Most 5's

Tonight was Bunko night here in Chico. The best part is that the only other Chico resident in our group lives behind our house so it's literally a stones throw away. After months of a dry spell I finally won a prize. Most 5's. It's a small cast iron turtle from The Galley. His shell lifts off for hiding keys, garlic cloves, or other what-nots.
Right now he's just keeping my orchid company on the kitchen window sill.

This weekend was pretty low key. We stayed home, watched movies and tried some new recipes from one of our Weight Watcher cookbooks. We watched The Informant, Law Abiding Citizen, and Up in the Air. All enjoyable. We also whipped up some chicken sausage, peppers and onions over polenta.
Definitely making this one again, so good. We also gave a shot at a curry shrimp stir-fry over coconut rice.
We have a industrial size bottle of fish sauce that I'm slowly trying to use up in any Thai recipe I can find. At this rate we'll finish it up in about 23 more years.

"Nurse,....."

Playing the sympathy card entails:

1. Movies

2. Beer

3. Hot & Sour Soup (Canadian version of Pepper Pot)

Snip, snip

Today was the day that America had dreaded, the day that the hopes for tiny, plaid clothed mini-engineers has come to an end. We had an appointment this morning with a urologist for the long anticipated 'snip, snip' surgery. Our appointment was at 9:30 am, but even by then they were behind schedule and we had to spend some time cooling our heels in the lobby.
But after they called him in, it was only about a 30 minute procedure. They sent him back out with party bag for being such a good patient.
By the time we got out the patient was hungry again so I swung through the Jack in the Box drive-thru for a little late breakfast grub.
Can't you see the suffering on his face??
Ohhh....so painful to drink coffee, surf the web and watch The Bank Job on tivo.

Next on the to-do list is to get my little invalid some hot and sour soup with a side of white rice from Wok n' Roll over by Safeway and then stop at All The Best Video and get his 5 movie wish list with our free coupon. He says this is all payback for taking care of me for three weeks!

Hamming it up

The Canadian woke up this morning to find that the Easter Bunny had stopped by in the night and left him lots of Easter treats.
Funny that the Easter Bunny only leaves him treats....

I came home this afternoon from doing the deposit at church to smell the delicious wafting aromas of ham in the oven. Easter is one of the only times during the year that I willingly buy a ham for the meat loving Canadian. He seasons it with the most interesting array of spices, but it always turns out tasty. This year was a little horseradish, chopped pepperoncinis, mustard, garlic and a secret blend of 11 herbs and spices. When it came out for it's final glazing, I snuck a bite and it was delicious!
To accompany our ham I made some mashed potatoes and gravy, brown sugar glazed carrots, and rolls. Nothing too fancy.
That's my plate and I ate every bite!!

Besides eating candy and ham we've also been watching Jesus movies all afternoon. First was The Ten Commandments followed by King of Kings. I've got my bible open to Matthew and we're following along with everything they're saying and doing. Otherwise we'd both be conked out by now. We've both got sleepy ham brain.

Happy Trails

This morning was 'Operation: Movin' on Up' at the 'rents. I was designated supervisor since I couldn't lift anything. Chris, Mr. A. and two hired hands were the muscle. When we got there the living room was full of boxes and ready for packing.
The boys got started right away packing the U-Haul.
Once they got all the furniture out Mum was able to start vacuuming and mopping for the final walk-thru which was scheduled for 1:00 pm.
Just in time, the place was sparkling clean and ready for inspection.
Much to everyone's delight, the 17' U-Haul wasn't enough to hold everything and we ended up hauling three loads of furniture and garage 'stuff' in Hank over to our house to hold until we can get it up to them.
The Canadian is wiped out after a day's worth of honest work so he plans on spending the rest of the day on the couch. And I have nothing better to do than keep him company!

Sideways wind rules!

Last night Kari and I went down to Arco Arena for a rockin' Christian concert. It was $10 at the door so we couldn't beat the price. The one downside was that you couldn't buy tickets ahead of time and the doors didn't open until 5:30 pm so we had to be there early to make sure we got a spot. And much to our delight, the weather forecast was actually accurate yesterday and we got to stand for 40 minutes in the windy downpour of south Sacramento. By the time we got inside my whole right pant leg was completely soaked and literally dripping water.
Arco's not a very big venue, so even though we chose the last row of the bottom floor, we still had great views. Plus, I'm sure you could still hear it even out in the parking lot.
Me and follow rebel rocker, Kari.
Eventually we both dried off, just in time to drive home at 10:00 pm. That's a late night for moldy oldies such as ourselves. And then once I got home, Chris and I laid in bed chatting until almost 12:30 am. We chose poorly considering we had to get up at 7:00 am this morning to get ready for moving day! Chris just drove off with Mr. A. to pick up the moving van and will come back for me on his way back to the 'rents. Maybe I'll quit yawning by then....

New flavors

I ran out to Papa Murphy's during lunch to pick up a pizza for dinner and was excited to find out they have a new flavor of DeLite pizza, chicken pesto.
Yeah for new pesto pizzas!

While out, I also stopped at the post office and picked up some new stamps. I was sadly disappointed at the selection and ended up having to go with The Simpsons.
I had my eye on the new abstract expressionists, but they didn't have any. Better luck next time.