Guacamole Live!

Before moving to Canada I had to work as a server for a little while. It was actually a REALLY fun job! I had amazing bosses and fun coworkers. Plus it was such a fast paced environment, I can't stand boring, slow paced, desk type jobs!

Well, on our menu was something called "Guacamole Live." Pretty much we came to your table and made guacamole from scratch right in front of you. It is so YUMMY! I used to buy one and make it to take home, then eat that for dinner with tortilla chips... WOWZERS!

I made some tonight, so so good! Here is the recipe!

On The Borders Guacamole Live

2 Fresh Avocados
1 lime wedge (1/4 of lime)
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoon tomato, seeded and diced
1 1/2 tablespoons Fresh Jalapenos, diced fine
1 tablespoon red onion, diced fine
1 tablespoon cilantro, chopped

Place avocados in bowl and mash until chunky. Squeeze lime onto avocado.
Add remaining ingredients and mix until desired consistency.

33 weeks...

Apparently my body is a major topic of discussion amongst my co-workers and visitors at the hospital. Here are some I have heard...

-You must be Pregnant... (You think? I don't know many people that get THIS BIG in the belly for nothing!)
-Wow, you are all belly! (Funny since I am 4 pant sizes up in my LOW RISE jeans! and 30 lbs of belly? I think not)
- Are you sure you're not having twins? (Okay, that's REALLY not funny!)
- Well, you're really starting to grow now... (Really? People think it is okay to say that?)
- You look so cute. (Ahh, I can accept that one!)
- I think you're having a girl, because you're getting big in the back. (Fabulous! I know that, but do you have to remind me?)
- I bet you're having a boy, because when you were pregnant last time with a girl, you looked so pretty. (Ummm, did I hear you right? That is just not nice!)
- Oh, wow, my daughter is due in February too, but she has only gained 10 lbs. (I will assume she was heavy to begin with, just to make myself feel better!)
- Your not due till February? Oh, Hmm, "strange look", You look like you're due now! (I think I will just cry now!)

So, all this is making me much more excited to get this baby OUT! Then, all the comments will hopefully "crossing my fingers" be,

- Wow, you lost the weight fast!
- You look so great!
- That is the most adorable baby :)
- Oh, he/she is so sweet!

Come on baby, help your momma out! Lets say... 3-4 more weeks, instead of 7. Deal?
I will love you forever if you cooperate!
I PROMISE!

Though, I already love you so much :)

INVICTUS...

Such a good movie! Makes me want to learn more about Nelson Mandela! When he was sent to prison, he had this poem written on a paper on his cell wall! Pres. Mandela seemed to be a pretty amazing man and did much to change a country! In the movie he gives this poem to the Captain of the South African Rugby team (Feeling he could heal a nation through this teams victory).

Invictus

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

William Ernest Henley

Though, in real life, Nelson mandela gave a portion of "The Man in the Arena" speech to the captian. Here it is...

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt