The New Year!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

I can't believe it is already 2010 - it sounds so futuristic! Well Jeff and I spent the night at Mindy and Paul Yeates' house for a Harry Potter Movie Marathon with good conversations and junk food. It was by far the best New Year's Party I've ever been too!

We're pretty low key, don't drink, don't socialize much now that we're married, kind of home-boddies if you will, and we've only barely become friends with them, who seem to be similar to us, so it was great. You know how some people you just really mesh well together and others there's just no connection and it takes "work" to be their friends or its just plain awkward? Well not with the Yeates! they are a cool couple!

Of course we started the movie marathon late, and watched the end of the "NY New Years' ball drop" where J-lo looked like she was wearing a see-through onsie! Yikes!

We only got through to the 2nd Harry Potter movie... the three of them had all fallen asleep at one time... but not me, about a month or so ago I finished reading all of the Harry Potter books for the first time ever and was just entranced by the new discoveries of watching the movies again. :)

A night of Midgets, Crab, and Deep Fried Ice Cream!

Tuesday Night, The down low after I got off work around 3pm, only ate a pb&j sandwich at lunch (noon), went to a tanning bed in preparation for our Cancun trip Jan 11-14! Sid's Styling & Tanning Shop - kind of ghetto, but Jeff was excited because the owner, Sid, was a midget, dwarf, little person (I don't know what is more politically correct) Plus... it was our first time there it was free!

My question then is, why ever pay a membership when you could go to a new tanning salon every time for free?

Then we went to dinner, I was so starvin that I told Jeff that I'd even eat at Joe's Crab Shack (we had passed it the day before an he mentioned how badly he wanted to eat there)
So most of you will know by now that I don't like seafood except for sushi occasionally and salmon. The fact that I was actually craving seafood was beyond me!
We ordered a bucket of clams, two different kinds of crab, and a side order of fried shrimp (for me), the bucket came with a husk of corn, two baked red potatoes, and a cup of melted butter. I thoroughly enjoyed it! eating the crab was quite the experience too!

Before we got our bucket our waitress, Carissa, came over and put "crab" bibs on us. The cracking, cutting, and forking out the meat from the shells was like a treasure hunt, I was pretty good at it! Almost every time the meat came apart from the shell in one huge chunk. Yummy!
Basically it looked like this minus the lobster!

I'm not sure if the experience was great because I was so hungry or because of the flavoring! It was in an Alabama Bauyo Seasoning! YUMMY! Oh and the fried shrimp, it was delicious! it was like eating chicken nuggets even though it was shrimp...

And then we finished the night off with Genuine Deep Fried Ice Cream from LaLuna's Mexican Restaurant. Oh My it was 'to die for' goodness!

Of course, On the way home Jeff stops to get a $5 Little Caesar's Pizza and ate like 4 pieces before going to bed... I don't know where it goes!?

Yeah Ashley (and the rest of you that make fun of me for "not liking any good food" can you believe it? I actually like Shrimp (not the naked kind though, it may mostly be the appearance of them that I don't like... but anywho I am a changed woman! and I know Jeff is pleased because Shrimp is one of his favorite foods! Now if he could just get me to like Cheesecake!)