Monday, July 26, 2010

This was written back in April, I totally forgot about it but didn't want it to go to waste

Yes is has been quite a while and now looking back I’m trying to recall what all has happened in the last 2 ½ months…….
*My younger sister finally came home from Mexico with her 2 beautiful children! What should have only been a 2 week trip turned into almost a full month. Unbelievable! It seemed that anything that could have gone wrong did. But now it’s all done and in years to come they will have funny stories to tell. I can’t wait to meet them and let them know that I am their favorite aunt. J
*My husband and I were able to take advantage of living here in Vegas (we don’t smoke, drink or gamble so naturally we live here. J ) this doesn’t happen often so when it does we jump on it. We were given tickets to the show ‘Jersey Boys’ by one of his clients who is actually in the show. It was fabulous! We loved it! After the show ended at midnight we went out to dinner at our favorite little spot and a local favorite. Vegas is just coming alive at 1am so it was really fun.
*I had surgery for the first time. I was very nervous not knowing what to expect but I had a wonderful nurse that walked me through and explained everything. Everything went perfectly and I now have a clean bill of health. Apparently when I was in the recovery room coming out of anesthesia I was so worried and kept asking the nurse if I snored, no not how well did everything go, was it better or worse than they expected but did I snore. And I guess that I was so worried about it I asked several different times.
*We (well mostly my husband) planted our first garden here in Vegas. I know your all thinking what in the world can grow in Vegas, the answer just about anything. You just have to plant in off seasons. All of the plants are doing well but the peas have really taken off. My husband has such a green thumb and he has been itching to get his hands in the dirt forever. He already has plans on what he will do to for next year.
*I’d like to think that I am a very graceful person but in reality I’m totally not. I should have realized this when I was 7 and in a body cast, but no I still picture myself as elegant as Grace Kelly and Audrey Hepburn. In the kitchen I’m pretty good but recently I have the proof that I am not as graceful and coordinated as I once thought and unfortunately I have the burns to prove it. My forearm looks like a war zone and I fear that my arm modeling days are over. But I learned a new and very helpful trick. Directly after you burn yourself don’t run for the ice go to your fridge and cut open a lemon, yes a lemon. Rub the lemon directly onto the burn and the burning will go away instantly-no joke! You will need to continue to rub it on as the juice dries but it is like magic!
*Work has been crazy busy. We changed out our winter menu for our spring one (delicious!!), that in its self is a task. But then on top of that my boss was asked by Food Network to do a “Challenge”. She accepted and we all went to work in helping with the design, testing and then making different pieces of the display. You can take 50% with you already made. The theme was a Christmas Store Front Window. So we immediately went to work on making sugar snowflakes, she wanted 200 to hang from the ceiling so we got to work on 100 of them. They turned out beautiful and I wish that I could show you pictures but that was the one strict rule they had- no pictures can be released until it airs which won’t be until December. But I can tell you that all of the long hours we put in paid off she won!! Wahoo!
*It’s a little pricey to eat at my restaurant, about $200 per person and that’s even the cheaper menu without the wine pairing. So this will make you feel a little better and make that $200 look like nothing. We had a private party a little bit ago where they had a custom menu and they paid $1,000 a person. Cha-ching. Crazy!