Debilitated

Badge and I got food poisoning yesterday. We went for mexican (again) and feasted on chicken fajitas and spicy shrimp, and of course micheladas. Delicious as usual. We felt fine the rest of the night until about 1:30am where I was awoken by debilitating stomach cramps and was forced to take a trip to the you know what. Afterwards, I went back to sleep only to be woken up again. The cycle repeated several times until 4:30am when Badge also woke up to the same ailment. At that point I threw up. Greeeat. The bouts continued though the intervals progressively got longer thank goodness. Badge demonstrated poor judgement and a trace of insanity by still going to his soccer game at 8am this morning. The rest of this morning and afternoon was spent laying on the couch trying to eat stomach friendly foods. It appears the stomach cramps have finally ceased altogether and we've kicked the crisis. We think the shrimp was the culprit but it's hard to say for sure. We're both deeply disturbed that something so delicious could reek such havoc on our systems. It may be a while before we go back to that restaurant.

Aside from this unpleasantry, Badge and I have attended two films at the San Diego Asian Film Festival. The first was Children of Invention which opened for the festival on Thursday night. The director is a guy Badge met and befriended at Sundance earlier this year. The movie was vaguely reminiscent of my own childhood (in the sense that my mom was a divorced immigrant trying to raise two children). It was sad at parts but well done. Afterwards, we went to Rock Bottom to drink beer, and eat fries and buffalo wings. You know, real healthy. On Saturday, we went to see Cape No. 7, an interesting Taiwanese film about a motley crew of villagers getting together to form a local band. It was a tad long but still pretty entertaining. The festival lasts for 3 weeks so we're contemplating going back to see some more. In particular I'm interested in seeing Red Cliffs, a big epic movie by John Woo. I'm a sucker for historic epics and of course my man Takeshi is in it.

On Friday, we went to Spike and Frog's for pizza and SYTYCD. Dog and Luna came over and showed us this hilarious dog birthday cake they got for Truffles (pic of Chofies and Truffles painted on front). Too funny.


I guess it's been a while since I posted so we're long overdue for some garden pics. Here are the two mandevilla looking plants my mom brought. And the peach tree below.



In other news, I've finished the first two Twilight books that I borrowed from Michigan. The first book was good. A big melodramatic but hey it's a young adult's book so I understand. The second book however I could not stand. Way over dramatic. Every other page was about how heartbroken Bella was and how she couldn't go on, yadda yadda. The general plot line was good but I just wished there hadn't been so much filler about this "hole in her heart". Anyway, I'm still excited to see the movie. Overall, I was so irritated by the second book that it may be a while before I attempt to read the third. We'll see. I still much prefer the Sookie series but I know Nevertap prefers the Twilight series, so who knows, maybe it's whichever you read first. On a side note, I finished the first 4 episodes of BSG season 2. Must wait for more discs!