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Dec. 21st, 2003 10:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rmTime to go holiday shopping now.
Which mostly means a huge order at Australian Homemade, a stop at the wine shop, maybe a pop down to Dean and Delucca, just because it makes me happy and possibly a trip to Best Buy.
Mostly, I am trying to decide if I should get a DVD player for my parents.
My dad has been talking about getting one for months, but never does.
My mother always says she is too tired to watch films when she gets home.
The subtitle feature on DVDs would mean my dad could watch movies without driving my mother crazy (his hearing is poor).
The chapter feature on DVDs would give my mom more freedom to watch DVDs at her pace.
Film is important to me, in part because I was taken to lots of film, and lots of great film as a child (The New York Film Festival, lots of indie pics, movies when they still showed them at Radio City, Gandhi on the big screen, etc).
But I just can't decide if this is me trying too hard to find some common ground with my family, or me buying them something they would enjoy and use, but feel intimidated to deal with themselves.
Which mostly means a huge order at Australian Homemade, a stop at the wine shop, maybe a pop down to Dean and Delucca, just because it makes me happy and possibly a trip to Best Buy.
Mostly, I am trying to decide if I should get a DVD player for my parents.
My dad has been talking about getting one for months, but never does.
My mother always says she is too tired to watch films when she gets home.
The subtitle feature on DVDs would mean my dad could watch movies without driving my mother crazy (his hearing is poor).
The chapter feature on DVDs would give my mom more freedom to watch DVDs at her pace.
Film is important to me, in part because I was taken to lots of film, and lots of great film as a child (The New York Film Festival, lots of indie pics, movies when they still showed them at Radio City, Gandhi on the big screen, etc).
But I just can't decide if this is me trying too hard to find some common ground with my family, or me buying them something they would enjoy and use, but feel intimidated to deal with themselves.
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Date: 2003-12-21 08:48 am (UTC)I just buy everyone books and soap. Such is life.
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Date: 2003-12-21 08:51 am (UTC)I ordered in Mexican food last night, and it was just sooooo dissapointing.
Notice, I still haven't managed to leave the house. It's war out there.
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Date: 2003-12-21 09:25 am (UTC)I'm about to venture out. I am afeared.
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Date: 2003-12-21 09:28 am (UTC)We don't even have queso -- we have like crappy spicey fake nacho cheese. It's the fucing Californians I tell you. And the Chinese Mexican places. Not okay.
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Date: 2003-12-21 11:08 am (UTC)I cannot get good mexican in the midwest either. And I didn't even try in Anchorage. Here it is all bland crap or "texmex", meaning reddish bland crap. That is the one thing I really, really miss about California. The food rocked.
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Date: 2003-12-21 12:08 pm (UTC)Queso at least is easy to recreate at home. I like to use the Mexican queso fresco cheese, but you could use most any you really like. Asadero cheese, some chedder, monterray jack... Melt until smooth, just a dab of milk to even out the consistency, add chopped tomato and jalapeno and onion or use pico de gallo.
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Date: 2003-12-21 12:18 pm (UTC)And now I want queso...
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Date: 2003-12-21 01:35 pm (UTC)