After the Weekend

Here is the first post of the day. Work cancelled my afternoon shift as well, because the phones still don't work, so I guess I'll post again.


And so we woke up really, really late Sunday. Like, you were probably just finishing up your Father's Day dinners when we finally got up and out of bed (time shift, remember). We called our fathers to let them know how much we loved them (and I also tried talking to my grandpop to do the same, but I'm not quite sure he could hear me). And then our Sunday was a day of rest, with the usual lazy-day trip to the Can's pool.

We did go out to dinner like we usually do the Sunday before our Monday grocery shopping trip, because we usually have no food left on this day (the last of the soup and grilled cheese was eaten at like 2 a.m. the night before). Our favorite taco place was an obvious choice for dinner, good ol' Yayo Taco, but unbeknownst to us, it isn't open on Sundays. I'm surprised it even stays open at all during the summer; their main clientele seems to be UNLV students, and that campus is absolutely dead in the summer months.
So anyway, it was closed, so I was denied my favorite fish tacos. We instead went to the other Mexican restaurant at the other end of the parking lot, which I guess is a chain, Cafe Rio. It was basically just like Yayo Taco, except it was more expensive and they didn't have beer. It's all good - the salmon tacos with dill sauce that I had were spectacular enough to make up for it.

Sunday night was an early night (relatively), because we had early, if not incredibly ambitious, plans for Monday morning. Time for another extravagant buffet.

The Wynn breakfast buffet was, like the Rio's Seafood Buffet before it, exuberant and delicious. I did what I usually do at buffets of any kind, and that is get pretty much one of everything. Highlights included a mini lox and bagel sandwich, a spinach frittata with marinara sauce, a buckwheat pancake with powdered sugar and syrup, a glass of mixed citrus fruits, a big country biscuit with warm sausage gravy (my freaking favorite). The only thing that was missing really was a nice hot porkroll sandwich. Soon, Philadelphia, soon.

This blog post has a lot to do with food. It's really making me hungry.

I signed up for an extra shift Monday afternoon at 3, and we got home around 10:30 a.m. In the intervening time, I did something I almost never do, and took a long afternoon nap. It was strange, and of course I had trouble getting to sleep that night because of it. Monday's work day wasn't too bad. I got another $50 bonus. This doesn't mean I'm particularly better at my job, it just means I'm doing what my bosses tell me to do. I'm doing my job, not even well, but I'm doing it right, and it's nice to be rewarded for that. In any case, those $50 will be put to good use. Roulette table, here I come. Kidding?

Monday night, we had our biweekly shopping trip, and then came home and had a nice dinner. Choices made for both were influenced by Pam's hopping back on the Weight Watchers train. I'm quite proud of her for sticking with it this time around. I don't give a darn if she loses weight or not, she looks great either way; I just want her to be happy. And no, I am personally not doing Weight Watchers, but eating a lot of my meals with Pam kind of forces me to eat healthy sometimes. So when we eat a light salad for dinner to even out with a gluttonous breakfast buffet, I'm very much okay with it. I need to eat healthy too, so this is great for both of us.

Yea, I know, two blog posts today and nothing really exciting between them. Hate to sound like a broken record, but things really are winding down. But hey, friends are coming to visit a week from tomorrow. Pam and I cannot freaking wait.