Wing Stop

To continue to food theme, we now have a Wing Stop in town. There had been signs, articles, speculation, delays and now it's finally open. We haven't been yet but I'll give a report if/when we do. I only say "if" because we have our own recipe we make at home that we are pretty happy with lately. Now when I was in Columbia (SC) we went to Carolina Wings and they had pretty great food so hopefully our little Wing Stop will be worth visiting.

I'm writing from Summit, NJ. We are so happy to be here because we left SA at 8am and spent an additional 3.5 hours flying around in the air, 1 round over Rocky Mount (NC), many rounds over Lynchburg (VA), a refueling stop in Baltimore, another 2 rounds about 40 miles away from Newark and then finally we landed around 7:20pm EST. Good thing I had a good buddy with me.

Christina's Puffy Tacos

This past week, we lunched at Christina's on Kingsbury. It was my first time there and I'm glad I gave it a try. These puffy chicken tacos were delicious! It's hard to find them done right so I'm glad to say Christina's does it right. The beans were good but I didn't try the rice. I don't usually eat it unless it's just awesome rice.

Sky Watch Friday

Earlier this week, I was driving to work but just had to pull over and snap a few shots because the sunrise was so gorgeous. I love watching the sun rise and set.

Be sure to check out other Sky Watchers this week.

An Army of Our Lady of Guadalupe

I was so, so, so thrilled when I opened the mail after work today. My Lady of Guadalupe Army photo which I posted back in April 2007 was used in an issue of Faith & Form, the Interfaith Journal on Religion, Art and Architecture. It was so cool to see it in print. It made my day. Thank you Judith! Cristina has also used the same photo on her Mexico Cooks! site.

Sorry I didn't post yesterday. I was down after work due to all the mold in the air. It's a killer for me and mostly I just slept and was a lazy bum on the sofa. :) All better by this afternoon after Zyrtec, Aleve D and a nasal rinse. I'm sure those of you who are local know where I'm coming from on this.

Godiva

I have n-e-v-e-r had a Godiva I did not love. For real. And I'm even a real chocoholic. We got a new catalog in the mail yesterday. And a coupon for free samples. If you are on their mailing list (and you buy your honey boxes of Godiva goodness on your special occasions), you regularly get these free samples. Nice.

Good night Monday

Just really liked this shot so I thought I'd share it. Didn't make it around town so no interesting pics to share. Sorry!

Watching the Jets/Chargers game. It's still odd to see #4 in a Jets uniform.

Home Sweet Home

Hello, hello. I'm home now! Been busy trying to catch up on things --- work, house, emails, blogs. LOL. Busy. Since I've got home, we've done the following:

1. Watched a movie, had pizza and enjoyed a nice evening together.
2. Went to Sams in San Marcos, which is about 20 minutes from here.
3. Went to HEB for "regular" groceries.
4. Watched NC State beat East Carolina. Go Wolfpack!
5. Swiffered (we like to go barefoot, we have hardwood floors, I do not like walking around on dust).
6. Prepped ingredients for King Ranch casserole for a lunch meeting tomorrow.
7. Currently watching the Texas-Rice game and baking a chocolate cake for a bake sale tomorrow.
8. Did NOT take any naps as I planned. hee hee

The compass is a gift from one of my new coworkers from Fontana. It reminds me of all the travels I've had, especially lately. Four weeks is a really long time and we had some great times as a group but I'm sure our families are all ready for us to be home. I'm lucky Mark has not minded my being gone so much (thanks again honey!) and I'm also glad that he postponed his own business trip so that we could have next week together. Then it's off to New Jersey for me and Rosenberg (TX) for him!

I'll try and get around town this week and catch up on the pics and bloggging. Hope you are all having a great weekend so far!

Hurricane Ike

I'm back! It's good to be home but what a busy, busy time it is. We had a great day at work with lots of end of the year and birthday festivities. Very fun. And it was so wonderful to see everyone! I didn't realize how much I really missed being in town and at work. Lots of hugging, socializing, celebrating and catching up. And somewhere in there, we did manage to do some work.

