When life gives you lemons...get a Frozen Mocha!

You thought I was going to say "make lemonade?" No, that's too much work. Plus I don't really care for lemonade. I would much rather enjoy a cold, chocolately frozen drink from my favorite place: Liquid Highway. Why do I need such a drink and what lemons are we speaking of? Well, I haven't told all ya'll yet, but about a month ago my team at work was told we would no longer have jobs at the City of Greenville after October 5th. I'll spare you all of the dramatic details, but it basically sucks that I moved down here specifically for this job and the contract was ended about 3 years premature. Oh well, life goes on...I feel I was brought here for a purpose and it will all work out! Maybe I'll find something new and exciting to do... my company will try its best to find me a different Greenville area site to work at, so I will be patient and remain with my employer. I've never worked at a more challenging, but interesting job in my entire life. It came at a high price though, and it may actually be healthier for me to work a different job... I'll keep ya'll posted.

On the topic of new and exciting, my wife started a second blog, due to popular demand. This time, she's talking about her adventure in veganism.

Please visit it, it's awesome and pretty funny. We all know she got that from me. http://veganpancake.blogspot.com

My BFF and I went to see Star Trek last week. OMG it's so awesome. I knew I'd like it, but I was really impressed by the actors, the visual effects, the script, the whole thing. Definitely recommend it, even for the ridiculous $10 ticket price or whatever they're stealing from me these days. Let's see: fight the crowds, listen to people narrate the movie while chomping on popcorn and opening 1,000,000 candy wrappers, paying $4.50 for a bottle of water just so I can see a movie on a giant digital tv screen? Maybe just this once...or once more for Transformers.

Erin and I met for lunch Friday and she wanted to try a froo-froo little cafe downtown. I said, sure, what the heck. I'm made of money.

Here she is....isn't she cute?


My sandwich and chips were actually very good. Worth $10? Maybe not, but I would go back if she twisted my arm.


I saw a bumper sticker that made me think of my mom. There's an organization selling bumper stickers, shirts, etc to support the fight against breast cancer. The slogan? "Save the ta-tas". Classic. http://www.savethetatas.com/catalog_hers.htm


For an extra special dinner on Friday, Erin and I tried P.F. Chang's China Bistro. Once I saw the horse standing out front, I knew this would be quite blog-worthy. I took this picture during our 60 minute wait.

P.F. Chang's is kinda hoity-toity to me, but I have no culture whatsoever. I just heard it was good and I see the place all the time and have never tried it.

The interior was beautiful and packed, even at 9:00 PM. They had popular music playing in the background and the waitstaff were very friendly.

I ordered some fancy crab rangoons, they were good, but different. Not much cream cheese, but plenty of crab.

I ordered the spicy chicken, because I am boring and wanted something similar to General Tso's chicken. This cost me $13 and was probably half of what I would get from a typical Chinese restaurant. Don't get me wrong, it was very very good, but not nearly enough to take some home to enjoy.

I ordered the Great Wall of Chocolate to split between me and myself. Actually, I only planned to eat half and take the rest home. It was terrific. And it was huge.

This was the only leftover food I was able to take home. Yummy!! Chinese chocolate cake.

The verdict? Well, since you love reading about my food reviews and you respect my opinion, I'll give it to you straight. I will not be returning. The place was crowded. It was pretentious. It was expensive. After tip, the meal cost $57 (without drinks). Yeah, yeah, we had appetizers, and I had a piece of cake, but still. The food was good, the waitress was good (although very busy and not very attentive), but there was nothing there to bring me back, especially when we can walk out of Chin Chin, which is also a nice restaurant, for half of that price with plenty of food leftover. Next time, we'll try Lieu's Bistro, which is a nearby similar Chinese restaurant.

Please check out Erin's vegan blog and see what she's been up to. I'm going to be looking for friend candidates since my BSG buddy is moving to NYC (which should be blog worthy in its own right) so if you know of any guys (sorry ladies) that enjoy watching Battlestar Galactica and grabbing junk food on a Friday night, please let me know. I'm staying busy with the gym, the motorcycle, and yardwork. All of those fire ants that I wiped out last year? Well, they're back and so far, resistant to my eradication techniques. I think I will start trying some other methods involving boiling water and such....should be interesting. Have a great evening (Happy Mother's Day!) Talk to you soon. Go see Star Trek!!!!!!!!!!!!!!