The Blonde Diaries

Trapped! I am sitting here in the airport waiting and hoping I can get on a plane tonight. The hurricane is making its way through Houston right now and the airports are closed. Just my luck! This was just suppose to be a quick trip over – less than 8 hours but it might turn out to be much longer. Only problem is that I didn’t bring a bag and the Essence festival is this weekend so there probably aren’t any hotel rooms.

Trying to stay positive. I got my book and I’ve hunkered down. I just wish this darn airport had WIFI. WTF right?!

Had you offered me lamb 2 years ago I would have ran away. I just couldn’t imagine eating poor little Lamb Chop though it is only a sock puppet. Curiosity got the best of me though and I haven’t looked back since. I just love lamb as it is very similar to beef but so much more tender. Unfortunately, most restaurants charge $30 or more for an entree. Not very affordable if you want to enjoy it on a regular basis. :’(

This week that changed. My mother was in town and we went to meet her friend for lunch at Fadi’s Mediterranean Buffet here in Houston and it was lamb day (no lamb on Thursdays and Saturdays)! What makes it even sweeter is that it is an option on the 1 meat, 1 side plate so I had a huge plate filled with lentil salad (yum!) and then lamb shank with more vegetables all for under $10. I was not planning on gorging myself on lamb and vegetables but I did and oh it was so good.

I think this is going to quickly become a Sunday afternoon destination for Mike and myself after we hit the gym and the treadmill. Even though there are lots of veggies, the gravy, the pitas, and the hummus will tack on calories fast and lord knows I don’t need any more calories in my life unless I decide to try out the Mediterranean diet which might not be a bad idea if I can eat fabulous foods like this day in and day out.

Yes, I am a nerd who watches the news at least once a day.  I try to stay informed with current events and local happenings.  Unfortunately, I have come to realize that the news often reports things after they happen not before. My beef is mainly related to social happenings and fun things to do around town that people would want to know about so they could attend.  Some things that come to mind: the Lunar New Year celebration, the Greek Festival, oh and Pauly D spinning at a club here in Houston.  Yes some people will probably be glad they don’t hear about these things but I would have loved to go just to see Pauly D in person and to see the fist pump in action.  And I love Greek food and to have fairly authentic food at the Greek Festival held at the Greek Orthodox church would be awesome.  I totally understand that I can use google to find out some things but to try and google every little thing that you might possibly be interested in is a tad ridiculous.  Plus you might not even think about things that are about to happen.  So I will end with my plea for anyone in the media to consider highlighting items of interest to viewers/readers before they happen not just after they happen.

Mike and I woke up pretty early today. We quickly fell into our morning weekend routine: Mike playing video games in the guest bedroom and me reading in bed. Around 9:15 I finished my book and decided to face the day. Since it was so early I told Mike to get dressed as we were going to the zoo. We haven’t been in a few months and I recently read that there are some new lions living at the zoo as well as a new jaguar cage.

We took our normal route and visited Toby, the red panda, then off to say hi to the meerkats, the giraffes, and the elephants. We continued over to the big cats area and since it was a breezy, cloudy day all of the cats were out and about. It was really nice because alot of the time when we go they are all hiding and sleeping but we saw each and every one of them. We finished with the cats and went to visit the bears before deciding we were hungry and needed to wrap it up. Typically, we hit the monkey area last because it is on the way out and Mike loves the orangutans. Halfway through we saw that the mandrills were out walking around. We have a boy and 2 girls. Mike and I have always seen them on the ground, never up on ropes but sure enough we saw a female had made it up a rope and was hanging out. Right as we were turning away Mike pointed out that the male was climbing the fence and then the next thing you know they were both on the ground going at it. Animal porn. I know I was at the zoo and when you mix males and females together you run the risk of having that happen but since it hadn’t happened in the 4 years Mike and I have been going to the zoo I was just thrown off guard. It was one of those times when you are in such shock over it that all you can do is laugh and watch. Luckily it didn’t last too long but it was pretty hilarious.

After that we called it a day and went for some Greek food before coming home and taking a nap. The adventure just wore us out. LOL