Ketchingup

Well....

Went to DC this past weekend. We left on Saturday and came back Tuesday night. I have never been to DC as a tourist. I was there a few times for work, but never got to see all the things that make DC what it is. Eventually Ill do a post with some pictures and more info about the trip.

On Wed., I woke up feeling like shit. I took my daughter to day care, then slept the rest of the day. I am pretty sure that it was the McDonalds that I ate at 10 PM the night before when we were on our way home.

The past two days have been spent cleaning out my garage and taking stuff to goodwill and our storage unit. The garage was BAD. Without going in to much detail, we have 3 cats who live in the garage because they piss in the floor. Well, they recently decided they have no use for a litter box at all. Yeah, the garage was BAD.

I have come to the realization that we eat out way too often. My wife and I both want to lose weight, but it is so hard to eat healthy when you eat out so much. And most of the time, the food is mediocre at best, and service in this town is going downhill fast. Last night we ate at Outback Steakhouse. Our server was very busy. So busy in fact that she could not find the time to remove the 4 empty beer bottles and 6 empty glasses at our table. But hey, at least she got us refills. Of course, most of the time it was a someone else bringing them to us. Our appetizer came quickly and it was very good. We had the seared Auhi Tuna. Good stuff. However, the main dish was very slow making it to our table, and by the time it got their, my medium rare steak and my wifes medium steak had absolutely no pink left. I think it got over cooked sitting under a heat lamp or something.

Here is a little tip for those of you who have never waited tables. If your plate comes out extremely hot, and you did not order some kind of fajitas that are supposed to come out sizziling, your food has either been nuked or it has sat under a heat lamp for a while.

Today we ate at Cracker Barrel, we had a bad experience the last time we went there, but this time everything was great.

After dinner we went to Sams Club and then to PetCo. We have decided to get a cat door so the cats can go outside. They have been declawed, so my wife has been weary of letting them out, but we are going to try it. We were also excited to find out that Sams now sells Size 6 Pampers diapers. Prior to this trip, the biggest we could find there were size 5. We bought 3 boxes just in case they don't get them in again.

About $500 later we left University Town Center and headed to High Street to go to the Dairy Queen. We ended up parking beside the Gilatto stand. It was raining and we did not want to get the girl out in the rain so we just ordered some Gilatto. It is very good, but too rich for my tastes. I would rather have had a plain vanilla cone from the DQ.

So thats my life for the past few days.

A few of you may have noticed that I left some SPAM like comments on your blogs. Sorry bout that, but I really want to spread the word about my friends blog, Reversing the Numbness. Music Lovers will really enjoy his weekly "Friday Music" Post. Go check it out, and tell em that money sent 'cha.

He has also started a new blog which is going to officially launch on Monday. It is called Picture West Virginia. This is a great idea, and you too can contribute to the site. Each week will have a theme and you can contribute a post relating to WV and that theme. For example, the first week will be " My Town". You can write somthing about your town, post pictures or what ever. The goal is to spread the word about Wild Wonderful West Virginia and to try to change the image of our state that some others may have.

Speaking of West Virginia, I had no idea that Jesse Johnson was running for President on the Green Party ticket. In case you don't know, Jesse Johnson is a West Virginian who was the Mountain Party's candidate for Governor in 2004. I think he also ran for Senate in 2006. Now I have a candidate I wont feel guilty voting for.





Well, its time to go to bed.

Good Night.