Phipps Feeding Fiasco

The experience
We were headed down to Austin for the weekend for the benefit concert for our friend, Leah, who is battling cancer.  Grace said it would be fun to go back to an old favorite from when we lived in Austin, Fonda San Miguel.  We hadn’t been here in about 12 years!  We had been [...]

The experience
As Mina and I were headed home to pick up Ogre for dinner, I got paged by the hospital.  Looked like I’d be doing another admission tonight.  Unfortunately, that meant a quicker, closer dinner than what I had planned.  I gave Ogre some choices and we headed in that direction.  As we neared one [...]

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Earlier today, I told Ogre that I wanted to eat at Vietnamese restaurant.  While we were at home, Ogre changed it to Star of Siam, which was fine with me.  THEN, when we got in the truck to eat, Ogre decides, nah, he’s in the mood for Indian food.  Sheesh. We let Mina decide between [...]

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It’s Saturday night, so we thought we venture further out than our norm.  There was a restaurant on Greenville Av a few years ago that eventually burned down, much to our dismay.  At some point, Ogre found out that there was another location still in existence!  I think it might be the original location.  [...]

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Today is really Lala’s birthday.  Mina was very excited to go to Lala’s house and drop off her gifts.  After that, we planned to go out to eat.  We decided to go to Brio’s as I was craving an adult beverage (I don’t have many days when I am not on call).  I called to see [...]

The experience
So Benji decided to finally take a nap at around 5PM today.  And then he decided he would sleep till the next day.  So around 8PM, we decided that I would take Mina out to eat with Dusty and bring her something back.  I decided for quick Mexican and recalled a place that I [...]

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So today we had planned the usually annual Phipps family outing to the Dallas Auto Show.  We knew Benji would be impressed with it this year as he loves his cars.  So we made the plan earlier in the week to eat at our usual Auto Show restaurant, Herrera’s.  Grandpoo and Oma would be [...]

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I had no idea where we were going for Valentine’s Day, just that we were going very early, like, 4 o’clock.  Ogre had already clued me into plans for later.  Unfortunately, I would not be able to participate because I am on call tonight, but I gave him the green light to take Mina.  [...]

The experience
So I actually decide to plan ahead this evening.  I have to admit that this is one of the few times that email ads have worked on me.  I got an email to go to Joe’s Crab Shack on Valentine’s day for crab.  Sounded good and it beats the game of who can make [...]

The experience
My mission for the day was to get some badly needed make up.  I’ve been out all week and everyone has been commenting on how tired I look.  No, I’m just unable to camoflauge the huge dark circles under my eyes, but thanks for caring.  Because I tend to be difficult, I have to [...]