Cyberstalking is Fun with Good ol' Mike

It's a busy week, but JP asked me to come over for Taco Night last night.



Since JP is a vegetarian, the meat in the tacos was actually an Indonesian soy product called tempeh. The tacos were delicious.

While he was cooking, I finished the cover to my latest mix tape. It's a mix I do for myself every year called Good Times. This year, the theme was Baja Fresh.



Oh, and we took a big step yesterday. We changed our Facebook statuses to "In a relationship". I immediately got a text from Lizzie:

Haha/yay! ...and so ends the short-lived run of singleMike. :)
Very happy for you! Plus, barfing sounds. :)

Valentine's Day this year was very unusual for me. I just ended a 15 year relationship, and I'm kinda sorta on the cusp of starting a new one. Am I allowed to be happy? Am I allowed to be snarky? I say yes!



Met up with jpinsd for a romantic vegetarian (yay!) lunch at Which Wich. At Which Wich, when you order, you fill out a form to design your sandwich. You can choose your meat (veggie patty), your cheese (Cheeze Wiz) and all of your fixins. Later, the form is reused as the bag your sandwich is served in. It's pretty spectacular.



That night, at home, Mark made us an anti-Valentine's dinner. It was delicious... but very meat-oriented (boo).

I had a lovely time getting dinner with my dear friend jpinsd. We both had pasta (with vodka sauce) at Lotsa Pasta. I just love hanging out with a good friend and having a nice, long conversation.

But I slacked on taking pictures. Here was dessert.

Last night, Japes jpinsd, Dave pinner123, Brian kingfuraday and I got together for a very impromptu movie night.

The first movie was How to Train Your Dragon.





The guys all worship this movie because it was co-written and co-directed by Dean DeBlois, whom they all know in person. He's like the definitive bear. Check him out.

It's actually a fine film. Very beautiful and well-written. I had seen it before, but it was a second movie at the drive-in, so I slept through most of it. Seeing it on Blu-ray, wired on Rockstar Energy drink is definitely a much better way to enjoy it.

The second film we saw was the infamous Bear City, which just came out on DVD and has a reputation for completely missing the mark with regard to its portrayal of the bear scene. I'm certainly no expert on the bear scene, but it did seem pretty inaccurate.





We were extra excited because Dave's picture is in the movie for a brief moment. Also, Brian's picture shows up during the credits, and our friend Shannon Grady has a song in it at the end.

Virtually every actor in the film is very skinny, with the exception of one character who appears to weigh 400+ pounds. **Spoiler Alert** He decides to get the lap-band surgery, which seems like a very good idea in his case. But in the end, he chooses not to so that his "hot" chubby-chaser boyfriend (who calls him "gordito". barf.) won't dump him. That's pretty jacked up.

As bad not-necessarily-a-classic as it was, admittedly it was still entertaining to some extent. Good times.

Next movie night with the guys? TRON (the original!).