Christine is an Avenger of Sexiness. Her Superpower is helping Hot Mamas grow their Confidence by rediscovering their Beauty. She lives in the Heights in Houston, Texas, works as a boudoir photographer, and writes about running a Business of Awesome. In her spare time, she loves to knit, especially when she travels. She & her husband Mike have a food blog at Spoon & Knife.
I’m listening to Rick Astley while I do some Sunday housework. Feel free to laugh, I love this CD. It makes me want to move and groove while I clean. Plus I love singing along to all of the songs.
What gets you moving and grooving when you need it? I would gladly take some recommendations!
I left out the amusing part of my lunch with Jen yesterday. Ok, wait – there were a lot of amusing parts – but some things are best left at the table between friends! Anyways, when we got the check, Jen was looking at it and figuring out how much her part of the bill was. She put her fingers on the table in the chisanbop pose to count! I almost screamed – I thought I was the only person that knew chisanbop! My Mom taught it when she worked with the gifted & talented program in Kankakee. She was even certified in it.
Does anyone else out there know chisanbop?
Jen sent me an e-mail yesterday to see if I was busy today, and I didn’t have any plans so it was the perfect time to get together at the Fridays where we first met in person. It was a great chance to catch up on life, work – or lack thereof, blog philosophy and so much more. Good times and 3 hours of talking. Could you ask for more? We even took the required self portrait with my cell phone camera. I’ll have to add it to PictureYourself soon!
After I left, I called Mike and then headed over to Ikea. I had to warn him where I was going in case I was never seen again. I have never been to an Ikea in the US – I have only been to them in Germany. I absolutely love Ikea! I’m still amazed that I was only there for an hour and a half. I could have stayed and explored so much longer – but I figured it was wise to get out while I could!
I started to head for home, but instead called Mike again and suggested going to Taste of Texas for dinner. He agreed that it sounded like a good idea, and I went to get in line. It must have been the night for former employees of my job to be there – my old manager, Brian, was leaving just before we got a table, and one of the programmers I worked with, Cody, was there too. After only an hour wait – they told us 60 – 90 minutes – we got a table. Kids these days have no sense of humor. The hostess asks as she takes you to the table, “Are you here to celebrate anything tonight?” I responded with, “Yes, the cows that gave up their lives for our steaks!” I don’t think she got it… At least the waitress thought it was funny! Then again, her name was also Christine, so maybe it’s just a Christine thing.
We’re at Kaveh Kane’s. I don’t like coffee or tea. Or beer, which they also sell here. Mike offered to go over to Crazy Horse Cantina for me to get me a drink to go. I almost asked him to get me a margarita.
Oops. I guess we’re not in New Orleans anymore, where you can get the margaritas – or any drink, really – to go. Damn. And it sounded so good after reading about Dania’s Key Lime Pie.
After a long day at work, Mike and I decided to meet at Josephine’s for dinner. Yummmm… As we finished eating, I noticed a gorgeous sunset was taking place on the edge of town – so he sent me off to chase it to hopefully get photos of it from the same place I took my last skyline photo. (I got some, I’ll post them soon.) We decided to go to Kaveh Kane’s afterwards to hang out. Yes, I’m sitting in a coffee shop on a Friday night, typing this.
I met up with him here after my photo shoot, and there was a man sitting over by the bar. I kept looking at him, over and over. I knew I knew who he was. I definitely recognized him, but I had no clue why. Who was he? Why did he look so familiar? Finally I overheard mention the Flying Fish Sailors. Mike and I looked at each other and said, “Oh! The Flying Fish Sailors!” We heard them last year at the Renaissance Festival and they were FANTASTIC!
Being the geek that I am, I had to go up and say hi and tell him about my confusion over not being able to figure out who he is. Turns out that he is the host of a radio talk show, and he invites all the fans out to Kaveh Kane’s once a month to hang out. We just so happened to hit fan night.
Good food at Josephine’s and now this … this night is really making up for the day I had! Now I want a copy of their CD so hopefully I can get this Haul U-Haul Hual song out of my head… (Psst… you DVN fans will probably love these guys!)