jacket potatos

I tried to be good this weekend, and i got a signifigant amount of work done, but not really as much as i should have. Also i'm not as young as i used to be and my eyes start to hurt from too much sitting in front of my computer, somehow i can still watch tv though.
My homework was interrupted thurs night so i could watch the apprentice people come up with crappy advertising for an even crappier soda. but what i didn't realize was that i had already missed the first hour of the samanta, american girls movie. i saw plenty during apprentice commercials though. it was a little too heartwarming for me. and a little familiar, wasn't there a simpsons episode where lisa enters an american speech contest but then gives a different speech or something after she finds out about corruption or something? yeah, so did samantha. but lisa never made her family adopt 3 little sickly orphan children.

saturday morning i got stuck watching hi hi puffy amiyumi. i though last week was fast paced with 3 stories in the half hr show. somehow, they managed to stick 4 stories into the half hour this week, plus the real girls playing basketball. that's what makes it good. brevity. this week ami, or yumi, i still don't knwo which one is the pink on and which one is the blue one gets a job in the circus to make extra money to buy fancy cakes for the anniversary of the band, or band-iversary, as they call it. It's adorable right up until the lion eats the annoying manager.

Saturday night, i wasn't planning on watching tv, but somehow i ended up watching an hour pbs show on the royal kitchen. and not just in the palace, but the one in scottland and the one on their boat too. those people are a little strange. but the highlight was finding out what a jacket potato was! it's real food, not some neopets thing. apparently it's like a twice baked potato, a potato cut in half with the potato part scooped out, and then mashed and piped back in. but then you add other things to it. one of princess di's favorite foods was a poached egg jacket potato. apparently this was not considered a very high class food. also, for laughs the young ones would order in fish and chips and eat it in front of the tv. the elders didn't really approve, and so the chef showed his version of fish and chips. it involved panko (or the british equivalant of panko) and looked super good. and they say british food is bad. not if you're royal.

and speaking of being royal. oh my gosh, i'm so glad after next week i'll be out of school until jan 26. because i'm going to need to devote all my time and energy to this show Love is in the Heir . They follow some spoiled princess around and it's better than the simple life. she's really a princess of something. but she moved out to la to make it big as a country singer. (why she thinks la is the place to become a country singer, i just don't know) but she's been screwing around for too long, and her parents are going to cut her off if she doesn't either come back to london or show that she's doing something useful in America and find a suitable, noble fiancee. I don't know what's wrong with princess ann, but i'll totally take her spot doing princess things. Hopefully she's better at princess things then she is at country music, because she's going to have to knight quite a few people to get a record contract the way she sings...

now if i can only keep away from the tv, and away from neopets for the rest of the semester i'll be ok. but the advent calendar starts wed!