Blue Cheese Guacamole

Last night hubby created for dinner (I love it when he does creations). He made shrimp and buffalo chicken kabobs with blue cheese guacamole dip. It was extremely good. Today I decided to google "blue cheese guacamole" to see if anyone else had ever combined blue cheese and avocados and Nigella apparently tried it first. She calls hers Roquamole.

If you have never tried blue cheese guacamole (or roquamole), give it a try. Take your avocados, add some blue cheese dressing, and a little salsa. Viola, you're done. You can leave out the salsa if you don't want the spicy kick and it is still very good.

Home for the Holidays

My brother called and they are planning to come home for Thanksgiving (or around that time). Maybe they will come stay with us while they are here. I can't wait to see my handsome little nephew. I can't believe he is already 8 months old. Here is the latest picture I have of him. He likes playing with his mothers stethoscope.

Anniversary

Today is our 21st anniversary. We have been married for 21 years and together for 22 years. It is amazing how quickly the time flies. We had kind of a low key day and it was really nice. Yesterday we bought ourselves a grill, so this morning we spent time putting it together. After we finished that, we went to eat lunch at a local cafe and then came home.

Having a low key anniversary seems kind of fitting since we had a pretty low key wedding. We went to the JP and got married in front of our witnesses, then came home and went to the mall. After we got home from the mall, his sister dropped off her 4 kids for us to babysit for a week while she went on vacation. Yes we really spent out honey moon babysitting his sisters 4 kids.

I am looking forward to number 25; we hope to be able to visit Ireland for that anniversary.

Expensive Trip to Chili's

On July 3rd, neither of us felt like cooking and a Chili's burger sounded really good, so off to Chili's we went. Hubby ordered his normal medium burger and I had the little baby burgers. The service was a little slow and his burger arrived slightly undercooked in the very middle, but it wasn't too bad so he ate it anyway.

A couple of days later he started feeling like he had the flu. After about a week, he went to the doctor and found out that he had food poisoning and the doctor felt 100% certain it was from the undercooked burger he had at Chili's (there had apparently been some warnings about tainted beef in the area). He took his week of Cipro for the food poisoning and still wasn't feeling very good, so the doctor called in some additional medicine. This week he finally began to feel a little better, but still not back to 100%.

Yesterday I stopped to pick up the mail and noticed an envelope from our local police department. It was from the Automated Red Light Enforcement department, so I opened it immediately. It was a fine for $75. This had to be a mistake. I went home and we looked over the video at the link they provided. When hubby was turning in to the strip center where the Chili's was located, he had to make a right hand turn. Unfortunately, he did not come to a full stop at the red light before making the turn.

Adding in the cost of the meal, the cost of the doctor visits, the cost of the medications, and now the cost of the fine, this meal has easily cost us over $200 - for 2 burgers and 2 glasses of tea. Chili's is off limits for a long while!

The Superstars - Brandi & Julio

My favorite team went home tonight on The Superstars - Brandi Chastain and Julio Iglesias Jr. They made such a great team that I really thought they would be in the finals, but couldn't quite pull it out. Tonight they competed on the jet ski's, archery, and the climbing wall. Unfortunately, those weren't their best events. They were a great team to watch and I really wished they had made it to the finals.

Dream about Blogging

Last night I was having a dream that I was blogging. In my dream, I was typing away and started to get hot. I couldn't believe how hot it was and thought I should get up an turn on a fan. Then all of a sudden I wake up and I am really disoriented. I am not in my bed. Instead, I am sitting on the floor in our hallway using the top of a small fan as my "keyboard". I have no idea how long I had been sitting on the floor typing on the fan, but every part of my body ached as I got up. I went back to bed, and slept the remaining hour until my alarm went off.

Needless to say, I never finished the blog in my dream and today at work I was very tired.

Hunter Fan Company

About 3 weeks ago we purchased a Hunter humidifier for our bedroom. We spent the little extra and got the Hunter brand in hopes that we wouldn't be disappointed. Hubby and I both have terrible allergies and the humidifier makes it so much easier to sleep at night. Today the humidifier started making a really terrible noise. Remember as a kid when you would stick something in the spokes on the tire and it made that really cool sound. That's what it was sounding like - only it is not so cool when you are trying to sleep.

I pulled out my paperwork and called the company to see what could be done. I was fully expecting to have to send it in, wait for them to tell me that whatever was wrong wasn't covered under the warranty, and then we would have to pay to purchase another one. Thankfully, that was not the case at all. The young lady took my information, apologized that their product caused me an inconvenience and promised to ship me a brand new unit of the same model to my home within 7-14 days. WOW! That never happens! Not only that, I don't have to go to the hassle of sending them back the damaged unit. All they want back is the label from the machine and the cut power cord from the old unit. I haven't had such great customer service in a really long time.

Kudos to Hunter Fan Company!