So Much Stuff!

WOW! I'm so bad at blogging when I actually have stuff going on lol! Where to begin?

Well last night Kevin and I went to a food show on the Detroit Princess Riverboat sponsored by U.S. Foods Corporation. Basically it was a 2 hour showcase of all their high end products for local restaurants and businesses with food samples. It was so much fun! We got 2 free drink tokens each and they were serving free champagne in the first hour of the event. And there was food everywhere. Just small bite samples, but most of it was really good. Had some crab cakes in lobster bisque, some clam chowder, some lump crab meat, some HUGE shrimps with cocktail sauce, gourmet sandwiches, meat rollups, little hors d'eouvres poppers (like mini beef wellingtons), samples of chicken and beef and sausages and turkey and pork and ribs and ...well just about anything you could think of! I was so stuffed I could barely move lol. The boat took a 2 hour tour up and down the Detroit River, which was very pretty I wish i had brought my camera. Kevin got a couple ideas for things to do at the restaurant, which is pretty much the only reason he wanted to go. He had no intentions of purchasing lol. We did have one thing that was amazing which was brie and raspberry wrapped in filo dough. I told kevin he HAD to make it for their afternoon teas that they're starting at the restaurant. I also found the plastic champagne glasses I want for the wedding. Got a sample of it so I'm gonna take a pic and post it on my wedding blog tomorrow probably. They also gave us party favors of champagnes flutes with twisted black stems which are DIVINE! I'll post them tomorrow too.

Been taking piccies of the kitty all day today....but that's a story for my kitty blog

After the cruise we came back home and lit the firepit and had daquiris until almost 1am when we came in and watched some TV before heading to sleep. It was a great night! I love Kevin so much and we have so much fun together. Just being together and able to talk about anything and everything. It's nice. Something I never thought I'd have and something I definitely don't take for granted.

Now for what has happened since I last blogged...we had a housewarming party Sunday the 4th (laborday weekend) and it was surprisingly fun! Almost everyone cancelled the day before or of the party which pissed both of us off...specifically when Joey called and actually told us gas was too expensive and he couldn't make it "but why don't you come on down here to the house later in the week to pick up the trimmer?" (long story short...he had a weed trimmer that broke and took it in to get it fixed but instead of waiting for them to fix it, or at least see how much it would be, he went out and bought a new one and has been trying to pawn the old one off on us for a price ever since. We never said we wanted it in the first place, he just assumed. It was almost $50 to get it fixed...shoot...for $20 more we can get a brand new one!) Ricky and his friends couldn't make it since they went Saturday and had some laser stop smoking thing done and were told not to be in situations where they would be tempted to smoke. Now here's what I don't get. They had this laser procedure done, which is fine and dandy, but they told them when it was done "drink lots of water and veggie juice, don't eat greasy foods, stay away from caffeine and don't put yourself in situations where you would be tempted to smoke" My thinking is: if you did all that stuff anyway WITHOUT the laser, wouldn't you pretty much get the same results?

Anyway, Kevin's Aunt Sue came by as well as my cousin Joe Nunez and his family and my cousin Angie and her family and brother and my papa and then later on my cousin Maria from Mandeville came by with her family and lastly my brother Bob and his wife came by. It was great. It was nice seeing Maria and Carl and Celeste again. They said their house is okay from the reports they've gotten. They stayed up here about a week. I have to give them a call as a matter of fact to see how things are down there. They're right outside of New Orleans.

Everyone loved the house tho and at night we lit a bonfire in the firepit and had a great time just sitting around. We just had burgers and dogs and ships, but everyone seemed to like it okay. As it was the first party, they will only start getting better from here ;)

What else? Oh! Annette came by later in the week with a housewarming gift from her and Ricky...a crystal cross, some wine glasses and some veggies from her garden! So nice of her! I loved it!

Other than that not much else to report. Watched a movie today "Runaway Jury" with Jon Cusack, Gene Hackman, Rachel Weisz & Dustin Hoffman. It was pretty good. Based on John Grisham. What was great about it tho was it was based in NOLA....in the French Quarter....so it was like being home for a couple hours. I really miss that city and hope we get to go back in May.

OH! I might not be able to go to the wedding next month in Phoenix which pretty much sucks. Spending that money on our kitty put us on the track to poordom for the next few months. I so need a job lol