Die Another Day

That is not only the name of a James Bond movie and Madonna song for that same movie, but it was also what I said to myself yesterday during lunch. Here's what went down...

The whole familia & I went to one of the few Mexican restaurants in town I will actually eat at. As per unwritten Mexican restaurant law, they brought us out chips & salsa. They were immediately salted down and my third chip one needed a damn GPS because it got stuck in my throat.

Now this was not the typical choking where a small cough would dislodge the food & life would be back to normal. You know, the kind where you could remain motionless and slowly inhale to get a good cough out? No. This was the super scary kind. I could not breathe at all. I thought I should try and drink something to try and clear the chip, but there was a problem...

I had just been served my tea in a to go cup and I had not yet sweetened it. I HATE unsweet tea, it's fucking gross. So I avert my gaze toward the bottle/sippy cup that Elijah has full of some sort of juice. I start to move my hand to grab bit but then realize that with my not being able to breathe at all, I might not be able to suck at the cup hard enough and thus not be able to get any juice now. That would be great huh? I'm laying dead on the goddam floor with a sippy cup in my hand. Yeah, that would look pretty silly and would not make for a good eulogy.

At the last moment I think to myself, "FUCK! Here I am with my whole family, and some friends I've known since high school are a few tables over. I can't die like this here. I mean, if this were Hooters it would be different..." and I grab my nasty tea and take a big swig. To this day I am not sure if that disgusting taste was worth it, but it got the chip clear.

Lesson learned: Order a coke if no sweet tea is available because you don't know if you're going to choke and you certainly don't want to drink shitty tea.

Yummy Pot Roast Receipe

2.5lb chuck roast
5-6 large potatoes
1lb of baby carrots
Season Salt
Garlic
Black Pepper
1 cp of flour
1 Package of brown gravy mix
1 packet of Lipton's Onion Soup mix

In a crockpot, cover pot roast with water, at least three inches over the top of the roast. I start this frozen roast at about 8am. Add the Onion Soup Mix, the brown gravy mix, flour, cubed peeled potatoes, entire bag of baby carrots(minus 2 or 3 to snack on), & seasonings. I always eyeball my seasonings, so just guess.

Let cook in crockpot for 7 hours. YUM!

For the oven method, I use Reynold's oven bags, with a Tbsp of flour(to keep the bag from bursting) add all ingredients minus the cup of flour. Cook at 375 for 1 hour. It turns out really delicious too!

Twitter SMS Commands

Most people know they can link their cell phone to Twitter to send and receive various data. What some people don't know is they can do other things via SMS such as following someone, unfollowing someone, getting a user's profile, and more. Here are some common commands you can use.

*Note if you do not have you cell linked to your Twitter account, log into Twitter. Then got o Settings>Devices to set it up and change your texting preferences. The # to send messages to is 40404. I save it as "Twitter" in my address book.

• ON: turns ALL phone notifications on.

• OFF: turns ALL phone notifications off.
  

• STOP, QUIT: stops all messages to your phone immediately

• ON username: turns on notifications for a specific person on your phone. For example, ON babymakes7.
• OFF username: turns off notifications for a specific person on your phone. For example, OFF babymakes7.

• FOLLOW username: this command allows you to start receiving notifications for a specific person on your phone. Example: follow babymakes7

• LEAVE username: this command allows you to stop receiving notifications for a specific person on your phone. Example: leave babymakes 7
  

The above was pasted (and edited obviously) from Twitter's own help page. Check it out to see it and more commands.

Wasted Entertainment

Fellow tweeter @CelebratedMissK mentioned she had owned a movie which she had not seen yet. That got me thinking about the movies my wife and I own that we have not seen. I started to tweet the titles until I realized the list was longer than I thought so I decided to type it up.

In alphabetical order, here are the movies we own that we have not watched yet. If only one of has not seen it I will indicate it in parenthesis which person has NOT seen it and any notes.

3:10 To Yuma (newer one)

10,000 B.C.

American Gangster

Apocalypto

Bambi II

The Big White

Breaking and Entering

Breach

Caffeine (me)

Casablanca (me, we have it on DVD & HD-DVD)

Drop Dead Sexy

Erin Brokavich (me)

Fast Food Nation

Deja Vu (her)

The Departed (HD-DVD)

Freedomland

Fox and the Hound 2

George and the Dragon

Gone with the Wind (me)

Harsh Times

Her Minor Thing

Italian Job (her)

Keeping up with the Steins

The Killing Grounds

The Kingdom

Man About Town

Mistress of Spices

Miss Potter (me)

Moulan Rouge (me)

Moulan II

Nomad the Warrior

The OH in Ohio

The Quiet

Relative Strangers (me)

The Sandlot: Heading Home

Saw IV

Scarlet (me)

Serenity (HD-DVD)

Seven Swords

Sex in the City (me)

The Shawshank Redemption (me)

Shoot 'Em Up (her)

Sisterhooh of the Traveling Pants 2 (me)

Sleeping Dogs Lie

Slingshot

Species: The Awakening

Steel Magnolias (me)

Thunderpants

Tom-Yum- Goong (her)

Wedding Planner (me)

*WHEW!* OK, I think that is it. I know I'm not the only one. Heck, I think I have some video games that I have not played that I picked up on sale at some point in time. What movies do YOU own that you have not watched yet?