Lunch!

Today I had take out from Novelle Cafe.  Humus!  How wonderfully delicious.  They make humus just a yummy as Bella Luna.  Mmmmm!

I missed October?!?

So I took a small hiatus from blogging for the month of October.  New Year's resolution to start early: more blogs.  Here's what I didn't post about that happened in October:

Halloween!

Ryan got creative this year with the spooky town village that we have.  Michaels has Lemax Spooky Town buildings, figurines and accessories that we usually buy a few buildings and people every year.  It's growing so big that I think we have to have at least 2 if not 3 of the largest tuffy totes that you can buy.  (In all fairness, we keep the original packing so nothing gets broken.)  

This year my crafty husband went all out.  He bought the fake grass turf stuff that people use for train sets and glued that to ply wood.  He drilled holes through the ply wood so the cords for the larger buildings wouldn't show.  Then he stapled brown fabric around the ply wood to make a table skirt so the cords and stuff wouldn't show.  We had so many buildings and things this year that we had to have two locations!  There was a smaller set downstairs on the air hockey table.  Ryan covered it with brown fabric to make fake ground.  The larger set with the train landscape was upstairs next to the railing on two saw horses.  The kitties appreciated this location - Amy hid under the skirt almost the entire month of October and Fex kept walking all over the spooky town.  I guess he thought he would be the giant black cat that would rule over the town.

Kidney Stones!

Poor Ryan now knows what it's like to give birth.  He was working one of his part-time jobs when he felt like someone stabbed him in the side.  He drove over to the Wesley ER and I met him over there.  They scanned him, told him it was kidney stones and gave him some morphine to help with the pain.  I took him home to rest and sleep.  He couldn't eat anything for over  24 hours.  The morphine made him sick to his stomach.  Two days later he passed the stone: 3mm x 3mm x 2mm.  We took it in to the doctor.  It's a calcium stone which means he should lay off the protein shakes.

Scrapbooking

I'm actually getting somewhere with my honeymoon scrapbook.  I dragged Ryan into Scrapbook Garden one day to get some page refills for my book.  He notices these cute little clear pouches that you can put on a page and it can hold something.  We bought a few packages and I have used them so far to hold a map of Martinique and some Euros (both paper and coin currency).

Construction

Almost all the electrical is done in the basement.  All the walls are up where they should be and there's a few pieces of sheetrock hung so it looks like I have a hallway.  Our next home improvement project is to do the tile in the kitchen and then the carpet in the upstairs.

Meow-meow

6:00 a.m.

Me: Good morning Fez, do you want me to pet you already?

Fez: Meow. (No. I need to show you something.)

6:45 a.m. - done with shower, cooking breakfast

Me: What Fez? I've already petted you. (pet, pet, pet)

Fez: Meow-meow.  (Dumb ass, I'm trying to tell you something!)

7:25 a.m. - putting on my shoes, getting ready to look walk out the door

Me: (looking to the right at the monstrous pile of kitty barf by the front window) Shit. You've got to be kidding me.

Fez: Meow, meow, meow!  (Told you so.  Idiot.)

Adventures in Sushi: Part 2

Ryan and I made sushi last week and I now have even greater respect for the sushi masters.   

Here's our attempt at Spicy Tuna and California rolls.

The sushi wasn't bad.  The California roll was pretty darn close to what they actually taste like (crab sticks, avocado, cucumber, mayo).  The Spicy Tuna was close in look and content.  The spicy mayo that we picked up didn't have quite the taste that the professionals have, so that didn't impress us too much.

Overall I'd have to say that this was a good experience.  We started at 6:30 and we started eating at 8:00! That's too much time for me to wait to eat sushi.  The rice was very sticky and the nori (seaweed) was a little difficult to cut through without mutilating the sushi roll.  If I want sushi again, I'll just order take out!

I have walls!

Ryan's been working non-stop on finishing our basement.  His dad also comes over to help frequently.  Their work has resulted in the framework and electrical work on a bedroom, bathroom with linnen closet, hallway, laundry room and a hall closet.  

The latest addition they have made is to install an outlet on top of our closet in the living room.  Ryan hooked up a time and a rope light and presto we have a really awesome night light.  I'll post a picture here tonight (after the light turns on!)

Adventures in Sushi: Part 1

Due to the unfortunate sushi coux at our favorite sushi restaurant, I have decided to do something possibly messy and stupid. I have decided to try and make my own sushi.

I have most of the materials: nori (seaweed), sushi rice, crab sticks (fake + real crab ... kind of like hot dogs, I don't care what's in them, they just taste good), avocado and tuna.  I think Ryan and I will make out first attempt tonight. You'll hear more about it later!

Picnic in the Park

I decided that instead of working on the house or running errands that Ryan and I should take a day off and go to Sedgwick County Park for picnic. It was one year ago on Friday (August, 31st) that Ryan proposed to me on a beautiful beach in Grand Cayman and I was feeling a little sentimental. I packed a wonderful lunch including fresh chicken sandwiches, deviled eggs, noodle salad, tomatoes and his favorite pink lemonade. We set out for the park with our picnic basket and blanket in tow and found a fairly secluded corner of the park. The weather was perfect and the geese weren't too loud or annoying. It amazes me that we didn't think of having picnics in the park earlier. It's a good thing that it won't get that cold very soon. I can see more picnics in the future!