Oklahoma!!

Back in June, the 20th to be exact, Holly and I headed up to Edmond, Ok. (right outside Oklahoma city) to visit my mum, step-dad, sister and her two kiddos. The girls, Belle and Genesis, are getting huge now...talking like real human beings, its crazy. Genesis is too a little too smart now...if she says something she shouldn't be saying, after you ask her "What?", she can change her comment on the fly into something "nice." Its scary.

So lets see...we got there late night Friday because traffic on I-35 was killer. With construction and dumb people who don't know how to drive, we wasted probably 2 hours of drive time either parked or coasting down the interstate. Bummer. We finally got across the state line into Oklahoma and its past our feeding time, so we stop at a KFC. After a few minutes we realize people keep staring at us. The place is packed with families that kind of remind us of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre family. Our first thoughts are these people don't take kindly to strangers in these here parts, or maybe its cause some weirdo Mexican dude is with a hot white chick. Luckily we ordered it to go, but with the long line at the drive-thru and inside, we still had to wait a while. We sit down and a minute later Holly figured it out. She is wearing a Texas Longhorns shirt and I got on Longhorns sandals. I hope the didn't spit in our food. We figure out why UT is such a rich school too...peeps in Ok. spend tons of money on UT merchandise. We saw UT flags on the back of trucks being flown upside and lots of Longhorns emblems on cars with their horns "sawed off." UT thanks y'all for the support!

So didn't have much time Friday night with the family. Saturday my mum, Holly, Bell, Gen and I headed out to go lazy boy shopping. We reorganized our living room and now have a spot for a recliner. Apparently Oklahoma City is known for its plethora of furniture stores. First spot we hit had snooty high class furniture...we are neither snooty nor high class. We ended up at Matthis Brothers and they had fancy stuff, but they had normal people furniture too...with some sweet deals. Scored a Lazy Boy recliner, big comfy one, for under $500...we were psyched about it. We then picked Roy up for lunch and then went back home and packed up to go fishing at our secret location. Someplace warm. A place where the beer flows like wine. Where crappie, bass and catfish instinctively flock like the salmon of Capistrano. I'm talking about a little place called Guthrie. We brought in huge numbers of fish again, most of them caught by my nieces...they kept my mum busy since it was up to here to remove the fish and re-bait the hook. Holly and I took a break to walk around the countryside and check out the bovine in the area. Holly ended up chasing some of them off a cliff, funny stuff. Then she did her impression of Laura Ingles running down a hill in the intro to the old Little House on the Prairie episodes. Roy started catching some catfish that looked like fun so I gave it a try. Caught two of them. The first one was huge....had to be at least 5 pounds. So fun trying to reel that sucker in.

The next morning we had breakfast and relaxed a bit and wrapped up another nice weekend at my mum's place. The End.

You can check out our photo album of the weekend HERE.

The Simpsons...Da, da da, dada da da, da DADADA!!

*Don't have a cow man, no spoilers in this post*

Can't say we had been eagerly awaiting the Simpsons Movie, but once it was here we were stoked! We picked up some Buzz Cola from our neighborhood Kwik-E-Mart for the occassion. Ray and Michelle invited peeps to join them at the Alamo Drafthouse (one of the best places to watch a movie) and we didn't hesitate. Well, we did take a while to buy tickets, but it was cause stoopid work was being annoying again and distracting me. Last Monday I finally got online and ordered the tickets. A day later they were sold out. Once we got the tickets, we couldn't wait for the movie.

Friday finally came and we got to the theatre about an hour early. Ray and Michelle were already there in line, and Dave and Bobbi had joined them. We squeezed in and handed out some ice cold Buzz Cola and luckily no one complained about the cutsies. The Alamo was selling Buzz Cola and Duff Beer (their own brand) at the bar and allowed you to take it out while you wait in line. So when they let us in, they just assumed we bought the drinks there and we didn't have to throw them away. Woohoo!! Dave brought the Ralphie mask/helmet he made for halloween a while back. We got in and sat down pretty early and enjoyed Simpsons clips on the big screen. Dave and Bobbi order a bucket of Duff Beer and we enjoyed some drinks while waiting for the movie to start.

This pic was random and seemed to fit really well. Was taking a picture of our Duff and Buzz drinks and Homer happened to be on the big screen in the background going through the fridge. If you look through the photo album, there is one pic of me wearing the Ralphie with Holly and the look of fear on Holly's face is great. She has a fear of people in masks...makes for fun times for me. We ordered from the special menu which included: Buzz Cola, Squishees, Duff Beer, Double Krusty Burger Meal, The Ribwhich, Lisa's Gazpacho with Toasted Ciabatta and ofcourse Homer's favorite, donuts. I was going to have some pizza off the regular menu...but couldn't pass up on The Ribwhich. It was delicious.

The movie had us laughing, we weren't disappointed in the least. It seemed to go by really fast, but I think thats just a sign of how entertaining the movie was. Like I said, no spoilers...so this is where our story ends. Go see the movie. Here are the rest of the pics from the night: Photo Album.

