We left our house at 11:30 this morning. We aren't even to Temple. Yeah. You read that right. We've been driving for over 3 hours and we aren't even to Temple. The traffic is horrific. And TXDOT, in their infinite wisdom, has 35 shut down to one lane on a HOLIDAY WEEKEND. Total bullshit.
Bubba is manning the house and farm animals. I can only hope the boys do not suffer from PTSD after this latest visit from Bubba. When he stayed at the house while we went to NOLA, he must have not treated them like the spoiled, precious little babies that they are. To show their displeasure with their caretaker, they pissed on Gary's pillows when we returned home. They were not happy with us - especially their Diddy.
We are now on a random Farm Market road and off of the Hell known as I35 South. Jesus. What a beatdown.
We normally got see Charlie at Gruene Hall on Saturday. This year, we are going to the Sunday show. I'm pretty sure tomorrow is also his actual birthday. Perhaps I should give him a spicy birthday kiss ;). I once dry humped his tour bus. With him in it. Don't judge.
Tonight we are grilling pork chops with red beans and rice, green beans, corn and yeast rolls. Tomorrow night is turkey and venison burgers prior to the evwning's festivities. I brought all of the eggs from home...so that sort of takes care of breakfast! I've got like 2 dozen or so. And they're gorgeous eggs! Our brown ones are jumbo in size and is say the white ones are closer to medium sized.
Jeez - we've been moving forward for 15 minutes straight! I don't think we've done that since we left our house and drove through Ennis. Gotta love holiday traffic.
I'm going to nap. Keep it real, folks ;)
K
Saturday, August 31, 2013
Friday, August 30, 2013
Dave and The Amazing Strip Club
Yesterday, I was going over Paige's lessons for the day and I noticed that my child had written the words "amazing strip club" on the back of a Band-Aid package. When she returned from the bathroom, the following conversation took place:
Me: Paige, did you write this?
Paige: Yes. My friend Dave needed help.
Me: Your friend Dave? Who is Dave and what did he need help with?
Paige: He needed me to help him build his amazing strip club.
At this point, I got sweaty and felt bile come up in my already acidy refluxish throat. Still, I powered through it....
Me: Paige, who is Dave?
Paige: He's my friend on Minecraft.
Me: What do you mean he's your friend?
Paige: He's my friend. I got on the multi player Minecraft server and he asked me to help him with his strip club.
And now, for the million dollar question....
Me: Paige, do you know what a strip club is?
Paige: No. Should I?
I went on to explain to her what a strip club is and why it is never, ever a good idea to play with or talk to people via the internet when you are 9 years old and have no idea who you are dealing with. At that time, I had to have the child predator conversation with my kid and while it's necessary to inform and protect our kids, that is NOT a fun conversation. And Paige, as only she could, let me know the following:
Paige: I didn't go in the strip club and dance. I just helped him put the roof on.
Paige no longer plays Minecraft on the "multi player" server.
I no longer let my child out of my sight....as if I wasn't overbearing enough....
So that was a small window into our week of homeschooling -which has been fantastic by the way. I'm so glad that we decided to do this and I'm expecting only greatness from this experience.
Other parts of my life? Not so much greatness these days....but hey, who doesn't go through a shitstorm from time to time?
I had been away from my blog for so long that I forgot my password. In all fairness, I had to change it right around the time I made my last post and without blogging regularly, the password faded from my memory. I also attempted to create a new blog last night since I can't figure out how to edit this one anymore - Blogger has made some platform changes and it's sort of confusing. Well....if you can't figure out how to change and existing one, you sure aren't going to know how to make a new one. I was just expecting a little more guidance, but hey - I'm back on this one, so no worries.
I know a lot of people want me to talk about chili politics and I really don't know how I feel about wading into that shark infested ocean again. Whether you speak the truth or not - and whether you do it in a respectful manner or not - you are going to piss off someone who isn't able to respect EVERYONE'S right to an opinion - especially if it differs from theirs. Since the chili world makes up most of my customer base, I really don't see any advantage to pissing people off just so I can spew my opinion on my blog. I have a handful (super small, baby size handful) of people I trust and share with.....this blog reaches too many not on the approved list. So, don't hold out any hope of me going batshit crazy on the chili world via my blog...unless I can do it in super secretive, super passive aggressive language :)
I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend and that ya'll will check back often and read my blog. It is my intention to blog at least every other day. I shall endeavor to do so.
Keep it Spicy and ALWAYS Keep it Real (Ellis Co. Style if you can.......)
The Cadillac Cowgirl
Me: Paige, did you write this?
Paige: Yes. My friend Dave needed help.
Me: Your friend Dave? Who is Dave and what did he need help with?
Paige: He needed me to help him build his amazing strip club.
At this point, I got sweaty and felt bile come up in my already acidy refluxish throat. Still, I powered through it....
Me: Paige, who is Dave?
Paige: He's my friend on Minecraft.
Me: What do you mean he's your friend?
Paige: He's my friend. I got on the multi player Minecraft server and he asked me to help him with his strip club.
And now, for the million dollar question....
Me: Paige, do you know what a strip club is?
Paige: No. Should I?
I went on to explain to her what a strip club is and why it is never, ever a good idea to play with or talk to people via the internet when you are 9 years old and have no idea who you are dealing with. At that time, I had to have the child predator conversation with my kid and while it's necessary to inform and protect our kids, that is NOT a fun conversation. And Paige, as only she could, let me know the following:
Paige: I didn't go in the strip club and dance. I just helped him put the roof on.
Paige no longer plays Minecraft on the "multi player" server.
I no longer let my child out of my sight....as if I wasn't overbearing enough....
So that was a small window into our week of homeschooling -which has been fantastic by the way. I'm so glad that we decided to do this and I'm expecting only greatness from this experience.
Other parts of my life? Not so much greatness these days....but hey, who doesn't go through a shitstorm from time to time?
I had been away from my blog for so long that I forgot my password. In all fairness, I had to change it right around the time I made my last post and without blogging regularly, the password faded from my memory. I also attempted to create a new blog last night since I can't figure out how to edit this one anymore - Blogger has made some platform changes and it's sort of confusing. Well....if you can't figure out how to change and existing one, you sure aren't going to know how to make a new one. I was just expecting a little more guidance, but hey - I'm back on this one, so no worries.
I know a lot of people want me to talk about chili politics and I really don't know how I feel about wading into that shark infested ocean again. Whether you speak the truth or not - and whether you do it in a respectful manner or not - you are going to piss off someone who isn't able to respect EVERYONE'S right to an opinion - especially if it differs from theirs. Since the chili world makes up most of my customer base, I really don't see any advantage to pissing people off just so I can spew my opinion on my blog. I have a handful (super small, baby size handful) of people I trust and share with.....this blog reaches too many not on the approved list. So, don't hold out any hope of me going batshit crazy on the chili world via my blog...unless I can do it in super secretive, super passive aggressive language :)
I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend and that ya'll will check back often and read my blog. It is my intention to blog at least every other day. I shall endeavor to do so.
Keep it Spicy and ALWAYS Keep it Real (Ellis Co. Style if you can.......)
The Cadillac Cowgirl
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