Where to begin?

Last Thursday, I saw Hayes Carll, John Evans and Jimmy Kaiser at Courville's.

Last Friday, I celebrated Becky's birthday with friends then saw Southern Embers and Longneck Road at Outlaw Drinkin' Club.

Saturday was an Ava day.

Sunday was a "help Cory at the house in Houston" day.

Monday is a "what shall I blog about first" day?

Let's just start with the best of the pics, shall we? Then we'll take each fabulous day one at a time...eventually. I even have fabulous videos. Which reminds me, I never did finish posting about the 2008 Stingaree Festival did I?

Oh, you have so much to look forward to.

Jimmy Kaiser

John Evans and Hayes Carll

Becky and Laurie

Longneck Road

Doug of Southern Embers

The Grand-Fabulous Ava and her new friends

This is one weird-ass song

I have a Bobby Darin CD that I love. Every time I listen to it, when this song comes on I think to myself, "That's a weird-ass song right there." (Actually, I think to myself, "That's a weird fucking song," but I thought I'd clean it up a little.) Listen to the whole thing.

Earworm!

The Fearless Explorer

"Come on Nanny Bonnie! We're almost there. You can do it!"

Did you know...

...that if you get on the elevator in your office building and don't push the button, you won't go anywhere?

OR, if you do go anywhere, it will be up. Then, when you come back down, the elevator will inevitably stop on your floor and when the doors open and your co-workers see you, they will automatically know what you did and will taunt you the rest of the day.

Ball Girl - False

Click here for the Snopes site.

Tropical Storm Eduoard...uh...Edouard...uh...Eddie

A little tropical storm blew in this morning. You know how I'm always calling those reporters idiots for taking video out in the storm? Here's my contribution to the idiot pool.

These winds were only about 30 m.p.h. to 40 m.p.h. I can't imagine what it's like during an actual hurricane. We had a little category one come through last year (Humberto) and it was frightening.

Gino's Pizza & Pasta

I recently bought a new teeny-tiny Nikon Coolpix S550 camera. I bought the teeny-tiniest 10 megapixel/5x zoom camera I could find so I could take it with me everywhere. The one flaw in that plan is that I forget to grab it as I'm walking out the door.

Saturday, my sister Bonnie, my son Cory, my daughter-in-law Jamie and my grand-fabulous-daughter Ava went to a new Italian restaurant and I have no pictures of the inside of the restaurant or of the grand-fabulous-Ava with spaghetti and marsala sauce all over her gorgeous face.

Gino's is located in the same shopping center as Honey-B Ham. It is absolutely, positively in some way related to Frankie's, Joes and New York Pizza & Pasta here in Beaumont. The restaurant is adorable, the food is magnificent and it's BYOB. What more could a person ask for? It's also practically in my back yard.







Gino's Pizza & Pasta
6385 Calder, Suites J & K
Beaumont, Texas 77706
(409) 861-3330
(409) 861-3331
(409) 861-3334 - fax

Business Hours:
Monday - Thursday 11:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Friday and Saturday 11:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Closed Sundays

Earworm!!

Peace Symbol Trivia

• The peace symbol was designed for the Direct Action Committee Against Nuclear War and adopted as the badge of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in Britain
• It was completed on February 21, 1958 making 2008 its 50th anniversary
• It was created by Gerald Holtom
• The symbol is a combination of the semaphore signals for the letters "N" and "D" which stand for "nuclear disarmament"
• The peace symbol button was imported into the Uited States in 1960 by Philip Altbach, a freshman at the University of Chicago
• Altbach was a member of the Student Peace Union and had purchased a bag of the buttons while in England

Now, go forth and amaze your friends with your vast peace-y knowledge.

Another Chance to Catch Longneck Road and Southern Embers

Southern Embers

Longneck Road

Outlaw Drinkin' Club

Oakley as a Puppy

This post is mostly for the family who never saw Oakley (my grand-fabulous dog) as a puppy. I found this on Jamie's MySpace page. Oakley's 4 years old now. There's a recent picture of him in the post below this one.

Step Away From the Television

Until my son and his family sell their house and get settled into a place here in Beaumont, I have custody of their HDTV and their dog.




My old television was twenty years old. No exaggeration. It looked something like this...



I had no idea what a difference it would make to watch television on a huge (by my standards) 42 inch high definition television as opposed to a 26 inch old timey television.



Every night, the grand-fabulous puppy and I lay on the couch hypnotized by all of the high definition wonderfulness. I watch things I don't even care about just because it's all so amazing.



So, Carly keeps asking me how far along I've gotten in Guitar Hero,



I've had my most recent Netflix movies two weeks and still haven't watched them,



Donna is pissed because I've only read two chapters of Twilight,



I'm paying $30 a month to a gym that I haven't seen the inside of for weeks and...




...my blog posts are more and more reliant on pictures than on writing.

Ava's First Birthday - Dan's pictures and videos