The Perfect Sandiwich

A few have commented on my dream about the perfect sandwich and what that perfect sandwich is. Well I have many but my all time favorite sandwich is a crusty french baguette, one each side of the bread a nice thin layer of irish butter with ham (preferably Black Forest or sometimes prosciutto), a few thick slices of brie cheese and some watercress for some green. Oh, how I dream about this sandwich. I had this sandwich and a bottle of wine each day when I was visiting Paris. I think thats why I dream of it. I love Paris.

They just opened a french bakery down the street and they make a version of this sandwich, it is very good, not like the cafe's in Paris, but close. AND they make a mean Crouqe Madame too, another favorite.

So there you have it friends my perfect sandwich. Whats yours? Don't be afraid to leave a recipe because you know I will be making it.

Because I am a suck ass blogger, here is a meme

**I cannot comment on the events that have transpired regarding the building division, because if I do the vein in my forehead will explode and I will possibly stroke out**

Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 18, find line four, and write what it says. From Dead Men's Secrets
As says Howells: "If we look, first of all, for that part of the world which was the hothouse of the races, we can make only one choice. All the visible footsteps lead away from Asia."

Stretch your left arm out as far as you can. What can you touch? The power pack and cord to my laptop

What is the last thing you watched on TV? Dr. 90210 is on but I am typing this and not paying much attention

Without looking, guess what time it is. 9:02 pm, (wrong it was 9:03pm)

With the exception of the computer, what can you hear? This girl on Dr. 90210 talk about her vaginal rejuvination and brazillian butt augmentation surgeries. Also my hubby in the chair next to me snoring

When did you last step outside? About two hours ago.

What were you doing? Signing twin#1's nightly homework log for Spanish class. Watching the vaginal rejuvination procedure on Dr. 90210, uhhhhh...........EWWWWWWWW!!?!?!?

Before you started this survey, what did you look at? My neighbor Henry trying to get his garbage cans in his golf cart with his crutches (Henry is about 80 years old, has cancer and only has one leg, but every Wednesday he does the same thing with the trash cans, it takes him about 30 minutes and he won't let you help him, believe me we have tried. Henry rocks.)

Did you dream last night? Yes, about the perfect sandwich

When did you last laugh? Reading my son's comic strip for spanish class

What is on the walls of the room you are in? Paintings, wrought iron candle holders. My favorite vintage Our Lady of Guadalupe print.

Seen anything weird lately? Myself, today while getting accupuncture, seeing my body with all these needles sticking in me.

What do you think of this Meme? Mas a Menos

What is the last film you saw? Balls of Fury, not my pick but good for a chuckle and free air conditioning

If you became a multi-millionaire overnight, what would you do with the money? Grease the palms of someone at the CC@A, so I can have my baby already.

Tell me something about you that I don’t know? I don't like yellow gold

If you could change one thing about the world, what would you do? Abolish hate.

Comment to President Bush. Does flipping him the bird count as a comment? See above.

Would you ever consider living abroad? Hells yes. Either Costa Rica, Australia or France.

What do you want to say to God when you get to heaven? Me? Heaven? Your funny.

Victory,...............I think.

We are back to living in Americas Finest City. The horrid heat has moved on and so have I. A promise has been made to my family that I will not be a raving bitch anymore or complain it is too hot, well for now at least.

Now on to the victory part. On Tuesday I got fed up, I mean FED UP that the building division STILL WAS PROCESSING OUR PLANS FOR THE 8TH WEEK! So, starting Tuesday morning I started calling, I called and tried to get in contact with the engineer who is in charge of our project, left a voicemail. A few hours later I left another one, no return call. The next day (Wed) I decided to bypass our engineer and go to said engineers supervisor. Called engineer supervisor once, left voicemail, called three more times that day, left voicemails, no returned call. Thursday, called 4 more times, left voicemail, each time I called I left the same message: My name, site address, plan check number and that I would call everyday every chance I could until I either got a return phone call and/or until someone approves our plans. Friday I forgot my cell home so I couldn't call and harass this guy. Well as luck would have it I get home and check my home phone answering machine and there was a message from the building division. The message goes like this:

"Hi, Mrs. M this is (whatever her name), from the building division regarding plan check number (blah, blah, blah), just wanted to....................."

The memory on my answering machine was full so it cut off right there. SHIT. So, I have no idea whether they are done or they have a question regading the plans. I won't know until Monday when I go down there, but something tells me they were sick of me calling so they pushed our plans out of there so I would stop riding their asses. Oh, hell yeah I am going down there, they obviously don't know how to return a frikking phone call. So that's why I think I am victorious, but not sure. I could sure use some good news for a change.

