Well Hello There Sunshine :-)

It's an absolutely gorgeous day.
The sun is shining.
The birds are singing.
I'm sitting inside.
What???
Wait a minute.....
Why the heck am I inside on such a beautiful day?
Oh yeh.....work.
It's all good though.
Gotta save that money if I want to go to Hawaii in the Fall.
I have wanted to go back since we got home from the last trip!
The flights are ridiculous right now though.
We want to fly Alaska Air because we have the companion ticket, but their prices right now are $502 per person.
Bleck.
Too high.
Or we are just too cheap.
Yeh that's it.
With the companion ticket it would be $300 per person, but last time we only paid $200+ per ticket.
We just need to keep watching for specials.
We get those emails all the time.
Hope one comes soon......
But until then....
I will just keep standing at my window looking outside at the beautiful sunshine :-)

Ate too much yesterday......

We had so much food yesterday. I mostly was eating the chicken wings. They were so good.
I started out with the chips & dip.
Then Katie brought some apples w/caramel dip.
Then the chicken wings.
Then I started eating the hot crab dip. I had 2 kinds of bread and some garlic bagel chips that I dipped in it. This was the first time I made that. It was yummy!
Then I think a had some more wings.
Snacked on black olives once in a while.
Ate some more chips.
Got back into the crab dip.
Ate a couple more wings.
Then the roast was done.
So I made a sandwich with some au jus.
I skipped the potato and mac salad.
But I did grab a couple more wings and some apples and caramel dip.
Oiy....I was stuffed.
But there was still room for a piece of cheesecake.
Surprisingly I did not get sick or feel crappy for having eaten that much food.
Maybe it's because it was dragged out over 7 hours......
All in all....it was a great day!

It's Gonna Be A SUPER DAY!

FOOTBALL!
I used to hate football. Thought it was so boring. Nothing compared to hockey. Hockey is still my favorite sport, but football is now right behind it. I really do love most sports. I will watch almost all of the Olympics, especially the Winter Games. Summer ones to me can be a little bit boring. I think the Winter sports are so much more exciting.
But that is for another blog.
Today is all about FOOTBALL!
SUPER BOWL FOOTBALL!
We are having Katie and her Tim over and Robert's Dad and Stepmom Maryalice. So there will only be the 6 of us. I just put the chicken wings in the oven. They have been marinating all night in a homemade teriyaki of soy sauce, brown sugar, white sugar, karo syrup and garlic powder. Robert will be putting a rib roast on the rotisserie, and we will slice that up for sandwiches. After the wings are done, I will be making a hot crab dip that I have garlic bagel chips and fresh bread to dip in. And there will be the usual chips and vegis w/dips. For dessert I decided that I didn't feel like baking (to the great disappointment of Katie) and bought a variety pack cheese cake instead. And then Katie will be bringing swedish meatballs. I love meatballs, but I never make them. With the new cookbook from work that I have, there are some recipes in there for meatballs that I want to try. So I will do them sometime in the near future. I just need a reason! The hot crab dip that I'm making today is from that cookbook.
Yummmy food will be consumed all day long!
Oh....
I am picking the Saints by 10.

A Hawaiian Wish

Our friends Beth & Les arrived in Maui today.
They rarely get to see the sea turtles, so today I am making a wish for them to see a lot of them on this trip :-)

not gonna happen

i came here a couple times today to blog, but kept getting interrupted.
then i went out after work for a "staff meeting" and didn't get home until after 8pm.
and then i had to farm of course.
:-)
now...
bed is calling.....