Road Trip 2014?

Lately I’ve had the urge to get in my car and drive. The funny thing is, I want to drive along the coast of the entire continental United States. No short trips for me. Go big or go home. I talked this up so much that I convinced Louise and her son to go with me. Not that Louise needs much convincing to join on an adventure mind you. She is pretty much game for whatever crazy scheme I can dream up. She’s just awesome that way. We loosely master-minded a plan to drive around the country for about a month next summer. We aren’t sure if we can get the time off. We may have to camp which neither of us knows anything about. I know for a fact that at least two of the four of us get car sick. This is going to be great though. I can feel it in my bones.

Has anyone ever done this type of trip with two kids in tow? Should we camp? How detailed should our itinerary be? How is it possible for the country’s biggest metal rooster statue to be in more than one state? These are the burning questions we need answered.

We looked a map and have a general idea of the route we would take. We found some good websites that list places of interest as we go. So what’s next in planning a trip of this magnitude? Any advice out there?

Next up – Campers, Scamp(ers) and Tents.

Louise’s exploding microwave eggs

Did you know that if you put eggs in a cup of water in the microwave and attempt to cook them for 12 minutes (12 minutes!) that things will not end well? Oh you did know that?

Louise (oh hey Leah!) was utterly convinced that she could boil two eggs by putting them in a cup of water in the microwave. For TWELVE minutes. I believe she must have had a few secret doubts about how this would turn out because she used the small microwave in the back of our office instead of the big expensive one in our break room. This generally indicates that the microwave egg chef believes subconsciously that the cooking process may lead to an explosion.

So here goes nothing says Louise. Two eggs in an oversized Winnie the Pooh coffee cup with water. Into the low watt microwave. 12 minutes and press start. She walks away so as not to have to witness the carnage. Leaning in my office doorway she tells me what she is doing. Me, being the good Thelma that I am, tell her this is a very bad idea and the results may well be disastrous. She of course doesn’t believe me and laughs off my concern. Somewhere around the five minute mark we hear a loud boom from across the hall. Louise stands there with a puzzled look on her face and we both say “what the heck was that?” *lightbulb moment* Louise shouts “Oh! My eggs!” And quickly runs back to check on the situation.

Turns out cooking eggs in the microwave, cup of water or not, will actually result in an explosion with enough force to blow open the microwave door and fling eggs across the room.

Moral of this story? Don’t let your coworkers take photographic evidence of your attempt to boil eggs in the shell in the microwave for 12 minutes unless you want to be a rock star.

Louise – I salute your creative culinary skills. You are a microwave legend.

Legendary Louise on the left, Thelma on the right. Love you L!

Like a BOSS.

The first real lunch break that Leah and I took after TM, which was our first real lunch break in six months, I apparently had a race flashback and this happened:

Let me back up and give a little background information. Paint the scene if you will. We had a relatively peaceful lunch but came outside to this:

Some kind citizen had parked so closely that I couldn’t open my door. Hmm. There was much discussion between myself and Leah (aka Louise, as in Thelma’s better half) and we narrowed it down to the following options:

We can either

A) go back inside, cause a scene, and ask the car’s owner to move it

B) climb in the window.

Decisions decisions…..

Leah was supposed to keep watch and make sure no one was looking or video recording this for five minutes of fame on Youtube. Instead, being the good friend that she is, she documented the ally-oop process for her own enjoyment and now here is it for your viewing pleasure as well.

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