Some Comedy Relief

Two A-holes at an Adoption Agency

Day 2 of living in Death Valley

It got to 102 yesterday. I cried pretty much half of the day. I may be exaggerating just a little but I did throw myself a pity party at one point. We went to the movies and I couldn't concentrate on the movie because I was dreading for it to be over because I would have to go back in the heat. Why couldn't Balls of Fury (boy's pick) be 3 hours long? So what is a heated girl and her family to do when it is blazing hot outside? We go camp out at the SIL and BIL's house and sit in their pool for 5 hours. Being out in the heat for that long drinking beer made for a bad headache and a wonky tummy. I couldn't eat the ribs my BIL made so I walked home (they only live 2 houses away) and sat on the lawn in my bathing suit and chugged down a gallon of water at 9pm. Ahhhh, finally a little relief. Supposedly this heat wave is supposed to taper off this evening and today will be about 10 degrees cooler than yesterday. Oh, and the kicker of my day yesterday was when I decided to get some ice cream out of the freezer, it was soup. Yeah, our fridge decides to take a crap and everything in the fridge and freezer was spoiled. I am waiting for the refrigerator repairman as I type. I promise the next post won't be me whining, I pinky swear.

A little cheese with my whine?

Whine #1

It's flipping hot here. I don't fare well under these conditions. I am a huge weather wimp, cold weather included. I'm supposed to be living in "Americas Finest City". What the eff, man it's like "Americas Finest Furnace". Usually summer temps range in the high 70's to mid 80's, because of this fact our house does not have air conditioning, we have never really needed it and when it gets hot it usually only stays hot for a few days and then goes back to normal temps. Nope not this past week it's been in the high 90's. Yesterday it was almost 100. WHAT? Yes, I said 100 degrees. Thank dog we were at a pool all day yesterday at a b-day bbq, so I plunked my ass in the pool with a cocktail all day long. Don't even bother going to the beach because everyone and their brother (literally) are coming out of the woodwork and hitting the water. It reminds me of church (when I darkend THAT doorstep) at Christmas. I did break down and purchased a portable a/c unit that I can wheel from room to room, but someone peeing down your neck will offer more coolness that this hunk of uselessness. Guess whats being factored into the remodel budget as we speak? Yep, central a/c, baby!

Whine #2

Four days worth of referrals? Dag nabbit son of a monkey spank! Enough said.

Note to self

Get baby girl a map.

Great Odins Raven!

This just in!

I like the scent of the deodorant now. It actually grew on me. No longer does it smell like my great aunt Hazel. All is good again.

Oh, and by the way I hate the County of SD Build!ng Division. Just so you know.

Back to School and the Weekend

Can you believe it is back to school already? Zoinks! 8th grade, the boys are starting 8th grade. It is so hard to comprehend, but I will deal. They were ready to get back to school, it gets kinda boring and you can only go to the beach so many times and they have seen almost every movie at the cinema, so I guess it's a good thing that school starts so much earlier now. However, for me the lazy days of summer are O-VER. Back to early, early morning wake-ups, morning traffic, always having dollar bills in my wallet for lunch money and mounds of homework.

Had an awesome weekend. Saturday, I took my mom to see Wicked at the Pantages Theater for her birthday. She. Loved. it. I saw it in May in New York and knew she would be crazy for it. The L.A. Elphaba was just as good as N.Y. Elphaba, her voice was incredible. L.A. Glinda was good but not as good as N.Y. Glinda. L.A. Fiyero was terrible. I am not one to carry a tune from one end of the room to another, so I am not an expert on singing by any means, but homeboy was totally off key and reminded me of some of the rejects from American Idol. We ate near the theater at this cute little bistro named Magnolia. I had a salad that was soooooooo good. It was frise greens with chicken, apples, candied walnuts, gorganzola cheese tossed with a white balsamic vinegarette. Oh, it was really good. I am SO making it for dinner tonight.

Sunday, I made appointments at the day spa for Mark and I to have massages. Mark has never had a massage before and was pooh-pooh-ing the whole idea, but he went anyway. Well, wouldn't you know it, my husband is now a massage convert, he loved it. Oh my dog, can I tell you how good I feel right now? My masseuse worked out every knot and tense spot in my entire body. She even manipulated each toe. I think I drooled at one point. The best thing I learned from her was a new way to sleep. I have been having neck problems and terrible headaches so she asked me to show her how I sleep. I am a side sleeper and I guess I am doing some really bad pretzel pose when I sleep. She showed me how to use all sorts of pillows and where to put my arm so I don't wake up all tweaked. I tried it last night and I feel really good so we will see if this new sleeping position works for the neck and headaches.

......and another one bites the dust.

I am totally trying to slip this in unnoticed because I missed my 8 month LID-versary. Yay. 8. Yay. Can you feel the enthusiasm? Yay.