Day 59 Board Game and alumnae chapter

Tonight was game night! As a family we are crazy about board games. When my kids were young we played all the time. It was not unusual for my sister, Marian and I to stay up until all hours of the night playing Trivial Pursuit. (I always made her stay up until I won a game.) Holidays always included hours of board games. Then life got in the way. I cannot remember the last time we played. Tonight we pulled out a new game we purchased.

A trivia game featuring our favorite TV show. It is a fun game. We discovered we both suck at "Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock". I cannot make the Spock with my right hand, only my left. A very weird thing kept happening to me. When I answered a question about a character, I almost always drew that character's card. Freaky, deaky! Let's see if Taylor can answer a question.

In the episode "The Panty Piñata Polarization" (S2/E7) Penny takes an item of food from Sheldon's plate that causes him to flip out. What was it?

I (Taylor) have the answer! An onion ring!! Boy I sure hope that's right. 

Today, my first takes me back to my college days. During my junior and senior year of college I was an active collegiate member of Kappa Delta. Tonight, I became an active member of the Murfreesboro Alumnae chapter :-) 

Day 58 Dinner with sisters and bird poop

I have had dinner many times with my sisters but today my sister Karen came and said she was going to dinner tonight and wanted Marian and me to join her. I really wanted to go home after work. It was a rough day. But Karen has never come and ask us to join her for dinner after work. That meant a lot to me so I said yes. It was so much fun for the three of us to share stories about our day.  It topped my day off nicely. Sisters are wonderful things. Thank you Karen for asking me to dinner!

Bird poop you ask? I'm not really sure if my first will classify as a first in everyone else's eyes... But I was just blown away by what I (Taylor) learned at church tonight. So I'm going to count it. I'm not really even sure how we got on the topic but we got to talking about birds. And someone mentioned that birds start to leave you presents if you keep feeding them. Apparently when they eat and then poop, they poop out seeds and such (including fish eggs!) and then the seed (or eggs) can fertilize (or hatch) and there ya go... A new flower or fish! Maybe you all knew that. But I had never thought about it! 

Day 57 receipt note and Martini

Tonight after work I (Taylor) met up with my best friend to get our nails done and we decided to go to dinner afterwards. During dinner she asked me what my first for the day was. It being 8pm I was a bit panicked because I hadn't decided on one yet. She suggested I leave a friendly little note behind on my receipt. So that's what I did :)

And here's my out of the box nail color! Going from a pail pink to this is a big change. 

Lynn here. I actual blogged last night but it didn't upload. My iPad has wifi issues sometimes. Anyway my first was a martini. A caramel apple martini. It was delicious, so I had another one. It was girl's night out at a new restaurant.

Everyone agreed the food was tasty and we had a good time talking.

Day 56 photo prep and squash

Today was a hard day to get a first completed. First I thought I would finish putting the puzzle together. After half an hour and maybe finding five pieces that fit, I decided that wasn't happening. Next I had bought some paint by numbers thinking that would be fun. Nope the paint was all dried up. Third time was the charm. I need to complete a flower quilt for my art group, FAC @ FAB. I wanted to use a technique I learned from Susan Brubaker Knapp. You take your photo, crop it and print it in color. Then print a black and white copy. This weekend I will take fabric and using the black and white copy draw the picture on my fabric. I use the color photo to paint the picture on my fabric. Here is my picture. I will post a picture if it works.

Today was a rough day in general for me (Taylor). I decided, again, that my first would involve food. Apparently I need to branch out. But I branched out and tried butternut squash and spaghetti squash. I'm not sure if I didn't cook the spaghetti squash enough but I thought it was truly horrible! The butternut squash wasn't awful but wasn't good either. I roasted it in the oven like a sweet potato. Just wasn't a fan of either. So my heathy dinner of chicken and 2 types of squash turned into chicken and Mac & Cheese. 

Day 55 AAA and lobster

I did not decide to do a first today, it just happened. I was talking to some friends about the cars I saw this weekend at the car show and I mentioned the spare tire on the Nissan Versa. It is underneath the car. I liked the car but could not see myself laying on the ground to get to the spare tire. They could not believe I did not belong to AAA. That got me thinking so I went and looked up the price. It was only $66 a year for both Marian and me. So I got it. After all I am not getting any younger, as my sweet children keep reminding me, so now someone else can struggle with that flat tire and dead battery.

Tonight we decided to make lobster and shrimp for dinner. I've had lobster tail at restaurants before but never had an entire lobster. Even worse one with eyes that I felt like were looking at me. And I've definitely never had it made at home. I apparently struggle with my food looking at me or still bleeding. (I couldn't eat a steak josh made once because it wasn't too raw) Well I had to have josh crack open the lobster and even pull out the meat. I still almost struggled to eat it at that point. 

Here's my lobster. 

Day 54 Omelets and The Slice

As much as I (Taylor) love eggs, one would think I would have made an omelet before. But that's not so. Josh worked 3rd shift so I offered last night to make him breakfast when he got home from work (sweet wife huh?). His request? An omelet. See my first attempt:

A total screw up. I attempted to flip the entire thing which didn't work. So I just scrambled myself some eggs. Second attempt went a little better. Didn't have too many complaints (besides not having put in enough cheese) so it must not have been too bad. 

I present to you - Josh's loaded omelet. Complete with cheese, mushrooms, tomatoes, jalapeños and bacon. My pleasure :-) 

Taylor's first was much more successful than mine. Last March I purchased a little machine called a Slice. It's purpose is to cut fabric that is fused so you can appliqué it on a quilt. I don't do much appliqué. I am too impatient to make all the pieces. I thought this machine would be helpful. However after two attempts, I found it did not work well. Would not cut through the fabric completely. I guess it might work for paper.  Oh well, we cannot think that everything we do this year of first will be successful. 

Day 53 Three First and more!

This was my "first" first of the day. I (Lynn) went to the Great Cake Bake Off. The Knox County Library holds it every year to raise money for Dolly's imagination library. This was my favorite of the bunch but it was hard to pick. They were all amazing. We have a lot of talent in this town. My second "first" happened here also. I had a vegan chocolate chip cookies. It tasted just like a regular chocolate chip cookie. Then it was off to the Car Show. I have never been to a car show so number three "first" for the day.it was great. I got to sit in a Rav4, Versa Note, Mini Cooper, Smart Car and my favorite the Mazda CX-5. I am planning to buy a new car this year so this gave me a chance to narrow down my test drive choices. It was a fun day.

Adding this blog post a day late (Taylor here). Last night was a late night. I went to the Brad Paisley concert and didn't get in until around midnight. The nights adventure started off with me popping a button of my shirt so a pitstop to walmart to get a sewing kit happened. Seeing a button back on in the car was definitely interesting. We headed downtown and after discovering all of our food options were over an hour wait we headed to the Gulch for a restaurant suggested by one of my sorority sisters. 

Here is a compilation of my dinner at Bugger Republic. (DELICIOUS!!) 

I would definitely suggest this place I you're looking for a good burger and beer. They've got over 30 beers on tap and delicious milkshakes (spiked and regular). Really looking forward to taking my pooks (best friend Jess) there with me so we can try the Nutella shake! 

The concert was wonderful! And an interesting experience with a crazy horrible dancing 50+ year old woman that sat beside me! I decided to sport my Zappos boots and ankle jeans. So my outfit was even a first. :)