tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13062822550769488432011-11-27T16:31:19.161-08:00Opinions galore!Rachienoreply@blogger.comBlogger241100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1306282255076948843.post-43566991441051795922009-11-18T20:34:00.000-08:002009-11-18T20:34:49.170-08:00

I love Big Macs. I always have and I feel no shame for it. I think they're delicious, and I actually had one for lunch just today. So when I saw that Carl's Jr. had started making a Big Mac rip-off I was curious and decided I needed to give it a try. I did. [See photo to the right--image of actual burger eaten.] First off, let me just say that I don't like the name Carl's came up with. "Big

Rachienoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1306282255076948843.post-86159742133871205552009-08-10T20:57:00.000-07:002009-08-10T21:27:18.159-07:00

I'm coming out of hibernation to give you... **drum roll**THE ROKU BOX!And here I thought my love for Netflix couldn't get any stronger... I was so wrong!Aside from the iPod and cell phone, no piece of tiny technology has impacted my life more than the Roku Box. What does this Roku Box do, you ask? Well, I'll tell you: It streams videos from your Netflix queue right to your TV!"Big whoop," you're

Rachienoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1306282255076948843.post-76500967152026867352009-04-17T21:36:00.000-07:002009-04-17T22:23:07.921-07:00

Welcome to my first unrecommended item! I realize this is a recommendations blog, so let's say I recommend that you don't get Papa Murphy's pizza. Why not? Let's begin.First, let's start with the pros. Papa Murphy's is fast. Your order is ready to pick up in ten minutes. That's pretty awesome. Also, their pizza tastes all right. Not an explosion of mind-altering flavor, but better and fresher

Rachienoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1306282255076948843.post-3309687987387409882009-03-19T14:39:00.000-07:002009-03-31T22:03:50.632-07:00

Ok, how come we don't have Smiths speed dating in Salt Lake City?! New York does it, I don't know why we don't do it. It's a well-known fact that Utahns love 80s music; I think Smiths speed dating could be a huge success here.This idea is absolutely brilliant: speed dating to Smiths songs. One song equals one date. So you start talking to someone when "Panic" starts, and then switch tables when "

Rachienoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1306282255076948843.post-1401691663728994182009-03-18T15:05:00.000-07:002009-03-18T15:49:07.308-07:00

I'm the first to admit that I'm a huge sucker when it comes to cute animals like birds and bunnies and puppies and, well, you get the idea. Snakes, lizards, and spiders, not so much. But you throw a mini parrot in front of my face and chances are good that I'm going to go "Awwww!" and eventually buy it. Because, as I stated earlier, I am a sucker. My latest act of suckeritude? A green cheek

Rachienoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1306282255076948843.post-52471127649251577532009-02-11T09:36:00.001-08:002009-02-11T09:43:31.395-08:00

It is an absolute understatement for me to say that I love Morrissey. There is no verb strong enough to express the emotions I feel for that man. And having just heard his new single, "I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris" off of "Years of Refusal" (not sure what's taken me so long to get around to watching it when it dropped about a month ago...), I love him all the more. This new single sounds so

Rachienoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1306282255076948843.post-34984074858022198622009-02-09T20:04:00.000-08:002009-02-09T20:21:14.865-08:00

dkfjsdkfjk 1j3lkej1kjlvjdskhvsjdflsjdf!!!!Morrissey's newest album, "Years of Refusal" is dropping February 16! Have you bought yours yet? Hurry and get a man on it! Here, I'll make it easy for you--click here--and buy it! I'm going to go ahead and recommend it album-unlistened because HELLO, it's THE MOZ. You know it's gonna be fawesome. Sure, "Ringleader of the Tormentors" wasn't his best album

Rachienoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1306282255076948843.post-19256489132494954792009-01-17T19:25:00.000-08:002009-01-17T19:58:28.984-08:00

