"Are you feeling okay?"

I woke up today to my husband asking me if we had pancake mix. When I told him yes in the cabinet, he was quiet, then he asked do we have syrup? I answered I think so, so I checked the fridge, yup there was syrup too. I pulled out the box of pancake mix, and put it on the counter. He looked and was confused about why it needed oil to make, so I pulled out the oil out of the cabinet for him too. I said I am going to take a shower, when I came out of the shower, he had pancakes made for me and pancakes and eggs made for him. They were yummy too! I wanted to ask him, “Are you feeling okay?” After the comment he made to some of our friends that “I don’t know how to cook, so I like Jen to do the cooking”…I guess we found out that if you can read directions, then you can cook!!!! Oh, and I should mention that lately, he has been making more than just bowls of cereal for himself, he is finally realizing that there are things in the cabinet that are not hard to make for yourself, or for us. It doesn’t have to be a gourmet meal every time! My hubby is learning! Live, laugh and Love!

4 down, 8 to go!

BLAH! Today I am at work working 12 hours. The time today seems to be crawling by….so I have been here for 4 hours and have 8 more to go…..woo hoo…not! Last night, I realized that I had a funny story to tell, from last Sunday morning, so I thought I would share it with you. Now it could be that “you had to be there” kind of thing, but we were cracking up, and me a bit embarrassed…. My mom was in town and we decided to go have breakfast at Cracker Barrel on Sunday morning before she left on Tuesday. We (mom, me, Kim, Adam and Grandma) met there at 10am and were sat at a 6 person table for 5 of us. So after some musical chairs, we were situated, and started to look at the menu. See picture I drew up....

Our server comes over, a nice 40 something woman, and takes our drink order. Everyone orders what they want, and she returns with our drinks. Well, it was a bit humid that day, and I ordered a sweet tea, and of course my glass was sweating. I put a bit more sugar in the tea, because it wasn’t so sweet that day. So then our server came back, to take our food orders, and I decided that my tea was in the way, so I went to pick it up and move it from my left side to my right side by the wall, well, this is as our server was taking Grandma’s order. All of a sudden, out of nowhere, there was a loud crash, and you hear a glass hit the table and ice flying and something that sounded like liquid running. Yup, that was me…..absolutely me, the 30 year old adult that just spilled her drink all over the table. How embarrassing. Well, needless to say, everyone stopped to STARE at me, my face turned beat red (a shade that looked like THIS) I just started cleaning up my mess with my napkin, then napkins just started flying at me, as I looked over at our server she just shook her head, then went to the back, and when she arrived back again, she had towels in her hand, and her tray. As she was cleaning off the table that I had just spilled tea and ice all over, she was yelling at me, like I was her child, but we were all CRACKING up, she was hilarious! It went something like this: “Oh my God, can’t take you anywhere, you are just like a little kid, and how old are you? Spilling your drink all over the place like you are 2 years old, I can’t believe this, and now I have to clean it up for you! There now, don’t spill anymore, what? You want more to drink? Can you handle it without spilling? I doubt it!” We were laughing so hard, and here I am so damn embarrassed still…...she leaves and returns with a little kids sippy cup thing, it is like ¼ of the size of the regular glass, it’s plastic and has a top on it, and a place for your straw. Now we were really cracking up! When she comes back she says “Here, now don’t spill this time! Can you handle not spilling with this cup?” Now, let me tell you that she was not quiet at all what-so-ever whenever she was talking to me, it was like a mother scolding me, as my mom sat next to me laughing the whole time.

So we go on about our ordering process and then our meal comes, and we are eating, every time she comes back to our table, to check on us, she asks if I have spilled my drink yet, then as we are almost done with our meal, she brings me an adult cup, and makes me promise not to spill this time.

We finish our meal and are sitting there talking when she came back to the table, to make sure all is ok, and my grandma told her that she must like her job, because she had us laughing the whole time. She said yes, I do love my job, and I also work at Ruby Tuesdays doing the same thing, I popped up and said I used to work there years ago, she said oh, how come you left, I said “I got a real job” and before I could realize what I said was not cool, her mouth was opened and she was like “ugh”. I was so stupid and embarrassed again, once I realized what I said…..I tried to back track and “what I meant to say was that I got a real job (said it once again) you know, like an office job, where you sit at a desk and stuff?” OPEN MOUTH INSERT FOOT HERE she was laughing and said after all the things that I did for you today, this is how you treat me? Now, mind you, she still was not quiet with anything she said, and everyone around us was laughing at us and at her. She told me that she is going to keep an eye out for me and will be sure to tell her colleagues about me when I come to either restaurant that she works at. Hilarious! Ok, now that I have written all that for you, now I only have 6 ½ hours left…..so now, 5 ½ down, 6 ½ to go.

