August 4, 2013
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Dinner Out….Accomplished!
TALES FROM THE BRAT FARM
The Beast has been promising me a dinner at (of all places!) Red Lobster for a couple years now. I have wanted a live Maine lobster meal for a couple years now. He promised me a meal there for our anniversaries the past three years (when the lobsters ARE available!) but it just never happened. This year it finally did. That’s where we went for a late dinner today.
He ordered the Fisherman’s Platter which is clam strips, shrimp, fish and scallops. They were all delicious….I tasted each of them. I, of course, ordered a live Maine lobster (boiled) and pigged out on the tail and claws. I also have to say that they have a wonderful (and not overly large) salad. Very tasty and I noticed the lettuces were hand-torn and not chopped. They had a couple varieties of lettuce, small chopped tomato pieces and a nice ring of onion. There was NO interior of the tomatoes in the salad (only the muscle of the tomato was chopped up and added). The croutons were also very crisp and tasty. Even the Beast enjoyed it…so much so that he had a hard time stopping to make sure he didn’t fill up on it OR the cheddar biscuits they are known for. All-in-all, we thoroughly enjoyed our dinner. At least he DID take me out for dinner for our anniversary this year. Better late than never.
Chewlee had stayed overnight so that she could go to church with the Beast today without him having to stop over at her house to find out everyone had overslept. She was tired, however, and took my blanket from my plane trip with her, rolled up and secured with a large rubber band. The Beast said she laid it on his lap and slept through the whole sermon! She didn’t even want to wake up to play with the kids while he visited. She went to the car and laid down in the back seat. She woke up by the time they got home and went over to play with Sam for a half hour or so then came back to the house to eat and watch her cartoons.
Johnnycakes came to pick her up around 6pm. She ran into the house to tell me her mother wasn’t there but her daddy came to get her. She then ran to find her flip flops, came back into my computer room to tell me she loved me and give me a hug then ran out, leaving Johnnycakes in the dust.
Of course, she hates going two days not seeing her mother (she’s a mama’s girl fer shure!) so she was eager to get home so she would be there when her mother got home. I think that is so cute of her to feel that way.
Now I feel stuffed and sleepy. The Beast went to bed early (9:30pm) because he said he was sleepy coming home so he took Baron out for a last pee, fed him since he had forgotten to do that before we left and they both went to bed at the same time. (I just remembered I hadn’t taken my pills so I stopped here to take them). I am going to take a little nap now, I think. My bladder or other engine parts will wake me up in a couple hours, I know.
Love you all. Hope you are enjoying better weather than Northern Florida and have a decent work week. Be good. Drive carefully.
A Serbian Proverb: Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars.
