sister's 30th birthday. I baked a cake and we grilled and guess what. My sister lives 5 hours away so we did all of this in her honor. I made a vanilla sheet cake that she told me about last week. It's half gone now.
I put pecans on half and left the other half plain. I can't decide which side I like better. She said it reminds her of petite fours but not me. To me it's more buttery and moist and gooey. I have a feeling it's one of those recipes I'll be asked to not make too much. I mean it's HALF gone already.
I also picked up a different kind of cracker for our dips. I'd never heard of these before but I really liked them. I'll definitely buy them again.
Another thing I had yesterday was the Don Q Passion Fruit Rum. I never found any so when we went to Puerto Rico, I brought a bottle home. It's really good. I mixed it with a little ginger ale and grenadine. Yum. I'm posting the bottle because it doesn't look like the last bottle I posted when I asked everyone to be on the lookout for it. So here it is and if you see it, please get me one.
I also went out to the San Jacinto Festival in West Columbia on Friday night. I wanted to get some carnival pictures with the lights. Click HERE to see them.
Now I need to get busy so I can make my 10:20 appointment at the car dealer's service center. I hate going. It's not that I dislike the people, they always seem to go out of their way to be friendly and helpful. I hate it like I hate the dentist. It's like I wait for bad news. Actually, this will be the first time I wait... hopefully. They usually give me a loaner and I get to spend a day or two driving around in a newer car until the work is done. This time I said I'd wait. If I leave with a loaner, it means they've done like the dentist and found more work that needs to be done. (sigh.)
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