Fresh, Hot Wastes of Time

I just discovered the neatest trick.
You know how, when you get a bag of microwave popcorn out of the microwave, your instinct is to hold it by the top and shake it? Well, turn it over and hold it by the bottom. All the unpopped kernels will come out of the slit.

My husband and I have been to Restaurant Jezebel several times, the latest of which was tonight. I keep meaning to blog about it and keep forgetting.
Today was our 10th wedding anniversary, so I made reservations for Jezebel and let them know we had a celebration. When we got there, we were seated [...]

Some numbers:
2 - accounts hacked last week
? - number of days the cat box was broken while we were out of town, necessitating a game of “Piss and Seek)
2 - toilets clogged up the other morning
2 - children sick at the moment
In lighter news:
3 - feral hogs came home in the cooler
34 - pounds of [...]

Halloween is here, and in the air is a strong scent of bacon.
WTF? Why does the street smell like bacon? It’s been bacon-smelling since we took the kids trick or treating an hour and a half ago. Now the smell is so strong, it smells like bacon in the house.
Not that I’m [...]

Restaurants we’ve been to lately:
Dirty Martin’s Kum-Bak Place. Still excellent after all these years. The back room now has three, count ‘em, three window air conditioners, so it’s frigid in there, yet still smells funky. Their sirloin sandwich is to die for. Cheese tots are a must. The kids (after [...]

Quickie update - Cuervo’s still staying at the vet, but they have been calling us daily with reports. He’s “scarfing down food” and keeping it down. He’s also said to be in good spirits. The only problem is that they had to stop treating the big bad long-term problem in order to [...]

Hub and I went to the Backstage Steakhouse for dinner tonight, and we were completely blown away. We started with the Jalapeno Corn Cake with Crawfish and Gorgonzola with a Mustard and Red Chile Sauce - the corn cake itself had a nice crunchy texture to it, and the crawfish was nicely spiced. [...]

After hearing for years about their fabulous enchiladas, the family and I went to Dart Bowl today for some bowling and dinner. We entered the restaurant area around 6:20, and ordered at 6:25.
At 6:45, still nothing. A customer from another table went to the kitchen and stood in the doorway until someone finally acknowledged him.
At [...]

We visited two restaurants this weekend.
Last night, around 9:00, we decided to go out to eat. I checked around on Opentable.com to see what restaurants were still open late, and Truluck’s in the Arboretum area (although not in the darned Arboretum) was listed, so we decided to try it. This was the first [...]

Okay, I am a real tamale snob. I get really turned off by substandard tamales. I’m not exaggerating when I say that these tamales rival the best tamales I’ve ever bought from someone else.
They’re not hard to make, but they are time-consuming. It takes about one minute per tamal to spread the [...]