For My Own Amusement: 2012

While we were in San Antonio, I couldn't pass up the opportunity to visit The Little Aussie Bakery. I've ordered plenty of bread from this place, and it ROCKS! But...unlike most gluten free bakeries, this one also has a completely gluten free RESTAURANT! OMG! Michele and Joe agreed to try it out with me. After driving down a pretty shady road (yay google maps directions) to get there, we finally arrived! I decided that after a 4 hour drive, there was NO way I was waiting for a table...so I made resevations. And they had a cute little sign on the table waiting for me! Bonus points. The menu has a bunch of different options, so we decided to try a variety. Joe and I ordered a lamb sandwich (it had a fun name but I seem to have forgotten it.) Michele got a pasta bake. We also ordered some garlic bread for the table and a pizza to split. Yum. PS - It was a lot of food. They give you bread with all of the meals, I was SO excited to be able to eat the bread put on a table in front of me. Even M&J said it was tasty. Then the garlic bread came. It was pretty epic. But...nothing compared to the pizza. I think I ate almost the whole thing that day (not in one seating, of course!) The lamb sandwich was good, as well, but all I really remember is the pizza. All in all, it was an awesome meal! And I will definintely be making San Antonio a regular trip...JUST to visit this place!

The sign ALL for me!

The menu!

Me eating BREAD!

Our order of garlic bread

THE PIZZA!!!

My first piece of THE PIZZA

My sandwich

Leftovers....see...told you we ordered a lot!

TWO thumbs up!

A long, long time ago...the room at the front of my house was called the Nerd Room. For good reasons too. It had an Xbox 360, a PS3, a Wii, two gaming laptops and a 46 inch LCD. Fast forward to last week, when my "Nerd Room" was really just a room where a lot of stuff was stored. :) Angie and I spent the week packing up all of our CRAP in that room and hauling it to the guest room for temporary storage. And then...we took a trip to IKEA. IKEA is probably one of my favorite stores in the entire world. Even if I don't need anything, a trip to IKEA is always an awesome time. We headed there in search of brown-black five-by-five Expedit bookshelves. After a lot of research, we had decided these bookshelves would be perfect for the room because the cubbie holes were bigger than a 12x12 scrapbook, so we could actually store our scrapbooks and 12x12 paper on the shelves! WIN! We got to IKEA and I took one look at the 5x5 bookshelf and OMG it was huge (we're talking over 6 feet, which I knew, but didn't really realize until I was standing next to it!!) I started thinking that maybe the 4x4 was a better idea. Angie finally convinved me that the 5x5 was the best plan (we were planning to buy two 5x5 shelves, one for each of our stuff.) And we decided that white was a better option because (as Carolina nicely pointed out) everything else in that room is white. We headed down to pick up two 5x5 white bookshelves...and they were out of the 5x5 in white. Of course. Angie made a joke that this was God's way of telling her to listen to me. Ha! So, we got two 4x4s in white and one 2x4 in white. Did I mention that we had to call in our awesome friend Vince to haul all of this stuff home for us? He rocks. We got it home, bought Vince lunch and I took a nap. That evening we moved some of the exercise equipment around in the room and carpet cleaned (yay clean carpet!) Today (Sunday) we spent most of the day setting up three bookshelves and chasing Koby away from the small parts. We still have a lot of work to do in getting our stuff back in there, but for now...some pictures! Of our Nerd/Craft/Workout Room. I might have to come up with a better name for it...