My favorite breakfast place is just a little different now...

My favorite breakfast place used to be Another Broken Egg. However, since the Tallahassee franchises broke off from the corporation, they've had to change their names. They're now called just "The Egg."

The menu is slightly smaller, with not so many omelet flavors, but my favorites, blackberry grits and bananas foster french toast, are still present. I love going on a weekday if I get the chance (which is rare due to full time employment syndrome - still suffering from that malady) because the service is better. No rude high schoolers can be found then. If you get a chance, try out the new digs. You won't be sorry.

I Read Banned Books

For her birthday, Danny gave Megan a bracelet of banned teen book titles made by Carolyn Forsman.

The main reason for this is the fact that it includes The Adventures of Captain Underpants as one of the books in the bracelet. I like it because it includes To Kill a Mockingbird, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland, Blubber, etc. Whatever the reason, this bracelet is perfect for Megan, and I hope she enjoys all of the books as she reads them.

My husband is wonderful because...

My husband is wonderful because every holiday (for which gifts are appropriate), he gets me at least one piece of my favorite cookware. You guessed it; it is Le Creuset. It started a few years ago with this piece in Red,

and now he has branched off into Kiwi

and Dijon.

My whole collection stands at about 19 pieces (including lids), and I love every one of them!

Thank you, Honey, for sticking with the purely practical gifts you know I'll use. Now that is romance!

My weird movie obsession

So, since high school, I have been obsessed with one movie. I have seen it over, and over, and over...you get the drift. Not that I don't watch other movies multiple times (The Princess Bride, Point Break, Grease, Sweet Home Alabama, Sleepless in Seattle, etc.), but this one makes me feel like some crazy addict that finds a score when CMT, SpikeTV, or any other channel is perused and this movie is playing. Which movie, you ask? It is Road House (1989),

starring Patrick Swayze as Dalton, the Cooler, or "best bouncer ever". Of course, he would argue that he's not. Wade Garrett (played by Sam Elliot) is. My friend, Michelle, and I have had many deep conversations about this provocative movie, sparking questions such as "What criteria do you use to rate bouncers?" It also gave me the best advice of any movie I've ever seen - "Be nice. Be nice...until it's time not to be nice."

I miss Patrick Swayze.

The rest of the birthday weekend...

One thing I forgot to mention about Friday night was the nail-painting that the girls (and Danny, if truth be told) were doing. Megan's nails turned out so good!

Saturday morning, we woke up early and had red velvet pancakes and farm fresh eggs for Megan's birthday breakfast. We went to karate, and had a lazy day (for me it was sleepy - had a migraine coming on) watching I Love Lucy until after lunch. From 2-5 pm, George, Dad Creamer, Zachary and Danny went to the Manly Man's Feast at our church.

Aside from the feasting,

the men got to see and participate in all sorts of "manly" things. Danny even got to do some target practice with an airgun.

See that mark in circle 5? For his first time shooting, that's pretty good.
Meanwhile, Megan and I had some mother/daughter time at Movies 8, where we went to see Hugo.

Based on the novel, The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Hugo is a Martin Scorcese-directed masterpiece that veers slightly from the book to focus on the most fascinating, real-life character from the book, filmmaker Georges Melies. Both Megan and I loved this movie more than we loved the book! The rest of the evening was pretty much taken up by Puss in Boots, Vicar of Dibley, and Doc Martin. By bedtime, I was completely exhausted, and was not surprised when I awoke Sunday morning with a throbbing migraine. What's better for a migraine than Excedrin Migraine and Moe's for after-church lunch?

Trips to World Market, the grocery store, and finishing homework rounded out the day. It will be an early night for me. I'm pooped!