hot wings and potato salad

this weekend was just jam packed with things to do and people to see and i had a lot of fun. as i said on friday, my friend from berkeley was down for a visit. sat morning (well afternoon) i went out with her and my roommate to this german restaurant that we found on the internet. my roommate grew up in germany and is always bitching about how we never go to eat german food. i keep telling her, "well find a german restaurant!" and she never does. so i took matters into my own hands and looked it up. did you know that looking up "german restaurant" on citysearch gets you mostly weinerschitzel? then i found a "cal-german" restaurant that had a sample menu of something with chorizo. didn't sound too german to me but luckily i had better luck on google. the place was even nearby in silver lake so it was all good. much to our delight, it was very authentic and we all ordered the bratwurst. those germans make a mean potato salad, too. here are my friends fake toasting:



oh and if anyone in la wants to know, it's the red lion tavern in silver lake and the address is:
2366 Glendale Boulevard
Los Angeles, California 90039-3209 ph: 323.662.5337

after lunch my friend's mom came to pick her up and take her back to irvine for some family time. adrienne (that's my roomie) and i decided that today would be a good day to go to jay and silent bob's secret stash in westwood. it's kevin smith's comic shop and we have been wanting to go for ages. we love kevin smith and so braved sat night traffic to go to the store. the store was smaller than i expected but it had a nice selection of action figures and comics/graphic novels and it also had all of kevin smith's merchandise, signed. we got a signed mallrats poster for the apt and i also bought 2 comic books and a buddy christ. love it.



but the best part about being in westwood was that we got to stop at diddy reese (don't even ask how many times i had to spell it to find the address) for ice cream sandwiches. for those who have never been, they have homemade cookies and ice cream and you get to make your own combos. you get 2 cookies with ice cream, 3 cookies, or 2 cookies and a glass of milk for $1! yeah baby. we also bought 2 dozen cookies to bring to the superbowl party on sunday. ice cream sandwiches and comics...you really can't get much better than that.

after that we went home to make about a billion rice krispie treats for the party. adrienne decided we should make them in superbowl colors so we had to do a bunch of half batches in order to color them. they turned out really well but i am sad to say that i did not get a picture. oh- and we rented catwoman. bad idea. it was soooooo bad. halle berry was just campy and weird and the dialogue was predictable, as was the plot. it was nothing like the sort of tragic and conflicted character that michelle pfieffer protrayed. the cgi looked terribly fake and it was just BAD. please, for the love of all that is good in the world, don't see it. you'll regret it.

sunday was for the superbowl. i really don't care for football but there was a party with food involved so i had to go. traffic was very good and we made it to irvine in no time. we played a little football beforehand and i am proud to say that i did not injure myself or embarass myself in any noticeable way. there was a pool going on, and i was in the lead once, but didn't win. it was also my friend's brother's birthday and his nickname is turd (gross i know but i didn't give it to him). so adrienne and i made him a special treat.





don't worry, it's just chocolate covered rice krispies.
i didn't get much knitting done but i did add to the stash. i'll probably post more about it later, as this is pretty long and i don't want to bore you. happy monday!