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I’m officially hooked

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I bought Darin the Season 2.0 DVDs of Battlestar Galactica for his birthday (if I hadn’t, he was going to buy them for me for Christmas — these things were getting bought), and we watched them in about the first day and a half we had them.

I am obsessed by this show.

How obsessed?

I am on tenterhooks about the premiere this Friday. I’ve asked my running bud Rob, who may or may not have experience with BitTorrent, if he’s downloaded the premiere and watched it. I need spoilers. I need to know what’s going to happen. Are there spoiler sites? There must be. I need a fix.

I’m not going to be able to watch this show one week at a time. I’m spoiled by having overdosed via DVD sets.

(I’m so out to lunch about this show I even looked up BG fanfic on fanfiction.net. (I know. I know, okay?) Not surprising: number one pairing is Lee/Kara. Extremely surprising? Number two is Lee/Roslin. VERY. DISTURBING.)

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Recycled paper and chocolate

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Via the Accidental Hedonist, there is a settlement to the Hershey’s trademark infraction suit concerning a Hershey’s bar appearing on the cover of a biography of Hershey. The story contains the best quote of the Foodie year:

Author Michael D’Antonio called the settlement “a victory for people who can’t tell the difference between recycled paper and chocolate”

Hahahahahahahaha.

Seriously, I don’t like the mouthfeel of Ghirardelli’s anymore — I can’t imagine trying to stomach a Hershey’s bar.

Despite being fairly sick yesterday — I didn’t get out of bed until 11am, and I don’t know when the last time that happened, other than it was undoubtedly Before Kids — I felt an urge to start baking. Like Christmas didn’t cure me of it. So I made Layered Brownies last night and Cocoa-Chocolate Chip Muffins this morning, both from Lisa Yockelson’s ChocolateChocolate. And it’s not like I have a fleet of people coming in to celebrate the New Year!

(The Cocoa-Chocolate Chip muffins seem to have turned out better than the Chocolate Chocolate Chip muffins I made from Baking By Flavor for my birthday — today’s muffins are a nice deep brown, whereas the ones on my birthday were kind of a light brown and nowhere near chocolatey enough.)

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I am wondering how I’m going to get back into the swing of things next week. We’re all waking up late — even the kids aren’t getting up until 9. Have I really been in the habit of getting up at 6 to meet my friends for early morning runs? This is going to take some doing.

Whole Fish

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I was reading Barbara’s post at Tigers and Strawberries about shopping for lemons at Whole Foods. One paragraph definitely stood out for me:

However, once I got up to the fish counter, and leaned in to take a look, the heavy smell of fish once again got to me. It was bad enough that I will not buy fish from them, but at least the smell is confined to within a few feet of the fish counter.

I have the same problem at the Whole Foods near me. At both of them, in fact. I do not buy fish from Whole Foods. I have no problem buying beef, chicken, pork… but I skip right past the fish counter because the smell is so overwhelming. I have no such problem at Lunardi’s, which has beautiful fish nicely laid out. What’s Whole Foods doing wrong?