This church is across the street from us and I saw that they are set up to shelter some evacuees who are escaping Hurricane Ike, which is set to hit the Houston area tonight. That's about 2.5 to 3 hours from Seguin. Last night on the way home from the SA airport, we noticed a lot of traffic going west. (By the way, thanks honey for joining that traffic to pick me up!)

There's more traffic in and around town. I think after Katrina and Rita, people take evacuations much more seriously.

I'll try to post another one before I leave Sunday. One more week in California and I'm home an entire week! I am so looking forward to that!

Sky Watch Friday

Hello from Vegas. I get to come home tonight! Hooray! This is from my archives but I wanted to post it because I am suffering from bloglessness this week and I didn't take my camera cable so I couldn't upload any pictures to post to the travel blog either. :)

Hope everyone has a great week. Check out Sky Watch for other fabulous skies.

Video Stores

Woo hoo, happy Labor Day-Monday Off Day. It is glorious to have an extra day to be home, relaxing with Mark. We decided we were going to watch a movie so we went to Blockbuster. We don't watch a whole lot of TV and don't have time for movies to the point where NetFlix would be a good deal. Maybe when we both retire. We actually caught SpiderMan 3 the other night on one of the many cable channels and that was fun though I like 1 and 2 more. For our Blockbuster pick, we got National Treasure 2. We love treasure hunt movies. They're so much fun.

In town, we also have Hastings as another option for movies and music. We have a card there also but usually opt for Blockbuster. No particular reason.

Hope you all are having a great holiday weekend. I also want to say happy birthday to our friend Barbara! Hope you're having a great day, Barbara. (Hope you checked your mailbox for a surprise we left.) I'm off to Vegas tomorrow; I'll post to Ta-Ravel Blog.

Johnny's BBQ

We went to Johnny's the other day when I got home. On my first evening home, I have not really felt like cooking if I'm home before dinner time. So we went to check out Johnny's. This is the wall mural on the front of the building. It was hard to get a full shot because of the cars parked there. I had barbecued chicken and Mark had the sausage plate. Pretty good but what we really want to try is their fried chicken, which you can only get on Tuesdays at lunch time. I've heard it's fabulous.

Road Workers

We were heading back to the house when I saw these hard-working folks and I wanted to photograph them because I'm sure most of us don't think about work such as this. They were prepping the road so that they can repaint (or whatever the process is officially called) the crossing marks that indicate where we should stop and where pedestrians should walk. Looked like hard work.

This is at the intersection of Highway 46/Sam Flores Dr. and Highway 90/Kingsbury St. I was so glad a few years ago when the state finally put up the traffic lights. With eight lanes of traffic, it was a headache getting past this point because some drivers wouldn't yield. Anyway, I am happy the lights are there now. :)

Green, Green, Green

I like being home b/c I can snuggle with my honey and my kitty. Everything's a nice green these days with all the rain we are finally getting.

Greetings from Route 66

Hi everyone! It's my last night in Claremont and I am ready to head home tomorrow though it has been a good trip. All papers are signed and now we have new CMC family members...CMC Regional Steel. I love meeting new people and welcoming them to the company.

I kept forgetting to tell you that I have a travel blog that I share with other folks (despite the fact that they told me they'd post travel entries if I create it, I see I am still the only person posting...hint, hint). If you want to check out my travels, you can visit Ta-Ravel Blog. If any of you have interesting travel information or stories to share, let me know and I'd be glad to post your entry.

On the Road Again

Ah, nice and neat. All my scattered things were starting to make me feel cluttered and messy. Up to about 5 years ago, I would be packed and ready for travel a few days before the trip. Sometimes even a week, depending on how excited I am about where I'm going. And today? I leave tomorrow morning and here I am just now getting everything in the suitcase. I've mellowed these days.

