Not Halloween!

I am a blogging slacker. I cannot think of one interesting thing to write about. I am way behind on all of my friends blogs. And I don't even use the write blog lingo. The other day I said, "I need to write a new blog." When I should have said, "I need to write a new post.". So, here is my new blog, er post. Just a couple of things that have been on my mind...

1. People are ignorant. On more than one occasion this week while driving, I have seen people 1) throw cigarette butts out of there car window and 2) throw empty chip bags/wrappers out of the window. I just shake my head and curse the day they ever bounced onto this once beautiful earth. Where exactly do they think their trash goes? Oh, it must get sucked into the pavement underground garbage disposal system. Or that must be why we have all of those people begging...look what they can do with their spare time, pick up my waste. It angers me so much!

2. Baby poop REALLY smells bad after they start eating "real" food. Elias started rice cereal about a month ago. He didn't poop for 5 days. When he did, it smelled like death and looked like thick greenish mud. He had to get off of the cereal for a while but started on it again yesterday with veggies. His first veggie...green beans. Now, I know nothing good can come of this. Last night during small group, he started letting them rip and I could tell they were good and juicy. Then the smell hit the crowd and I had to throw my head back and waif away the stench. Then I got to change him...yummy! I didn't register for a diaper genie because I wanted to be simplistic. Now I see the error of my simple ways. Get me a diaper genie ASAP! Plus, I use cloth diapers at home! I will leave that to your imagination.

3. I love cooking for people and having them come over and eat and hang out. I also equally love going over to other people's houses and having them cook for us and hang out. But, there is something about going out to eat that is just awesome. Dallas and I don't get to do the latter very often because our finances are tight, but when we do, it so rocks. Every once in a while, my husband will bring home gift certificates to restaurants that he got as swag from work. Last weekend, we went to Rockfish for the first time. Actually, after the baby was born, we had some friends who brought us take out from it and we loved it. Anyway, we couldn't remember the last time we went out to eat by ourselves. Well we did remember, it was to Ninfa's a couple of nights after Elias was born. We ate until our tummies could no longer hold anything and then we ordered dessert! We reminisced about when we lived in Corpus Christi and had 2 salaries and we would eat out at least 3 times a week.

4. I love dairy! I had to be off of it for 2 weeks and it was really hard. Margarine is NOT the same as butter. Yesterday, I got a green light (at least if and until Elias' eczema comes back) and I couldn't get enough cheese. I almost stopped to get ice cream just because I could. It sucked having to check the labels on everything and not be able to eat creamy/cheesy things. Today I am going to the store to buy fixings for homemade pizza with loads of gooey cheese and probably pick up some ice cream, too. So, DVC and Co, we are ready for CPK...but it will have to wait until after Thanksgiving. And if anybody wants to cook for us (see #3), please use lots of cheese, cream, butter, and have ice cream for dessert :)