I got Justin this shave set from Acca Kappa for our eight-year anniversary:
Shave set made with African Ovangkol Wood. Razor comes with Mach III blade and Shave Brush is made with Pure Badger bristles. Chrome plated stand and White Moss shave soap included.
Now he's gone shave crazy and has bought a DE safety razor and wants a straight razor as well. Hurrah for male grooming!
Posted on April 14, 2008 @ 11:15 PM | 1 comments
Shave set made with African Ovangkol Wood. Razor comes with Mach III blade and Shave Brush is made with Pure Badger bristles. Chrome plated stand and White Moss shave soap included.
Now he's gone shave crazy and has bought a DE safety razor and wants a straight razor as well. Hurrah for male grooming!
Posted on April 14, 2008 @ 11:15 PM | 1 comments
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Eight years. Holy freaking crap. Congratulations, guys!
By 
AmandaLin, at
7:04 AM, April 15, 2008
I had a near critical-failure while making enchiladas tonight. Not as epic as the time that Justin managed to explode the glass baking dish INTO the saucepan of filling by setting it on top of a heated burner, but still pretty bad.
First, we were out of black beans. No biggie, whatever. Kidney beans are OK. But after I added the diced tomatoes, something seemed off. It took me a second to realize that not a single diced tomato had come out of the can I had just emptied into the pan... all that it had contained was tomato JUICE.
So we opened another can... and it was the same damn thing! This can, however, contained ONE PIECE of diced tomato within the juice, as if to proclaim that it was indeed true to its name.
[Hay guys, it says diced tomatOES not diced TOMATO!]
We shook a few cans until we found one that sounded like it ACTUALLY had tomatoes in it, then added that one.
Turns out that one of the flats of Muir Glen Organic Diced Tomatoes we bought at Costco on Saturday is... ah... defective.
Dammit, I don't want to drive all the way back there for fail-free tomatoes!
But if we did go back I could get more mexi-coke. Mmmmm.
As if I need more in addition to the FIVE CASES of it sitting in the garage right now.
Why do we have Mexican Coca-Cola? Read the wedding blog to find out.
Just in case that wasn't enough edible non-sequitur for you, here is some more food porn from when we were making a delicious pasta dish with prosciutto, kalamata olives, artichoke hearts, and celery:
Posted on @ 10:52 PM | 2 comments
First, we were out of black beans. No biggie, whatever. Kidney beans are OK. But after I added the diced tomatoes, something seemed off. It took me a second to realize that not a single diced tomato had come out of the can I had just emptied into the pan... all that it had contained was tomato JUICE.
So we opened another can... and it was the same damn thing! This can, however, contained ONE PIECE of diced tomato within the juice, as if to proclaim that it was indeed true to its name.
We shook a few cans until we found one that sounded like it ACTUALLY had tomatoes in it, then added that one.
Turns out that one of the flats of Muir Glen Organic Diced Tomatoes we bought at Costco on Saturday is... ah... defective.
Dammit, I don't want to drive all the way back there for fail-free tomatoes!
But if we did go back I could get more mexi-coke. Mmmmm.
As if I need more in addition to the FIVE CASES of it sitting in the garage right now.
Why do we have Mexican Coca-Cola? Read the wedding blog to find out.
Just in case that wasn't enough edible non-sequitur for you, here is some more food porn from when we were making a delicious pasta dish with prosciutto, kalamata olives, artichoke hearts, and celery:
Posted on @ 10:52 PM | 2 comments
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do ya'll own a house?
By 
, at
5:06 PM, April 15, 2008
Nope, we live in an awesome 4-plex. Houses in our neighborhood are outrageously expensive. We'll figure something out after Justin graduates.
By Kat, at
5:14 PM, April 15, 2008
Justin and I had our body fat measured through hydrostatic (i.e. dunk tank) testing. This is the most reliable method of measurement available-- far more so than caliper (pinch) testing or electric current testing (i.e. fat measurement scales). The dunk tank comes to my yuppie gym every few months or so, and we decided it would be fun to have ours measured. A lot of people get their body fat tested as a health concern, but we were more curious than anything. Neither of us is worried about weight as more than a vanity point, but knowing our actual body fat percentage will set a reliable baseline from which we can draw comparison later in life.
The procedure itself takes less than five minutes, but there is some time involved for changing into and out of a bathing suit and discussion of your results. First, you take height and weight measurements. Then, you get into your suit and sit in a warm-ish tub of water, the bottom of which is a free-floating scale. You secure your quads with a weight belt, empty all the air from your lungs, and lay back until you are fully submerged.
It's critical to empty all of the air out of your chest cavity and air passages because any that remains inside your body contributes to buoyancy and is measured as fat. Talk about a good motivator to take a nice breath OUT.
You repeat this process a few times to set an average (and because it's easier to empty your lungs after the first time), then exit the tub and dry off.
The results are ready immediately-- you receive a printout with your body fat percentage, fat and lean mass ratio, percentile for your age group, etc. You're also given a calculated resting metabolic rate, which is approximately 70% of your daily energy expenditure in calories, or approximately how many calories needed to sustain your body daily at a minimal resting level.
They include a few other goodies for weight loss and goal-setting purposes, such as the amount of weight you should lose to lower your fat X percent and the number of calories your metabolism specifically burns for 30 minutes of a given activity.
It's a fun test and a neat bit of trivia to know about yourself.
I bet my coworker Jeff that I would come in at just over 20%, which is normal for a woman. Eighteen percent is an athletic build. He bet me I would come in under 20%, so we set a five dollar wager.