As you can see, I am about to hit the road again. I am so excited about being a part of this project at work because my fellow IT Trainer and I get to conduct the IT orientation and training for employees of new sites we recently purchased. I used to oversee new employee orientation at the library in San Antonio and I loved it. Being one of the first persons to welcome new folks and having the chance to start them off on a positive and enthusiastic note. I really missed it when I moved on but here we are again. :)

I will be gone most of the next 28 days so I don't know how much blogging I will be able to do here. Mostly because I won't be in Seguin enough to take pictures! :( That's the down side I guess. I will be home most Fridays and Saturdays so you never know, I might have something to share.

Take care and have a great week!

Sky Watch Friday

Thanks to my boss, I was actually home and saw the skies before the big rain came down on us this afternoon. Lately, I've been inside at work and there are great views of all the rain we've been getting so today was a real treat. I love thunderstorms. I like watching the rain come down.

I thought the skies looked pretty exciting and I also heard the kids playing across the street at the church playground and I remember thinking there sure was a lot of squealing going on. So, I looked out the front door and the sight made me smile. They were all so cute. Perhaps the door was locked and they couldn't get inside when the rain came so they sought shelter where they could. It was pretty funny, in a nice way.

Check out the Sky Watch page for other bloggers who have posted their own photos of cool skies above.

Bloggers Social

I finally got to meet Tammy and Erica this evening and I had such a very nice time. We have been online buddies for a while now so it's nice to finally speak in person. It's also nice to see Chiro Java open in the evening. There was a very nice trio playing this evening and many other patrons.

In addition to just getting to know each other more by talking about how crazy we are for our shots, we checked out cameras, of course! :)

I had a blast ladies. Thanks for coming to town. Next social, hopefully more bloggers will be able to join us (hint, hint...C...you know who I mean).

Family Night

Tonight has been so nice. My sister came by to have some dinner with us and we had some pretty good pho (Vietnamese noodle soup), followed by a relaxing evening of talk, coffee and dessert. And celebrating Lan's birthday a bit belatedly. Really wonderful evening.

When I'm happy or when I'm sad from missing someone, I like to look at some of my favorite things. These are some of them. People give you things and sometimes you keep it and sometimes you don't. I try to not be too cluttered but I keep things that bring fond memories and smiles. Like that frog. When I miss my niece, I like to look at it. It's just a button to some people but when my 6 year old niece gave me one of her favorite things, it meant so much to me. I am sure feeling mellow tonight. :)

Hmm...goats

When I ran home for lunch today and to check on Mark (he's down with the flu or cold or something poor thing), I passed this cute little goat near the company and too near to the road. He had somehow gotten on the wrong side of the fence I think. He wasn't there when I drove back to work so I hope that he got back over the fence to hang with his friend. I liked the colors they had; one white with black spots, the other with brown spots. Cute. We have lots of farm around the area and I always like to watch them. There's a horse farm just outside of town on IH-10 that I would like to check out one day when I have more time. They have the most beautiful horses and quite a big piece of land for them to run around on.

I'd also like to let everyone know that several of us are going to meet up at Chiro Java this coming Thursday at 7pm. Thought it'd be fun to get everyone together and finally meet one another. Chiro Java is on the town square and is a pretty neat place to hang out. And now that they have late hours several nights a week, it's going to be the perfect place to hang out with blogging friends and enjoy a nice cup of coffee. Hope some of you will join us. Of course, we'll probably all blog about it. Just warning you. :)

Snow Hut

This evening, we went to grab some dessert and the Snow Hut was actually open for business so we stopped. I got the blue cone (red raspberry) and Mark got orange. Nice and refreshing though today was only in the lower 80s thanks to the clouds. Not that I'm complaining but it is sort of neat when you get a snow cone and it's about 100 degrees and you are trying to race the heat to finish your cone before it all melts. We used to take the kids for snow cones all summer long when they were younger. Always was a nice way to cool off.