teenage mutant ninja turtles

i have had a lovely and very busy weekend. friday night some of my housemates, brooke, jason, eric and i went to a viewing of Fresh. its about local, sustainable food production. michael pollan, author of the ominvore's dilemma and in defense of food, among other things, is one of the people involved in the project. the movie was very good. i'd highly recommend it...that said, if you haven't done any research into how food gets to your table today, be prepared to change before you go see the movie...

after the movie, eric's new friend adam met up with us and eric, adam and i ventured to amy's for ice cream...but we ended up in whole foods, eating gelato, checking out the local selection of meat, fruits and vegetables and smelling all sorts of yummy spices.

vegan chocolate gelato...and eric's way too large pink sorbet!

adam just moved to austin from utah. he speaks spanish fluently and he likes gelato and organic food. i suspect he's going to fit in just fine.

yesterday i had my car reshod...the road feels a little different with new tires! after tires and a stop at the motorcycle shop, eric and i made our way to a park to play catch. when i was relating this story at church this morning, someone asked what catch was...i replied, you know, when you have mitts and you throw a softball at each other. i found the exchange kind of funny because i guess as we get older, we don't really take time out anymore to do things like play catch, unless we have a child with whom to play.

and speaking of things kids do, last night for dinner, eric and i had pizza...and then watched teenage mutant ninja turtles. yep, that's right, the one with real people that came out when we were about 10, or maybe younger. and you know what? its still as good as i remember it.

i'm currently reading fast food nation. its been on my list of books to read for years and while some of the information in it i have heard before from other things i've read, its still enlightening (disturbing?) to see how advertising basically infiltrates everything we do these days. crazy.