INGREDIENTS

• * 3/4 cup light corn syrup
• * 1/4 cup margarine
• * 2 teaspoons cold water
• * 2 5/8 cups confectioners’ sugar
• * 1 cup marshmallows
• * 5 quarts plain popped popcorn

DIRECTIONS

1. In a saucepan over medium heat, combine the corn syrup, margarine, cold water, confectioners’ sugar and marshmallows. Heat and stir until the mixture comes to a boil. Carefully combine the hot mixture with the popcorn, coating each kernel.
2. Grease hands with vegetable shortening and quickly shape the coated popcorn into balls before it cools. Wrap with cellophane or plastic wrap and store at room temperature.

My mom and grandmother both came to visit Melissa & I this week.  It was pretty fabulous and I hope to elaborate a little more, but I would like to include a few pictures first.

The Padre Island Burger Company is pretty good, and I pretty much recommend it.  Definately the best burgers on the Island and possibly the entire coastal bend area!

Over the last few weeks Mel and I have been going to the beach two to three times per week.  It’s been a good time and a relaxing one for sure.  I have been attending school at Del Mar College… If I didn’t already tell you, I am in their Respiratory Therapy program, they guaranteed me acceptance to that and so I took the opportunity.

In other news, I am not as vague as I once was — probably because I don’t have the time anymore to be cryptic and ominous about life and happenings, I also am not embarrassed by what I’ve been doing.

We canceled the Dish Network we had because we have been watching movies on Netflix streaming through my X-Box.

We also get DVD’s almost daily from netflix, we watch and then send them back out sometimes the very same day.  I don’t know if that’s efficiency or some kind of neurosis.

I have enjoyed my little blog here, I should do this more often.

• Photoshop Brush Pack 1
• Photoshop Brush Pack 2
• Font: Angryblue – PC/Mac
• Font: Angryblue Controlled – PC/Mac

http://www.angryblue.com

*These are not hosted here, but instead are directly linked to where Angryblue links from.

The brushes included here have been some that I have used since like, what…2000? I don’t know but its been awhile, and I still use them on a regular basis. I hope you get a kick out of them and make sure you check out Angryblue.

You know…giving a panhandler a dollar is not throwing it away, its giving them another chance to better their lives. If they make an other mistake with your dollar, maybe they wont with the next dollar they receive. In short, every gift you give to the homeless is another chance. Why not give them another chance?

Some places to give in addition to loose change

Nashville Rescue Mission
- www.nashvillerescuemission.org
639 Lafayette St, Nashville – (615) 255-2475

Mother Teresa Shelter
- motherteresashelter.org
513 Sam Rankin St, Corpus Christi – (361) 883-7372

INGREDIENTS

• Salt
• 1/2 pound short whole wheat pasta
• 4 large red bell peppers, tops cut off and reserved, seeded
• Black pepper
• 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil (EVOO), plus more for drizzling
• 4 jarred roasted red peppers
• 1 small red onion, finely chopped
• 2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
• 2 small portobello mushroom caps, chopped
• 1 teaspoon crushed red pepper
• 2 sprigs rosemary, stems discarded and leaves chopped
• One 28-ounce can fire-roasted crushed or diced tomatoes
• 2 cups arugula or baby spinach (a few generous handfuls)
• 1 cup loosely packed basil leaves
• 1 cup grated pecorino-romano cheese

Melissa and I met up with her Uncle Craig.  He was attending the 135th Imperial Council (Shriners International), so we drove up.  She and I arrived around 1pm (1300) cst.  It was pretty amazing, every one I spoke to told me I just *had* to see the river walk, well – I couldn’t help it if I wanted to, the Riverwalk takes up almost the entire downtown area, and is amazing, to say the least.

We visited the Alamo, where 30 Tennesseans and 6(I might be wrong) Missourians, and 0 Michiganders died in service to the Republic of Texas.  We also toured probably around 7-10 souvenir shops.  Then around 530 (1730) we met up with Mel’s Uncle Craig, who treated us to Fillet Mignon at a nearby Pub that had an amazing atmosphere.  Jamming delta-blues (I know, crazy right?) and some newer blues (Johnny Lang, etc) too.  He had some of the largest pork chops I have ever seen, and he also treated us to an appetizer of chicken and fried alligator.   We continued to walk around after dinner and saw some-more of the sights and scenery.  San Antonio is a gorgeous city, and aside from the large amounts of homeless people, it is pretty incredible.   As a side note, Texas has a surprising amount of homeless & panhandlers.  I can’t carry cash with me anymore, I give it all away.  Mel suggested I carry fiber-one bars with me instead, so I started this week.  Check flickr for photos if you’re interested, I uploaded a couple this morning.

I have been really enjoying my time here in Texas.  While I have time off from work, I have been getting up before dawn with Melissa and cooking breakfast and preparing her lunch.  She works 12 hour shifts so it doubles as time I get to see her, and I also get a good kickstart on the day.

I am still working on Dani & Trey’s photos, and I can promise they are almost done. You can see one of the teasers there to the right.

I have also been jamming some Delta Blues pretty hard, also some Tom Waits.  He is a lyrical genius, and his musicianship is unmatched.  I have been jamming him for around 10 years now, but I just recently got more of his albums and have been really listening.

You get more time to do things like that when you are not taking summer classes and you have time off from work.

Though I have to say, regular house chores only list 5 items long took me 9 hours yesterday.  Wow, I can’t even imagine how much more difficult it would be if there were kids running around wrecking things behind me.

Anyway, More photos to come! Melissa & I setup a joint flickr account for our families to see.  Stay tuned!