Cancun Café - Murray, Utah

(Written by Tiffany)
We have decided to start a restaurant critique portion of our blog.  This will be the first post, but not the first restaurant we have critiqued.  We'll post others later, as we get time.

So Brian bought a google offer thing on Friday.  It was $24 worth of food for $12.  Yep, we love deals.  I was excited to get horchata.  I was starving after a long work day, so was excited about the chips and salsa appetizer.  The salsa was average, and the chips were very much lacking in salt.  I put salt on them, but it's not the same as if they had salt on them to begin with.

I ordered the "chichen-itza" platter.  It came with 3 enchiladas, my choice of cheese, beef, or chicken.  I found out that I could have one of each, so I did.

Brian ordered a carne asada platter that came with 3 tortillas.  He got flour.

Yep, that was pretty boring.  I said we were going to critique restaurants, not that it would be exciting.

Brian's new truck

We went car shopping today...not really intending to buy anything, but we got sucked in like a vacuum in space.

Long story short, we got a 2004 Chevy Colorado.  It's tan.  It's also a stick shift.  The salesman had to teach Brian how to drive it.  He's still going to need some practice.  =)  We both love it.  Now I really want it to be summer so we can fully utilize it for what it was intended...camping, drive-in movies, and COUCHING!

On a random note, we also went to Denny's for breakfast.  I got a skillet meal, and Brian got "Moons over my hammy".  His sandwich was delicious.  I ate some of it.  He also ate some of my skillet meal.

Dream house

Well... As the title implies we are planning on a dream house. And I tell you what! It's the most awesomest dream house you have never seen! The list tallies as described:
- 3 floors including a basement
- lots of land where we can do whatever we want with it
- Next to a beach or creek
- Have a laundry room with a window in it as well with a table so it would be a craft room too
- A firefighter pole (why explain this?)
 - One theater room that will have the only tv in the whole house
- 3 car garage
- Kitchen with hibachi stove top
and many more things...

I often think about other people looking at this list and saying this will never happen. They might as well spit on it then step on it with their gum-sole-shoe. I don't understand this line of thinking. Henry ford and many others like him has said "Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right." Of course I don't think it's going to come out of nowhere. Most things never come without any effort. But I know where it starts is a belief that this can happen. For years I been looking at quotes from famous people and it seems that there's a common theme.
1st- Never believe you can't do it.
2nd- Work hard for it.
3rd- Never give up on it.

If anyone thinks logically on it it makes sense. If you work on something for so long and hard you will eventually receive results. That's true with anything. But where it all starts is a belief in it yourself.

The lone empty room

<p>"So now we are one less tenant in our house... so would anyone like to live with us? $300 a month for the room. It's all we're asking. We will have free WiFi and..."</p>
<p>I feel every time I ask this question I'm asking them to really take a part in our lives and at least hang out with us. Because truly, what we want is someone more than acquaintance to get along with. At least for me just someone to share our family time with. I was raised in knowing that a house is a shelter full of relaxation and the freedom to share ideas and thoughts. Being a family without being an actual family is all that I'm asking. But maybe it's too much.</p>
<p>I invited my friend Rudy to live with us. It would be closer to his job and as well he would be more independent from his family and actually being on his own. But the best reason is Tiffany and I will get along with him the best. We can trust him. And he won't be afraid to hang around in the house. It would've been like a brother living in the house.. without any blood ties, like a real family would be.</p>
<p>The other tenants I liked them but I wanted to be closer to them. Maybe I'm yearning for more family. Or more friends to be around us. But the other tenants wanted to be by themselves always. I wonder on my times alone that when we grow up we tend to separate ourselves into our lives. Just distance ourselves from one another. What kind of life is a life without fond people to be around. I don't understand it. These might be one of my other deep thoughts to think about. But in this lonesome world that we live in sometimes I think maybe there's a better way to be doing things than what my other tenants have done. But in the end some people will always be in a lone empty room.</p>

Teen mom...

Tiffany and I are watching teen mom. And before you think we really are wasting brain cells (which I sort of agree) its actually emotionally gripping. I never yell at the tv for anything. But when these 18 year old somethings get in there little dramas with their baby mamas and daddies it really pinches a nerve... in a good way... And bad way.

