Chicken and Beers

I think the show "Parks and Recreation" has been in a sweet spot for me lately. Maybe because I'm really on board with the way the characters are evolving. It was easy to pity or write Leslie off in the beginning but lately since she's started to date, she's totally becoming a character I'm rooting for.

I couldn't really put my finger on it until her boss made a comment on the last episode about her current boyfriend, a cool guy caricature who's been all over the world. Her boss tells her that that he's a tourist. He vacations in people's lives. Takes pictures, puts them in his scrapbook and moves on. I thought that was pretty poignant.

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So the Valentine's Day themed episodes on NBC inspired me to do something with MJ yesterday. She'd been working incredibly hard lately and i thought it'd be nice to take her out. Plus, she wasn't really expecting anything which made me feel bad about the relationship standards/bar I'd been setting for ourselves. So I dressed up and took her out to eat some fried chicken and drink some beers.

She decided to go with t-shirt and jeans which I thought was very practical and funny. Maybe the bartender would feel sorry for me for trying so hard by dressing up and not knowing any better than to take her somewhere that who's menu didn't revolve around chicken wings.

Whatevs. The chicken was soo good. Afterwards we walked by a Salvadorean Pupuseria. I hadn't had a proper pupusa since I used to wash cars at the dealership. This lady would come in her station wagon and ice cooler filled with foil wrapped pupusas on saturday mornings.

I told her about my nostalgia and we went in for some post-dinner pupusa appetizers. It was soo good. I told her that i felt as if she was taking me out but that I was paying for everything. We had a good laugh over that one.

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Netflix has been really good to me lately. I've been watching a wide range of things. I'm not sure how I feel about the ratings feature but I've been diligently rating movies with hopes that in the end will introduce me to better movies and that it won't make me feel less special.

Saw a few episodes of Morgan Spurlock's 30 days series yesterday. I really liked the first episode of Season 2. A minuteman, a member of one of those civilian militias that patrol the border, goes to east LA to live with a family whose parents are illegal immigrants, for a month.

Before he came, the family was discussing what ethnicity the would want the guy to be. The eldest daughter made a comment that she could understand if he was white but it would be the worst if he was hispanic. I had to agree and ta-da the guy turns out to be cuban whose parents had immigrated to the states.

It was a really interesting look into a minuteman's mentality. I know their arguments but I don't really understand them. Kinda scared of them actually. In the episode, he goes through a slight transformation to the point where he went back home and doesn't patrol the border armed to the teeth anymore.