Friday Favorites

I have not blogged in a while--you will find out why at the end of the post. So, I thought I would get back into the groove with a few of my current favorite things.

Fountain drinks.

Don't judge me. I know Diet Pepsi is bad for me, and sometimes I try to cut back, but I am addicted. I keep a stack of cups in the car--you know, because if I am going to consume this crap I figure the least I can do is help out Mother Earth and recycle.

I realized how much of an addict I am when we were in New York and I was scoping out Times Square for a gas station--any place with fountain drinks. They were hard to find. Apparently people prefer bottled water and Starbucks.

Little Bee.

Just read this book on our trip to New York. It was a great read. It tackles tough issues like immigration and global industrialization and life in Africa. It is a sad book and I loved it.

Iron Man 1.

My parents borrowed our copy of Iron Man and it made me think to watch it again. So, I put it in while I was doing the drudgery of my life, aka: laundry. Um, hello! I forgot how much I liked that movie. (Robert Downey Jr. ain't so bad either.)

It also helped me decide that, no, the kids won't be allowed to see it. They have been asking to see Iron Man 2--because they market these adult movies to kids. That is a "no" as well. Sorry kids.

(This is starting to feel more like a confession than a list of my favorites.)

Five Guys.

I have written before about my love/hate relationship with red meat. I will go several weeks or months without eating it and then suddenly all I want to eat is a hamburger. But, it has to be a good one. My favorite lately is at Five Guys. I have taken Jessica there twice in the last three weeks--as much as I like the burger, I can't eat the whole thing, so we share one. It is evil and I am just happy it is far from our house.

Our new iMac.

We have been nursing along our old computer for over a year now. After a traumatic crash that resulted in the loss of a month's worth of photos (sniff, sniff,) lack of memory for all the pictures I have, nasty-gram messages about scratch disks and overall slowness, we decided to take the plunge and get a new computer.

We have had a few family members and friends buy Macs, so I did my research and we bit the bullet and bought it.

I still believe that I will love this computer--I already adore iPhoto--but we had a rough start. Mike just brought home computer number three last night. The first one had a big ding in it, so we returned it and then had to wait for them to put all of our files from the old computer onto another one. The second computer worked for a day and then had hard drive issues.

This one appears to be perfect. It is such a recent improvement from our old one that I am really appreciating how nice it is to have adequate memory and speed. I confessed to Mike that my feelings about this computer may not necessarily be appropriate.

I keep hearing my mom's voice in my head: "Things can be replaced, but people can't--we only love people, not things." Well, sorry Mom, but you haven't met this beauty yet. Kidding. Kind of.