successful Sunday

You know Sunday is a success when you...

get the Christmas lights put up and don't freeze your fingers!

manage to clean out the garage and arrange everything so both cars and all the lawn toys will fit in!

procrastinate enough that finally you get a dinner invite to someone else's house! Italian dinner at that! My donation is a bottle of red wine - one of those really big bottles!

have a clean house and are ready to roll for Thanksgiving - at someone else's house!

are excited for Monday and work. It is a three day work week after all! Can't get any better than that!

home again, home again!

.... into my own bed! Tuesday could not go fast enough. Two layovers and 6 hours of airport time! Next time I am paying way more attention to how those layovers work! Vegas was fun, but four days is enough. I had my fill of Mexican and will admit we did an all day buffet. Say what? All day buffet? Yep. Never heard of such a thing? Me neither until this trip. Let me explain why. It was free! F-R-E-E and came with our room at Excalibur - we stayed there the first two nights and then moved to Hard Rock Hotel. I was very worried about how the food would be at this all day buffet and that I would be trapped there all day. Surprise. You can come and go all day long from 7 am to 10 pm. You even get cuts coming back through - how's that for super piggy! Never fear remember I said this was free - this means we didn't feel the need to eat all three or four meals there or even snacks there - it was not our money, just our tummies. Breakfast was amazinly good, but we skipped out and went to PF Changs for lunch. Later on before the buffet closed we went back for a late snack and I got nacho's! yummy. Most people were paying for it - $29.95 to eat all day long and probably at least 4,000 calories for them. It was honestly close the best buffet I'd ever been too. Now maybe it was because we didn't eat dinner the night before and I was really hungry, but it did taste good going down. Needless to say we didn't pay for it the next day - too many great places to eat in Vegas.
My other favorite - other than PF's, which I'm sure you all know how good that is - was AGO at Hard Rock. We checked in there on a Sunday and it was 12x's points day and you only had to collect 100 points to get a $50 voucher for AGO, which is kinda pricey. I mean would you pay $12 for a little starter salad? hmmm... most likely not. I ended up with their pork chop and it was quite good - Mark had a porter house and then we split the warm chocolate cake and prune gelato. LOL! yes prune! Mark was a bit horrified I picked the prune, but it came with it and the waiter said it was really good. He was not lying - even Mark agreed it was good and he ate as much as I did. So as to not appear we were there for the free meal - because honestly that's why we went, but still - we ordered some drinks. Drinks were not supposed to be part of the deal, but they were.... hmmm.... ok it was worth it to go over the $100 I guess. Great meal considered all the quacky reviews online for the place. Reviews in Vegas are well ... not to be trusted is what I have learned. AGO is worth going too despite the snits online.
One more Vegas story... so I worked hard to get my 100 points on Sunday night so Monday night I was set on not gambling anymore, but for some reason agreed to play the penny slots. You know 150 pennies at a time. They still call it a penny slot and for some reason that sounds better than a buck fifty to me. I am talking about my shopping money here. So playing the penny slots I won $200 in one pull. I got all excited because the machine was going nuts and I couldn't figure out how much I won. On Saturday night I saw some lady win a million dollars - I was pretty sure that was not my fate and nope... $200 is still pretty good though. Then we started playing nickels. Won there too - $80 in a pull. This was only 45 cents at a time so still good. I ended up racking up over 600 points that night and walked out with about $180 at the end. Not bad considering I was done gambling.
We saw two shows - some magic show... Criss Believe - magic and stuff. Interesting - he was fun to look at. We also saw Love and it was very good! It's the Beatle's Cirque de Sol (and I'm sure I am not spelling it right...) show. I would love to go back and see it - and see the whole show UNinterupted! Let's just say that some people think being in Vegas is a license to drink way to much and be uber annoying. It was fun to watch her get kicked out, but it sort of spoiled it for those of us around her. They waited until the show was 3/4 of the way over. And in the meantime she downed TWO 32 ounce drinks. Stiff ones at that. So dragged out is more like it.
So the next Vegas trip... probably a long ways off - long ways. Mark actually booked an earlier flight home after his conference ended today. LOL! He is anxious to get home! A week there is way too long! We can skip Atlantic City for a few months now.