Live, Laugh, Love!

08/19/09 Bangs lake

Here it is, my "big" fish...

And a close up of it...though Rob chopped off my head in both!

On our fishing day on wednesday, we went to Bangs, our normal place, and this time, I got my way, and I met Rob there at 8am, instead of waking up at 5am...yipee! He was not so happy that I came late, but I think he was happy that I would at least go at all. So I met him there at 8, and I was a much happier person! When I got there, I told him I don't want none of those "fishing" stories, and he told me that he never lies about how many or how big of fish he catches. So he told me that from 5-8, he caught 3 bass and 1 northern...then when I got there, apparently the fish turned off. We did not catch anymore until later on, about 11 or 1130 when we went on the other side of the lake. Then he caught 3 more, and I was so damn frustrated, that I was ready to go home. Then all of a sudden, BAM! there was a fish! woo hoo! Then another and Rob says that was the biggest one of the day, so please enjoy the pics of it.

Our day on Countryside Lake

Here is Rob fishing

One of Rob's many bass that day.

One of my 4 small bass

Here is a really cool house that is on an island, and must drive on a bridge to get to......and below is the bridge you have to drive on to get to the house. This house has a boat garage under it, so cool, just pull in the garage door and put your boat in, and close the garage door, it is under the house, where you see the small round windows. It was built on the rocks there....it is so cool!

Here are just some pics from last wednesday when we fished Countryside lake, now that we have an "in", because it is a private lake that Rob heard had HUGE bass in it, though it didn't prove to us on wednesday, but there was something that bit off a couple worms and hit Rob's line pretty hard....it is funny when that happens, because it makes you wonder what is lurking under the water that you can't see....I always tell him it is a shark, but of course we all know that isn't true! Anyway, we had a great time, and we used a friends boat, it was super fun, and let me just tell you that I am amazed at the BEAUTIFUL houses that are on that lake, and it's private! SO JEALOUS!!!!!

Bangin’ on Bangs Lake

I won the prize for catching the biggest weed clump! I am good at that!

My other Bass and my hair EVERYWHERE!!!!!! It was pretty humid that day, that's my excuse for the crazy hair.

My Bass

All of the pics above are from last week, Rob and his big crappie.

Below is my story from this week...

We went out on the boat fishing on Wednesday, as usual at about 5am. When we went out on the lake it was still dark and there was a pontoon boat anchored, and we paid no attention, since there were other fishing boats on the lake too. So we went on our way to the spot where we were going to fish, and after a while it started to get light out, and we noticed that the people on the boat had put up a red sheet or blanket kind of thing. When I saw that, I thought maybe the people needed help, and Rob thought nothing of it, so we kept on fishing, and we saw nothing for about 2 hours, then all of a sudden, there was a guy on the boat who took the sheet down, and the girl was just putting her shirt back on. Then they were like cleaning up the boat a little, and folding all the blankets they had, and we thought they were leaving, because they went towards the launch, and much to our surprise, there was a second guy on the boat! OMG! There were 2 guys and a girl on the boat….interesting…..they had dropped off one guy and a little while later, that same boat went flying across the lake with only a guy and a girl and Rob said oh those are the people that make the wake all the time before 10am, and I said yeah, and those are the fuckers! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!!!! We were cracking up. Attached are some pics from last weeks fishing trip, I don’t have any to post right now from this week, I will post them soon, I have some pretty pics of the sunrise. Oh, and the most important part of our fishing day was that I caught more fish than Rob! Yay! However, I must admit now that Rob did have the “catch of the day” he caught about a 5 pounder. It was HUGE!!! I caught 5 bass, and 1 northern, and Rob only caught his 1 big bass, and 1 northern. He took me to one area, and I was “slammin’” them, as he would say, I caught 2 in a row, it was great, especially to see his face, and the look of amazement! Then we moved a little and bam another one right away! Woo hoo!!! I won for the number of fish, and I had great pride, especially since he usually smokes me in the number of fish, and I always get jealous!

Live Laugh Love!

