"X" Marks the Spot?

Why would anybody, with a disproportionaly large "bottom", wear jeans with great big "X's" embroidered on the pockets? I couldnt look away!

Lake Surfing

This weekend we met up with some new friends from Chicago to spend the afternoon on the Lake Minocqua area on their boat. Yes, the are FIB's, but we'll let that slide as we got to spend the day on the lake! It was a beautiful day, though a bit windy. Kevin did some wake boarding & water skiing; he tried to do the 1 foot skiing but needs more practice with that I think.

The biggest thing people were doing was Lake Surfing. What they do is use a wake board, sorta a short surf board....you get up on it behind the boat with a short rope and find the right spot riding the wake behind the boat. At some point you can let go of the rope & then just surf your way around the lake behind the boat. It was pretty intersting to watch & got a lot of gawkers wondering how we were doing it.

I, of course, did not go in the water. I saw no point to it - I was warm & perfectly happy where I was. Maybe next time...

Halfway through the day we swapped boats with another friend - it was a demo boat from one of the dealers. An X-15 Mastercraft. Boy it was cool! We had 11+ folks on board and it was a blast.

All in all, a fun day. Hopefully will get to go out again sometime this summer!

The Jumping Spider

Last night one of the cats noticed a spider climbing up the wall in the bedroom. I watched it carefully, and nudged Kevin in alarm. The spider was small enough, but it had potential to grow large; it needed to die. Kevin knew he needed to take care of it. However he was reading the users manual to his new camera so was in no hurry. So for the next 15 minutes I watched the spider, which stayed in one spot & didnt move an inch. Finally Kevin got up to kill the spider... But it was at that point the spider decided to leap from his spot on the wall and attempt a divebomb for the floor. A jumping spider. This did not please me, and Kevin insisted it was still on the floor & he was going to smash it. Instead it ran away, under the bed. So. We have a loose spider in the bedroom. Lesson? Just kill the damn spider right away.

Dark Knight Review

I braved the crowds for opening weekend of "Dark Knight". It was a risky move for me as I despise having PEOPLE in the theater but I felt strongly I needed to see the movie ASAP. I was glad I risked it. Be warned, the movie is extra long - I think it was like 152 minutes. I knew this beforehand so chose a seat near the door for quick 'n easy bathroom exit. Also, I chose well with a buffer seat in between a large group and the end of the row, so less liklihood of somebody wanting to squeeze in next to me. Thankfully there were no obnoxious teenagers nearby.

The theater was quite full for a noon show on Sunday!

LOVED the movie, even the length didnt bother me. I peeked once to see the time, but only to see if I needed to exit for the bathroom or not. The story is very interesting! The Joker role was, as we have all heard, memorable. Heath Ledger really did do an outstanding job. I always knew it was Jack in the 1st movie, but this one, I only thought of him as the Joker, not Heath Ledger playing the Joker. The whole Harvey Dent thing was also quite memorable!!! There should be some awards for costuming and makeup for this flick.

The ending was good as it didnt leave an obvious opening for another. One thing I missed though was I wanted to hear the Joker say, "Where does he get all those great toys?" (or something along those lines) and he didnt. I thought they could have at least thrown it in there.

Overall, GREAT. Go see it!!

A Lesson in Jalepenos

Here is what I learned last night:

Do not clean out a hot pepper with your bare hands.

That being said, does anybody know how to get it off your hands? I washed them about 10 times, and also soaked them in lemon juice. Neither worked very well...

Zerberts

My neice Katie tonight was laying in my lap watching tv and she reached up behind to hug my neck and said to me, "Missy I love you". Awfully cute!

Then 2 minutes later she patted my boobs and said, "Missy I love your zerberts, too".

Huh.

My Shady Past

For those of you who know of my shady past....You'll know how secretly excited I am about this:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3i2a7c68761043a405c4e527c10b0cc474

Fruit Salad

Today was my day for "treats" at work. Every thursday is treat day. We have to sign up months in advance. Some people go all out with elaborate food. Once I got fed up and brought Little Debbie snacks. In the fall everybody expects my famous tomato soup. Today I did fruit salad. I bought as many pre-cut or pre-portioned fruit as I could, mixed them all up and added a couple tablespoons of sugar. Then I did the special part - the mint. I chopped up some fresh mint & tossed.

Everybody is RAVING about the fruit salad! I must say, it is good and that mint really does something special. I highly recommend it for next time anybody makes fruit salad.

Tomorrow is moving day. el sucko.

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We are flying to Dayton today for the 4th of July.