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I’ve compiled a list of some of my favorite eats in Tucson:
http://mercedesosmith.wordpress.com/best-eats-in-tucson/
Today, like most days, I seem to be in a junk food mood, so pretty much everything on there could kill you if eaten in mass quantities (burgers, fries, cheesecake, chili dogs, etc). I’ll probably continue to add additional (and more wholesome) items later on.
Chili cheese dogs, fries, and chili cheese fries from Pat's Drive In!
Dave and I were supposed to head over to my dad’s house for Easter dinner today, but my poor step-mom got really sick, so they weren’t up for company after all. So, we decided to do our own little Easter dinner at our house with Dave’s dad as our guest, and I had lots of fun cooking. I made seared ham steak with a maple/brown sugar glaze, classic coleslaw with caraway seed, parmesan mashed potatoes, and, of course, deviled eggs (you can’t have an Easter dinner without deviled eggs!). Everything was homemade except for the dessert: 150 calorie molten chocolate cakes (Warm Delights Minis by Betty Crocker) with a dollop of whipped cream. They were very light and airy, and I actually thought they were pretty good for an instant dessert.
During our trip to Washington DC, Dave, Julie, and I met up for dinner and drinks with our friend Joe Cronin, his fiance Meghan, and their buddy John. As we were migrating from one bar called The Pharmacy to another less crowded Irish bar, we had a little run-in with the law.
As we were crossing the street in a marked pedestrian crosswalk, a woman driving a meter maid car blew right through the crosswalk and almost hit Meghan and John. As expected, Meghan was a little pissed off, so she kicked the meter maid’s company car as it flew past us. Even though the meter maid was totally in the wrong, she got pissy about having her car kicked, and she turned around and followed us, and called the cops. So, the cops came out and actually interviewed Meghan and the meter maid.
For the life of me though, I can’t imagine what the meter maid was thinking when she called the cops. Although I didn’t hear thier interview, I can only imagine how it went:
Cop: “So, you called us because somebody got mad at you for breaking the law?”
Meter maid: “Darn tootin’, I did!”
This is like one of those dumb criminal cases you always hear about. Like when a drug dealer calls the cops because someone stole some of his cocaine.
So, anyhow, the meter maid later claimed that Meghan damaged the company car (Mmmkay… that’s weird since Meghan was just wearing ballet flats), but then meter maid’s supervisor showed up and said it was pre-existing damage and to just drop it (I bet THAT pissed her off). So, in the end, nobody was cited, but it sure made an interesting night!
Here are the pictures from our trip to Washington, DC – complete with captions:
Dave and I just got back from a fun-filled trip to Washington, DC with our good buddy Julie. As expected, we saw a great deal of fascinating museum exhibits and monuments, and we recklessly divorced ourselves from our healthy, low-cal diets for the week and ate TONS of fried foods and sweets! But aside from destroying about two months worth of dieting hard work, there was another part of the vacation that I really enjoyed more than I’d like to admit: browsing the SkyMall Shopping Magazine on the airplane! Dave and I both LOVE thumbing through the SkyMall Magazine, looking at all the crazy contraptions, and exclaiming, “Who would BUY that?!” So, without further ado, I’ll list for you our top 5 favorites from this trip…
5. The SkyRest Travel Pillow
Imagine you’re sitting in the already cramped middle seat in the row on a full flight, and the middle-aged, mustached man in this picture (let’s call him Matt), who likely wears an offensive amount of Old Spice cologne squeezes past to occupy the seat next to you. As you observe the beads of sweat on his forehead and the yellow-tinged sweat rings on his Hawaiian shirt (likely brought on by the hard work of cramming his slightly over-sized carry-on into the overhead bin directly above you and slamming it several hundred times to force it to fit) , you’re thinking “How could this possibly get any worse?” Well, I’ve got news for you: Matt rolls with the SkyRest Travel Pillow. There will be drool-inducing comfort for Matt, and you will be wishing to sweet, sweet God that you had bought the free range chicken for dinner last night instead of the caged variety because now you know how the caged variety must have felt, and you don’t want that kind of karma on your permanent record.
