Welcome to "Lost Wages"

As we touched down on Las Vegas, Sunday Afternoon, those where the first words out of our flight attendants mouth, Welcome to "LOST WAGES" and I thought to myself lets get the party started .......Woohoo!

Checking in @ the Bellagio was easy, This is the view up @ the front desk, it's about a mile of glass.

Also if you go to Vegas always ask to get you a mini fridge. It's very important to have somewhere to store your water. Oh who am I kidding it's to store the Champagne! Up in our room. I thought no big whop, big tub, separate shower, nice bed and two big chairs. But then you open up your curtains (electronically of course) and you see the fountains, the Eiffel tower, Paris and all the people and you switch the t.v. on put it on channel 22 the music and the show are just spectacular....( I will be using the word spectacular alot in this blog). Also for some reason we never could get a non-blurry picture out of our window. Either the photographer was drunk, or the camera is broken.

I think the fountains are the best part of this hotel. We saw a couple of showings of the water show and then off we went to wander. At this point we did not have a game plan...bad idea, always have a game plan when you leave your room, or you could be wandering for hours we walked and walked and walked up the strip for a very long time... getting very hungry.

We got back to our hotel room very late had a very nice sushi dinner at the Bellagio's Yellowtail Restaurant. I did not know how good sushi would be in the middle of the desert. But I was impressed.

Another tip I'd like to point out now is that female hotel employees don't belive in alot of clothing. Studies show that the more skin men see, the more they want to spend.

DAY 2 will post tommorrow.

Two Meetups and the Golden Girls of El Chuco (El Paso)

I want to start this weekends blog sending an apology to my subpar layout. I will fix this next weekend. As soon as I figure out what I'm doing!?!

Next is a shout out to a great pair of gals in el Chuco. If your reading this just play the Golden Girls theme in your background and pretend I'm singing it to you. I want to say that I'm here for you, if you need, and to offer some sarcastic remark on the state of the world if you want. Call me, loves you.


Secondly I'd like to thank my neighbor Gosia for not only kicking my ass this past week, but offering her ear for me to bend. I want to know what the neighbors think of all the grunting that goes out in your garage. I still cant believe that you push me enough to burn 600 calories, four times this past week. Your awesome.

So, lets get on with the rest of the week.

Well on Thursday night I went to the Bonefish Cafe http://www.bonefishgrill.com/ in Bothell.

Which is not far from where I work I had a meetup with my wild and crazies. (http://women.meetup.com/467/)

I had a great time talking football, drinking raspberrytinis and eating saucy shrimp. It truly was a happy hour or two. I'm always happy to see old friends and meet new ( I guess that's why they call it meetup). I had never been there before and I really loved those community tables @ the bar. It was a friendly place, with friendly servers and I loved the food and drink. A bit pricey but well worth it. I spent $24 (including tip) on my two drinks and happy hour appetizer, it did fill me up and the drinks where nice and potent. I'm starting to feel like fodors. So I give that place three stars.

Next.

Friday, I did not feel like going out that night( even thought we where invited to the Parlor)and so I stayed home and read the last of my fantastic book I was working on. Yes, I checked it out of the library and it was called

AUTHOR: Pérez-Reverte, Arturo.

TITLE: The queen of the South

CALL NO: FIC PEREZ-REVERTE BARCODE: 2021588211

DUE: 11-19-08 DATE CHECKED OUT: 10-22-08 04:48PM

I highly recommend this book, very entertaining, the author is truly a Spanish poet. I don't know what to think of the heroine, but it was a fantastic tale told fantastically about a Narca and her rise to the top. I know its fiction but the tale is so well told you can hardly believe it not be real.

Saturday I had another meetup http://rubberstamp.meetup.com/419/ this one was my crafting one here's the pictures of what your getting as your Christmas cards this year.

and lastly I want to recommend a movie that I saw last Sunday after I had posted my last blog..

I want to start by saying that I've not seen any of the oceans 11 movies I'm not into brad or george clooney fan but I swear if you want to laugh out of your pants go see

"Burn After Reading".

Smart, Funny and totally not what I expected (Not that I expected anything out of them).
See ya next week.

Tacos de Carne Asada, una Cerveza Helada y Craig Sonando su Campana

Craig and I just got back from REI, Half Price Books, tacos, and the beer store.

The REI part....
I now, know what I want for Christmas this year and it entails me getting dressed up as a Ski Bunny from head to toe. Even though I'm only a spectator, I want to be decked and it's only going to be around $500 to make me look this way....
starting with Columbia Sports The Rogue™ Parka
Style #SL7706 in black or red I've not decided.
Can you see me out in Whistler BC walking around in the snow without falling? Yeah me either ..
But I figure If I'm going to see some ski jumping might as well be in style.

The Beer Part...
I love beer. And that's part of the reason I will be eating snow in January.....Yes I know I'm a riot
Anyway this beer store is heaven
It's in Redmond and is called Malt and Vine


link http://www.maltandvine.com/


had the very yummy Dick's Belgian Tripel w/Raspberry it was so delicious and not @ all fruity and just about as good as any Belgian beer I've ever had.
4 out of 5 stars in my book


Can someone please explain to me why beer on tap is so much more delish than the stuff you take home in the bottle?
Anyway I wanted some of this amazing beer to take home which is not available in a bottle and guess what? Craig had an old water bottle in the back of his car that we used as a growler, Doug filled it right up for me and now I've got some amazing stuff to drink tonight when I go to Mans and Gosia's tonight for Desperate Housewives.

and finally The tacos and 1/2 price books part.... well that part was not as exciting as the other two parts but I did see a
2009 weekly planner @ 1/2 Price called
the Procrastinator's SOS Planner: 2009 Desk Calendar... I thought that was quite amusing, but I'll get that tomorrow.......Just kidding I added it to my amazon wish list.
in all the shopping excitement
I've already forgot what the tacos where like...

One more funny thing to add about my week
I don't know if you guys know anything about college football but it appears that Craig's uni Texas Tech is doing amazing this year. So Craig went out and bought a saddle tramps bell and has been going around Yelling and ringing his bell all week. I'll try and post a pic next week of Craig in his underwear, runing around ringing his bell ......

Well this is my first ever post drop me a line if you've had a good time.
Well guys I'm signing off have a happy sunny Sunday and I'll see ya next week