Kindergarten field trips October 31, 2007

I was pretty excited about my kids first school field trip and was all set to go to the pumpkin patch. I was to meet some of the other parents at the school at 9:25 and they were leaving at 9:30… so they said. I go home and nap after I drop Liv off at school and wake up at 9:15… throw on the jeans and hoodie and head up to the school. My friends car was there so I went in to find an empty class, and an empty PTA room. So I called my friend and they had already left. So of course being overhormonal and emotional I just burst into tears, (have YOU ever broke a promise to your 5 year old?) my friend is apologizing profusely saying don’t cry don’t cry and Im saying (incomprehensibly im sure) i promised, and i have her coat, shes going to get cold(it was 60 degrees) (whine whine, cry cry) she offers to wake up her 16 year old to drive me there, I refuse and head home. when i walk in crying jay asks me whats wrong and gives me a hug, i cry some more and tell him the story and he says silly ill drive you there, so we jumped in the car and off we went. I got there and they were having a blast. then afterwards the kids went back to school and the girls and I went for lunch and a little 99 cent store shopping

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Rick-rolled. Internet phenomenon or just plain gay? October 20, 2007

Have you ever clicked on a link thinking you were headed one direction, then found out you had been suckered into clicking a link for something else, then you have not been rick-rolled, Now If you click on a link that you think leads to an exciting bit of info u didn’t know about like…

JAY AND I GOT MARRIED IN VEGAS THIS WEEKEND HERES THE VIDEO!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0

go ahead, click the link… you know you want to. Dont you want to see the video of Jay and I getting married?

HA HA HA NOW you have been rick-rolled

apparently this has been around for quite some time, but me being the “in the know” girl that i am have just heard about this phenomena. I am sitting here minding my own business, and I see a headline in a forum saying RUSH LIMBAUGH ENDORSES RON PAUL so my heart beating fast Just waiting to scream at jay who was outside making ron paul extra large wooden signs, to come see the video of Rush endorsing Ron. But nope i see Rick aston pretending to sing never gonna let you go… NOW fortunately having the sense of humor that i do I thought this was friggin hilarious, OMFG i just got rick-rolled for the first time? sheesh Now i fit in, Now im part of the “in crowd” i got friggin rickrolled. I mean hell, i was actually a RICK ROLL VIRGIN!

but no seriously, the kids today consider it their own way of “punking” their friends much like Ashton Kutcher did to all of his, only his were way more elaborate and expensive. So don’t forget to Rick Roll your friends, they will thank you later

brazilian meat, and pineapple on a stick – a restaurant review by roxi October 20, 2007

Last night Jay and I went on the first date we have been on in a long, long time. Someone from the ron paul group says to us last week “do you eat meat?” and of course my response was “um, excuse me”… come to find out he had a $50 gift certificate for The Gaucho which is a brazilian steak house, that he and his girlfriend couldn’t use so he gave it to us. SCORE free steak and a date!

So we went to The Gaucho not really knowing what to expect. Before we left Ryan told us, “go, hungry and don’t fill up at the salad bar” He should have told us he was serious too.

We went after 9pm which normally when you walk into any decent restaurant less than an hour before the kitchen closes the food is subpar, but we were in for a surprise with this restaurant.
We were seated at a nice table in the back, next to the GINORMOUS bear? cow? skin… not sure but it was cool looking. On our other side was a private room that had the doors wide open filled with a group of about 30 kids who looked like they had come straight from kappa alpha omega frat house. I would have preferred being away from them but really it wasn’t too bad, there were only around 7 good looking college frat boys watching me chew my food with interest. No it wasn’t that bad, and they were fairly quiet for college kids.

the waiter brought out these little garlic biscuits with a ball of Parmesan cheese baked in the middle, very good. the waiter give us colored squares that look like they are intended for your beer, or glass but no, one side is green the other side is red. If your hungry put it on green, if your not put it on red. WHEN ITS ON GREEN you BETTER be hungry!

so we made our first trip to the salad bar and seriously, go ahead, try to heed the “don’t fill up at the salad bar” warnings but i don’t think you can do it. If your like us and you LOVE salads then this is an impossible task. there are little shrimp salads, potato salads, couscous, spinach salad, HUGE cheese and olive chunks, I mean ENDLESS! everything was so so good, and i found out I’m not a fan of cous cous… it sort of tastes like, sand and Italian dressing.

so we were digging through salad when we decided to test the waters with the meat which they had told us when we are ready for meat turn the green side up and they will bring out the different types of meat. We look up to see a HUGE man who looks like the soup Nazi carrying a long stick of meat looking somethings. I pictured this guy running around like a schizo with his sword plucking it into animals and then with eyes glazed over scorching it with fire til it looked good. He arrives at our table and its Parmesan chicken he scrapes off a few pieces which we are required to grab from his little platform with our tiny tiny meat tongs. (which are really cheese tongs in disguise)

the Parmesan chicken was pretty good and the next guy comes along with a HUGE chunk of sizzling top sirloin on his sword. Then comes BACON wrapped filet mignon, which was so good I thought my tongue might roll back into my throat just so i wouldn’t have to ever taste anything but this ever again. then bacon wrapped chicken, then this then that, by the time he brings out the tiny sausages on a sword we were turning the red coaster over so fast, This did not please the soup Nazi guy as he was convinced we needed MORE MEAT! I’m truly surprised he didn’t dance around our table screaming more meat, more meat! HA HA no just kidding he was really nice, just adamant that we couldn’t possibly be full DIDN’T ANYONE TELL YOU NOT TO FILL UP ON SALAD LADY!!! I’m sure this is what he was thinking.

so we said we would like to try the pineapple we had seen floating around and this seemed to satisfy him for the moment. he comes back with a HUGE pineapple and a HUGE smile on his face as if he had won. Maybe they have some employee of the night chart for the one that gets rid of the most meat. The pineapple was delicious, warm soft and delicious. By this point i really might have thrown up had I taken another bite, so i sat back threw some lemon and pineapples in my water and leaned back to enjoy what i knew was coming to an end soon.

So my date turned out great, I give the Gaucho 5 stars – I mean where else can you get 9 kinds of meat in one meal? EVERYTHING was so good. and the staff was incredibly nice. Just heed my warning, if you go there, GO HUNGRY AND DON’T FILL UP ON SALAD! I’m serious