Best.....Sunday......Ever.

OK, so my husband works with this guy from Japan--his name is Koichi and he's just about the nicest person I have met in a long time. He and Adam have struck up quite the adorable friendship and last night Koichi came over and cooked us the most amazing Japanese dinner.




Aside from the edamame, I can say I had never tried any of the 10 or more things he prepared for us and it was all so incredibly delicious! We grazed over the delicious tastes, discussed travel, life in Texas, children, pets, and which language is harder to learn or understand. What a fantastic night in little 'ole Plano! Koichi rocks!

Cute Picture Blog

Not much to say today, I just wanted to post some cute pics of mine.

Crazy Weather

OK, so on Sunday night at 10 p.m. I was leaving the airport and it was 72 degrees and seriously warm. On Monday night it was cold and icy and snowy. This is our house and street on Tuesday morning. I'm not as disturbed as this as I am by the fact that there are tornadoes happening in February and March. Does anybody else think this is a little crazy?

Peer Pressure Blog

OK, you three readers, here goes. I am blogging out of peer pressure, pure and simple. Hallie's out there blogging like crazy and I figured I should do a little something too.

OK, let's see...Oh, I think I made a friend here, which is nice and rare but exciting! My new yoga buddy is very cool and I am excited that I met someone new who isn't all, um, ya know...Texan? Is that horrible to say? Well, I didn't really mean it that way, but I guess I kinda did. It figures that she's from Chicago. Anyway, Adam and I went to her engagement party last night in the big city, and it was good for us to get out of our routine and do something social. It was so much fun! We had a great time and met some really great people, exchanged cell numbers and emails with some of the guests and ended the night with yummy cupcakes and a collective sigh of relief that it wasn't weird and we me some cool peeps.

What else? Oh, here are some pics from our trip to Mexico last month. The first few are from the Hotel California (you know, the one from the song). We made some friends down there too, which was a lot of fun. Enjoy Amigas!! Oh, and one last thing, is it just me, or does this last picture seem to indicate that Fred Armisen is running for President of Los Cabos? I don't know, you decide.

Promised Blog

OK, this is a short one, but I promised my sister a million years ago that I would put this picture up as a blog. This was really cool--back in July, Jenny called me from California. I was in New Hampshire on the way back to TX and her Dallas to RDU flight was canceled, and she was calling to see if she could crash with us! "Of course!" I said and so was the fun 8 hour visit from Jenny. As I was dropping her off at the airport, I thought we should take a picture and commemorate the nice little unexpected visit. Jenny rocks.

Sufferin' Sniffle Succotash

When I moved here a year ago, I noticed all sorts of things that I found quite odd about Texans. One of them was how so many people here seemed to suffer from allergies…year round even. I used to tilt my head in wonder and laugh a little (on the inside of course) at all of the people that had these insane allergies. Some of them wouldn’t even leave the building where they worked to avoid massive allergy attacks. They would leave their house via the covered garage and drive to work and park in the covered garage and lave the same way, never going outside all day. I was repeatedly informed and warned, “Just wait. You’ll get ‘em too. You live here long enough…everyone get’s ‘em.” I decided that ‘it’ would not and could not happen to me. For, if “it” did happen to me, then that would mean this quasi East Coast snob would become a Texan? Am I just being kind to myself by saying ‘quasi’?

Cut to one year later. Last week, I am walking out of my ear doctor’s office with 3 prescriptions in hand: Liqui-bid, Clarinex and Nasonex. I have something called Eustachian Tube Dysfunction, which I have actually been dealing with for 2 years now. Only lately, the constant ear popping and pressure has gotten out of hand and quite painful. So, it seems that my newly acquired allergies have worsened my condition, and quite possibly may be my condition. Great, I have been laughing at myself this entire time.

So, not that you ever have, but in case you ever do wonder how Antonio Banderas has become so loaded (OK besides Shrek and his other two hundred films), wonder no more my friend: It is Nasonex. You know, he’s the voice of that little bee on the Nasonex commercials telling us in his cute little accent about seasonal allergies and nasal conjest-yiun. Very cute indeed, but pricey as hell even with good health insurance. Damn you, Antonio the Bee, I am now hooked on the drugs you are pushing. They do work and I am sad to say that those allergy sufferin’ Texans were right.…..sniffle, sniffle.

Freaky Bunny Friday Story

So, Friday morning I was taking out the trash before work, and I saw these little tennis-ball sized guys barely alive in our pool. They were so small I thought they were frogs! I was an absolute mess trying to get them out and see if they would live. I am not saying I am any kind of super hero, and believe you me, I was less than smooth in my composure, but it felt really good that I happened to see them and have an intervention with fate. I got them inside a towel lined box with a heating pad and they eventually dried off and stopped shaking like crazy. I had to leave them in the box in the bathroom while I went to work, but afterwards we took them to a widlife rescue volunteer's house. One of the rescuers came to the door with a racoon on his shoulders. These guys don't messa round and spend serious amounts of their own money saving injured wildlife. They took our little swimmers and said they would double check that they were OK and release them in a nearby wildlife sanctuary. Those little guys were the cutest little things and I am so glad that they made it!