Monthly Archives: December 2012
In The Outback . . .
We woke up to a clear, but cold morning so it just seemed to be a good idea to sit around, enjoy the day, and do pretty much nothing.
Jan read, watch TV, and napped, and I played on the computer and napped. Like I said, pretty much nothing.
A little after 4pm Jan and I headed up to Webster to have dinner at Outback Steakhouse. We were supposed to meet Brandi there, but she called a little earlier to say she wasn’t feeling well so she wouldn’t be getting together with us.
I had an 12 oz. Outback Special Steak, while Jan had her usual Alice Springs Chicken. Yes, she goes to a steak place and has chicken.
After a really good meal, but so-so service, Jan and I stopped off at King Food to get Brandi some of her favorite Won Ton Soup, kind of like Chinese chicken soup, I guess.
After dropping off her soup, we left Brandi’s and headed over to Sam’s and then Wal-Mart for a few things before we got back to the rig a little before 8 pm.
Tomorrow we plan on doing pretty much nothing again. We’ll see how it goes.
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Thought for the Day:
"God made man but Sam Colt made them equal."
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Maybe I should cut back on the Ghost Chilies a little bit . . .
Regular blog readers know how much I like hot, spicy foods, the hotter the better.
And so far I’ve never found anything too hot for me. Nick and Terry gave me some Ghost Chili salt a while back and I regularly use it to spice up my meals. Ghost Chili’s, also known as Naga Jolokia, were, until recently, the hottest chili pepper in the world. Now it’s number 3, behind the Trinidad Scorpion Butch T chili and the Naga Viper.
But after reading this article, maybe I’ll rethink the heat.
The guy ate soup so hot it burned a hole in his stomach. WOW!
Lowell and Landon are up in Oklahoma visiting Lowell’s parents until this Sunday, and sent along these photos of Landon and his Grannie.
Brandi, who stayed here for work, is really missing them both, and Sunday can’t come quick enough.
I dropped Jan off at her hair place about 10am while I ran some errands. Between EPO – Electronics Part Outlet, a client’s and then Home Depot, I got back about 2 hours later, just as Jan came out. Nice timing.
After Jan was finished getting her hair done, we decided to have lunch at the new Jimmy Changa’s Mexican Restaurant. It just opened about a month ago and it seems like the parking lot is full whenever we go by. But we figured that on a Friday after 1:30 pm that we wouldn’t have a wait.
Wrong!
We ended up waiting almost 40 minutes to get a table. But it was certainly worth it.
We ate at the Jimmy Changa’s up in Pasadena last year and Jan loved their Beef Chili Rellenos, so she got it again and said it was as good as last time.
I was going to have a bowl of their Chicken Tortilla Soup and a Taco Salad. But luckily for me, the waitress warned me that their ‘bowl’ of soup was about the size of a serving bowl, not a regular bowl, and that I might not want to get that and a salad too. And she was right.
The big bowl of soup was plenty, and it was really, really good, too.
I also really liked the chandelier in the main dining room. It’s made up of individual lights, all different, and all very beautiful.
By the time we left the restaurant after 3pm, they were still on a wait. In fact they seem to be busier than when we arrived.
Than after making a couple of stops at client’s, I took Jan back by the place she got her nails done yesterday with Piper. Jan had smeared the polish on a couple of toes and wanted to get them touched up. Turns out that it only took about 10 minutes and they didn’t charge her. Nice!
Later in the evening I put 6 boneless, skinless chicken breasts in the slow cooker to poach them so we can make up some soup. Boy, does it smell good in here.
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Thought for the Day:
“I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical” – Thomas Jefferson writing to James Madison
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