will be announced Monday morning at 11:00 AM PST so please check back then to see if you were one of the lucky ones. Winners will need to contact us within 48 hours via email (that is provided on our site) with appropriate mailing information.

So, spread the word, post away, and help out our charity!

GOOD LUCK!

- She Who Has The Last Word

I enjoyed the first Fable a great deal when I played it.  I love fantasy RPGs, especially ones that look like they take place in the standard human “Once upon a time…” environment.  Fable fit that very well.  Then we got the Xbox 360, and with it came Fable II.

Fable II, so far, has not been living up to its predecessor.  I feel that the interaction, combat, and leveling systems are inferior to those of the original Fable, reducing the enjoyment factor of Fable II.  Granted, I have not progressed very far in the game, but I don’t feel the same excitement in Fable II as I did in Fable.

I’ll have to go back into it one of these days and hope that the excitement appears.

-Because I said so

There is a band called Electric Six.  They are a strange band, but very musically talented.  Their songs are very catchy and have a great sound.  They are a bit on the odd side, however…  There are two songs in particular that I am fond of: Gay Bar and High Voltage.  A warning, however: if S&M bondage Abraham Lincolns and giant glowing orbs over genitalia bother you, these may not be enjoyable for you.

Just saying.

Electric Six – Gay Bar:

Electric Six – High Voltage:

-Because I said so

While Chris was taking over on the blog, I decided to take some much needed “me” time and give myself a pedicure. It’s been ages since I’ve had a proper one, mainly due to how much they cost, and with the party tonight I figured I should try and look nice.

I thought about giving myself a matching manicure as well, but it’s already 5:30 and we have to be there by 8:00. I have way too much to do between now and then.

Originally I was going to use this pretty dark purple sparkly color by O.P.I. but I couldn’t find it. I did find this dark purple by Sally Hansen and thought about using that and then putting a light sparkly one over it. It didn’t turn out like I thought it would so instead I went with the really pretty sparkly one. Lighter colors mean if you screw it up, it’s less visible!

So here you go internetz… I give you my tootsies!

Also, the scratch on the top of my right foot (your left in the image) is surprisingly NOT from Moogle. One night when we were coming home Chris stepped on this twig on the ground, snapping it, and causing it to scratch the top of my foot. It hurt, but at first I thought it was no big deal until a few days later when it really turned red etc.

Have I mentioned I get injured a lot?

- She Who Has The Last Word

Earlier my two visiting friends were playing FIFA 2007 on my Playstation 2.  During a Portugal / Argentina match, a sequence of events occurred that resulted in seven, count them, seven corner kicks on the same attack.

It was fairly ridiculous.

They eventually got past it with no goal.

-Because I said so

Yesterday, my mom bought a portable hard drive to store all of her documents, photos, videos, etc.  She wanted to be able to take all of her files with her wherever she went.  She ended up getting the Seagate FreeAgent Go 500GB external portable USB hard drive for $119.99, a great deal for 500gb of portable storage.

The great thing about the small portable USB hard drives is that they don’t require an additional power source; they power themselves from the laptop.  This means you can access your portable hard drive wherever you are, even if there’s no outlet nearby.

It’s a great little hard drive, about 1/3rd the size of a small paperback book.  If you need to have portable access to a large quantity of files, this is the kind of thing you need.

-Because I said so

Lindsey made two little singles packets of Kool-Aid for us to drink.  The directions are fairly simple: mix the powder with sugar and water.

Each of the singles packets called for 1 cup of sugar, meaning she poured a full two-cup measuring cup of sugar into our serving pitcher.

Holy shit that’s a lot of sugar.

-Because I said so

Well, they are good hot dogs.  I never thought of pan frying hot dogs in butter, but it came out well.

Good job Pej.

-Because I said so

I offered our friends hot dogs, and they suggested a way of cooking them that I hadn’t come across before.  I was willing to just pop them in the microwave, but they decided that pan frying them in butter would be better.

This should be interesting.  I’ll report on the results shortly.

-Because I said so