July 2, 2008

My sister wants a facelift

Filed under: Family,General Living,Health,Shopping — Copa @ 5:26 pm

My older sister tells me that she wants a facelift.  She’s in her mid-fifties now and she is unhappy with the few wrinkles and crows feet and goodness knows whatever else is on her face.  She has always been one to be more than happy to change her body around, she dies her hair, she had breast implants; she wants to look twenty years old forever.

I talked to her on the phone over the weekend (phone calls on my cell phone are free on the weekend, so that’s when I try to call her) and that’s when she told me that she is going to be making an appointment with a Detroit facelift clinic called Accents to have her face stripped, waxed, buffed and polished.  Okay, that’s not what she REALLY said, but as a car enthusiast, that’s what I interpreted it to mean!  All I know is that she plans to do whatever it takes to look as young as humanly possible as long as she has the money to pay for it!

I’ve told her that it’s her life, and her body, and her money, and if that’s what she wants to do with it to make her happy, then I’m all for it.

My secret recipe for Marvelous Macaroni

Filed under: Family,Food,General Living — Copa @ 5:20 pm

My wife cooks a dish she calls “Western Mac” that she and I enjoy quite a bit.  Lately, though, I’ve decided that I want to get involved in some of the food preparation and decided to ask her for the recipe and tinker with it a little bit.  I don’t like onions at all, so usually whenever my wife finds a recipe she wants to try she leaves the onions out.  She complains that the food just doesn’t taste right without the onions, but that’s too bad.

Anyway, I decided to make my own macaroni dish and cooked some macaroni, drained it.  Then I added a pound of cooked low fat ground beef (crumbled) and added a can of crushed tomatoes, a can of tomato soup, and a can of tomato paste.  Mixed it all together and warmed it up, I think it came out yummy!  My wife likes it too, but she adds a little bit of catsup to hers.  So I’m quite pleased that I came up with a meal that my wife enjoys!