MoVie ReVieW

Katie and I went to see Wolverine today. A little disappointed. I was hoping for something a little more dramatic. More like the other two X-Men movies that I really like. Is it two or three? Now I can't remember. Anyway, I really liked the others, and this one was a little cheesy. Katie kept snorting at parts. Snort, snicker, chuckle. It was cheesy. I'm still glad I saw it. I'm wondering though....was that really Hugh Jackman's butt? Or did he have a butt-double? Now that would be a disappointment!
There was a preview for a new Adam Sandler movie. I love how some of these movies follow that old Hollywood tradition of making movies with the same people in it. I find it more amusing to see the same people together. I think it makes it funnier because they already know how to play off each other. This one looks pretty good. And of course I can't remember the name of it.
Afterwards we went to Kohls to spend our Kohls Dollars that we earned a week or so ago. Spend so much money and they give you a certificate to come back and shop some more. Katie had $10 and I had $20. I found a comfy pair of shoes and still had $2.01 left over, so I gave it to Katie for a pair of tennis shoes that she was buying. They were $59.99 and she ended up only paying $17 for them. My shoes were originally $59.99. They were marked down to $17.99. And I paid Zero dollars for them! Zero, zip, nada! Good deal!
Well...the old Hollywood 3 is happening. So far Bea Arthur and Dom DeLouise (sp) have passed away. Was there already a third? Seems like there was another guy. Weird how that happens.
For my blog friends....
Renee Eve...I hope your mom came out of her surgery well.
Dreama....I hope your dad is doing better.
Glynis & Berry.....I'm so sorry. I have been there before. Not Robert, but me. I know how it feels. And it sucks. Big time.
(((HUGS))) to all of my friends. You have been in my thoughts today.....

Cook Bookers

We are putting together a cook book at work for our yearly fund raiser. So far we only have 24 recipes in there. I have only put in 2.....Cornucopia Salad and the Irish Cream Bundt Cake. It's hard for me to put in recipes for say...a main dish....because I do not measure anything when I cook dinner. I just know how much of whatever to use by sight. I dump some in, and then add some more. Such as spices in spaghetti sauce. I can tell you what spices I use, but I have no clue how much I dump in there.
We are going to try and have 300-400 recipes in there. Oiy...That's a lot. But if everyone submitted 3 recipes we would have that many.
So if any of you have really good recipes for anything, main dish, side dish, salad, soup, snacks, desserts, cookies, candy, drinks.....anything....I will credit your name in the book!
I would really like to add some regional type dishes that we may not have ever heard of here in the Northwest. I mean come on...how many salmon and apple recipes can we put in the book???

Need to get caught up.....

So as I said yesterday.....I skipped the Portland Bowl-A-Thon. Good thing. Hubby didn't even come home until after 6pm! That would have been way to long for me. Oiy...He just spent the afternoon visiting and reliving all his glory of being Capt BAT. He should have though. That is a buttload of money that they raised. We went for Chinese food and he totally pigged out and then went home, took a shower and crashed for the night. He was so tired.
I got quite a bit done yesterday. And then the storm hit. And hit fast. In fact, I was watching Casino on TV and they broke in with an alert, but the storm was already over us. Thank God we don't live in a tornado area. My roof would have already been gone! I was watching TV and then there was a flash of lightning, the computer popped off, and then the sky just literally opened up. I don't think I have ever seen it rain that hard that fast. It usually starts to sprinkle, then pick up. No. This was like a tsunami from the sky. And then the lightning flashed and burst right over the house, which freaked the cats out. Cammy slept thought the whole thing, but the kittens freaked and hid underneath the bed. I was able to get Kodi to come to me, but Aly stayed under there for over an hour. Kodi though wanted to be held. Poor thing. I was able to get a couple pictures after I was able to get my mind past the amazement of it all. But by that time it had let up a little. The pics still look crazy though.
Hubby already picked up the wine we ordered at the JA Wine Tasting Fund Raiser Wednesday night. That is always a good time. Someone who works at the office is married to a wine distributor and for a couple years now they have a wine tasting and then donate the money to JA. We did not buy any Reds this year. I thought we still has a lot of Reds from last year. Ooooopsie....we still had Whites. Oh well. We drink more whites now anyway since I figured out that the Reds give me headaches.
We bought 6 bottle of Domaine Bernard Defaix Chablis (France 2006) 6 bottles Domaine Eugene Carrel Altesse Rousette de Savoie Blanc (France 2007) 6 bottles Zolo Torrontes (Argentina 2007) and 6 bottles Domaine Eugene Carrel Rose (France 2008). I seem to like the French wines the best. The Zolo is really good.
This week should be nice and quiet. I am only busy Saturday when I go to my friend Beth's to make cards for May birthdays. That means i get to play with her kitty Hunter! He's a bigger version of Kodiak. And her kitty Tess looks a lot like Alyeska, just not as furry, but bigger! LOL! They really are quite a lot a like. Tess hides though and I usually only see her right before I leave. Silly kitty. Doesn't she realize how much I love the kitties????

Bowl-A-Thon

Hubby had his last two Bowl-A-Thons today for Junior Achievement. His total amount raised as of this afternoon is....
Over $95,000!!!!
That is so incredible! He had a goal of $100,000, which I thought was a little high. But he was so close to that. And in this economy to be able to bring in that kind of money, well its just fantastic!
I'm so proud of him....
Not much else to say today. I was so tired last night that I told Robert that I was going to stay home today and do laundry and stuff. I am going to be busy every Saturday the rest of the month, so I wanted to stay home. He was fine with that since he was going to be super busy at the event anyway.

I am not surprised that they are now backing off on causing pandemonium over the flu. This whole thing has been so ridiculous. I don't want to hear one more news report about it. Ugh...

Better move my laundry over....

Beautiful Day

This is the view out my window right now!

It's so nice out! What a beautiful day. And it's Friday to boot! WooHoo!
I'm going to try not to pay any attention to the H1N1 Flu, or as I call it Hinie Flu. The 1 after the H and N look like I's so it looks like HiNi, or Hinie! Whatever...
Hubby was telling me that he had to deal with that crap all day at work yesterday. The stores are out of hand sanitizer and face masks. Good lord people. A friend of his, who is retired, called him and said they should put up signs in the stores that say..."We are out of Hand Sanitizer and Masks. We do have condoms, so porking is still allowed." I know, bad taste, but funny.