Friday after Nate had a meeting here at the house, we cruised over to the disc golf course to get in some practice and test out our new discs that we got at the last tournament. My new purple beast ended up hitting a tree and rolling 50 feet into the creek. We had to make a hook out of some branches and drag it to shore. Thankfully we were able to retrieve it because I hadn't put my name on it yet.
Saturday Nate and I had a much needed date. (sort of) Nate had to go to Staples and Office Max and Sams club, so we left the kiddos with papa and headed out of town. So many of our dates have been work related, this was a typical one. We didn't even go out to eat because Saturdays at Sams you can get full on all the free samples they give out. I had a little plate of salmon and brown rice with mushrooms, (so yummy) a sixth of an angus burger, a flatbread sandwich with pastrami and provolone, a little piece of pizza, a seafood salad, a chicken salad on club cracker, a taste of chili, bean dip and tostitos, a cheese danish, and a strawberry smoothie. See what I mean, Nate wasn't even hungry after that. The most exciting part of the day was when I saw an in store presentation for one of those commercial type blenders that they use in Starbucks or similar restaurants. It's a juicer, ice cream maker, smoothie, slushy, hot soups and gravy, everything maker. I LOVE smoothies and Slurpee's so much my DH bought it for me. I have already used it four times and I love it. I made Nate a slimfast, keifer, strawberry smoothie for breakfast, the boys had a blueberry thing, I made virgin margaritas, and cranberry slushies. It takes about 30 seconds to get the ingredients together and 10 seconds to make it. There are different consistencies, the smoothies were creamier, the icees were courser, and the margaritas were puffy and light. I am going to have a lot of fun using this kitchen toy. If I want a hot soup for myself for lunch, it will not one out in about 30 seconds, I can also make gravy in it, yeah no more lumps. Well I could rave on and on but I won't, there are over 300 recipes that came with it, and I intend to try at least most of them.
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We are getting OLD Catrina-- When a date involves SAMs, Samples and a new Blender that means we are either getting old or being tortured.
Hey any time you guys want to go out for dinner we will get the *check* if we are going for samples at Sam's.
DH and I used to cruise the warehouse club in Va. Beach and eat the samples for Sunday lunch, back when we were poor grad. students. LOL!
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