Want it now....

Some of you are no doubt familiar with my fondness for Coca-cola Light. Coca-cola Light from Europe-- not any of that other shit. And ESPECIALLY not Diet Coke. Well, I found someone in London who is willing to trade me Coke Light for, get this-- Hostess Twinkies. Is that not awesome? I think so, anyway. I put up a "want it now" post on E-bay a few weeks back and I didn't think anyone would actually respond.....but I guess I was wrong! Anyway, I just had to share my delicious news. My Cokes will wind up costing about $5 a pop, but when you think about the price of a foreign beer in a restaurant, I'd say that's fair!

Carrot wine?

I know-- it sounds gross. But honestly, it tastes kind of like Chardonnay.

Today we ventured over to Florida Orange Groves and Winery to find out what the buzz on all their citrus and non-grape-based wines was all about. We'd seen the sign for the "winery" in south St. Pete before, but always figured "what the hell kind of winery would be any good here?" Well, I'm glad we stopped by. This place has 36 different varieties of wine made out of everything from mangos to blueberries. And yes, carrots, too. They're more than happy to pour for you, so we tried quite a variety of their wines. First we were offered the carrot wine, but the main ingredient wasn't revealed until after we'd tasted. It really didn't taste a thing like carrots. The blueberry wine was also quite tasty and we were told that a reduction of the blueberry wine tastes mighty fine over ice cream. Some of the other flavors we tried included blackberry, raspberry, peach, passionfruit, orange, orange/chocolate, mango, grapefruit and a five flavor white sangria blend. They weren't bottling anything in the back today, but when they are, they're happy to take you back for a tour so you can see just exactly what it is that they do there. If you're ever in the St. Pete area and looking for something a little different to do, definitely check this place out. It won't take too much time out of your day, and it's free, too! (Unless, of course, you wind up going home with 4 bottles of wine like we did....)

Nip/Tuck

We've been watching a lot of Nip/Tuck here lately, since most everything on TV sucks right now. (Although I have to say, the new Survivor is brilliant. I think the Asians are gonna win, fo' sure. Not that I'm hatin' on my white peeps or anything...). Anyway, the first season was kind of cheesy, but cheesy in a way that you still wanted to keep watching. The writing in season two is much better, but each episode has a sort of preachy, in-your-face theme. Where do they come up with this stuff, though? The lying whore who allows a nun to fake her stigmata so she can stay in the church housing? Brilliant. I love the whole Dr. Troy is really Dr. McNamara's kid's father story line, too. I hope Dr. McNamara sticks to his guns and divorces his annoying, emotional wife. Something about how television shows work make me think that isn't going to be the case, though. Anyway, yes, I realize we're like 2 seasons behind, so DON'T E-MAIL ME ANY SPOILERS PLEASE! Any suggestions about other good TV-on-DVD shows that we can pick up would be swell, though.

Little frustrations....

So I mentioned a while back how Chad got this home theater system for his birthday, right? Well, his birthday was at the end of July. Our TV showed up on the 31st and our receiver and speakers showed up shortly thereafter. Do you think we've gotten this thing set up yet? No. (And I assure you it has nothing to do with incompetence on the part of either of us). First, we ordered a new stand for the TV, which took a couple weeks to arrive. It was here and set up before Labor Day weekend. Now that we finally had a place to put the receiver, we opened that box up and one of the dang knobs on the receiver was broken. So, we had to return that and wait for another one to be delivered. (Why can't they just stock these things in the store??) The speakers have this nifty automatic microphone set-up thing where, once you've positioned your speakers, you place the microphone where you will be sitting and it automatically syncs them so you don't need to worry about the length of your speaker wire or anything like that. Based on this fact, we've been waiting for our speaker stands to show up so that we can put the speakers exactly where we want them before we run the automatic set-up. Well, we ordered the corresponding speaker stands like, over a week ago. The web site said that you would receive a "pair" of stands and I EVEN CALLED THE PLACE and verified this! Well, apparently FedEx has been trying to deliver the stands for 3 days now, but since they needed a signature, they couldn't just drop them off. Chad finally went to the FedEx hub to pick them up today and I got to work on setting them up. Well, I opened the box, and guess what? Apparently, a "pair" now means "one." So, instead of getting four speaker stands like we wanted, we have two. I guess this wouldn't be all that frustrating, but I Tivo'ed this Keane concert in HD like, a million years ago and have been waiting for the surround sound to watch it! Grrrr. I guess it isn't the end of the world, but geez-- I got my damn bar exam scores faster than we've been able to hook this up!

Being unemployed is awesome.

What I did today:

1. Slept in reeeeal late.

2. Ate some Indian food for lunch.

3. Went wakeboarding at the OWC in Orlando.

4. Saw the Raconteurs at Hard Rock Live.

My life is tough-- I know. Maybe I'll go hit some golf balls tomorrow? Hmm....

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury,

I passed the bar exam. I am also officially eligible to be sworn in to the Florida Bar.

Just thought you'd like to know!

Love,
JB