Garbage in ... Garbage out ... Not exactly

Garbage in...garbage out....very simple concept when you think of it in terms of a garbage disposal. Garbage goes in and garbage goes out never to be seen again. Yeah.....that's not the case at our house this weekend! You see Saturday is a great day to run errands since hubby can usually be found at work....SO I thought GREAT I will run to Sam's with my mother and leave our son Zach in charge. It's only an hour right?!?!?! What can possibly happen? A lot I tell ya.....Katelynn had a girlfriend spend the night Friday night. I had mentioned to my mother after picking her up at her house (which is two streets over I might add) on the way to Sam's that I was going to drop Ashlynn off at home. In her infinite wisdom she says "Awe just let her play with Katie and you can drop her off when we get back." I said "ok." In retrospect I should have gone with my gut feeling. If I had.... I wouldn't have returned home to an entire Ziploc container bowl of dirt and rocks being dumped down the garbage disposal. Naturally of course it scrtached the crap out of my new sink, plugged the pipes, and burned up the disposal. GREAT FUN!! On top of that there's not even time to address the pumpkin that self imploded (because apparently no one will take blame for that one) that was in Katelynns bedroom all over the carpet, in addition to the skydiving of the side of the staircase onto our couch!! All of which I realized had happened in that short hour of shopping at Sam's. All of my great buys and savings at Sam's became insignificant as I tabulated the repair bill in my head.....at which point I pulled out the coveted new smoothie maker and made an entire blender of mixed drinks mid afternoon on a Saturday!!

WTF?

Today my humorous self is nowhere to be found. Why you might ask? My day started like a big shit ball of fire....Well actually it all started last night. Geez Louis.... I get my replacement CrackBerry in the mail....WOW what an undertaking getting my address book copied over....It would have been easier to email the Pope and hang out in the Vatican at his place....Anyway, I get all done loading that crap up (mind you the entire time I am instant messaging Kim who is leisurely vacationing in Mississippi not giving a hoot that she has missed Grey's Anatomy and has sworn me to silence not to share anything juicy that has happened because she doesn't want to know AND she has to watch next week's)......I - YI -YI - YI ..... and of course there's the biggest OMG in the beginning of the show and we can't even discuss it....Oh rewind...before all this I forget to preface it with what a boring time pokeeno was. Our group has some folks that are too damn old and something has to be done....I cannot play another month without ripping my hair out contemplating how to get out of the next one....anyways back to 2am......I am headed off to bed with a big ball of excitement ready to explode with juicy tidbits of Grey's.....Alarm goes off at 7am...5 whole hours of sleep under the belt. My eyes feel like I had been out clubbing all night, much like the feeling of someone stuffing 3m sandpaper under my eyelids as a sick joke while I am sleeping! I awake to Jeff saying "Get up and mom I need 20 dollars for shorts for school and jeff won't give it to me" SO I find myself with my half scratchy eyes open writing a check while still in bed wondering simultaneously what the hell is up with the hair.... so finally off to work I go.....with my hair in a ponytail I might add because I went to bed at 2am and forgot to take it out...Nice speed bump in the back of the head. So I readjust the ponytail...straighten it up throw a white ribbon tied into a cute little bow around it and head out the door. As I am being stopped by my 12 year laughing telling me that girls at his school wear bows in their hair...Basically it looks funny.....Fuck it...off to work I go...who gives a shit?Right? Not me it's Friday...Nobody 's gonna get me down...WRONG....Receptionist is out on vacation.....I got 1 damn thing done today and it was a frickin challenge....Rewriting a lease that legal sent down to us....Otherwise it was "sure I will be happy to connect you" while I was secretly thinking....Why don't you go fuck yourself lady..... Hence the pissy mood. Most of you know about my love for my marketing peeps....They would rather fricking suck antifreeze through a hose backwards while lighting their ass on fire before they would ever pick up a ringing phone....So like a good sport "Thank you for calling North East Mall....How can I help you?" abounded from my lips 1,298,765,342 times today all ending in a silent thought of "I friggin hate people....." So with that said I am going to jump in my car as fast as I can so I can see what idiot on the road is going to be the first to cut me off or not let me over in my mad rush to get home on a Friday night to do absolutely nothing, clean house, and probably go to bed early.....At which time I WILL remember to take my hair down tonight.....CIAO!