Since I have not only the sense of humor of a 14-year old boy, but also the entertainment tastes to go with it, it's my pleasure to recommend Guitar Hero World Tour. It was the only thing I could think to ask for for Christmas, which is why I didn't run out and buy it myself when it came out a couple of months ago. Sadly I've been so busy working since Christmas, I haven't really had as much time

Rachienoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1306282255076948843.post-49413200094945768002009-01-12T17:48:00.000-08:002009-01-12T18:35:39.326-08:00

Normally I'm not one for mixing my sweets and savories. There's just something wrong about chicken slathered in sweet mango salsa that makes my stomach want to churn. But I have been known to make an exception for chocolate pretzels and kettle corn. However, if I had been sauntering down the frozen dairy aisle of Target and seen kettle corn flavored ice cream, I probably would have kept on

Rachienoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1306282255076948843.post-66596605771814864062009-01-05T15:45:00.000-08:002009-01-05T16:25:26.046-08:00

My friend Brick, the knower of all things good-music, once gave me a little nugget of wisdom: "Good music can often be found in commercials." Indeed, it was in a commercial that I found today's offering, proving once again that Brick is pretty much a genius.I was watching TV, goofing around on my laptop a few months ago when I heard a cheerful little piano tune venture forth from my TV speakers.

Rachienoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1306282255076948843.post-83461914120772652612009-01-02T14:56:00.000-08:002009-02-02T17:34:01.242-08:00

I'm not quite sure what happened, but this year I wound up having a very Robert Downey Jr. Christmas. Somehow the planets and stars perfectly aligned and a bunch of Robert Downey Jr. movies all lumped together in my Netflix queue. Over the past three weeks I have watched five Robert Downey Jr. movies, which is strange because on my celebrity-obsession scale old Rob is only about a 6 (on a scale

Rachienoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1306282255076948843.post-43799163065488953632008-12-23T16:22:00.000-08:002008-12-23T16:41:34.643-08:00

I'm a little embarrassed to say that I first heard about Lady Gaga when I saw her live opening for New Kids on the Block (I was indulging my inner child, all right? And they were comps.). Normally I refuse to show up for concerts before 9:00 because the "special guests" usually suck out loud. I can only think of three instances where this wasn't the case: The Village People opening for Cher (shut

Rachienoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1306282255076948843.post-39084534712797903002008-12-11T16:14:00.001-08:002008-12-11T16:38:50.154-08:00

I, my friends, am a woman of action. I see something, decide I want it, and go get it. Such was the case with the great whistling cockatiel fascination of 2008. Unfortunately, none of my local pet stores carried birds that came pre-loaded with sound bits, so I had to buy an empty one and try to upload selections to it myself. So far I have been successful only at getting him to step up onto my

Rachienoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1306282255076948843.post-36233844528712586622008-12-09T21:06:00.000-08:002008-12-10T14:05:32.258-08:00

In May of this year, my friend Brick changed my life. He didn't give me a kidney or help me find my birth mother or anything like that. No. He introduced me to The Kooks, a band who quickly rose into my top-ten favorites of all time. Everything about The Kooks is oh so right (aside from their greasy, tight-pants look--ew). I can't even describe how awesome their music is, but I can tell you that

Rachienoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1306282255076948843.post-15983718060585098202008-12-09T20:17:00.000-08:002008-12-09T21:21:24.032-08:00

If you've never watched Battlestar Galactica you're probably laughing, pointing at your screen, and yelling, "NERD ALERT!" at this post. But I'm proud to stand up and say that I am a Battlestar Galactica fan. I never thought I'd like the same stuff as Dwight Schrute, but for this show I'm willing to make an exception.I do have some nerdish leanings (and by "some" I mean "ridiculous amounts"). I

Rachienoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1306282255076948843.post-47341629938425199872008-12-04T11:57:00.001-08:002008-12-04T12:17:35.342-08:00

What do you get the Twilight fan that has everything? Why, his or her very own life-sized stand-up poster of Rob Pattinson (aka Edward Cullen), natch! Now you can sleep under the watchful eye of your own brooding but morally conscious vampire. Unfortunately this version is made of cardboard, not marble, and I doubt he'll be taking you on any forest fun runs where you don't have to do both the

Rachienoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1306282255076948843.post-64545965263889351182008-12-02T15:41:00.001-08:002008-12-03T15:44:56.941-08:00

Automation is great. Yay for technology and everything else that makes life easier! But there are some things that technology will never improve on: cutting hair (sorry, Flowbee), pedicures, translating, and indexing to name just a few. For these actions, it is far better to forget the lazy and/or cheap way out and just hire a person to do the job. We don't repeat the adage "You get what you pay

Rachienoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1306282255076948843.post-44695022943954500662008-12-02T12:10:00.000-08:002009-02-02T17:30:14.774-08:00

When it comes to music, TV, books, and pretty much all forms of popular entertainment except movies and concerts, I tend to be about two years behind the curve. There are a few exceptions, but mostly I'm the dorky kid running to keep up with the cool crowd. Thankfully, I have do have friends who take pity on me and try to show me the ways of the in crowd, even if it does take me a while to fully

Rachienoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1306282255076948843.post-55745795557602528932008-11-28T19:40:00.001-08:002008-11-28T20:11:57.632-08:00

I'm a girl who is true to her celebrity crushes. A movie can be a giant pile of craptastic rubbish and I'll still sit through the entire thing because I want to see my celebrity crush in action. James McAvoy is one of those crushes, but Penelope is not a giant pile of craptastic rubbish. I was pleasantly surprised by this cute little movie that was, well, all right I'll say it, delightful.What's

Rachienoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1306282255076948843.post-41929769511397476602008-11-25T15:24:00.000-08:002008-12-11T16:40:00.064-08:00

I always knew birds could talk and do neat tricks, but I never had much interest in them until I watched Ace of Cakes last week and saw Mary Alice's pet cockatiel that whistles the emperor's theme from Star Wars, "Follow the Yellow Brick Road," and Europe's "The Final Countdown." Once I saw that, it was all over. "I must have one," I said to myself. "I must have a Star Wars-theme singing

Rachienoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1306282255076948843.post-80390596847796096272008-11-25T10:49:00.000-08:002008-11-25T13:27:04.578-08:00

I divide my life into two categories: times I can fall asleep and times I can't. I'm currently running strong in the can't camp after a long, hearty romp in the can camp. But this can't camp... It kind of really sucks. I go to bed and lie there one hour, two hours, three hours... Then I finally get annoyed and trip to the bathroom, pull open the top drawer, and feel around until I wrap my stubby

Rachienoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1306282255076948843.post-63415898572801203332008-11-24T11:34:00.000-08:002008-11-24T14:43:14.943-08:00

A little over a year ago Salt Lake was graced with a Cheesecake Factory located just west of the Fashion Place Mall. I had heard great things about this restaurant, this Cheesecake Factory, from several of my more world-wise friends, and I decided that I would eventually need to find out what all the hype was about. Why was Salt Lake in such an uproar over a factory that wasn't really even a

Rachienoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1306282255076948843.post-66466352164665184912008-11-21T14:09:00.000-08:002008-11-21T14:44:36.923-08:00

I have a testimony of Netflix. First of all, it's pretty much one of the coolest ideas ever conceived. "Let's rent DVDs to people through the mail. And we'll let them keep them for as long as they want and they won't even have to pay postage to send them back." Brilliant, I tell you! I thoroughly dislike paying to mail stuff, I hate rushing to get DVDs back to the rental place on time, and I'm

Rachienoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1306282255076948843.post-47137160716486782822008-11-20T20:03:00.000-08:002008-11-20T21:01:33.426-08:00

Forget introductory paragraphs, I'm just going to jump right on in and tell you that Rachie recommends Splenda! I honestly believe I was saved to come to earth in the 20th and 21st centuries specifically to take advantage of the mind-blowing evolutions in food science and portable technology. Until they add a seasoning shaker my iPod, Splenda fits into one of those categories.The Splenda

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