Bobbi posted her pics of the night HERE on Picasa.

Woggles

I am a nanny, and Sydney, one of the 4-year-old twins I watch, was having a rough day today. Her mouth was getting her into trouble, which happens a lot. After lunch she wanted to hear Swichfoot's Oh! Gravity CD, and she told Frank to "Start it up! ". There was no, "can I hear Oh! Gravity please?", so she didn't get to hear the song. Then she was cleaning up some blocks, got halfway done and ordered me to get the rest. Poor baby, she had to clean up the whole living room after that. Later we were getting ready to go swimming, but I couldn't find her goggles. I asked her if she knew where they were, and she said "No. You find the woggles". She was sent to her room to think about what she had just said.......I went in a few minutes later to asked her if she understood why she had to have a time-out........and she said " Yes, because I said woggles." After I stopped laughing we had a talk and then went out to swim for 2 hours.

Over-Indulgence

My next post was going to be about our weekend in Oklahoma....but...

Okay, so its a hot sunny day and I rode my '86 Honda Rebel in to work today. I guess it was around 4pm, the rain started coming down. And coming down. And coming down. Holly ditched her bible study group to come get me and give me a ride home. On the way we stopped by Panda Express. I had a taste of the Thai Cashew Chicken and decided to go with that. It was good...especially when you get some cashew in a bite. On the way out we grabbed a handful of fortune cookies and threw them into the bag. After devouring our deliciously yummy Chinese cuisine, we got started on the fortune cookies. I ate my two cookies...Holly had her two. We started to clean up when, lo and behold, a fifth cookie!! I brake it in half and leave it hanging together by the fortune inside. Holly grabs one half of the cookie and I the other. We separate and she wins the fortune. After a big dinner and getting started on the fifth cookie of the night, Holly read the fortune:

Every time you lie, a kitty dies...

This kitty paid the price for that little white lie of yours. You dirty rat! Ok...well, this blog is pretty wack. If you don't like pictures of dead things, please click HERE instead.

First off, the only reason we took these pictures is because we had no idea this kind of wildlife was around us. We are driving home from lunch today, I had a Whataburger with bacon and cheese and Holly had the chicken sandwich. We had an errand to run before hand and the timing was off and we got to Whataburger like 5 minutes past 12. Just in time for the rush. My least favorite time to go out for lunch. I like to eat between 11:00 and 11:30 if I can help it. We both ordered onion rings with our combos and Holly got jalapeños with her chicken sandwich. The food comes and we have one order of onion rings and one order of fries. So I tell Holly they messed up her order of onion rings. We check the receipt and they got it right on the order, they just have problems with 3rd grade reading. So she goes back up and corrects it. We have to wait for a fresh batch of rings to finish up. We start on our sandwiches. Holly's doesn't have the jalapeños she ordered on it. Again, its there on the receipt...people just have a problem following directions. So I go back up and ask for some jalapeños for a sandwich. The 15 year old behind the counter says, "you have to pay for them." I said, "I did pay for them. I just didn't get them on my sandwich." He says, "oh." So he hands me a bag with 2 full jalapeños in it. I hand it back and say I want the sliced ones to put on a sandwich. I finally get the sliced jalapeños for Holly's chicken sandwich and lunch was good. There were 2 ladies sitting next to us and both of them had to go back up to correct their orders. Pretty sad.

Back to our story. We are headed back home going down Parmer Lane and approaching the Samsung plant where traffic is being squeezed down to 1 lane...and thats when we saw it. A cat, a big cat, not huge...but bigger than a big house cat, on the side of the road with those lynx type chin hairs. We both did a double take and looked at each other, "nahhh." Then we see some guy on the side of the road running towards it. We look back and he stops at it and is checking it out. So we look at each other again and now I'm making a U-turn. One more U-ie and we are heading towards it again. We pull over right in front of it, put on the hazards and get out. I'm no cat expert, but we were pretty sure it was a wild bobcat type cat. Just didn't think they were running 'round in these here parts. I go back to the 4Runner and get my phone out. Then I wait for a lull in traffic cause I kinda feel like an idiot taking pictures of dead cats on the side of the road. Theres finally a break in traffic and I snap off these pics:


Kinda gruesome I know, but cool too...I guess. Just cause I've never seen anything like this cat before in the "wild." You can see the chin whiskers that are lynxish. The little bobbed tail is visible too. The teeth are a little hard to see, but they were pretty ferocious. It looks like what you see on most websites and they are found statewide in Texas, says this dude: LINK. Thats new to me. Of course I would've preferred to get some pics of this cat chasing and catching a rabbit...or chasing one of those "house" cats dumb people let outside of their home to roam around and spread disease or put themselves in danger like this cat, that would have been a great pic. Nevertheless, it was cool and sad to see this cat in person. Too bad its dead. The end.