Last Christmas I decided I wanted a molcajete. Not sure why I wanted one but apparently I was on a quest to make great guacamole and I'd read some good reviews. I put it on the Christmas list my stepmother asks for every year but when Christmas rolled around, I was sad to find no molcajete. So, like any good girl who doesn't get what she asked for ( Read more... )

I've mentioned this before but I hate, hate, hate daylight savings time so I'm very happy when we go off it and I get my hour back. Sure it gets dark earlier. So what? That's what it's supposed to do. And pretty soon the snow on the ground will be providing extra light. Personally, I'd like to see what the actual cost savings are to this. Lights ( Read more... )

Wow, was my last update really April 2nd? I can't believe it's been that long. You know what that means?

( I'm putting it under a cut. )

If last night was food fail, tonight was food win. I stopped at Whole Foods, got much better, hair-free spring rolls, a lump crab cake, some rock shrimp (for the weekend) and these awesome pumpkin/cranberry/walnut and maple/walnut cookies. I love the cookies at Whole Foods. Heck, I love Whole Foods. Just wish there was a bigger one near me. I ( Read more... )

I'm having food fail tonight. First I get this fresh shrimp spring roll from Trader Joe's and it has a 6" long dark hair in it. That ain't my hair. I'm still a little skeeved by that one. Then I'm heating up some chicken tempura, also from Trader Joe's and as I'm taking it out of the oven, it starts to slide off the pan and some of it falls onto ( Read more... )

One of the things I miss the most about Tulsa (besides my best friend) is this local dive called Coney Island. They changed Island to I-Lander in the mid 80's but it'll always be Island to me. I'm sure there are other restaurants similarly named around the country. They just opened the Coney Island Diner down the street from me and it's good but ( Read more... )

Left work early today because my boss and I were watching a man in the parking lot behind us scrape the ice off his car. My boss came into my office two minutes later and said she was leaving and so was I. Good thing because halfway home it started to really rain and ice was covering the mirrors and causing the windshield wiper on the driver's ( Read more... )

What a great day today has been!

( why today was great )

I have to give a huge THANK YOU to the amazing jenbachand for the most awesome gift she sent last night. That was such a surprise and it really made my day. Thank you so much ( Read more... )

We took a late lunch at work yesterday. Planned to go for sushi but the place closed at 2:30 and we got there about ten minutes too late. So we went to Pauli Moto's over at Tyson's.

( my perfect day )