I Learned How to Post Pictures! I Rock!

Blake recently showed me how to insert pictures into my blog posts.  How exciting!  Just so we all are aware, typically, I write these posts in Microsoft Word and then hand my computer to Blake and ask him to make me a blog post.  I am very much computer illiterate.  I think he was a little tired of being my computer-crutch, so he taught me how to write posts ON MY OWN and also how to POST PICTURES!  I am obviously very thrilled.  In order to celebrate, I thought I would show you a few of my pictures of the last few days.  (Ok, mainly the last 10 minutes since that was how long ago I decided to do this post….Ok, and by “my” pictures, I mean the pictures Blake took after I complained and complained that I couldn’t take artsy enough pictures.  He’s a real saint, that husband of mine).

Hi! I am a cute green chair!

This would be the GREEN CHAIR mentioned in post number 2 of this blog.  Isn’t is so cute, sitting over there with an orange blanket on top of it?  Blake and I are going for an “aren’t we so cool and 1950′s-ish” look for the living room, and this chair is probably my most favorite furniture purchase ever after the BLUE chair I have in our bedroom (which I can’t show you right now since our room is a disaster area, READ MORE

Things I am Looking Forward to This Weekend

Things I am Looking Forward to This Weekend

1)  Eating Pho!!!
I am forever in love with pho.  I probably eat it at least once or twice a week.  I like to think that it is extra special healthy, and that there is some sort of Eastern mystical benefits of eating such a spicy/foreign dish.  I mean, I used to call pho a “forest in a bowl,” due to the fact that, unlike most western soups, pho is made up of a bunch of unrelated ingredients hanging out in a big thing of broth.  And it kind of looks like someone emptied a teeny tiny forest into a bowl.  Of course, its not REALLY a forest in a bowl (I like that I spelled that out for you), and I have no evidence that my pho is especially healthy for me, but I have pretty much convinced myself that by eating what looks sticks and leaves mixed with noodles, both my physical and spiritual health are improved.

Now, I am no pho expert.  I have eaten it at a grand total of 5 different restaurants (including one in College Station, which I don’t even know if that should count) that serve pho.  However, I have decided that (in my limited experience) the best pho in Dallas (and I guess College Station) is found at Green Papaya.  Basically, I love their pho because they tell me exactly how much spice to add.  I mean, listen, I am definitely not Vietnamese.  I am very very non-Vietnamese.  If you don’t measure out the burning hot chili sauce and the extra yummy sweet sauce out for me, I will end up with a super burning/sickeningly sweet bowl of noodles and beef, with way too much cilantro and not enough lime juice.  It has happened before, and it breaks my heart every time.  But anyways, enough about the deliciousness that is pho, the point of this bullet is that I get to eat it!  Today!  At lunch!  So it is item number one and things I am looking forward to over the weekend.

2)  Taste of Dallas!
When I first moved to Dallas, I was pretty disappointed in its attempt at a Taste of Dallas.  Unlike the city’s phenomenal efforts at Restaurant Week, Dallas’s Taste of Dallas is slightly underwhelming.  Dallas has some great restaurants!  I want to taste them!  But no.  The restaurants participating in Taste of Dallas are the usual touristy/West End dwelling ones that participate every year.  BUT.  With that all being said, I still love going!  I love buying little $2 samples of all sorts of random food, eating it or taking a bite, yelling “Yuck!” and moving on to the next booth!  It doesn’t matter!  You only paid two dollars!!  And plus, I never get bored.  People are always commenting that, for someone who loves food as much as I do, I sure do seem to only eat a tiny portion of my plate.  Usually, people assume it’s because I am a weird dieter, and that I only eat part of my plate as some sort of wasteful dieting technique.  This is not true.  Mostly, I continue eating READ MORE