A Haven for Hamburger Hounds?!?

Upscale Southlake has inadvertently become host to a burger showdown, with Cheeburger Cheeburger, Steak 'N Shake and Johnny B's lined up along a tight little stretch of Southlake Boulevard. Amongst other assorted fast food establishments serving imitation burgers as well.

Kincaid's is also included in this diverse lineup, the Fort Worth burger big gun whose juicy half-pound patties have won "best burger" awards across the state and nationally, too. What started out in 1946 as a meat market has become a major Fort Worth institution; now Southlake has its own branch. Good job I say....So what's so damn special about these burgers?!?

This spin-off clones the rustic style of the original, with long communal tables, vinyl tablecloths and kitschy blow-ups of various condiments and foodstuffs suspended from the ceiling. Not my dining out style to begin with...picnic tables are not comfortable for those of us that have a rather large asses due to giving birth in the recent months.... Shelves of canned goods are a reminder of Kincaid's grocery-store roots (Which I might add has absolutely NOTHING to do with burgers. There were spaghettios, SPAM, canned corn...and whatever else). You line up to place your order, then wait for your name to be called. An ATM is strategically set near the line; why is that there you might as? It's there because Kincaid's stubbornly maintains its no-credit-card policy, taking only cash or checks. I mean.....

So I stand in anticipation of receiving my highly acclaimed burger...mind you after paying $8.74 for this value meal. I get it to go because I have school tonight. Not pleased with the price I try to justify it in my mind as I am walking to my car with my prize in hand. So I decided before I join the race of idiots that abound on the highway heading home from work, I get my coke situated, my fries in the door handle (Also a fry holder, a Sonic cheese stick, and a Wendy's nugget holder) I have found that hole has no other uses in my car. I should discuss the future possibilities with Ford marketing this item with various fast food chains to make some extra commissions....Anyways back to the coveted prize in the brown bag..... I pull "it" out and it's wrapped in white tissue paper.....Not waxy butcher paper but like gift wrap tissue paper....Again I thought to myself upscale all the way baby still justifying my $8.74 burger.....I carefully fold back the paper, back my car out of the parking space, and prepare myself to partake in the best burger on this side of the planet.....I'm like a kid in the candy store, I damn near run a red light trying to get the big ass burger in my mouth...AND then it happened.......

My world came crashing down as I ate the most mediocre burger on the planet.....Absolutely nothing to write home to mom about....on top of that I dripped grease that soaked through the tissue paper (so much for the thought of reusing to wrap a gift this year for Xmas). What a let down....It was boring, plain, and monstrous.....Monstrous was about the only thing it had going for it......All I can say is D-S-A-P-P-O-I-N-T-E-D!! Oh well it seems to me that Chapps will continue to hold the coveted spot for the best burger in my book for now!!

As if.....

As if my life isn't hectic enough these days..... Im sitting at my desk peering at the piles of work to be done on my desk, almost certain my paperwork is taller than Mount Kilamanjaro but not quite, yet in the middle of my daydreaming and doing aboslutely nothing my Blackberry buzzes....Ooooh...a message......Who could it be? No one other than my over achieving, crazy, wild idea having best friend from over the years......Jennie.....What has she done now? She's gone out and started a blog.....Geeeeeeez Louise......So I start reading her Blog and thought to myself how cute!! Never mind I am in the same boat as her with a newborn...well not so much..He's 6 mos old now. But I figured HEY...I can do this too.....what fun.....never mind I work full time, go to school full time, have three children, just moved, and have graciously gotten myself wrapped up in this Social Committee Chairperson of 1 (me) for our Home Owner's Association. In addition to the monthly Pokeeno group I play in, as well as my rigorous pursuit of being home on time on Thursday's to catch Grey's Anatomy.... Not to mention head cook, chief bottle washer, butt wiper, laundry washer (but not folder) and chauffeur.....

So thank's a lot Jen!! Stay tuned for more interesting tidbits in the Crabtree Life!!