Eatin Good In MI

Fri-
Omelets & Hashbrowns
Lunch- Hot & Sour soup, Fruit Salad, Crostini
Supper- NY Steaks (grilled), Rutabega & Carrot Bake, Fresh Greens Salad

Sat am-
Bagels & Cream Cheese, Omelets
Lunch- Veg Beef Soup, Cheese & Crackers wi/Elk & Venison Sausage (from Montana)
Supper- Crusted Salmon (from Lake MI that my Aunt & Uncle caught), Lemon Couscous, baguettes, cole slaw, Wild Blueberry Pie (my Aunt & Uncle picked them)

Christmas-
Joshua's oven-baked omelet, sweet rolls (all baked in the shape of a pine tree), and fruit
Lunch- (grazing) Hot &Sour / Beef soups, Cheese & Crackers with (some more of that outstanding) Lake Salmon (but Smoked this time!), Sand Shrimp Cocktail
Supper- Baked Pheasant with Morel Mushrooms Calso hand picked by my Aunt & Uncle), mixed veg, cranberry relish, bagguettes, and salad.

40o And Rainy

I think I brought the warm weather from AZ with me to Michigan. Its almost 40o F here. All the snow is getting slushy and it's even raining.

MoA Baby!

In all the rush and with sleeping all last weekend away with pneumonia I never had a chance to shop for gifts this holiday. Good thing my extended layover in Minnesota landed me next to the Mall of America. I am excited to see a lot of relatives this weekend!

Things that make you go Hmmm...

In Phoenix they're all in English and Spanish...

Pneumonia Sucks

16 workouts missed

5 pounds of muscle lost

4 doctors visits

3 days out of work

2 good parties missed

3 types of RX drugs

3 types of nasal sprays

1 really good friend made sick

1 cat scan of my head

1 x-ray of my chest And not even a partridge in a pear tree for all this trouble.

Sumo Hockey

At 2 - 0 Lightning vs. Coyotes the Sumo Hockey players in the end of the 2nd period are the best part of the game. Did the Cardinals give some of their players to the Coyotes this year?

Home For Orphaned Pastries

We arrived at the movies early last night to see The Chronicles of Narnia. I wanted to grab something to drink to stay hydrated after losing a ton of fluid to this stupid sinus infrection of three weeks now. It's definitely not gettting better so I am hitting up the doc's office yet again this week. I am so sick of the russian roulettte of decongestants, and nasal sprays that all work for about an hour then quit.

Anyway Velasco and I hit up the Coffee Plantation across the street where I purchased a hot chocolate. The case had some good looking pastries in it. On second look I noticed there was only one of each type left in it. It seemed like these were the last of the pastries for the day waiting, hoping someone would purchase them and devour them there or take them home and zap them in a microwave the next morning to cram them down with a coffee on the way to work to prevent them from being thrown in the rubbish at the end of the night. Coffee Plantation's Home for Orphaned Pastries.

Dang Bro Can You Cook!

I found the stray's owners, they put up posters on the street where I found her. The only tough part about the whole experience was when I got home from the gym after work. She was a little stressed about getting out of the house, so she tore up all my aluminum blinds on the windows and french doors. Great! I wanted to get different ones anyway but it still bites until I replace them. After dropping Allie off at her owner's, I hit up Velasco's for dinner last night. He made his first chicken parmasean, and it rocked.

LOST DOGS

Found a stray today. Now comes the whole trial of finding the owner (if I can). She seems like a great pup and gets along with Dante fine. He's excited to have a live-in girlfriend right now. Really excited. I am going to hit up the neighbor-hood where I found her roaming with signs and flyers this week, and take her to the vet to see if she has a chip in her.

Late Nite Chow

Philadelephia Sandwich Company 24 hours baby!.

Family Day 2005
Everything went well at our annual Family day today. I even got to meet a new friend. This is one of the critters one of my guys had on display. He has a whole menagierie at his house for breeding and selling exotic animals. We also had Hummer rides and some blackhawks on display.

Sean and Velasco taking a ride in one of my trucks.