Nikki Renoit » Thoughts

On the Road for a Free Dinner

Nikki — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 19:46:44 +0000

Leaving tonight for a couple of days. It’s my annual duty appearance at my brother’s house. He always hosts the family’s Thanksgiving dinner. He is the only one in the family with a nice house big enough to accommodate everyone, and his wife is a decent cook. She tries to do all the traditional foods, turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, etc. and won’t let anyone help her in the kitchen. So, all I have to do is drive 8 hours and sit around drinking white wine with the family the entire day at my brother’s house. If it wasn’t for the white wine I wouldn’t be able to tolerate that much time with those freaks. But, you knew that.

Signature Dish

Nikki — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:41:07 +0000

This girl was visiting and hanging out and talking about various things and I started getting really annoyed with her. She was trying so hard to impress everyone, bragging about all these things she can do. She likes crafts, she goes waterskiing and snow skiing, she has a fancy car – although I personally cannot stand Monte Carlos – and she likes to cook.

So, I asked her about cooking, just to make conversation. She says that she’s been cooking since she was 10 years old and loves being in the kitchen. So, I asked her is he “signature dish”? In my book, everyone who really loves to cook has one or two things that are their “old faithful.” They know how to cook it without reading a recipe and its tried and true. I believe the chef’s professional term for it is “signature dish.” She looked at, puzzled. I explained what the term meant and asked her what is hers? She shrugged and said that she doesn’t really have one – she just loves trying new recipes and everything always seems to turn out good.

Liar.

Handicapped Parking

Nikki — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 02:26:26 +0000

Do they call it handicapped parking spots anymore? The whole politically correct way of talking about people with disabilities, disorders, handicapped, challenged, etc. is getting too hard to keep up with.

Getting Real Tired of the Shit

Nikki — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 22:31:50 +0000

When did my job turn into this? I’m nothing but a shit collector around here. Enough!

Hate the New WordPress Dashboard

Nikki — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 22:04:31 +0000

Although WordPress is free and has a lot of great features, I totally HATE the new dashboard. It used to be fast and easy to log in as an administrator and write a new post. Now it take three times longer to get through the log in process and access the text editor to write a new post. How stupid! Who on earth thought that removing the “new post” button from the dashboard was a good idea?

Pearls of Wisdom

Nikki — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 09:53:50 +0000

That 70′s Show

Nikki — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 21:40:12 +0000

I normally don’t like watching a TV show or a movie more than once, twice is about enough for me, so it is really unusual for me to watch a TV show like That 70′s Show over and over, rerun after rerun, but I do. There is something about that TV comedy sitcom that just keeps me rolling each time I see it. Every now and then I’ll run across one that I’ve never seen before and I really get a charge out of that, wish that it happened more often, I can tell you that!

The only other show that I can tolerate watching more than once is the George Lopez show. But I have to admit after seeing something more than 7 times can get pretty stale! The summer reruns that are inevitable really suck, but at least we have the new fall line up to look forward to and this year there seems to be a lot to choose from. I mean with all the channels that most of us can get these days with cable and satellite taking over there are a lot more shows to see.

Doctor Issues

Nikki — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 02:58:55 +0000

Next Tuesday I have my annual GYN appointment. Not something that I look forward to each year, but I know that it is important and necessary so I just suck it up and deal with it the best that I can. I don’t like having to take time off of work and I’m sure that everything will be fine, but the whole ordeal just makes me nervous. I’ve never trusted doctors and I try not to be a butt head when I go, but I do wear my heart on my sleeve and I usually don’t fool anyone with my attitude towards the medical field.

The 19th

Nikki — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 02:38:43 +0000

Every one in my immediate family was born on the 19th. It just worked out that way and it always gets a laugh from folks when they find out. September 19th is my youngest brother’s birthday, so we will all be eating dinner over at my parents place tonight to celebrate his 25th birthday. He is still living at home, but is working a full time job and saving his money to finally be able to move out on his own, so we are all hoping that this will be the last birthday that he will be celebrating at the old homestead with my parents.

911

Nikki — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 17:16:40 +0000

Today is Sept. 11, 2010, the 9th anniversary of the well known terrorist attack on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon. I understand that there will be many ceremonies being help today to help the survivors and friends and family of the not so lucky victims that didn’t make it out alive.

I noticed that on the calendar it says that it is Patriot Day. I wonder if that is something new that they came up with since 911 or if it always was considered Patriot Day. Something to look into when I have a few moments online. Right now I’m getting ready for a busy weekend, the weather is supposed to be nice, we won’t be having many more weekends of decent weather left so I’m going to try and take in as much as I can while I can.