4. Poop Freeze
Have you ever thought to yourself, “I sure wish I could freeze that turd over there”? No. No, of course you haven’t. That’s because nobody has ever thought that to themselves. But, if you had, then, my friend, you would be SET!!! Because now there’s a product called Poop Freeze! You could go around freezing turd after turd, and if anyone asked you what the F you were doing, you could just point to the label on that aerosol can.
3. Hidden Litter Box
Continuing on with the whole poop theme, I’d like to introduce to you the next product in our SkyMall lineup: The Hidden Litter Box. This litter box allows you to disguise kitty’s litter box as an ugly fake plant in an ugly plastic pot. Just think of how impressed your house guests will be when kitty emerges from your house plant which now smells like steaming turds. Might I suggest keeping this one in the kitchen?
2. The Carcoon
For only $1,040.99 – $1,429.99, this baby can be YOURS! Never mind the fact that, as soon as you pull your car into it, you have no way of opening your car door to get out. And, also, I’m sure it won’t blow away in the wind or anything the second you pull your car out of it. And even if that does happen, they’re inexpensive enough that you could always just buy another one and just use it inside your garage. GENIUS!
And finally, the #1 ridiculous SkyMall product…
1. NECKpro Traction Device
“Oh, hey! Come on in! I’ll be done with my head stretches in just a moment. Just let me scoot over a little so you can get through the door.”
That’s what you’d be saying to your hot date if she were to arrive a little early and happen to catch you relieving a little pre-date tension with your new NECKpro Traction Device (she would’ve agreed to pick you up at your mom’s house since you don’t have your own car or house). But lucky for you, people who buy contraptions like the NECKpro Traction Device don’t often get caught up in awkward situations with hot dates because they don’t get any dates in the first place.
So, that’s it. With products like these five, how can you NOT love the SkyMall Shopping Magazine?
I realized it’s been about a month since I posted anything! I sure wish I had something interesting to post now. But… I don’t. 
Bring on the wieners!
A while back, Dave bought a meat grinder attachment for the ol’ Kitchenaid mixer so that he could try making homemade sausage. This morning, he set out to the butcher and bought the ingredients for his first batch, breakfast sausage links, made from pork shoulder and casings (sheep intestine). We made three strings of links. The first string came out kind of funny-looking (they were uneven in shape and length and had a few air bubbles), but by the third string, we had the process down pretty well. We cooked them up for dinner tonight with eggs and toast, and they were so good!
POWERED BY CHEESEBURGERS ...and french fries! ...and banana cream pie!
Last Sunday, I jogged on the treadmill at 6.5 mph for 46 minutes straight (5 miles)! Then after that, I did 25 minutes of weights and 15 more minutes on the elliptical at level 13. That’s pretty good for my lame ass. I attribute the high energy level I had that day to the thousands upon thousands of calories I consumed the night before celebrating Valentine’s Day at Zinburger. Mmm… Zinburger.
So there we were, all dozen-or-so of us, sitting there watching the last 3 minutes of the superbowl, and suddenly confusion ensued. Suddenly we were no longer seeing players on a green field, but instead a woman unzipping a man’s pants… ["Is this some kind of weird commercial?"] and then… [more confusion] full frontal male nudity! Hilarious. Check out the article at azstarnet:
Tucson-area cable TV broadcast porn during Super Bowl, readers say
http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/hourlyupdate/278448.php
Saturday, the weather was so nice that Dave and I decided to do the Canyon Loop trail at Catalina State Park. After figuring the odds were probably only about 50/50 that we’d plummet to our deaths, we opted to scramble to the top of the big, green, lichen-covered rock that’s located towards the middle of the loop. Somehow, we managed to make it back unscathed, and we took some cool pictures too.
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