Who is ready for the weekend? Any exciting plans out there?
Ryan’s dad is coming in town tonight and then I’m off to Orlando tomorrow for a baby shower for my friend Carrie.
It will actually be the first baby shower I’ve ever been to and I’m not really sure what to expect. Are they like bridal showers where women just hang out and watch the mommy-to-be open gifts?
Regardless, I am excited!
Lunch
I was also awfully excited to dig into a delicious lunch.
Check out this salad!
The salad included a yummy mix of avocado, tomatoes, corn, crab meat, red onions and cilantro, all dressed up in honey mustard.
So summery! Fall, what?
After lunch, I took a brief breather to run to the Verizon store.
My phone has been experiencing major issues.
(Of course Sadie is my background.)
Most recently, I couldn’t hear anyone speak through anything but the loud speaker, and their voices were crazy quiet. I’ve been communicating solely by text with most people other than Ryan who served as my “tester” when I needed someone to call to see if it was working again.
Apparently the “Advanced Task Killer” app does more harm than good on many phones, so the woman I worked with at Verizon delete that off my phone, installed an update and popped out the phone’s battery, blew on it, and popped it back in.
Any other Nintendo lovers remember when you’d just take a Nintendo game that was acting funky out of the console, blow on it, put it back in the console and then it was as good as new again?
If only everything could be so easily fixed!
P.S. The original title of this post was “Just Blow On It.” 
Question of the Afternoon
- What was/is your favorite video game?
Mine was definitely Donkey Kong. Anyone else remember the mine cart level? So cool!
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Prob the best blog title that ‘could’ve been’ haha.
MarioKart is a great one–but I am horrible at it! And your salad looks totally yummy!
I used to love Nintendo! I actually found our original console in my parents’ basement the other day. Plugged it in and it still works! Those things are indestructible. I’ll admit–the fam and I spent an entire afternoon with the original Mario Brothers (!) and Duck Hunt!!!
Mickey’s Magical Quest. Hands down! Google it if you never played it, it’s the best.
Also, that salad is delish. Did you get it from Gina’s site?
I have the same phone and just had to get a replacement. Mine stopped getting any signal. Annoying. My insurance sent me a ‘refurbished’ one and it freezes all the time. I have advanced task killer but now I think I will delete it. Where did you find your cover? I can never find one that fits.
That salad looks really good; especially with the crab in there! Baby showers are a good time, I like them. I do however hate that diaper game—the one where you melt a chocolate bar in a diaper to mimic #2 so the player can guess what kind of chocolate bar it is? Gross.
I LOVED Super Mario Brothers!!! That was the best game ever!
Donkey Kong was (& still is) the BEST!! 🙂
I never played video games as a kid! My mom wouldn’t let me.. I barely even knew what they were for a long time haha. Eventually when computer games rolled around, I loved games like ‘Where in the World is Carmen San Diego’ and Nancy Drew though! Okay, now i feel like a nerd. 😉
I had the Advanced Task Killer on my phone, and the guy at the phone store deleted it when I was having problems, too!
My favorite video game was Pokemon. SO lame.
I had a couple of favorites. Do y’all remember Duck Hunt on the Old Nintendo system? I loved that game LOL! And the gun for it was HUGE LOL by game standards now HAHAHA. I also loved Sonic the Hedgehog on Sega systems. Oh the old days HAHAH!! 😀
ahh… the Nintendo fix. i fly a $202M aircraft and that is the number one way to fix things when they don’t work (although maintenance calls it “reseating”)– unfortunately, some of the newest loadmasters are so young they don’t know what that means!
Loved Donkey Kong!!! Haha great salad 🙂
Oh my god, the mine cart level was tha bombbb!! I think that’s the only level I would actually play! Hey, when you master something, stick with it!
I’m going to have to make a replicate of your salad soon! Too yummy to pass up.
Mario Kart all the way!! On a side note, my brother and I both were terrified of the Scooby-Doo video games & could only play them in broad daylight, or else we both got so scared! bahaha, we were such wimps!
Mine Cart Carnage!! Favorite level of my favorite video game, for sure.
Super Mario Brothers!! 🙂
Oh man, duck hunt was a good one! But I’d have to say my favorite was good ol’ super mario bros!
harvest moon was my favorite video game!!! You got to be a farmer, create your own farm, and then try to win over the farmer’s daughter with flowers and pies. lol good stuff!
My favourite game was also Donkey Kong. Not gonna lie, my brother and I spent HOURS playing that game together trying to complete the entire thing! Also not going to lie, I bought DK for Wii. Glad to get that off my chest!! 😉
I have my first baby shower over thanksgiving… it so weird that someone my age is pregnant! (she’s 23!). And yes, blowing on the video game ALWAYS fixed it! My favorites were Mario Kart and Banjo Kazooie!
