
I hope everyone has a fun but safe New Year!!! Remember to hydrate to minimize the hangovers and DON'T DRINK AND DRIVE!!! See you in 2009!
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At least once a year, we go to Puerto Nuevo for lobsters. It's a long drive for lobsters but it's well worth it.
Happy birthday Carlo!
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Watching the JBWKZ, Supercrew, Fanny Pak and others...
Thanks Arash!
**Update: The headliners were the JBWKZ, Supercrew, Fanny Pak, BreakSk8 and ASIID. Special guests were Fish n Chicks and Kaba Modern. Some guy also performed, Colby something... Best time ever (except for all the screaming).
Raw Amberjack, Photo courtesy of My Last Bite.
For the entrees, my parents decided to go with the "109 for 2" which is a 32 oz. bone-in rib-eye with mashed potatoes. My brothers each ordered the Flatiron Steak and I went with the quail fry. Let's start with my parent's dish. OMG, biggest steak I've seen. The bone was probably as long as my arm from elbow to fingertip. It was a serious piece of steak. I think my parents only had half. My brothers, on the other hand, demolished their steaks in half the time it took me to eat my quail. It did look quite appetizing with the onions and the corn. I'll have to order that next time. My quail was surprisingly good. I've had quail before that's a little chewy so I wasn't expecting anything with my dish. Boy, was I wrong! The quail was juicy and succulent and I couldn't stop eating. The dish had some bacon on the side to temper the heaviness of the quail - perfect pairing.
Flatiron Steak, Photo courtesy of My Last Bite.
Bone-in Rib-Eye, Photo courtesy of Yelp.
We had the tres leches cake for dessert. Not that much of a revelation but I also think that we were all pretty stuffed at that point. The dessert was just an obligatory gesture to celebrate my brother's birthday. Happy Birthday again James!!!
Here's my mom playing with him. My dog, Deuce, is in the background. He had the time of his life running around the open fields. I think he must've thought he died and went to doggie heaven. Lol.
Here I am enjoying one on one time with Cooper. What a cutie (me and him both, hahaha).
Thanks again to the Johnson family for accommodating us. We had a great time!
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Don't go by air
Sign up to renewable energy
Try using solar water heating - this can reduce your gas bill by up to 70% over a year.
Use public transport as much as possible. Find out about your local bus services and then use it.
Sign up to a car share scheme to reduce your travel footprint.
When you buy goods - consider where they have been made and the materials and processes used to make them. Items that have high emissions in the manufacture or delivery should be avoided when ever possible. Things such as:-
Tap water is safe to drink in most European and North American countries, yet people still insist on buying bottled water. If the bottle is labelled as being from volcanic springs - you can bet that it has probably been imported from some distance. Imagine the carbon footprint of the flight / shipping of the water! And that's before adding in the emissions due to making the bottle and / or recycling it.
When you go to the supermarket, look at the label to identify which country the food is from. There is no need to buy New Zealand apples in the UK in the autumn - but people do!
Think twice about buying a bottle of wine from the other side of the world - you may be able to find much more local wine, which will have travelled far fewer miles.
Better still try growing your own fruit and vegetables in your own garden. Planting an apple tree will not only provide you with lots of fruit, with zero carbon footprint, but the tree itself with breathe in carbon dioxide from the atmosphere - making these fruit effectively carbon negative!
Reduce your consumption of meat, especially red meat.
Check the clothes labels before you buy. If they come from more than 1000 miles away, keep looking!
Avoid goods and services that have unnecessary packaging! Need we say more?
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Ugh! Why is my lawyer always late?
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'Lollipop' is the longest word typed with your right hand.
‘Stewardesses’ is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
The sentence: 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog' uses every letter of the alphabet.
Typewriter is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
If the population of China walked past you, 8 abreast, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite!
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
The cruise liner QE 2 moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.