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While Chris was outside playing on Ratty this morning I spent some time in my craft room and finished up two more pages. One for the October bunko at our house;
And a page about the Fall Festival at church.
Fine Blogger, you win. Merge it in upside down for all I care. I hate you.

I shall go drown my photo merging woes in corned beef and cabbage. I can hear the splash of meat being pulled out of the crock pot as I type. Mmmm....smells so good. Like delicious sweaty feet.

Cookin' and Craftin'

Much to my annoyance I once again couldn't sleep in this morning because my incision was hurting so bad. I keep rolling on to my side in my sleep which hurts my abdominal muscles since they're not healed yet. I'd stop if I even knew I was doing it. Anyway, I was up at 7:30 am and out running errands by 9:00 am. Of course it started raining as soon I left home, but surprisingly I didn't melt even though I'm made of pure sugar. I finally, a week later, went to Wal-Fart and picked up my photos to finish my 2009 scrapbook. Since the scrapbook store in the Almond Orchard closed last month (went exclusively online) I now only have mediocre Michael's and the store up in P-town. The one good thing about the store closing is that it's forcing me to use up my existing vast supplies of paper. Using some old paper and a layout from a scrapbook magazine, I put together a layout for Chris' 35th birthday.
We've been trying some more recipes out of my new cookbook and loving everyone. First was a roasted veggie, bean and pesto pasta.
Then we tried a scallop stir fry with a honey-ginger sauce.
And even my latest Rachael Ray magazine had a recipe keeping with the theme. It was shrimp over coconut rice.
Lastly we made a chicken and couscous dinner with North African spices, namely cinnamon.
All were delicious and full of leftovers. No new recipes this weekend though, it's time for tried and true corned beef and cabbage. Chris has already been doing an Irish jig in the anticipation of.
And no, it's not pretty.

The Dog House

Tonight was supposed to be bible study here, but one of the gals was sick so we postponed it for a week. But that left me without a dinner plan for tonight so we decided to go out. We did a 3 mile round trip walk over to The Dog House by Safeway on East Ave. Their specialty is gourmet hot dogs, but they also have burgers and chicken sandwiches. Chris got The Big Chicago dog while I got the Italian fusion burger. Meat seasoned with Italian spices, monster (Muenster) cheese, Valhalla sauce, pesto aioli, lettuce and tomato.
And I ate every bite. We also split a basket of thick cut fries and a diet coke. We have to watch our girlish figures, you know. Check out Chris' blog for the hot dog review.

Bounty of awesomeness

Last night we went to the 'rents to celebrate our leather anniversary (3 years) and as a parting gift we got some kitchenwares and food items that Mum doesn't want to haul back to Medford when they move next month,
and she gave me these three magazines that her mom had kept since she was a teen. They're Vogue and Mademoiselle from 1964. You cannot believe the sweet, sweet fashions of 1964!
Everything is about the new age of man-made materials (polyester, Lycra, etc). Every other ad is for some sort of support wear (girdles, girdles and more girdles) and the back is full of classified ads for secretarial schools. I love it! I'm taking these to work and sharing their glory with my co-workers who remember back when Vogue apparently only cost .60 an issue. Where's my kohl eyeliner? There's an intuitive article on the perfect cat eye.

This morning we woke up "early" (8:30 ish), showered and made a run for the waffle house. We had some errands to run and only the waffle house could fuel our body and minds for the daunting experience of Ross.
The Waffle Combo and the one egg breakfast. It's like heaven on a plate with a side of mediocre coffee.

Apparently the Canadian wanted to look at Ross for plaid shirts that he could cut up to make a seat cover for Ratty. Instead, he found nothing and I ended up buying four dresses. How does that happen? Next we ran next door to JoAnn's where he did find a nice red and black tartan for only $4.99 a yard. Armed with a staple gun, some spray glue and a yard of fabric he's got some crafty plans for this afternoon.

Oops, I did it again

I just couldn't say 'no'....
Hopefully Chris will forget that this is the same company that made the Midas Touch beer that he loathed. This is a brown ale and doesn't say anything about being a 10,000 year old recipe.

My co-worker's daughter is having a Pampered Chef party this weekend. And while I'm not going to drive back up for the hill for it, I did place an order online that she'll get credit for. Since I already own all the cooking tools and stoneware, I now focus on their spices which are really unique and tasty.
I give up!!! I hate you Blogger photo merger do-hicky, I hate you!!!! Obviously my original photo is not sideways. And nevermind that I've tried to merge it in correctly 5 times now.

I'm going to go pout now. :(

Some new friends

I brought some new friends home to spend the weekend with us:
Beer and cookies!

We have a hot date with the 'rents tomorrow night for an anniversary celebration. We're bringing some of our leftover cake to go with Mum's ice cream and champagne. Other than that, we're just kicking back and relaxing this weekend. It's what we do best.

Third anniversary's a charm

Today was our 3 year anniversary. Three blissful years of motorcycles, beer and Band of Brothers. To celebrate our milestone we did the same thing we always do for our anniversary; go to Franky's for dinner,
And come home for cake from The Upper Crust.
Chocolate Rum Raspberry this time.
Everything was wonderful as per usual. In addition, I also received a surprise bouquet of tulips to brighten up the house. All in all, a very lovely evening.