I used to have the old, old Nintendo and I loved playing Bart vs. the World. On Sega, Aladdin was my favorite game. 🙂
I love the traditional mario brothers. There is nothing better than the classics 🙂
Baby showers are fun!! The big difference is that the guest of honor isn’t drinking alongside the guests 🙂
You’re my hero. Donkey Kart mine car level is my fave of all time!
*Kong
Nintendo is the absolute best! Favourite game? Aladdin was mine.
As far as baby showers go, I know that you’ll often play little games- such as guessing whether the baby will be a boy or a girl, name games and such. very fun!
My weekend is consisting of homecoming game (which was tonight- we won!), theatre rehearsal (assistant director! whoo hoo!) and homecoming dance tomorrow with my first official boyfriend (I’m a senior). Pretty exciting. Your salad looks tastylicious and I hope your weekend is swell!
I loved all things Mario Party—i always had to be Daisy because she was a princess with brown hair HA i was such a diva
Julie, do you have the Droid X? My husband has that phone and he said he has been having problems too. He thinks its the latest update
i was OBSESSED with Donkey Kong. I tried it on the N64 when that came out, but nothing beat the Super Nintendo version, in my opinion.
I have had some issues with my Droid since the last update too, I am beyond frustrated and am getting an iPhone as soon as my contract is up. Glad you got yours working better, though!
I used to always (and maybe still do) try to be like my older sister and i would mimic her blowing in the games to fix them but when i did it i would always spit in them and there maybe have been a time or two the game completely stopped working because of my technique- i’m going to blame it on the fact that I was about 5 at the time and all of my developmental skills weren’t fully developed yet. ha
I also vaguely remember her chasing me around the house with the duck hunt gun and my mom yelling in the background “it’s not nice to shoot your sister ”
oh the nintendo memories <3
I am MOVING this weekend! Tomorrow actually!!
Yeah, Advanced Task Killer is obnoxious. I figure the phone knows how to do its thing, I don’t need an app just for it to work properly.
That’s what she said haha! I was a Super Mario girl! I think we may actually have our Nintendo in storage- talk about a blast from the past :). Baby showers are fun, especially if games are involved! In the last one I went too, they splattered diff chocs on diapers and we had to smell each diaper to guess which Choc each had. Haha now that I’ve typed it out, the game sounds pretty gross!
Yummmy salad!!!
Donkey kong! I totally remember the mine cart level. I actually still have my nintendo 64 but I can’t get it to work. I’ve been really wanting to play my old Mario, Donkey Kong, Zelda, etc.. Yeah, I know I’m a dork! Lol
I TOTALLY remember just “blowing” on the nintendo game 🙂 I really liked Duck Hunt and Mario when I was a kid 🙂
I’ve been to a few baby showers this year, and they are fun, but definitely an interesting experience for someone who doesn’t yet have kids. The games are fun but are hard for people who don’t have kids and don’t know the names of all these crazy baby gadgets! But the worst for me is all the stories shared. The two last baby showers I went to every mom shared her birthing story… talk about birth control! 😉
Ahhh I’ve missed your posts Julie! I started my new job in Rhode Island so this is the first time I’ve had a chance to catch up on my Google Reader. Luckily, after a month of craziness I’ve figured out a balance between blogging and work 🙂 I haven’t even had time for Jersey Shore, who am I!?!?!
Your salad looks delicious and I loooove Nintendo! My sister and I had that video game but our favorite game was Mario all the way. When we got our Wii the first two games we bought were SuperMario and Donkey Kong 🙂 I played the mine level the other day!
I still have my Super Nintendo – Super Mario is still the best game ever! 😀
I was all about Super Mario Bros and even Yoshi’s Island. And I totally remember blowing into the cartridges to get things working again. How funny that these things work.
We have the same phone! haha! I am really attached to mine and I want it to keep working because I need a keyboard! I’m scared to have an iphone! I have the advanced task killer and mine hasn’t gone crazy yet…I thought it helped saved battery life?
OMG Donkey Kong Country was/is my favorite game and my favorite level was the mine carts!!! When I was in college, I asked my dad to buy me an old school Nintendo with that game so I could play it!! I still have it and love to play it!!
I loved Donkey Kong! Remember when Donkey would thump the ground and bananas would appear?? I wish that worked for me and cupcakes 🙂 The mine cart level made me so tense – all those gaps in the tracks – I spent a lot of time falling off the edge. One of my most triumphant moments of my childhood was completing DK before my sister who was three years older than me!
that salad looks so yummy!
I love love love Donkey Kong! I played it all the time on Super Nintendo back in the day, and now I play it on the Wii. There is a new DK specifically for the Wii, but I play the old school SNES version, mine cart level and all! 🙂
Donkey Kong was my favorite too!! I always mention and then usually get the weird stare that Mario Kart was everyone else’s favorite. The mine car level was the absolute BEST!! I think I might ask for a super nintendo for Christmas! One of my other favorite games was the Lion King game…you would have loved it!
i loved lion king!!