No Longer Drunk... To celebrate my 30th post, as well as my graduation from "Village Drunk" to "Resident," I thought I'd take a moment to introduce my self and to thank all of you clever and interesting people for helping me get my Sims out of many jams, entertaining and inspiring me with tales of your own Sim lives, and generally providing a pleasant place to drop in on every how and again. I've been playing The Sims since the very first version of the game came out, lo these many years ago...I was beginning to spend less and less time in the worlds I had created, when Sims 2 FINALLY got ported over to the Mac, and I was re-energized and re-inspired! I've got so many ideas for gameplay and storylines, that I think it will be a LONG time before I grow bored with this game! Anyway, here are a few fun facts about me, as per Manager Josh's suggestion... Preferred Nickname/Name -- Sacharissa, I guess - or Sacha, if you're really in a hurry... Favorite Book -- Possession by A.S. Byatt...It's the book that my Reading Club uses as a measure to judge all other books by... Favorite Movie -- Tough one to answer...The sentimental favorite would have to be Star Wars...I saw it 37 time the first year it was out! (I guess THAT dates me!) My current favorite is The Chronicles of Narnia Favorite Actor/Actress - All-time favorite would have to be Fred Astaire (you young 'uns will have to Google him!) Current favorite is Russel Crowe (though this is subject to change without notice.) Favorite Game - The Sims 2, of course! Favorite TV - House, as well as just about any version of Law & Order Favorite Colour - Plum Favorite Sport - Baseball (Summer) or Figure Skating (Winter) Favorite Dessert - Candy Cane Silk Pie from Baker's Square! (Only available between Thanksgiving and New Years!) Something interesting about yourself - I like to create Soundtracks for Imaginary Movies. I make up plot-lines, cast them in my imagination, and then pull together the music I would use for that movie. I used to do this on cassette tapes - It has gotten a whole lot easier using iTunes and my iPod! Well enough about me...Just Happy to be Here...
Yes - I was in high school, and Star Wars was THE movie to see! It was like nothing we'd ever seen before, and it played in town for over a YEAR!! So, that kind of became the thing to do my Senior year - go see Star Wars, and then stop at the Malt Shop.
Malt is a flavoring, hard to describe. You might be able to find chocolate candies with malt. Anyway, it's essentially a malted milk and ice cream shake that I was talking about. I don't think I've seen them around for years and years, since McDonald's yucky chemical shake has taken over the world. :yuck:
chemical shake.. hahaha. pretty much. but it's mcdonalds. uhm would you expect anything else? haha. ... and for some reason i was kinda sad when i lost my title as village drunk.
1 pint premium chocolate ice cream 1/4 cup whole milk 2 tablespoons malt 2 tablespoons chocolate syrup 3/4 cup crumbled chocolate sandwich cookies or chocolate chip cookies Place the ice cream, milk, malt, and syrup in a blender and process on low speed for 30 seconds. Add the cookies and process for 20 seconds. Pour into 2 tall glasses and serve each with a straw and long-handled spoon.
In Britain we have a delicious substance called Malt Extract, it's a lovely dark brown gooey treacly substance that sticks to your tongue like billy-o. It is sweet and slightly bitter. I was raised on the stuff, my mum believed in a hefty spoonful of malt every day for growing children ... hm that's how come I ended up this big Apart from its use to raise healthy kiddies malt has little place in Brit culture in its raw form. It's used as a flavouring in loads of things such as the fabled tea-time treat: Malt Loaf, and many people swear by the malted hot drinks (eg Horlicks TM ... don't even go there! ... well I added a link if you really don't believe me) for a good night's sleep, suitably embittered with fragrant hops it becomes beer and further refinement produces the Water of Life (Whisky). But right now a chocolate malt sounds like heaven on a stick ... Josh I am gonna have to make up your recipe now ... if only to find out if it really will go up a straw!
Sacha, I have to put my two cents in because I adore the book Possession. One of my all time favorites, though Pride and Prejudice is my absolute favorite. I love Fred Astaire too, though I'm more of a Humphrey Bogart fan. He was ugly, couldn't dance, but what a lot of charisma on the guy ... though, I suppose typically, my favorite actor is Johnny Depp. What can I say? The man is beautiful, and can act besides. Still, that scene where Fred and Ginger tap dance in rollerskates ... wow. That is still amazing. And she was just so much fun. Such a feisty woman. They made a good pair. Give me a good dance number any day. I even enjoyed High School Musical, which was on Disney this weekend. Good thing, too, because my daughter watched it three times.
Ah yes - Chocolate Malts are one of the things I missed when I went to school in England. I don't know how to describe it to someone who's never had one... I remember my brother and I trying to explain it to my sister-in-law, who was born and bred in Leeds, Yorkshire...She couldn't get past the fact that you could stick your spoon up in a Malt, and it would stay standing! In fact, one of the first places we took her, when she visited Minneapolis, was The Malt Shop - a classic American burger joint, if ever there was one...She was amazed by the chocolatey goodness of her malt - and even more so when she stuck her spoon in and it remained upright...
Ah yes, SBW - Pride and Prejudice is another of my all-time favorites (LOVE Jane Austin, and her more modern successor, Georgette Heyer!) Infact, the main reason I got a DVD player was because I wanted to get the 6-hour BBC version of Pride and Prejudice, and didn't want to get 6 VHS tapes. (Two DVDs take up so much less space!) We set aside a weekend to watch it at least once a year! And what woman could really resist Bogart? That tough guy, who-gives-a-**** exterior, yet you KNOW that there's a passionate soul hidden underneath...
Pride and Prejudice is, well, incredibly boring while you're reading it, but when you finish it, you feel like it was a really great book. At least, that's how I feel, but then again I'm only 12.
LOL, Person. You may be right. Have you read Jane Eyre? When I was 12 I thought Jane's adventures so very romantic. It's a long book, though.
Just have to put my two cents in...are you talking about the one off of snellling? Goodness, I remember going there when I was in high school as well...best malts ever! I also enjoyed Snuffy's malts...but the malt shop was even better. Is it still there and open? I haven't been past that area in probably two years, even though I live right in Roseville.
Never been to the one off Snelling, though I've heard it's very good. (I think it's still there...) The one I grew up with is in Minneapolis, on 50th street, about a block west of Lyndale. It is still there, and still yummy! And it is two doors down from Patina's, which I consider to be one of the finer funky gift shops in the state! Definitely worth the trip!
I have to go there! My hubby loves malts. Me, I'm not big on ice cream ... but a good burger and fries, that's another story. I've lived here sixteen years in June (yikes!!!) and haven't been to the Malt Shop yet. What's wrong with me? I read Pride & Prejudice out loud to my husband when we were first married. The dialogue is amazing that way. It's very witty and funny, even today. I read it for the first time when I was twelve. Mr. Darcy was my first literary crush. I didn't find it boring at all, but I was a bit of a weird kid. I loved Charles Dickens, too. It took me all summer, but I read Bleak House when I was 12 or 13. Jane Eyre is wonderful, such a good story ... but I do prefer my heroines a bit on the feistier side, ala Elizabeth Bennet. Which should surprise no one.
When I first started the book, I thought Mr. Darcy seemed pretty cool, though a little aloof, but then I found out his first name...Fitzwilliam. Gosh, I bet he was beat up at school. Well, not incredibly boring, but boring enough for me to take half a year to finish it. Not because I read slowly, but I only read like a few pages every week or so, which is so unlike me.