CRUNCH CRUNCH CRUNCH

That is the sound I hear at this point in the day….it is after 3, so most of you know what that means, it means that I am listening to my co-worker chew….this is the not so bad part, I mean it’s loud, don’t get me wrong, but it’s not as bad as when this person is eating something else, like fruit for instance. Anyway, Rob and I tried some new kind of food today for lunch. We went to a place called Tajine Casablanca. It is in Vernon Hills, it is some type of Mediterranean food. I was up for the challenge, since I like to try new things, so we went there, it was a really cool atmosphere, the walls were painted like reddish and goldish colors, and we sat at a little table, that had those chairs that sit low to the ground, on nice cushiony seats with pillows for the backs. Very interesting, and so was the food. Rob ordered for me, because he thought he would know what I would like. So we got the same thing, don’t ask me what it was, I mean, I think it was like chicken something and beef something…it was ok, but I surely wouldn’t go back and get the same thing for the $30 that we paid. I only liked part of it, not all of it, there was something cooked with curry, and that really was not something I liked, Rob said it was chicken, didn’t look or taste like chicken. There was also what I thought might be chunks of beef, and I ate one, and almost couldn’t swallow it, I just didn’t like the taste….oh well. Tomorrow, Rob wants to try the Indian joint down a few stores from that. I am a little hesitant, considering the Mediterranean food is not sitting too well with me now. But we will see, I will write and let you know how that goes if we do decide to eat there. So, anyway, we never ended up eating at the Indian place, but we did end up going fishing on Wednesday morning….didn’t catch too many fish, but we had a good time, and Rob was in a good mood, so that helped, cause then he doesn’t get so mad if I get a line twist or backlash, or whatever they are called…..he he! He keeps changing his story whether I am a good or bad “fisherwoman”, depending on his mood, and how good or bad I do in his mind. I am hoping to be the “expert angler” soon. We will see what he thinks! Anyway, then we went over to our friends house, and at a yummy dinner, and played wii bowling and got our butts kicked! Majorly! I guess that’s all for now, sorry I haven’t written in a while, been busy busy with what I don’t know, but it seems that way, anyway. Now I am at work, and might as well be working by myself, because we have a new part-timer here being trained on a whole bunch of nothing, considering she and the “trainer” are just exchanging life stories. Great, huh? It is really FRUSTRATING!!!!! I surely am soooooooooo happy that today is my Friday!!! Yay!!! I guess that’s all for now, I am going to see what I have here to make for dinner, even though I can’t eat until after my partner does, because otherwise, I end up not eating it, or wanting to throw up, because of what I wrote in my first sentence! GROSS!!!!!

Bummer

What a CRAZY couple weeks! First, we had part of the gigantic maple tree in our back yard fall on our house, fence and across the neighbors driveway. Luckily they did not have any cars stacked up on that part of the driveway, like they normally do. That probably would have been un-called-for damage on at least 2 cars. We were also lucky that there was no damage to our house, just to our pocketbooks as they say, in order to get that huge part of the tree cut down. Then we had the air conditioner motor stop working, so we called the guy out to check it out and come to find out that it was not worth fixing, the thing was older than me and Rob, and it was a model that normally would be used for a condo, not a 3 story house!!!! So we had to spend most of our wedding money on a new air conditioner. BUMMER!!!! There goes the honeymoon that I have been begging for. But the good thing that we are hoping to see is a huge savings in our energy bill. Not only that, it no longer sounds like a MAC truck coming through every time the air turns on. Now, it seems to be quieter than our vacuum! Not to mention that while at work we were getting our butts kicked! Seriously! Craziness!!! We did a little yard work on my days off, I know, it’s amazing, this time I am not writing about how I can’t get him to mow the lawn….this time, we did it together, he mowed, I weed whacked (however you spell that) and there was teamwork involved here! First time in a while, then Rob had been wanting to do something about the area of dirt and weeds that was next to the house in the backyard, so we dug up all the weeds, laid down some week b gone stuff that stops the weeds from sneaking through, and then we got some white marble stones and filled in that area. It looks SOOOOOOO much nicer now that it is done, not to mention, it didn’t cost an arm and a leg, like the first 2 paragraphs of my blog today! After doing the yard work on the hottest day of the year, we went fishing at what Rob calls the “secret pond”. Well, it’s only a secret if you don’t live in that neighborhood, cause let me tell you, it seems that EVERYONE saw me catch the first fish (and last fish for that matter) I caught it, and there were a couple softball teams on top of the hill, and some people walking and jogging and riding bikes, that all had to stop and see me catch the fish, I mean don’t get me wrong, it was cool and all, and it was just a little bass, but this sucker was going crazy!! The problem was that I have just learned how to take the bass off the hook by myself (for those of you out there, yes this means that I touch the fish myself too!) So here I am, just caught a little crazy bass, and trying to take if off the hook by myself and all eyes on me, and the stupid thing would not stop jumping, I could barely stabilize it to get the hook out, so I was all flustered and nervous, that I had to call Rob over to help me. He of course did it with no problem, and was the hero! That was fun, then yesterday, we went to the other pond, with my sister and her husband, and I caught quite a few crappie and blue gill! That was fun! Live Well, Laugh Often, Love Much!