I had a fire to put out!

My fire was started post 4:00 in the afternoon on Friday. It was sparked with some ruby red grapefruit…..yummy and delicious, sweet and cold! It was my snack to hold me over until later. I had plans! Plans with the bestie. She and I were going to the movies with some of the girlies to see Dear John…Yes Dear John!

And yes it was great! Luckily we purchased our tickets on line at Fandango because all the shows for Friday night were sold out! It was a beautiful romantic love story which left you hanging at the end but with a creative mind and a common romantic sense you can figure out your own ending! And Channing Tatum…eye candy!    Yes I know I’m old enough to be his mother…       It was a Dear John letter movie where I fueled my fire with buttered popcorn and topped it off with ice cold coke! Yum…what’s a movie without popcorn and coke? Boring! Now I don’t think I know anyone who can eat a large movie popcorn and drink a large movie coke…So we shared in pairs. Two cokes and a bag of popcorn for $15.00…insanity I say! After settling into our seats in the semi-nose-bleed-section, smack dab in the middle of the theater, the place began to fill up quick! The bag of popcorn was so big and bulky that we actually spilled half of it on the floor like a 4 year old and I could not even reach my hand around the drink. Again, like a four year old, I had to use two hands, sit up straight and put on my big girl panties.  Napkins and buttered popcorn just go together but no matter how many napkins you use, you still feel greasy!

After the movie was over and the bladder was comfortable again…the fire had to be punched up a bit. A quick trip to Target and off to Chili’s we go for a quick bite!

A bite of each appetizer that the four of us ordered. Boneless Buffalo wings, queso dip and salsa *my fave*, cheesy spinach artichoke dip, and endless chips… OMGosh…it was so good! OMGosh it was so HOT! Good and hot! 

So my fire is fully fueled and blazing, the esophagus is talking to me, and the tummy is screaming help. At 4:00 this morning it was really raging … a 4 alarm visit with the pink stuff. Now you know how I love pink…but not this shade of pink. Downing a good dose, I prop myself to return to lala land on three pillows. The forest is burning down! The price I have to pay for loving hot spicy food!

Jackie’s 5:00 alarm is going off…the real alarm, the one that wakes you…just when I was finally resting again and the fire was somewhat under control, smoldering at best. 5:00 on a Saturday you ask? ...yes, to go Hog Hunting. Now you can say this with your best British accent and it sounds better than my sweet southern drawl of Hawg Huntin’. Hog hunting…? We have not lost a hog…we don’t even own any! It’s a guy thing, a hunter’s thing…a sportsman’s thing. He can have it! Anything like that, that requires you rise at 5:00 in the morning…he can have it! Plus it’s too cold outside.

Well needless to say I could not go back to sleep after he left. I hope he finds those lost hogs. I stay up and began to write this out and my stomach is reminding me once again it wants some fuel. This time I think I will stick to something safe, mild and easy…toast and a boiled egg. Eggs over easy toast!

I’ll finish the to-go-box of Buffalo wings for lunch.

Am I a glutton for punishment or what?

As the sun comes up it reveals a periwinkle blue sky…a promise of more rain? 
I’ll take what God gives me because each day is a gift and I have unwrapped this one with a smile and a beautifully colored sky.

Keeping it real and uncomplicated…be true to yourself

My word for 2010-Experience

I experienced heartburn.