{"id":322,"date":"2008-11-24T12:25:58","date_gmt":"2008-11-24T17:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/?p=322"},"modified":"2008-11-24T12:25:58","modified_gmt":"2008-11-24T17:25:58","slug":"third-times-a-charm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/third-times-a-charm\/","title":{"rendered":"Third Time’s A Charm"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wow that was a busy weekend, at least as far as mine generally go.\u00a0 Actually, it was a rather busy week<\/em> overall.\u00a0 We had a festive event stuck in the middle of things when we celebrated Donette’s parents 50th wedding anniversary on Wednesday.\u00a0 They came over to our house and we fixed pan seared ribeye<\/a> steaks, which is one of my favorite dinners.\u00a0 One would think that, being their 50th anniversary, I would fix one of their<\/em> favorite dinners, but you gotta stick with what you know.\u00a0 After dinner Donette gave them their gift, four nights in Branson with the entire mob of kids and grandkids.\u00a0 She and her sisters have been planning this for well over a year, so it was good to finally get the secret out.\u00a0 They rented a 5400 square foot house right next to Silver Dollar City, so hopefully there will be enough room.\u00a0 Yes, this will be my third trip to Branson this year;\u00a0 Heckle at will.<\/p>\n

Friday I had the day off, and we made the most of it.\u00a0 We dropped off Gabe at “school” and headed off to the gym, and then went on something of a shopping spree.\u00a0 It was time to start getting ready for this big Branson trip, and there is quite a bit of grocery shopping to be done for 15+ people.\u00a0 Luckily good ol’ Costco fit the bill well for this purpose.\u00a0 That took up a good part of the afternoon actually, between finding everything on her enormous grocery list and trying to fit it all in our ‘fridge.\u00a0 After that, in a blatant attempt at pacifying my rapidly declining attitude, Donette started calling around town trying to find a Wii for us.\u00a0 We’d talked about getting some kind of game console for quite a while.\u00a0 We debated the pros and cons of all the different systems at great length, taking into consideration what games are available for each, and the different options and packages available, etc.\u00a0 After cross-referencing all the different factors in a complex matrix, we decided on the Wii because it was the cheapest.\u00a0 That effectively killed the rest of our night;\u00a0 We bowled and boxed and golfed our way well into the wii hours of the night.\u00a0 (Wii hours?\u00a0 Get it, get it?\u00a0 Boy I slay me.)<\/p>\n

Saturday I think we were busy again, but the exact details escape me.\u00a0 I do remember I was really quite sore.\u00a0 One can only hope it was from our trip to the gym and not the seven hours on the video game.\u00a0 Granted, you do actually move your arms and stuff while playing it, but the whole thought of being sore from playing video games is a bit disconcerting for some reason.\u00a0 We did a little more prep work for the Branson trip too, including boiling up enough chicken broth to make soup for the next year.\u00a0 I’m not sure what happened there.\u00a0 I did my math very carefully, but somewhere in the conversion from liters to quarts and doubling recipes and such, I must have carried my naught one too many times.\u00a0 Somehow or another I ended up making two and a half gallons of stock, which I have no earthly idea what to do with.\u00a0 Anybody need extra gravy on that plate?\u00a0 (Not a question that really needs asked actually, at least with Donette and I.)<\/p>\n

Sunday I spent the entire day cooking.\u00a0 I put together a massive pot of gumbo for the trip, and smoked a traditional Thanksgiving brisket.\u00a0 (At least it should<\/strong> be a tradition, if it ain’t.)\u00a0 Meanwhile, Donette went on another shopping spree;\u00a0 More groceries and more Wii accessories.\u00a0 This time she came home with an extra set of controllers, and a Rock Band<\/a> game.\u00a0 We were so busy with the food that we didn’t get to play on it until pretty late in the evening, but it was a lot of fun.\u00a0 It went a long way towards affirming my long-held belief that I was likely meant to be a rock star instead of a cubicle-monkey.\u00a0 “Prodigy” was the word I kept hearing Donette use, if I remember right.\u00a0 I have no doubt that if I practice consistently over the winter I just might find myself onstage with “Guitars For Christmas” next year at the BBQ.\u00a0 Actually I got booed off the stage more often than not.\u00a0 But, that would be nothing new for Guitars For Christmas either, so I still<\/em> might make the band.\u00a0 The extra controller set paid off too;\u00a0 It should really be included with the game right off the bat though.\u00a0 It was a lot more fun going head-to-head in everything, especially boxing.\u00a0 It was all fun and games until I got overly excited and kidney-punched the wife.\u00a0 She got back up though, she’ll be fine.\u00a0 Hey I was just trying to add a little realism to the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wow that was a busy weekend, at least as far as mine generally go.\u00a0 Actually, it was a rather busy week overall.\u00a0 We had a festive event stuck in the middle of things when we celebrated Donette’s parents 50th wedding anniversary on Wednesday.\u00a0 They came over to our house and we fixed pan seared ribeye […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}