Most Delicious Frozen Burritos

So there I was in my cube during lunch hour... It was yet another day when there was absolutely nothing tempting about the cafeteria. I had bought some sort of roasted veggie salad which had become part ice in the refrigerator. So I peeked into the small freezer and lo and behold I had put a frozen burrito in there a little while back. I almost forgot about it!

From the title of my post, I can imagine what you're probably thinking... that I had found the most delicious burrito. But you're wrong. In fact it was probably one of the most boring burritos I've ever had. As I sat there waiting for it to warm up in the microwave I recalled memories of my childhood and delicious frozen burritos. My mom used to buy these frozen Old El Paso bean and cheese burritos. They were delicious. I'd warm them up in the microwave and then fry them on a pan, but the insides, the mix of spices and beans and cheese were so good. Old El Paso frozen burritos. Sometimes my mom would buy a whole bunch at once... so we'd be stocked up!!

Anyway, there I was eating a boring burrito and wondering why I never ate those delicious burritos anymore. Where did they go? Well I thought to myself these days you can find ANYTHING online. So I searched, googled, amazon-ed, ebay-ed?!! anything to give me some information.
In my quest to find them I came across
someone who shared the same passion for these burritos. He says they are no longer made. He even emailed Old El Paso to get them reinstated.

I hope one day that somebody can make frozen burritos like Old El Paso used to make.
They were absolutely the most delicious frozen burritos I've ever had.

Compensation and Crazy People

Compensation and Crazy People

Seriously... what has this world come to?

I talked to a friend of mine today. And told me a story of a guy donating his sperm to two women. They wanted to have a baby together (but couldn't for obvious reasons). They ended up breaking up, but one of them still had the baby. The sued the guy for child support and the court made him pay.
I dont know how true this story is... but I wouldn't doubt it.

Especially after that woman with the coffee at McDonald's.

What's Eating Gilbert Grape?

So I love eating.
I love tasty nachos and good New York pizza.

A friend of mine, she's a little bit bigger than I am, and we love going out to eat together. We love ALL the same foods.
Well I guess she's more than a little bit bigger... and my husband thinks it's unhealthy for her to eat those foods. I guess it's because when I eat those foods it's once in a while, as a treat, but she eats bad food all the time. Anyway she's really his friend first, they've known each other forever. So I guess he's worried that she 's put on quite a bit of weight and that it's really bad for her body.

My mother-in-law even tells me about how unhealthy she's become. My mother-in-law has also known this girl for over 20 years. She asked me to speak with her. She wants me to tell my friend what to eat and what not to eat. She says she can't do it as a parental figure, but because I'm her friend that I should.
And if I don't tell her then who will?
But what am I supposed to do?
How does one say that?
Any advice?

How many times removed?

Today I wrote my brother-in-law's brother-in-law's brother-in-law.
I just think that's funny.

Little Man

So there I was at the in-laws place. Lying on their bed, working on the computer. (working on what you ask?! - you probably didn't ask...but regardless we'll save that for another day...)

The kids (husband's nephews) were in the tub taking a bath. Out they came, smelling fresh, wrapped in (so it seemed) oversized towels. So the 3 yr old, we'll call him little man, whips off his towel. It's a cape he says. And he "flies" around. Not paying much attention he comes over to see to chat. And he proceeds to jump on the bed and it turns out that little man's waist is eyelevel with me. "I'm a bad guy, this is my cape." "That's nice", I say as I turn my head and look at my husband and my brother-in-law (little man's father) who think it's hilarious that naked little man has his crotch in my face!!

Then little man says "I ride the horse" and jumps on my back. "I hope you washed your bum!" I say. "Why don't you put on some underwear?!" But he's having a blast and doesn't feel the need for any of that. Not to mention his dad and uncle are cracking up having the time of their lives.

Sigh.

Wedding Crashers

Well I haven't seen the movie, but I did hear that one of the first rules of wedding crashing is to stay away from the bride and groom.
Rules?

Unfortunately our wedding crasher had obviously not seen the movie or perhaps she just failed to follow the rules as she came up to me numerous times and "welcomed me to the family".

(background: she (let's call her Mega-ho) received an invitation to our reception held at a later date but came to the wedding anyway - she knew when/where the wedding was because her parents were invited there. Mega-ho's sister confronted my husband to inquire why Mega-ho had not been invited and the answer that apparently the sister understood was because of "who she had become". Regardless Mega-ho is constantly drunk and not someone that is fun to chat with her alcohol mixed with horrible cigarette smoke breath)

So quite a bit has happened on this front. And to make a long story short, my husband's family and her family are at a mini war. I mean it's not a war, but I can't think of a better word. There was a long letter sent from her parents with little jabs and stabs.
As my husbands family discussed these issues, I sat quietly and listened. I was to be at the discussion because I am part of the family yet obviously don't have much to say as I lack the history that they all have.
But I can comment on the letter and my favorite part was where they state that Mega-ho was not at fault because she was under quite a bit of stress from work and did not read the invitation, but instead just sent in her reply.
So in essence she is dumb I suppose.

Two more points to her stupidity/ignorance and why she bothers me:
1. She tried to kick one of MY guests out of their seat as she didn't have one.
2. Two weeks after the wedding we went to another wedding (where she WAS invited) and came sat at our table and eventually was kicked out because there were no more seats and had to go to her GIVEN seat. HELLO? IS SHE DUMB?

A Sad Story

I can't believe how long it's been since I've written a post. I was so busy with wedding plans, honeymoon, etc, but I guess now I have plenty of stories to tell.

I'll start out one I just heard about a couple of days ago...

Well a couple of years ago I met this boy at work. We became good friends and talked constantly at work. We both had significant others but had a great time chatting away about pointless things.
As it turned out we were both having problems in our respective relationships. And so at the time we were there for each other and were able to discuss our issues. He was going through a lot. His mother had passed away and of course this can always cause problems in any relationship. but in his case his woman was (is?) PSYCHOTIC...I was almost scared that she would come after me with a gun.

Anyway as it turned out, we both became single at one point and I decided it best not to get involved as we both had plenty of stuff to deal with. We both had just come out of long relationships and not to mention that he was still living with his (ex)girlfriend.

So needless to say nothing happened between us and he got engaged to that same [psychotic] chick and was to be married in May and as you may have read I got married in August. He still works at the same place, as do I, so if we see each other in the hallways we give each other a pleasant nod. We have both been very busy in our own lives but he was nice enough to invite me to his wedding. I didn't invite him to mine, I didn't think it was appropriate. He even showed me pictures of his honeymoon.

Back to the point, while on my honeymoon I was using the internet and he IMed me out of the blue. He told me that he had some interesting stuff to tell me... so a couple of days ago when I got back I went to visit him as I do sporadically. When I got there he showed me his left hand. It was bare and he joked "yeah, we're getting a divorce." My first reaction was the valleygirl-esque "Shut UP!"...and he often jests, but he was serious. And it saddened me to hear that. He told me that he was so angry that she didn't decide that months ago, BEFORE they got married. And now if she were to change her mind, he doesn't want to hear it, because she could easily change it again. There wasn't much I could say to him. So I didn't.
But I keep thinking about it. And I hope that he can go on with his life and find someone truly special, just as I have.