Red Rock Canyon

During the same day off the strip in Vegas we also hit Red Rock Canyon - again I had no clue what to expect - maybe we'd just look at some cool scenes, but no you can actually take quite a few hikes. If only we'd been better dressed... We did do a little hiking.

Dam, dam, dam... Hoover that is!

We've been here a few times now so we rented a car this time to check out some of the other sights off the strip on Sunday. First stop Hoover Dam. Now I went into this having to preconceived notions that it would be fun. I mean, hello, it's a dam. Big whoop - right? Actually it was pretty cool and we had fun taking a short tour and then walking over the dam into Arizona.

First stop was to take a quick tour - this is down in a tunnel.

From the observation deck you can see the backside of the dam. The construction of it was pretty amazing.

The bridge in the background was delayed for two years when the crane used to put the pieces in place broke last year during 80 mile an hour winds. Now I ask you... would you be that stupid as to operate a crane in winds that high? A crane that takes 2 years to replace. All I could think of to say was "glad it wasn't me who was doing the firing!"

Half in Nevada and half in Arizona - or pretty close to it. The towers behind us take in the water for the supplies being diverted to the southwest US.

The white line is the water line for Lake Mead and it's down 75 feet from where it should be. That also means the water is down way low on the dam. Being from NY where people jump off bridges all the time we thought this might happen here too, but really it is not normally that far to the water. Right now it is. I was amazed at the blueness of the water. I don't care if blueness is not a word... it sounds cool to me!

fall catch up

found a few pictures while going through those I took in Vegas... a litte more fall fun!

at the local apple orchard - somehow I missed all the city folk - that would make for some humor... and funny pictures. we actually got our pumpkins here and a last batch of Charlies Super Sweet corn. 18 ears... most of it's in the freezer right now for meals this winter. good stuff!

a comfy napping spot - my guess is she laid in the middle of two piles and one toppled over on her. she loves little hidey cubby holes for naps so this hit the mark. if only I would leave her alone... keep in mind Sunday is laundry day and I really don't like doing laundry - hence the mess.

the orange lump on the other side of the bed is Mani... we don't make our beds on Sunday - it's laundry day. and if you buy that story I have a pink kitty to sell you next. LOL!

fun in the city!

a little bit of fun with a Statue of Liberty!

a few more pics from my fun weekend last month from Lisa!

smile pretty cause he now wants $5! LOL!

we can't just let Lisa be silly alone!

come back anytime ladies! it was lots of fun!

Proof that resume!

or you might end up on my funny of the day list....

"ABC (to protect this innocent company) Equipment Company is a manufacturer of personnel and material handling equipment."

Really you manufacture personnel? You make people? In companies that are not with the times employees are called personnel. I can't believe this company makes people? Now they do make heavy equipment. But I doubt that is to dig up people. That would be scary. I am guessing he means perSONAL. Not perSONNEL. It is the tag line under the company and I spotted it right away - and I am NOT an editor by any stretch of the imagination!
So should I tell him? He's going to be mortified. And I'm guessing someone will catch hell. At this level he might be paying someone to do your resume. CEO is pretty high up don't you think? In reality this is his fault because he should proof things before sending them out. And if he paid big bucks he should be getting a refund.

I got a lot of chuckle mileage out of this one.

Effective Advertising

Today I went to the big city of Kingston for a little Target outing. It's been a while so there was quite a bit for me to look at and even a few things I needed to buy. I was trying to figure out how to get out of the parking lot - it's a maze - and ended up stuck at a traffic light. I look to the left and there's a McDonalds. Then I notice the huge tarp sign stretched across most of the store.

It said:

2 McGriddles for $3.

That's a deal I'm thinking and then I read the rest...

1,120 Calories.

In HUGE letters.
LOL! I've never had one of those sandwiches. I much prefer the egg McMuffin.
Now tell me how that sign is going to sell those sandwiches? Unless someone thinks they should be eating 4,000 calories a day. 1,120 is more than half of what a normal adult needs in one day. Never mind it didn't mention the fat. I can think of way better things to eat for that many calories. So now I'm really wondering why it was up? New city law?
I would have been afraid if it said the same about the fries.