Dog picture of the day

Sweet dreams!

And so it begins

The step son asked to use the hubster's phone to call a friend -a friend who happens to be a girl. Oh dear. And one call led to another and another and soon the girl's friend were calling the hubster's number. Oh dear.

So now we may be switching gears and getting the step son a phone for Christmas. It seems time. And time for a lot of other discussions...

The search for Chinese food

Ever since I've moved to Columbus, I've been on the hunt for authentic Cantonese food.  Something to remind me of home when I start craving Chinese food.  I've tried three different places and I tried the third tonight.  The first was Yuen Lee with the hubster.  It was ok.  It was a mix of Chinese and Vietnamese food.  The gai lan was old, but it was only ok.  The second was Sunflower something or other with my mom.  Eh, it was also ok, but it was also 30 minutes from home.  Not going to drive that far for ok food.

I saw this third place called Asian Taste in New Albany.  I looked it up on Yelp and it had some ok reviews, but they mentioned they had an authentic "Chinese" menu.  We went tonight with the hubster and the step son.  It looked very promising when the menu came out, but that's kinda where it all ended.  I ordered the hot and spicy squid and the seafood pan fried noodles from the chinese menu.  The squid was different than what I am used to, but it was ok.  The seafood pan fried noodles were also ok. (lol sensing a trend yet).  It had mussels in it (that was a first).  I think Joy Food One down the street is better and closer.

Anyway, the food was ok, could have dealt with it and would have been willing to come back to try other items on the menu, but the service was atrocious.  I mean there were two women servicing this tiny restaurant.  So the final verdict: not going back.

Jingle Bell Run 2012

Well, work decided to sponsor the Jingle Bell Run this year and I signed up.  In fact, I am a team captain.  Fantastic except this team captain has a lingering headache for the last 3 weeks and wasn't up to actually running it.  Instead, I cheered on my fellow co-workers and pretended to run the race =(  Here are some pictures:

 Me as a reindeer

 Group picture

 Group "fun" picture

(we are not that fun)

After the race

Since the company paid for the registration fee, I demanded that everyone wear a holiday themed accessories.  I think we look great.  Will also help for our annual recognition banquet.  I'm still bummed  I couldn't run.  I really need to get back into it.

Good news is that so far today has had the least number of headaches and the ones that have hit aren't nearly as severe as the past week.  *knocks on wood*  I hope I didn't jinx myself and hopefully, this is a turning point for me and friendly headache.

Purple Ombre

I had $15 in Kohl's cash that was about to expire, so I went to Kohl's hoping to find something useful to spend it on.  A few things came time mind: like the $100 fur trimmed tree skirt I wanted on Black Friday which was now marked down to $40.  With $15 Kohl's cash and 20% off coupon, that was still going to be more than what I wanted to pay.  I really went out with the goal to spend no actual money and just spend $15 exactly.

So after circling the store two to three times, I had in my hands a pair of black soft and cozy lined tights.  Practical and almost a "need".  I still had $6 to spend!  I thought leggings, but they didn't have any plain black leggings.  So while walking around in the hosiery department, I saw them.  Purple ombre tights and I bought them!

No clue what I am going to wear with them, but I thought they were neat and so cute.  So two pairs of tights = $0.83.  Kohl's does this wonky thing where they take off the Kohl's cash first and then takes off the 20%, otherwise, I would have underspent the $15.