Spiderman 2

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I’m watching Spiderman 2 as I update my blog. It’s absolute crap so far, 45 minutes into the movie. I about turned it off 20 minutes ago but I thought I’d give it some more time to develop. Nope, still not much developed. The villian has emerged, though. He’s a pretty cheesy character. I’m really disappointed at Marvel Comics for even wanting to put their name to this crap. I liked the first one. This is definitely a movie that should not have been made into a sequel. hmpf. I don’t know if I’d give it even 1/2 a star…

OMG, they’re making another one — Spider-Man 3

Dinner

Have I mentioned that I love food? It has to be the good stuff, though. Not just any junk food from where ever. Tonight, I didn’t know what I was going to make for dinner. I pulled out a chicken breast (boneless, skinless) out of the freezer to thaw and started to dig through spices to see what concoction I could come up with. Just then a commercial for Taco Bell comes on TV and they’re talking about some chicken enchilada something or another. Now, Taco Bell can be okay for something to eat while you’re drinking or already drunk but it’s certainly not my favorite fast food joint. But chicken enchilada sounded good! So, I got out cumin, seasoned salt and cayenne pepper and set the chicken to thaw. Meanwhile, I started a pan with olive oil and cut up half an onion (long, narrow slices) and a clove of garlic and started to sauté that together. I cut the chicken into abut 5 pieces (cutting across the breast) and sprinkled it with the spices. From there, I added the chicken to the pan, cut up 6 mushrooms and started some minute rice. I added an ounce or so of water to the pan to help spread the spices around. About 2 minutes before the chicken was done, I threw in the mushrooms then the cooked rice and stirred it all in and WOW! it was really yummy. I’ve added a new dish to my creations. Feel free to try it. I rarely measure things when I cook like this so you’ll just have to add ingredients that feel like they’d work. Bon appetite!

The Terminal

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A Wonderful Weekend

This weekend was really nice. I had had a bit of a stressful week last week with my flu symptoms, an unrelated doctors appointment and a few unusual work things. On Friday, I left work about noon and headed to Houston to meet Len to go visit his mom and family for the weekend. I had moments duirng the drive when my symptoms from earlier in the week had come back but other than that, the drive was really nice. I’m really glad that I had the chance to drive to Houston to meet up with Len first, instead of having to do that haul all by myself (or Len all by himself).

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As soon as we got into Weslaco, we went straight to sleep (or I went back to sleep). We had lots to do the next day! We rented a tiller and Len tilled the yard and I raked all the grass out of the dirt while making the soil even. My back, shoulders and arms hurt so badly all day Sunday! But I knew the hurt was creating much needed muscles so I was okay with it.

Saturday night, we went out to dinner with Anne, her husband Graham, Kelly, and Eric. The Vietnamese restaurant we went to had fairly good food but I’m not happy one bit with their service. When you make a mistake like forgetting one person’s dinner, you do everything you can to make it up to that person. They didn’t really do that. I mean, I got my dinner (after everyone else was close to being finished) but it wasn’t cooked properly and I don’t think any of it was comped or reduced in price for the hassle. Not professional one bit!

After, Anne & Graham had to head home but the rest of us went to Fast Eddie’s and met up with Piojo and his friend (I can’t remember his name, I’m sorry!). Funny thing, we go in and go to order drinks and the bartender is a guy I went to college with! Talk about a small world!! Anywho, we hung out there and talked and laughed and had a few good drinks, of course. I don’t think Len’s liking this no beer thing we’re doing. I don’t mind it as much because I’m more flexible with myself about restrictions. If I have one or two sodas or beer periodically (like once a month or so), I don’t see that it’ll do terrible deterioration to my new habits. Then again, he’s a bit more intense about all than I am.

So, I’m home and the week is going strong. I’ve got meetings about every night this week and my mom’s birthday is Thursday. Lots to do!

Bleh

I think I maybe wearing myself a bit ragged. Since the New Year has started, I’ve been going and going. Last weekend, everytime I’d lay down, I think I fell asleep! Today, I had some symptoms of the current strain of flu — stomach and lower back aching, whole body exhausted. No fever or major headache, though. I talked to my dad for a long time and he doesn’t think it’s the flu. It might be the drastic changes in weather that have had everyone’s allergies (including mine) in Central Texas all confused. Or, now that I’m trying to keep with the change in diet and addition of consistent activity, my body is flushing all the gunk I’ve packed in over the holidays. Or, it could just be the 14 hour day at work I did on Tuesday.

Whatever the cause of this current ailment, I’m hoping it will pass quickly. I really don’t feel like being sick right now, my “window” of my life that is open to me taking time off for personal illness has passed and now, my being out from work will only hold me and my entire ensemble back. If I am getting sick though, I can’t fight it. I must let it do it’s thing and pass without me trying to deny that it’s happening. Denile will only prolong the torture.

So, with that said, I’m taking my dose of vitamin C and going to bed. I have to be up at 5am tomorrow. Oh yeah, I’m taking it easy, huh? *shakes head*