Tonight I went to yet another awesome concert at 321 Artspace, this one was Car Scars and the Western States. Pretty awesome show and as it turns out that I knew all of the members of Car Scars and knew they were all in bands, but didn't know they were all in the same band. When I got done with the show, I got a call from my room mate, Sam. Apparently he decided we should have a cleaning party. It's actually more like we need to have a cleaning party. And Sam knew just who the perfect person was to invite to our party: my cousin Becky.

Becky was home from Eastern Washington University for half of this week for Thanksgiving. And this year, I was thankful for that. Becky gets annoyed when things aren't clean and organized, so we invite her over any chance we get. She and my sister cleaned all the cupboards and put down contact paper when we moved in, without us even having to pay them! That's how much Becky believes in this cause.

Let me put into perspective the atrocity that was our apartment. We don't do dishes very often. Okay, ever. Our sink was full of pans and dishes, stacked higher than the water nozzle, covered with dried food left from when we put them in the sink at least two weeks ago, after sitting on the counter or the stove for about a week. Our three by six foot coffee table was entirely covered with mostly empty cans and bottles. We had cashews on the floor next to the couch that had been there for two to three weeks. Our garbage has been full for about five days, and don't even get me started on the bathrooms!

So we got to work. Since the "party" was Sam's idea, we made him wash the dishes, which were covered with a thin, one-and-a-half inch, layer of mold. The smell got worse when he started to clean, because he broke the thick outer crust that kept the stench in. The three of us were gagging and vomiting at the same time! We were totally gavomiting! Becky got started on the cans and bottles to recycle, and I worked on garbage and organization. We worked hard and fast, or at least we would have if we weren't all so sick to our stomachs from the smell.

An hour later, and we had an apartment that was in some areas of the house cleaner than when we moved in. Not only were all the cans and bottles picked up to be recycled, the dishes spotlessly clean and put away, and the garbage picked up, but we also made the following improvements: we got an air freshener with a scent titled "After the Rain," (which didn't actually smell like it does after it rains), a lemony-fresh kitchen from all the dish soap we had to use, plus we had "2000 Flush" tablets in both our toilets (we'll be tracking to make sure we get all 2000). The greatest thing about those is that it makes using the toilet so much more exciting! It's tons of fun to turn the water from blue to green. Or brownish-blue.

So stop on by and check it out; I promise it smells a lot better, even though Haz-Mat hasn't cleared us for visitors yet.

So I was going to Albertson's tonight to stock-up on the essentials (tortilla chips and cheese for nachos) and I decided to go back to get some Go-Gurt as well. As I walked back to the refrigerated section, I passed a table that had some random toys on it.

Being a mature adult, I was not too interested in some simple children's toys. But I did see one very interesting thing out of the corner of my eye. I stopped and just stared for minutes on end. I must apologize to my friend Ruth, because she was working tonight and probably had to clean up the drool.

There it was, buried under a Barbie Doll and a Darth Vader voice changer. The Batmobile! This wasn't just any Batmobile, this was an exact replica (only smaller) of the Batmobile in Batman Begins. It was awesome! It had three (3) buttons for realistic Batmobile sounds and "Secret missiles," or, for the Espanol inclined, "Armatas Secretas."

This was the most amazing Batmobile I have ever seen! And I speak from experience, having owned 3 in the past. And I realized at that moment that I must have it. Alas, I did not have $34.99 plus tax with me at the time, but a wonderful thought came to me; there are only 15 days until my birthday, and someone must love...like...tolerate me enough to spend that much on me for my birthday.

So, you have about two weeks to gather-up $34.99 plus tax and purchase it from your friendly neighborhood Albertson's. Here's a suggestion: have a car wash to get the money. Steal the money. Sell a kidney. What ever it takes for me to have that Batmobile, I am willing to have you do.

I went to a Huskies game today against Oregon State and I must say, they are playing more like the Cougars these days than like the Huskies. Before I tell you the score, I want to explain that the Beavers never got the ball into the end zone. They just kicked it over it, through the uprights. Six times. The final score was 10-18, and I'd like note that the Huskies were the only ones to get a touchdown. It's ok though, the only game that matters this season isn't for another two weeks. Oh ya, Cougs lost too, but their opponent got plenty of touchdowns. One thing to keep in mind if you go to a game at Husky Stadium, which is in a city that gets 13,000* inches of rain a year: the "bad seats" are much dryer. We stayed dry the whole game, which only made it miserable to watch, not to be at.

We got out only slightly sopping, made it across a somewhat snowy pass and stopped at a McDonald's in Ellensburg for something to drink. Having a history with McD's, I was disappointed at how poorly this one was run. I decided to make sure someone at the top (okay, the middle) knew what was going on.

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So last night after some awesome bowling at Go Bowl with some friends, Sam and I got home and realized that we didn't have much to eat, and we were both hungry. Being that Albertson's is a stone's throw, bounce and then roll away, we decided to stock up for the week.

We initially just went in for cookie dough, which we don't bother cooking (to make up for all those times our mothers told us not to eat the cookie dough). But then I realized we were almost out of pop, so we loaded up on that. Sam started to scan everything in the handy self-checkout, and I went to get a cart for all of our delicious items. As I went for the cart, I realized that regular chocolate-chip cookies would be tasty too, so I got some of those.

We finished checking everything out, paid and left. Here's what we got for $38.73:

2 - 32 ounce tubes of Nestle Tollhouse cookie dough
2 - 18 count packages of Albertson's chocolate-chip cookies
10 - 12 packs of various Albertson's brand pop (all diet)

Yep, that should last us about a week. Oh, and I did the math for you, that's about 8.5 cans per person, per day. I think we can do it.