Speed Racer

Chris has been unsuccessfully trying to get the race car ready for our first race on February 13th. At this point it looks like he's going to have to race Tango instead.
Now I can get to work real fast!

Not much going on around here. Chris got his fro cut yesterday so now he doesn't look like such a hippie. We went to Mum's for dinner on Friday night since Mr. A. was up in Oregon helping Mark get settled. She made a delicious shrimp salad. She baked some sort of mix of shrimp, artichoke hearts and bacon in a small casserole dish and then let it cool (or we were just so late it wasn't warm anymore, I'm not sure). Then she set up a buffet of lettuce, cucumbers, avocado, tomatoes, parm cheese and hard boiled eggs and let us build our own salads, topping it all off with her shrimp concoction and Italian dressing. And of course buttered bread. Mmmmm.......

Last night we picked up Appaloosa from the Redbox. It was okay for a buck. You know, a period western, how much was I going to like it? Tuesday, Max Payne comes out on video with Marky Mark. I think it's a comic book movie, I'm not sure, but we're going to reserve that one too.

We're just handing out at home cleaning this weekend. I have tomorrow off too, to celebrate all 49 black people in Paradise for MLK Jr. Day. So I'm saving some of the really "fun" stuff until then like scrubbing the shower and toilet. I need a maid, desperately.

I've been trying out some new recipes lately on my guinea pig, Chris. We made a good casserole last night that was chicken, broccoli and egg noodles in a cream of chicken sauce. The leftovers were actually better than the original. Tonight I'm making a kielbasa and lentil soup from my 2008 Light and Tasty book. It looks fabulous. I've also started making my own baked onion rings with crushed fiber one cereal. They're really tasty. I make them when we have our fake soy hamburgers. I'm giving a try at homemade fried rice later in the week and orange glazed chinese chicken. Every week I make some kind of muffin/bread for morning snacks throughout the week. Last week were blueberry and peach muffins, tomorrow I'm going to make some sugar free coffee cake muffins. A standby favorite is a low sugar pumpkin and cranberry bread. I've made that one quite a few times. I've got a recipe for blueberry scones that I might try the week after since I have a good amount of frozen fresh blueberries (good sale at Trader Joe's).

Mum and Mr. A. just showed up. I knew Mr. A. was going to help Chris figure out the engine problems, but I didn't know Mum was coming. She's out working in our front yard while I sit here on the couch typing. Who feels like a douche? But, I didn't ask her to come do yardwork while we're home, I prefer to have her come while we're at work so I don't feel guilty. :) She's given up on us and any thoughts that we are capable of taking care of and triming our plants and flowers. So basically we have guilted her into doing our landscape maintenance. We rake and mow ourselves, of course. We're not completely retarded. Ahhhhhh!!!! I just saw her take huge clippings off the Japanese Maple by the front door! Sweet Jesus, what is going on out there?!? Our rose bushes have been completely cut down to their bases, so I'd better go rescue the Japanese Maple before it suffers the same fate!!