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That’s right, I’ve crossed yet another thing off of my 101 things list.

Matt and I went out for dinner tonight at a Chinese buffet, and I decided to have a classic martini. One more thing off of the list sounded good to me, so I went for it. I was not at all prepared, though. I didn’t expect it to be as bitter as it was. This ended up being pretty funny, though. I passed it over to Matt to have him smell it, to get an idea as to how strong it was, and just then the waitress walked up with this horrified look on her face. She said “Oh my goodness, does it taste bad?!” and I told her “Oh, no! Not at all, I just wanted him to smell it.” This probably sounded insane, but it was the truth, so whatever. I spent the rest of the meal only drinking it when she wasn’t looking!

Does anyone have any good recipes for wonton soup? I could google it, but I’d like to hear first from people who’ve made one and tried it. I love it, but it’s hard to find one you like, and I don’t want to order Chinese food for just the soup!

I made the decision at dinner, though, to stick to fruity cocktails from now on. No more of this bitter stuff. Like the one I had at Jack Astor’s. That was delicious!

Also, today I started back up on something that I tried a long time ago, but never actually went all the way through with. It’s called the Change Your Life Challenge. Here’s an excerpt from the site, explaining what it is.

The Change Your Life Challenge is a 70 Day Program created by lifestyle expert and best-selling author Brook Noel. The Challenge is designed to help women makeover virtually every area of their life.

Over fifty-thousand women have come to this Challenge in the past eighteen months, some as skeptics–wondering if this program could work for them. You can read their testimonials by clicking here. These women are now enjoying the positive, unparalled benefits offered by this well-researched, comprehensive, step-by-step, proven Program.

If you think you have “tried everything” and there “isn’t any hope left,” think again. That is what hundred of “challengers” thought prior to completing this 70 Day Step-by-Step Challenge.

Okay, I’ve given a few days for people to get their submissions in for the Sex and the City challenge, and now it’s time to answer them! So here goes!

Stacy wanted me to relate:
Angela - Cynthia Nixon, who played Miranda, starred in an episode of Murder, She Wrote with Angela Lansbury.

Maria wanted me to relate:
Fans - In Ring a Ding Ding (Season 4, Episode 16), on the way home from the Chinese restaurant, they are waving fans, and Carrie makes a comment about how she’ll save a lot of money on air conditioning.
Pillows - In Luck be an Old Lady (Season 5, Episode 3), Samantha is suspecting that Richard is sleeping with other women at the hotel in Atlantic City, so she tries to wear him out before leaving him. One of her lines here is “Hi, I’m Samantha. Can I get you some towels? A chocolate for your pillow?”
Laundry - In Drama Queens (Season 3, Episode 7), Miranda does Steve’s laundry and ends up discovering, in her words, that she’s “dating skid marks man.”
Vietnamese People - In The Domino Effect (Season 6, Episode 11) they play a song called “In The Waiting Line” by Zero 7. This is the same song played in the party scene of Garden State. At the beginning of Garden State, Zach Braff is working at a Vietnamese restaurant, and he gets a hard time from a customer because he’s not a Vietnamese person.

Kalen wanted me to relate:
Tomatoes - In Just Say Yes (Season 4, Episode 12), Carrie says “Aidan, I just charged tomatoes, I really don’t think I’m in the position to buy an apartment.”
A Cup of Sugar - In Sex and the Country (Season 4, Episode 9), Samantha goes next door to Aidan’s country house to borrow a cup of milk for the pie Carrie’s baking. Of course, the stereotypical idea from most movies is not a cup of milk, but a cup of sugar!

Zi wanted me to relate:
A Humane Society - In The Big Time (Season 3, Episode 8), Miranda and Steve adopt Scout, their puppy. They adopt him from a pet store, but another place to adopt animals from is, of course, the Humane Society!
A Digital Camera - In The Real Me (Season 4, Episode 2), Carrie is documented for the New York Style fashion show by photographer Paul Denai. Obviously, he had to use a camera for the photographs!
Nasty, Dirty, Ratty Old Running Shoes - In A Woman’s Right to Shoes (Season 6, Episode 9), Kyra loans Carrie a pair of old sneakers when her shoes mysteriously go missing after a party.

So there we have it! How’d I do?

Leesha and I are proposing a challenge to you. We’ve both watched Sex and the City so many times that we know all the characters, the plot lines, the tiniest little jokes. It’s come to the point where just about anything can (and often will!) remind us of the show. This is where you come in.

Think of anything. Seriously, anything! A thought, an idea, a person. We want to see if we can associate it with Sex and the City! Not everything can be directly related, but we can relate it within one step. We’ll try to do it directly whenever we can though!

Make sense? Good. Start commenting! We’ll have answers up within the next few days.