I sort of can compare with my family. And how my parents dealt with all the problems that come with having a family. And looking at teen mom makes me appreciate what I have and also makes me appreciate what I didn't have as well.

For example, I didn't have a mom that nagged for a new car instantly when the car broke down, or I didn't have a family that nagged at me for making a decision that they didn't agree with, I never had a mom that thought having a social life was mire important than tending to a child, and I always had a family that always was understanding me.

So seeing this show helps me  appreciative of my life ... And whatever else of an excuse to watch this show.

A dog lesson

The wretched monster

I never have liked dogs. Ever since I was little I liked the idea of having one. But then while I was walking home from somewhere when I was 3 or 4 years old a mean Rottweiler came to the edge of his fenced yard and started snarlingly barking at me. In my mind I just knew he would somehow run through the fence and try to attack me. So what would a 3 or 4 something year old do in a situation like this. Just cry. Cry out of fear. And that was my introduction to dogs. They are merciless creatures bent on biting everything they can hook their teeth on. Even little boys.

Fast forward 18 or 19 years later. My wife all of a sudden had a dog land on her lap and now he is sipping his water bowl at our kitchen as I write this. I'm skeptical at dogs. Is he going to bite everything off? Is he going to pee everywhere, even on my computer while i'm typing? Am I going to fight to the death for my life from this foul wretched beast? He may be small but those are usually the smartest kind...so I'm told. So While my wife embraced him with arms wide open. I tolerated him with arms latched closed like a vault in fort knox with a gun in one hand and a serrated edge on the other. I was ready for him to show his true colors.

After a couple of days the dog seemed to be calm and relaxed. I had my wide eyes on him though. I keep looking to see any moment he will snap to his true nature! But after 3 days of seeing him walk up to me then just lying down beside me. Not a bark, not a bite, just simply lying down I started thinking "Maybe I misjudged you."

I thought for awhile about this. Me judging the dog before I really knew him is like that in the human sense of things aswell. Don't we prejudge things before we actually look at them too. We look at each other thinking we know all about everything and everyone but really we don't know much about anything or anyone until they come directly to our face. We only see part of the puzzle so-to-speak, until we see the whole picture then we only see little pieces. So like this calm dog I severely misjudged so as it is to people we misjudge. Don't judge the whole puzzle until the whole picture is in full view of you. At least that is what I learned from this dog lesson.

Sweet dreams are made of these....?

Normally I have dreams of the random sort. Just put in a bunch of zombies in a nation with a rambling dictator trying to kill everyone and then I come in attempting to save the day and witness the fall of me or said dictator in my epic heroic dreams. But that's nothing compared to what my wife dreams late at night.

Recently my wife told me that she had a dream that she was dating David Archuletta. Knowing my wife she doesn't like David Archuletta. He looks like a 14 year old proposing he's 18, and has no manly aspects to him that my wife can stare her googly eyes upon. But it looks her subconscious disagrees and he's enough of a dream boat to hang out with him. She was wondering what would I think if I found out about this date affair but she reasoned she isn't doing anything that is wrong with him just simply hanging out. To be honest this wasn't really that scandalous....At least compared to her other dream...

Two words. Josh. Groban... My enemy. Everywhere I turn there he is mocking me with his triumphant voice. We once rented a movie in redbox just to see Josh Groban make a cameo appearance. My wife is head over heels in "love" with Josh Groban. So when she dreams with Josh it is huge! She starts out the dream in a Michael Buble concert. Front row of course, and guess who is beside her sitting there with that big happy smirk. The big J.G. himself with his arm around Tiffany. They enjoy the concert and then after the concert they "simply" kiss. I'm not sure how long the "simple" kiss was but i'm sure it will not happen again as long as I'm guarding her lips with mine! Then afterwards they appear in Hinckley, Utah (a little town in the middle of Utah) with many girls circling around them wondering if they kissed. Tiffany seeing their wonder blurts out "Yes, we kissed!" with a high giggle smirk and her pinkie to her mouth the other girls faint at the thought that Josh didn't kiss them as he did with Tiffany. She admitted this was one of the best dreams she ever had. She also admitted she only had this dream before we married only when we were dating. But still. Josh if you are somehow reading this. Mark my words. Stay away. -_-