B: the magember crunch

Like every summer, I have allowed myself to become so busy at work that I am totally burned out and desperately in need of some time off. To combat this and avoid going all Tyler Durdan on my family and co-workers, I am taking Labor Day week off. I have already planned so much stuff for that week though that there is really no way I will get to do everything that I want. At some point I am going to need to add some scheduled relaxation.....I am an idiot.

We are really coming down to the magember crunch. I am doing absolutely nothing for the big 31. I think that is really the only way to note the occasion...by trying to ignore it. Mandy and I are having our 5 year anniversary this year, Lily is turning 2 and then Mandy is turning 30....holy crap that a lot of stuff for September. If we had another September baby we would have a 4 in 30 chance of hitting an already important date. I like them odds!

Other stuff....I sat next to this guy and his obese body guard/homey in the terminal at LAX cuz they were next to the only free laptop charging station. He looked less crunk in person.

He was just kicking it doing some FORTRAN programming or something on his laptop and listening to what I have to assume was Bach. Nervous teenagers kept coming up to get his autograph. After much debate I had him sign my golden chalice. It isn't as nice as the one that he is pictured with here, but it special to me and now it's a highly valuable collectible.

They weren't on my flight though, so I didn't get to fulfil my plan of befriending him and convincing him to: (a) explain the origin and meaning of crunk, (b) feature me on a future track, and (c) teach me the meaning of love.

Oh well.

PS..

We had a delicious dinner made from scratch my Mandy last night with our new mystery friends mentioned here.......link..... I think it went fabulously and they probably don't hate us yet

PPS

Strapless panties continue to be our most highly hit post ever. Those people ought to be paying us.

B: Break it down y'all

I had a bit of an emototional collapse the other day. It wasn't any real big deal, but I think my body finally just said "enough"! My job on Friday went to shit and rather than stopping to re-group and make the project manager think up a new plan and go to the client for more money, I simply ran myself into the ground trying to make it work.

I did this because I have been working too hard for too long on too little sleep. I stopped thinking for myself and became a robot because it was easier. I haven't really taken a day of vacation since my paternity leave over 6 months ago and I finally just broke down. The mental physical and emotional exhaustion over took me and it was all I could do to force myself to drive home. I called work when I left the site and told them I wouldn't be in for a few days. They were good with that and that is nice because they really didn't have a choice.




We made the America's Test Kitchen enchiladas for the second time last night. I think it is a pretty good recipe, but lacking in the spicy department. I think people from the northeast don't really do spicy, and the recipe reflects that. We are goin to look into some ways to kick the flavor up a notch next time we make it. It will be jalapeno season soon, so maybe we will get some hotter than hell Yakima jalapenos and give that a shot.

Overall that ATK cook book is pretty good. They missed some of the best recipes from the magazine such as the all beef meatloaf (north-easterners know their meatloaf), and the oatmeal cherry pecan chocolate chunk cookies (yum). I highly recommend buying it or better yet, getting it as a gift.