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Long afternoon at work. Made the fried rice for dinner not soy-saucy enough. And then overcompensated and over-soyed it, dammit. However I did make some pretty tasty chocolate chip cookies for dessert. Jon and I watched Hell’s Kitchen tonight. I generally hate reality shows (sorry Erin!) but anything restaurant-related interests me…Jon and I happened to catch the first episode when it was on, and we kinda go sucked into it. Presumably some of the people (read: most of the people) are actors, but I’m suspending my disbelief so I can watch and pretend that it’s real. All I can say is that they better charge a lot of money per item in Gordon Ramsey’s restaurants if he runs them all like that; they’d have to replace all the dishes he throws away every episode. I guess when you’re a celebrity chef you don’t have to worry about the cost of supplies. Anyways, I’m thinking it’s gonna be the tall tattoo’d guy that wins (his name escapes me)…or maybe the older guy who’s the boss of the blue team (Ralph?). It’s just funny to watch all the manufactured drama. I mean, why would you sign up to participate in an elimination contest in a restaurant if you’ve never worked in one before? And why would you have service on the first night you met the rest of the staff at a new restaurant? And why would people come to your restaurant if the first three nights you closed down early and sent them away hungry? Anyways, it’s silly, but kind of enjoyable to watch. I’ve heard that Gordon Ramsey is pretty hardcore in his restaurants, but I think he must be intentionally hamming it up for the show, since some of the things he says/does are just completely unprofessional. It seems that if he was that unprofessional, he wouldn’t have so many successful restaurants. But maybe I’m wrong. It does make me glad that Reo’s isn’t anything like that. And that I bake, which means I get to leave before any of the customers come in.

So I thought I’d devote another entry to it. About a year and a half ago, I wrote a little random entry about the Fruit of the Loom guys. No, not the hot firefighters in the new commercial, but the actual fruit guys. And to both my amusement and amazement, I’ve had more responses to that particular entry than any other. Here are some of the theories on what that fourth guy is:

A leaf (close but not quite)
A pineapple (my original guess)
A peach
Pot (hmm…going for the stoner demographic)
Tobacco

But I think that the best answer is fig leaves. That makes the most sense to me. So that’s where I’m leaving (no pun intended) it. Fig leaves. Oh yeah, and the purple grapes are played by an African american guy, in response to another comment.

So I know I can write this 2 days late without fear of any repercussions since she doesn’t check my blog on a daily basis….Happy 50th Birthday Mom! I love you and I hope your day was everything you wanted it to be.

In other news, Jon and I went wine tasting last weekend for the big Memorial day winery thing. For those of you out of state, all the wineries/vineyards that aren’t usually open to the public are open on Memorial Day weekend (and Thanksgiving) for people to come and taste. We went to 9 total, three on Saturday and 6 on Monday. On Sat., we went to Abiqua Winds, Champoeg, and Paradis, all of which were very nice, and more importantly, free. I had a really nice Reisling at Champoeg. On Monday we went with a couple of my friends, took a picnic, and ended up doing six wineries instead of the four that we’d originally planned. We went to Ponzi (didn’t like anything and the service SUCKED), Argyle (really good late harvest reisling), Sokol Blosser (mostly pinot noir, which I’m not a fan of, but I really liked Evolution), Hauer of the Dauen (cheapest at $2 for tasting 16 wines, also had the best variety including three late harvest wines), Silver Falls, and Willamette Valley Vineyards, which had the most beautiful scenery, as well as the nicest glasses that we got to keep (Reidel Crystal Cabernet Glasses). I think I’ll be good with a wine-free exsistence for a little while now, although I did really enjoy it.