My friend Summer and I had some great dining experiences today. For lunch, we went to a little Japanese restaurant near our house. We ordered these cute little "Bento boxes." It was a great presentation! I got teriyaki beef, and it came with rice, salad, sushi and tempura veggies.
For dinner, we kept driving around until we found something that sounded interesting. We finally saw a place called Roy's Hawaiian Fusion. We didn't realize how fancy it was until we got inside, but this was the first restaurant I've been to where the hostess puts the napkin in your lap for you! I ordered Uncle Yomi's shrimp Caesar salad and it was one of the top 5 salads of my life!! What you see in the picture is actually a bundle of lettuce and chipotle Caesar dressing, wrapped with an onion ring and some shrimp on the side. So good...
This is the first time I have ever house sat, and it has been an experience! My friend went out of town for a week, leaving me to watch her 3 dogs (pugs), 2 cats and 2 fish tanks. For those who don't know, I'm not really much of a pet person, so this was kind of a challenge. For the dogs, one was older and blind, one was big, young and hyper, and the other was kind of small and suspicious, always skittering away and barking. For the cats, one was pretty normal but always on the lookout for a way to escape, and the other was the most geriatric cat I have ever seen, it was painful to watch her climb the stairs! Fish tanks are fish tanks, so not much to say there. I have had quite a few restless nights due to dogs barking at nothing and it feels good to be back in my own bed. I will miss the cable tv in the bedroom, but I will be house sitting again in July!
So, Friday I got all moved into my new house. By the way, I am NEVER moving myself again! I hired movers for the first time and it was amazing! They were so fast and efficient, and best of all, I hardly had to do anything! They even put everything in the right rooms, so now all I have to do is unpack. I will have to put up pictures of the new place once I am all unpacked.
I had Chinese food for dinner the other night, and my fortune says a lot. "Others are anxious to get to know you better." Maybe I will have to be more social in the upcoming year!
So, today my friend Patty asked me to help her move the world!! The school year is done and today was the day to clean out classrooms, and for many teachers time to move to a new classroom. Our school is starting a new freshman academy next year, and many teachers had to move in order to put all the freshman classes together in a few hallways. I also had to pack up all my stuff to move to my new office, as I have been asked to be the Special Education Facilitator for next year. I am a little overwhelmed, but I am looking forward to it. I am also moving to a new house tomorrow. Mary moved back to Utah today, and already I miss her. I am moving across town with a few girls I know into a very nice house. All this moving sure makes me tired!!
So, I like living in Las Vegas. Really, I do. There are times however when I can't stand the neighborhood I'm in. Times like this morning, when I am getting into my car at 6am to go to work, and the window has been shattered. It looks like somebody shot a bebe through it. I called Karen (because I have no clue what one does in this situation) and then I called the police. They told me that I could leave my number and an officer would call me in a day or maybe a week, or I could drive over to the local substation which opens at 8. I went to work and then went to the substation on my prep. Apparently, they don't even look at the car. I just filled out the paperwork and was out of there in 20 minutes. Then, I called the insurance company, and all they told me was that my deductible is so high it's not covered, but hey, we'll connect you with the glass place. Boy, were they helpful! So the glass repair people are coming to my work tomorrow to replace the window, for which I will have to pay $260. Of course this leaves me driving around for the rest of the day in my totally ghetto car. Every time I go over a bump I can hear pieces of glass falling out. I'm afraid that if there's a wind storm tonight I will wake up to find my entire window in pieces on the floor of my car!
To top off my fabulous day, our principal decided to announce that he's been hired somewhere else. Apparently he's going to be a lobbyist for the school district up at the state legislature in Carson City. I think he'll be great at it, but I LOVE my principal!! He's the entire reason I work at Del Sol. He IS Del Sol. Hopefully his replacement will be good. :-(
For dinner, we kept driving around until we found something that sounded interesting. We finally saw a place called Roy's Hawaiian Fusion. We didn't realize how fancy it was until we got inside, but this was the first restaurant I've been to where the hostess puts the napkin in your lap for you! I ordered Uncle Yomi's shrimp Caesar salad and it was one of the top 5 salads of my life!! What you see in the picture is actually a bundle of lettuce and chipotle Caesar dressing, wrapped with an onion ring and some shrimp on the side. So good...