For your reference, men have substantially lower body fat than women. (Given that we have hips, asses, and breasts, is that surprising?) For example, this test marked the midline (50th percentile) for women age 20-29 as 22.1% and for men aged 20-29 as 15.9%. See what I mean?
Well, it ends up that I owe Jeff five dollars. My results were somewhat lower than I expected... 17.1%
Here's a breakdown of our results:
Kat's results:
Height: 70 inches
Dry Weight: 149 lbs
Wet Weight: 4.51 lbs
Body Fat Percentage: 17.1%
Lean Body Mass Percentage: 82.9%
Weight of Fat: 25.5 lbs (EW)
Weight of Lean Body Mass: 123.5
Percentile for age group: 80th
Resting Metabolic Rate (70% daily calorie burn): 1714
Justin's results:
Height: 69.25 inches
Dry Weight: 150 lbs
Wet Weight: 7.92 lbs
Body Fat Percentage: 8%
Lean Body Mass Percentage: 91.95%
Weight of Fat: 12.05 lbs (!!)
Weight of Lean Body Mass: 137.9
Percentile for age group: 85th
Resting Metabolic Rate (70% daily calorie burn): 1857
It's really funny... we're almost in identical categories for our gender. We're like two halves of the same mold. D'aww. :D
Anywho, if you have a chance to have this done somewhere near you, I recommend it. Our tank offered a student rate of only $25 and given that this type of information is a great motivator if you DO have health concerns, it really can be a life saver!
Posted on @ 10:21 PM | 1 comments
The procedure itself takes less than five minutes, but there is some time involved for changing into and out of a bathing suit and discussion of your results. First, you take height and weight measurements. Then, you get into your suit and sit in a warm-ish tub of water, the bottom of which is a free-floating scale. You secure your quads with a weight belt, empty all the air from your lungs, and lay back until you are fully submerged.
It's critical to empty all of the air out of your chest cavity and air passages because any that remains inside your body contributes to buoyancy and is measured as fat. Talk about a good motivator to take a nice breath OUT.
You repeat this process a few times to set an average (and because it's easier to empty your lungs after the first time), then exit the tub and dry off.
The results are ready immediately-- you receive a printout with your body fat percentage, fat and lean mass ratio, percentile for your age group, etc. You're also given a calculated resting metabolic rate, which is approximately 70% of your daily energy expenditure in calories, or approximately how many calories needed to sustain your body daily at a minimal resting level.
They include a few other goodies for weight loss and goal-setting purposes, such as the amount of weight you should lose to lower your fat X percent and the number of calories your metabolism specifically burns for 30 minutes of a given activity.
It's a fun test and a neat bit of trivia to know about yourself.
I bet my coworker Jeff that I would come in at just over 20%, which is normal for a woman. Eighteen percent is an athletic build. He bet me I would come in under 20%, so we set a five dollar wager.
For your reference, men have substantially lower body fat than women. (Given that we have hips, asses, and breasts, is that surprising?) For example, this test marked the midline (50th percentile) for women age 20-29 as 22.1% and for men aged 20-29 as 15.9%. See what I mean?
Well, it ends up that I owe Jeff five dollars. My results were somewhat lower than I expected... 17.1%
Here's a breakdown of our results:
Kat's results:
Height: 70 inches
Dry Weight: 149 lbs
Wet Weight: 4.51 lbs
Body Fat Percentage: 17.1%
Lean Body Mass Percentage: 82.9%
Weight of Fat: 25.5 lbs (EW)
Weight of Lean Body Mass: 123.5
Percentile for age group: 80th
Resting Metabolic Rate (70% daily calorie burn): 1714
Justin's results:
Height: 69.25 inches
Dry Weight: 150 lbs
Wet Weight: 7.92 lbs
Body Fat Percentage: 8%
Lean Body Mass Percentage: 91.95%
Weight of Fat: 12.05 lbs (!!)
Weight of Lean Body Mass: 137.9
Percentile for age group: 85th
Resting Metabolic Rate (70% daily calorie burn): 1857
It's really funny... we're almost in identical categories for our gender. We're like two halves of the same mold. D'aww. :D
Anywho, if you have a chance to have this done somewhere near you, I recommend it. Our tank offered a student rate of only $25 and given that this type of information is a great motivator if you DO have health concerns, it really can be a life saver!
Posted on @ 10:21 PM | 1 comments
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This also gives Kat a scientific reason to give me the evil eye when I tell her I feel like I'm putting on weight...
By Justin, at
7:18 PM, April 15, 2008
Today, Justin and I are celebrating eight years together. It's our very last "date-aversary" before we start celebrating wedding anniversaries. Ah, how bittersweet!
Posted on April 07, 2008 @ 11:44 AM | 0 comments
Posted on April 07, 2008 @ 11:44 AM | 0 comments
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Easter weekend, we visited Justin's parents' house on Orcas Island with our friends Chris and Lindsey and their baby Charlotte. As usual, Charlotte won the prize for the cutest baby ever because she is fabulously half-Asian. When out and about in East Sound with Justin, Lindsay and I (all of us are white-- daddy is Chinese) she elicited a flabbergasted cry from a somewhat crazy passerby... "Is that an ASIAN baby?!" (Think of the same intonation you'd give to "Is that a FERRARI?" meaning "Where did you GET that?!"
We had a fun time. Here are some photos:
( Orcas Island Photo Gallery )
Posted on April 01, 2008 @ 5:54 PM | 1 comments
We had a fun time. Here are some photos:
( Orcas Island Photo Gallery )
Posted on April 01, 2008 @ 5:54 PM | 1 comments
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How about "Is that YOUR baby?". Well, get used to it.
By , at
12:28 AM, April 04, 2008
