Crazy Dog

I really think my dog is crazy – in a cute way.  Yesterday, I woke up, took a shower, and went back in the bedroom to wake up M and the dog.  Sasha woke up and proceeded to talk to us for at least five minutes.  It was pretty hilarious – she just wouldn’t stop her little half-howling noise, and then she just started pacing up and down the bed while she did it.  The best part is that if you say something to her, she stops for a second, and then keeps going, as if she thinks she’s having a conversation with you.  Then when you sit up, she trots past you and plops down right across your pillow.  Brat.

 

 

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Fourth of July

We had a great time back in H-town over the Fourth weekend, once the weekend got started. I can’t imagine what the weather in New York is doing to the “on-time” status for the airlines – our flight got pushed back two hours, so we would up getting in around 12:30 am instead of 11:30 pm. Our plane’s tardiness wasn’t that big of a deal as “night-owl” Dad came and picked us up, or let me say the man who thinks he is a night owl because he wakes up at 2 am and finds himself in the living room. Same man is barely coherent and near-sleep the entire ride home - why did my parents not get my younger sister to pick us up?

The next morning, we played golf, and the next and the next (OK - so I begged out on Saturday, but I did play two of the three). The hubs managed to play all three days, even though the heat index was around 105 each day. Spending four hours in the sun is not so bad, as long as you wear sunscreen and don't mind the enormous headache you have for the rest of the day. :)

We did manage to get our tex-mex in, though we had to do a bit of finagling to convince my mom to change the meal plan (read as my sister, ReeRee, calling and telling her that M and I really wanted tex-mex, so why didn't she save the steaks until after we left). Yumm - and we managed to have crawfish too, because D and ReeRee threw a Fourth of July bbq/crawfish boil. The party was great, all the family that was in town came over to ReeRee's house, so we even got to see my cousin's new baby.

Home, Home, Home

 Tomorrow we head off on what will be, no doubt, a harrowing journey back to Texas for the holiday weekend.  Harrowing because our flight is at 8:15 pm, and like almost every other day since April, we are expecting rain tomorrow afternoon, not just rain, but thunderstorms.  So much for an on time departure.  While I am looking forward to seeing the entire family (one is in from college, the other returning from a study course, and the last is throwing a party for the whole, whole family on the 4^th), the dilemma forming in my mind is whether to get tex-mex or bbq while in town. 

Honestly, tex-mex should probably be the choice, as we won’t get back down to Texas until Thanksgiving, but we were just in Dallas for a wedding and had some delicious Pappasito chips and queso and fajitas at the wedding (yumm).  **By the way, I recently learned that fajita actually refers to the cut of beef, not the food type, so beef fajitas is redundant, and apparently chicken fajitas don’t exist – weird, right?  On the flip side, we haven’t had barbecue in a really long time.  Now, you can get barbecue up here, but nothing is quite the same as the Texas barbecue I know and love.  For the most part, people argue that true Texas barbecue should not have sauce, and is just smoked.  I disagree, why would you not also put sauce on a brisket?  There is one place that tries to imitate one of our favorites from Texas (starts with an R and ends in udy’s), but instead of one line for everything, there’s a line for meats, a line for sides, and then a line for drinks, which is the dumbest thing I have ever heard (we’ve only ordered takeout from them so far). 

In the end, I think Tex-Mex will win, because just thinking of the queso makes me drool.  Hopefully we’ll go to the place with the green salsa, because green salsa is really the best.  J

 

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