Happy Mother's Day! 05/12/13

[Billy's Little Trip]

I figured since there are no mothers that post here on a regular basis, I thought I'd go ahead and be ironic.

But, everyone has a mom. Maybe one you talk to daily or dissociate yourself from. Maybe your mom is your best friend or has passed on to the great mom place in the sky....or where ever it is that people go. Maybe all of the above.

My mother passed away last August, but we had a great happy understanding with each other. She was funny and always looked on the bright side of things. If I was having a bad day, she'd say (in her German accent) as long as they keep making rocky road ice cream, there's always something to look forward to. She had the simplest out look on life and never took it for granted. I think the one thing I miss the most is her intentionally terrible sense of humor. She'd use her accent any time she could to squeeze in a bad pun. R.I.P. Mom.

QotD: Any plans with mom today? Phone call, going to brunch or a nice BBQ? What's the haps peeps?

My boys just took my wife to brunch at Rip Tide. A popular sushi seafood place here with bottomless mimosas. So I expect they will come home tipsy and ready for some wheel of fortune on the wii. I bought steaks and lobster tail for a bbq later. I didn't know the boys were taking her to Rip Tide before I bought them. So she'll be surf and turfed all day, yo. But that's her fav, so I can gar-on-tee she won't complain.

[fluffy]

I bought my mom half a pound of vanilla beans for mother's day. She was appreciative.

She also has been trying to get me to watch Searching for Sugar Man for quite some time, and constantly gushed about every aspect of that movie. She then sent me a DVD a few days ago, so I finally watched it. Unfortunately, the entire impact of it was ruined because she'd already told me all the good stuff about it, repeatedly. OH WELL.

[Billy's Little Trip]

Lol. Moms...wutchya gonna do?

But that's cool that she saw and enjoyed it so much. That says a lot for the documentary. I still haven't seen it and after realizing I want to, I stopped reading reviews etc about it just for that same reason.

[rone rivendale]

Me and my Dad took my Mom out for breakfast. Of course, it was packed. We had to slip in when another family got up to pay. It was funny (to me anyway). I gave a $5 tip on a $21 meal. Figured the waitress deserved it for the unusual crowd she was dealing with. (My Dad usually tips $2 when we go out to eat).

[Billy's Little Trip]

I did a nice BBQ for the wife and fam yesterday.
The menu:
Ribeye steaks
Lobster tails
Baked sweet potato with cinnamon brown sugar butter
Steamed veggies
Praline pecan peach pie a la mode

[HeuristicsInc]

I grilled steaks too, in Korean barbecue... and asparagus and zucchini on the grill also. Best way to eat those.
Also called my mom, until the phones started dying.
-bill

[Billy's Little Trip]

I grilled steaks too, in Korean barbecue... and asparagus and zucchini on the grill also. Best way to eat those.
Also called my mom, until the phones started dying.
-bill

Yum. I love gogigui(sp). When I have BBQs with a big group, I do a sandwiches similar to a Philly cheese steak, but Korean bbq style. I think it's called bullgogi? At least I hope so, because that's what I tell everyone, lol. Basically just very thinly sliced top sirloin marinated and grill fast. Everything on the sandwich is grilled including the veggies and is put on a grilled french roll and drizzled with a Korean bbq sauce. SOOoooo good. It's more veggies than meat.

[HeuristicsInc]

yeah, i usually see it as bulgogi. we actually do it on full size steaks as a marinade. but if you go to a korean restaurant, they cook it on your table as thin strips. yum!
-bill