A long day.

Let’s see where to start…. well I woke up at about 9:00a.m. to my kids screaming downstairs… which is usually how I am awakened.  I went downstairs, fixed them breakfast and entered my daily sweepstakes.  At about noon we all went to Applebee’s, where we haven’t been in like a year.  The food was good.  It seems to have gotten a bit better since Tyler Florence now has some influence on their menu.  Instead of broccoli, they’ve gotten fancy with their meals now and give you grilled asparagus.  I happen to like asparagus, even when it’s bitter.  I’m strange like that.

My sister showed up and we went to KB Toys so my mom could buy Chris some birthday presents.  He got a dart gun, the game Ker Plunk, and some silly string, which we now know does not work in his spiderman webshooter.  They created their silly string can so minutely different that these cans don’t work.  They want you to buy an $8.00 can of silly string for the toy, when you could buy it 3/$5 like we did.  Ah well, they can still shoot it at each other, just not from the spidey toy.

When I got home Matt, and the boys all went to Petsmart to look at new fish tanks.  Something happened to mine the other day and now it’s practically shattered on one side.  I’m surprised it’s still holding up.  It’s leaking though, and that is not a good thing.  I don’t know how much longer it will hold up.  They had a nice tank and stand for $200, but I wasn’t ready to make the investment just yet… I want to look around more. I could just get cheap and buy another $50 tank to replace it, but I’m not sure yet.  Then we went to Meijer to go grocery shopping.  I was considering buying Alli – the OTC version of Xenical, just for a little extra help.  They had the 120ct. bottle for $65.99.  I have taken the full prescription strength Xenical before, and if you aren’t familiar with it’s side effects before taking it, boy are you in for a shock.  Be prepared to wear a diaper if you plan on eating a high fat meal.  They say that this is a reason you shouldn’t eat a high fat meal, but people still do ocassionally.  It’s really gross because this orange oil stuff leaks out of you (gross!), which is actually the unabsorbed fat from your digestive system.  If your not prepared, beware!

Now i’m up making rice pudding for Matt and I.  I’ve managed to screw it up the last 3 times i’ve attempted to make it.  It just doesn’t work out if you use real rice.  I find that it only works well using minute rise or jasmine rice.  I cooked it for 2 hours the other nice using some long grain rice and it was still crunchy in the end.  I think I have it figured out now though.

I played along with the National Bingo Night on ABC earlier… needless to say after printing like 75 cards I didn’t have one bingo!  Oh well, i’ll try again next week!  I won a shutterfly photo book last week from the Old Navy sweep going on and I spent like 2 hours creating it last night and I finally ordered it.  I made it for Chris and his trip to the UK.  He will like it i’m sure!