Quote of the day:
“You can live to be 100 if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be 100.” — Woody Allen
I thought everyone knew about beanie wienie casserole, but I’ve been discovering that’s not the case. 
Hmmm
… maybe beanie wienie is like the birthday mouse and get-it-yourself
night … traditions unique to my family. As the name suggests,
get-it-yourself night is a night when everyone is responsible for
getting their own dinner. It has actually become the modus
operandi at my parents’ house now that my sisters are all grown up, but
somehow it hasn’t gone over that big over here with Toshi. 
Typical get-it-yourself night fare …
Confession
and cautionary tale: I am addicted to Lucky Charms.
SHHH! That’s a secret between you and me. I can’t have the
stuff in my house or else I would eat it for breakfast, lunch, and
dinner. That’s what sugary cereal deprivation in youth leads to
in adulthood. Yep, they’re magically delicious. 
Well,
video poker in Vegas held me hostage and inhaled all of my summer play
money, so I guess the summer play is pretty much over. Perhaps
it’s time to get back to the real estate course since I’m only on
Chapter 3. Well, wasn’t that money well spent? Apparently I
wasn’t as hard up for things to do this summer as I initially thought I
would be.
The
highlight of Vegas had to be the “bevertainers” at the Rio. For
those who have never had the pleasure of witnessing such a spectacle, a
bevertainer is a cocktail server who periodically steps up on a teeny
tiny stage in the middle of a bank of slot machines and sings a bit
off-key at the top of his/her lungs or attempts to do a seductive dance
number in four square feet of space. To the uninitiated, myself
included, this can be a somewhat shocking development. “What is
the cocktail guy doing up there pretending he’s an extra in a Night at
the Roxbury?” Add to that the fact that my cocktail server looked
EXACTLY like Kevin Spacey (nothing at all like the beefy guy in the
picture below) and the whole thing is just a little wacky.
Poisoned by Fairy Tales 
LOL @ the bevertainers! That would be shocking to see :=DI have a larger version of the pic of my hair, if you would like it. You can email me from my website, and I will send it to you via email
Beanie weenie and Steve McQueen on velvet?I think I have fallen deeply in love with Tosh myself!
I love your family traditions… especially that get it yourself night.
and bevertainer (I initially thought had something to do with flashing one’s crotch or somehing– like beaver-tainering– although that would’ve probably been more entertaining, eh?).