another year, another monkeybowl

the first weekend in february proved quite an eventful one. sunday marked the 5th consecutive year jen and i have hosted our superbowl party, monkeybowl. unlike past years when we've had some divide in rooting interests, all of our guests were rooting for the steelers, including mr. pOTTsburgh, joe. steelers won, seahawks lost, refs blew some calls, quit your crying little girls.

in case anyone was wondering, here are some of the final Monkeybowl V stats:
231 --> wings
136 --> meatballs
59 ---> beers
17 ---> ciders and hard lemonades
5 ----> dips (1 hot spinach, 1 cold spinach, 1 veggie, 1 'spicy', 1 7-layer)
1 ----> pan of homemade peanut butter brownies
1 ----> pan of vanilla pudding pie
1 ----> drunken salami
>1 ---> stomach aches and hangovers monday

i'm happy to report no one was seriously injured during the celebration, unless you count the seahawk that was drowned in a pool of it's own tears. stupid seahawks.

also this weekend: saturday was beanes' second birthday. to clarify, this is not the second anniversary of his adoption, but his actual birthday. we celebrated with a steak dinner, and a trip to doggy daycare for Monkeybowl. after a day of wild partying, i'm happy to report he's returned to his big doggy schedule of sleeping. 18 hours a day.

finally, jack johnson's latest cd was released today. while it's not a true 'release' because it's for the curious george movie, it's still jack, and it's still good. for the most part. some songs are definitely geared toward kids, but it is a kids movie, so it's acceptable. not his best work, but i'm still listening to it. love me some jack (and, thankfully, jen is finally coming around...).

MO