Category: good eats
Blogging from the road
Here I am in the Midwest, donchaknow?
Indiana….saaaaaalute!
Had a fabulous lunch today with three aunts, two uncles, my mom and my husband. Two of the aunts and both uncles are surviving siblings of my father.
We managed to get the four of them telling stories about growing up. I haven’t laughed that hard in a long, long time. I even heard some new stories today and a few I’ve heard before but still crack me up.
Also got the line on a couple family disputes I didn’t know about. Oooh, family gossip!
All in all…a good day.
Also have eaten twice at a Steak N Shake and may be in love. For West Coasters…take the passion many people (not me) feel for In-n-Out burger, and that’s how rabid folks are about Steak N Shake.
A lot of food, a lot of laughing, a LOT of family.
So okay! And The Good Man has met my relatives and hasn’t run off screaming into the night. That’s a *good* sign!
I am SO clever!
Been acting all healthy lately (past couple months). Eating good. Exercising too. Had a visit to my doctor early this week and she wants to get a full blood panel (haven’t done that in a few years).
This week I exercised super hard. Ate pretty good. Feeling good. Blood pressure low. Blood sugar great.
I’m expecting knockout low cholesterol numbers.
Then I went in this morning around 9:30 and gave the blood.
Taking care of me.
So what did I have for lunch today?
Nachos.
: shakes head :
You can make a person almost 40, but you can’t make ’em be a grownup! At least not for very long.
Another reason to buy New Mexico
Source (emphasis added)
The Food and Drug Administration is currently warning people not to eat any food containing pistachios because of possible contamination by salmonella. No New Mexico pistachios have been implicated in the FDA’s recall of 2 million pounds…
Decisions!
A couple weeks ago, The Good Man and I took the Fabulous Mom-in-Law out to dinner at a really beautiful San Francisco restaurant (if you know the area, it is located at the Marina, at Fort Mason, right on the water, with stunning views of the Golden Gate.)
As I enjoyed the “wine pairings” with my meal, this meant that it wasn’t long before I had to take myself and my walnut sized bladder to the ladies room.
With business complete, I went to flush the toilet and was presented with…a choice.
The top of the toilet had a button that was divided in two. One side said .9 The other side said 1.6
And I thought to myself…is this a .9 or 1.6 sized event?
Hell if I know!
Well, TMI and all that, but I determined it was really only a .9 sized event so I pushed that one. Then, when that was done, giddy with all this decision making and wondering how big a 1.6 flush was, I hit the other button.
Then realized that this ingenious toidy is supposed to save water. So what did I do? Gratuitously flushed, that’s what I did. And used up 2.5.
Oh the humanity!
As the old saying goes, you can dress me up, but you can’t take me out…
(This is not my picture, but it was *exactly* like this)
