What a nice way to greet the morning. :)

I was a little worried yesterday when I didn't get an email confirmation of my order, but this morning I woke up to one!

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Dear (me):

Thank you for your floral order. We appreciate and value your business. The
flowers were delivered yesterday, February 20, 2004, as requested to City Hall.
Thanks for your caring, love and support. The SF Chronicle run a story in
today paper on the flowers being deliver to couple waiting in line.

Sincerely,
Thim

www.flowersbythebay.com / 415-357-0202
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Here's the story: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/02/21/MNGEP55KOA1.DTL

"The couple's gift has been replicated hundreds of times throughout the week as part of a grassroots movement called Flowers in the Heartland."

Hundreds! Hundreds of times! How wonderful. :)

Photos of them getting flowers: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/document.cgi?f=/g/a/2004/02/18/gaywedgallery.DTL (Edit: Oops, seem to be "just" wedding photos, not flower-getting ones.)

It was agreed in LJ comments that for a few of us, we've never before had a week where we grinned and got all sappy so much. And I'm grinning again now! So much happiness! And I got to be a little part of it. :)

What a nice way to greet the morning. :)

I was a little worried yesterday when I didn't get an email confirmation of my order, but this morning I woke up to one!

---
Dear (me):

Thank you for your floral order. We appreciate and value your business. The
flowers were delivered yesterday, February 20, 2004, as requested to City Hall.
Thanks for your caring, love and support. The SF Chronicle run a story in
today paper on the flowers being deliver to couple waiting in line.

Sincerely,
Thim

www.flowersbythebay.com / 415-357-0202
---

Here's the story: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/02/21/MNGEP55KOA1.DTL

"The couple's gift has been replicated hundreds of times throughout the week as part of a grassroots movement called Flowers in the Heartland."

Hundreds! Hundreds of times! How wonderful. :)

Photos of them getting flowers: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/document.cgi?f=/g/a/2004/02/18/gaywedgallery.DTL (Edit: Oops, seem to be "just" wedding photos, not flower-getting ones.)

It was agreed in LJ comments that for a few of us, we've never before had a week where we grinned and got all sappy so much. And I'm grinning again now! So much happiness! And I got to be a little part of it. :)

Really good, really easy meal / Witch Hunter Robin / Netflix

I've made this twice now, and so I can really recommend this as a great tasting, easy meal to make. Prego pasta bake sauce: Just use the jar of sauce, an equal amount of water, and *uncooked* pasta. Throw it all together in a pan, stick it in the oven for 30 minutes, then take it out and cover it with shredded cheese, and bake for 10 more minutes. All done! You get a really nice baked ziti-type dish (though you can use other pastas than ziti. I think it recommends shells as well? Check the bottle). If you buy a bag of that pre-shredded cheese, this is especially easy. Almost no work, almost no cleanup, and it comes out yummy as heck. What more could you want?

(Wow, I don't think I ever rec'ed a food product in my LJ before... But really, this one deserves it. If you can't or don't like to cook, this is such a great thing. It's like getting a homemade meal with none of the work!)

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A couple people have asked me to post my opinion on Witch Hunter Robin once I started watching it, so here we go. I'm far from done with the series (just watched the third ep, out of twenty-six total), but here are my thoughts so far:

During the first ep, I was really worried how Wolf's Rain-ish this felt. Same animation style, the music seemed familiar, and the plot was that same wandering... eh, mess. :} After watching it I hunted down some reviews; if this was a piece of crap, I didn't want to waste the time on it that I had on Wolf's Rain... but everything I read said it was the best thing ever, so I continued.

Ep 2 still didn't hook me, but it wasn't bad. Though the animation, voices, and music were Wolf's Rain-ish, I never said anything but good things about those things in Wolf's Rain, so that's good. I was still "meh" at the end of the ep, but eating lunch helped a lot. :p

Ep 3 grabbed me and clamped down and wouldn't let go. The characters are starting to get fleshed out, and the one with the first real backstory really grabbed me: Michael. Collared Michael. Mmm. I wonder if the boss *literally* collared him, or if he wears it because he's symbolically collared? Either way: MMMMMM. Nothing like a cute boy in a collar, especially against his will. And that he can't even leave the building without permission! Mmm, yes please! Hee.

So I'm going to keep watching more of it today. I have a ton of movies queued up to watch (four Studio Ghibli ones: Castle in the Sky, Ocean Waves (I Can Hear the Sea), Pom Poko, Whisper of the Heart, and the last LotR movie), but they can wait until I get more Witch Hunter.

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Oh, and I signed up for Netflix, since they were doing a free month special. They had almost nothing that I wanted to see/couldn't download, but finally I found an anime series that I wanted to see but couldn't find online (Record of the Lodoss(sp?) War), so I ordered that. Once I see it, I'll cancel my membership and that'll be that.

Really good, really easy meal / Witch Hunter Robin / Netflix

I've made this twice now, and so I can really recommend this as a great tasting, easy meal to make. Prego pasta bake sauce: Just use the jar of sauce, an equal amount of water, and *uncooked* pasta. Throw it all together in a pan, stick it in the oven for 30 minutes, then take it out and cover it with shredded cheese, and bake for 10 more minutes. All done! You get a really nice baked ziti-type dish (though you can use other pastas than ziti. I think it recommends shells as well? Check the bottle). If you buy a bag of that pre-shredded cheese, this is especially easy. Almost no work, almost no cleanup, and it comes out yummy as heck. What more could you want?

(Wow, I don't think I ever rec'ed a food product in my LJ before... But really, this one deserves it. If you can't or don't like to cook, this is such a great thing. It's like getting a homemade meal with none of the work!)

--

A couple people have asked me to post my opinion on Witch Hunter Robin once I started watching it, so here we go. I'm far from done with the series (just watched the third ep, out of twenty-six total), but here are my thoughts so far:

During the first ep, I was really worried how Wolf's Rain-ish this felt. Same animation style, the music seemed familiar, and the plot was that same wandering... eh, mess. :} After watching it I hunted down some reviews; if this was a piece of crap, I didn't want to waste the time on it that I had on Wolf's Rain... but everything I read said it was the best thing ever, so I continued.

Ep 2 still didn't hook me, but it wasn't bad. Though the animation, voices, and music were Wolf's Rain-ish, I never said anything but good things about those things in Wolf's Rain, so that's good. I was still "meh" at the end of the ep, but eating lunch helped a lot. :p

Ep 3 grabbed me and clamped down and wouldn't let go. The characters are starting to get fleshed out, and the one with the first real backstory really grabbed me: Michael. Collared Michael. Mmm. I wonder if the boss *literally* collared him, or if he wears it because he's symbolically collared? Either way: MMMMMM. Nothing like a cute boy in a collar, especially against his will. And that he can't even leave the building without permission! Mmm, yes please! Hee.

So I'm going to keep watching more of it today. I have a ton of movies queued up to watch (four Studio Ghibli ones: Castle in the Sky, Ocean Waves (I Can Hear the Sea), Pom Poko, Whisper of the Heart, and the last LotR movie), but they can wait until I get more Witch Hunter.

--

Oh, and I signed up for Netflix, since they were doing a free month special. They had almost nothing that I wanted to see/couldn't download, but finally I found an anime series that I wanted to see but couldn't find online (Record of the Lodoss(sp?) War), so I ordered that. Once I see it, I'll cancel my membership and that'll be that.