Yesterday was Kyle's birthday, so I called up his grandparents and got the recipe for his favorite soup (potato soup with dumplings). I baked a 2-layer cake, and while it cooled we made the soup and I whipped up a broccoli-cheese casserole. The soup was delicious (I've never made soup from scratch before, and it was fun and gave me confidence ( Read more... )

So I heard on the radio this morning two things that caught my ear: 1) as of Wednesday, VA will ban texting while driving, yay (although only a secondary offense); 2) Billy Mays (the OxyClean pitchman) died. It seems like a lot of famous people have died recently: Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson...strange coincidence ( Read more... )

Yesterday I got 10% off my car repairs (new wheel since ours was bent) because I had to wait out in the rain and my shuttle pickup was late. But, today I crunched my pinky finger while closing the glove box (luckily the glove box did not click shut or it would have hurt even more). I'm out of car related thoughts at the moment, so I'm done.

1. When on a plane, the courteous thing to do is to let the person in the middle seat have at least one arm rest. The aisle and window seats already get their own armrests, and then taking the the ones flanking the middle seat is just not nice ( Read more... )

Don't worry, no spoilers here. I watched the Grey's Anatomy finale last night...and OMG! That was a great episode and the writers definitely win. I can't wait for the start of next season.

Tara, come over and watch, we must discuss!!!

I watched the Caps game last night, and it reminded me how much I love hockey! They play again on Wednesday (game 7 in the eastern conference semi-finals) since they won in overtime last night ( Read more... )

So yesterday my knee was hurting sooooo much while at work. It was hot and sunny, no clouds in sight, but my knee was convinced it was going to rain. I then did a cardio kickboxing class at the gym. Once I arrived home, while maneuvering my gym bag, purse, and lunch bag around my truck in the garage I twisted my back in such a way that it was ( Read more... )

There has been a lot of talk about what Miss California said during her Q&A session of the Miss USA pagent (I only heard about it from the news/radio) and I'd like to weigh in ( Read more... )

Kyle and I watched Pineapple Express yesterday (the theatrical version, but there may be an extended version viewing soon) and it was hilarious. Thanks to Tara for lending it to me, we were laughing and falling over on the couch the whole time. Great flick.

Today is Friday, it's supposed to be sunny and 70 degrees...I like spring. :)

I will be traveling in May to San Diego and/or Groton and/or Pearl Harbor...but almost definitely San Diego. At least the weather should be nice wherever I go. :)

Happy (Good) Friday!