Tag: OrangeDoor

Matt and I play SceneIt Sqabble

As you might remember, Battleship Cinematic Universe won a prize at the Movie Quiz in March.

Nearly two months later, we have now played our new game!

I can say that I’ve now played this game and it was just as (or perhaps more?) entrenched in toxic gender tropes than I thought.

Having the advantage of being socialized to absorb “male” culture things meant that I won this game all three times we played it. But did I make the tired/disappointed noise with every interstitial? I did. That lady grabbing the wrench to do something with potting soil? Annoying. The guy riding the motorcycle that jumps into the lady’s champagne glass? Dumb. The way the female/male partners were painted as adversaries rather than companions? Gross.

Matt was similarly annoyed, though layered with a slight whiff of double annoyance for not winning.

We will be moving this game right out of the house, but it was still a fun to win it. Yay us!

We Break 120 at the Movie Quiz

It was a good night for Battleship Cinematic Universe. We had all four members and we were familiar with more movies than we normally are.

Our high score was a whopping 136, which got us ranked 15th overall (though there were many ties, so we are on the downslide of the pack).

Winners Reese Withoutherspoon was my favorite name of the night. But I also liked The Michael Bay Hive and Face Off 2: Butt Swap

Slasher Sluts were sitting in front of us.

New Couch Pillows

We’ve had this orange pillow and orange striped pillow for many years. How many? I just found a post from December 2008 (Sentinel’s welcome post) with the striped one. So at least 17 years old. I’ve been meaning to get (or make) new pillows for the last several (maybe 5? maybe 10?) years.

It’s entirely possible that my mother gave me those pillows. I’m not so good at prioritizing buying things like that. As evidenced by my meaning to replace them for a period longer than some presidential administrations.

But! Today, while shopping for a new coffee table (another task that has been put off for about a decade) Julie and I came across these fun pillows at ReRun, and I snapped them up.

The pillows are down pillows (an upgrade) and were made at J&J Herb Farm in Eagle Creek, Oregon.

No picture yet of the coffee table. It will arrive in June.

República Anniversary Dinner

As we have before, we celebrated our May anniversary at República, home of the incredible tasting menu. Here are a few of our courses.

Albacore, sugar snap peas, and nasturtiums.

This was also amazing! And I have no idea what it was, even reading the menu. (A reason one should take pictures of all the courses.)

Here was our thank you note and take-home item. Granola!

And here is our menu. Notice that they have wished us a happy anniversary.

Easter at the Orange Door

I hosted Easter this year, and the only picture I have is this one that shows off a new method I tried for dying eggs: eggs rolled in salt that has food coloring in it.

I won’t use that method again. The color didn’t stick very well, and I had to have Matt wrap all the eggs in paper towels so we could properly play the egg game without getting red dye on our hands.

The meal included: ham steaks with madeira sauce, roasted radishes and radish greens, asparagus and mushrooms, funeral potatoes (my first time eating and making), and cheddar kale roles where the dough was rolled in a butter/kale/mustard concoction before being baked in a cast iron skill it.

Linda brought pie for dessert (cherry, quince, and apple) and Rick brought homemade ice cream. Present but not pictured: me, Linda, Rick, Matt, Kelly, my mom, and Aunt Pat.

Matt’s Protest Signs

Matt shows off his double sided protest signs.

The first is a bit of a deep cut. It depends on you knowing that Robert Kennedy Jr., gave a very uninformed speech about people with autism, and that’s what Matt is referring to. The sign also encapsulates Matt’s indifference toward baseball and his dislike of poems.

The other side references his sadness over the loss of Greater than Games, a company that has supplied him with many fun hours of board gaming.

This next poster covers what a lot of us are really angry about.

And its obverse records Matt’s annoyance at doing his civic duty by serving on a jury.

We Win Big at the Movie Quiz

It was just Matt and myself at the Movie Quiz, but we experienced what the host promises: if you only answer one question right, you have a chance to win.

Tonight, we answered questions correctly about women actors playing parts that are men, and we were the team picked randomly to win Scene It? Squabble.

Aside from the fun of winning, I’m excited to play Scene It? (I’ve not done so) and see how terribly sexist their Chick Flicks vs. Guy Picks are.

Headed Home from Las Vegas

Our room at the Linq was on the same floor as the spa and gym, which was near the elevators. That meant that every time we took the elevator we looked at this Windows start screen and marveled at how wrong the time was.

My timestamp on this picture is 8:25.

We went to wait for the shuttle bus to the airport, and eventually it found us. Turns out the signage at the hotel directed us to the wrong location. I’ve learned that when I’m getting off a shuttle bus, I should ask where that shuttle bus will be picking me up for the return trip.

One of our shuttle bus companions spied my CPAP carry case and excitedly held his up. “It changed my life!” he said. I smiled and said, “Medical devices don’t count as carry-ons!” I’ve not found the CPAP to be life changing, but I’m glad he did.

I really liked the signage at the Las Vegas airport, though apparently not enough to take a picture. Each gate is clearly marked with the departing flight destination and pictures of landmarks from that town. Ours had the Portland sign, among other things.

We did a ton of things in Las Vegas, though didn’t gamble at all, and learned a lot about that weird down in the desert. Matt even came home with money; someone left a voucher with five cents on it, and he cashed it in before we left.