Oh yes this is for real!

Kansas City Public Library

Not 1 but 2 shows in 1 night

The National
9:30 Club
5/24/2009
8:00
and
Midnight
Magical evening of incredible music.
It is great having awesome friends.

ps. The new songs are so good that you should be getting excited about the next album.

OCD

I am in love with foam hand soap. I can't stop using it! We have it at work and I have it at home. I am officially obsessed with washing my hands. I don't know what it is about this type of soap but it feels like air versus gooey, sticky stuff. You can get this type of soap in all different types of brands and varying prices. I highly recommend you to start using foaming hand soap, seriously.

Mother's Day Brunch

Mother's Day consisted of my first attempt at making my Mom a frittata for brunch. I was very pleased with the results, hence my picture.
In any case my sister and I rocked it yesterday preparing our Mom a fabulous brunch! It was a beautiful day to celebrate how great our Mom is. We all had a nice time chatting and eating outside on the back porch. The menu consisted of:
Fruit: Strawberries and Blackberries
Beverage: Fresh Squeezed OJ and Coffee
Emily made: Incredible French Toast using Challah bread and a Rustic French Loaf
The recipe was obtained from one of the best cookbooks I know of: The New Best Recipe
I made: A frittata with sauteed tomato's, onions,
pancetta, cilantro, parsley, salt, peppar, eggs,
habanero cheese, and then topped the frittata with
sliced avocado.

That's "Pip" not "Pimp"

Stephanie Plum is Sally's new favorite literary character. If you haven't read a Janet Evanovich book, Sally highly recommends doing so. I have the first one that I will get to this summer then I might find out what "pip" really means? In any case it was sweet of her to give me a thank you card for giving up my parking space when I was leaving work yesterday:-)

Um yeah. But it was a fun Cinco!

The 5th of May:
Guests:Andrew, Zack, Tom, Jo, Amanda, Bridget, Emily, Bailey and Me
Music: Buena Vista Social Club and Bio Ritmo
Setting:Lots of laughing and chatting and drinking and eating!
Menu:
Red Sangria
Corona
Tequila
Limes
Ground Chicken
Ground Turkey
Soft tacos
Hard tacos
Lettuce
Tomato
Onion
Sour Cream
Cheese
Yellow Rice
Black Beans
Bean Dip
Chips
Salsa
Guacamole (super great mango/guac by Amanda)

A perfect weekend

Fri Day: Lunch at Coast with Suzanne. The owner of Enotecca Sagno opened up a new restaurant in the Libby Grove Area. Beautiful restaurant. It is worth going just to see the interior decor. The menu is very pricey but the food is incredibly fresh. The focus is on seafood, hence the name Coast.
Fri Night: Ashley and I started out with dinner and wine on her back porch. Then hit the Firehouse Theater to see the The Great American Trailer Park Musical. I would highly recommend going to see this musical. I am not a fan of them but this one got us all laughing out loud, many many times. The parody of Florida and trailer parks is dead on. Following we went for postshow drink. Ended up down by Gallery 5 and stopped to listen to the street performers play wonderful music that got the crowd dancing. It was such a great moment dancing in the street with Ashley and everyone else. The best part was dancing with the guy with a cane who was munching on a rice krispy treat. After our dance interlude we decided to try Marshall Street Cafe. We sat at the bar and ordered our dirty martinis. Another special moment was singing along with the band who was playing some wonderful soul/golden oldies music. I am definitely going back on a Friday night. The chicken wings looked delicious!
Sat Night: Had dinner with the parents and watched the Kentucky Derby. What a beautiful story Mind That Bird made. It was completely amazing watching that horse and jockey come from way behind the pack, snake up the rail, and shoot out forward. Beautiful.
Sun. Night: A group us from the restaurant met up for half price beers, oysters, shrimp, and mussels at CanCan. The bar scene there is full of old men who have no shame. Single girls and even girls with boyfriends do not go unless you want to be picked up by creepy older men. Lamest come on of the night "What do you do to get triceps like those?"=creepy old dude to my friend Tasha. Following our cocktail hour we all headed up to Edo's and had yet another delicious meal. Best part not paying for anything the whole night, being surrounded by great company, and incredible food.

Darn the hopes are high!

I hate it when you get excited about something that you really want but don't want to get your hopes up. If is meant to be, it will be. Right? I try not to talk about something that I really want to happen because I hate having to retract, ahhh! In any case keep your fingers crossed for me because I see great things ahead and hope it all works out....

Retired

There are certain cups that I like to drink out of because of the shape, the amount of liquid it can hold, and the grip. In particular my drinking cup at work consisted of my Lollapalooza/Sweet Leaf Tea plastic cup. This cup has served me well by holding lots of water, that I would refill through out the day from the library's water cooler. From heavy use this cup started to split down the side. I still held onto the Sweet Leaf cup despite the fact that if I didn't sip from the right side I would have water spill all over me from the crack. Well enough is enough after the tear has increased in size I can't hold as much water as I would like too. So the cup went in the trash and I actually feel kind of sad about this. Sweet Leaf Tea you served me well over the years and I will have to find a replacement at this year's Lollapalooza.