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Lime and onion

MAHI MAHI MAUI STYLE
1 1/2 lb. mahi mahi
2 tbsp. butter, divided
1 clove garlic
1 tbsp. teriyaki sauce
2 tbsp. lemon juice
1 tsp. honey
1 tbsp. sesame seeds

In skillet set at 250 degrees or medium heat, melt 1 tablespoon butter; add garlic and saute until tender. Remove from heat. Stir in teriyaki, lemon juice, honey and sesame seeds. Pour over fish and marinate 30 minutes.
Heat 1 tablespoon butter in skillet. Set at medium heat. Add fish and saute 4-5 minutes on each side, basting with marinade.

Mahi Mahi Maui style with white rice

I don't have my son's flair for food arrangement, so it was served with a simple side of white rice. I had to substitude a white onion for garlic and a lime for lemon juice. I had to work with what I had in stock and I'm out of garlic. I don't know why. I also thought I had one of those little plastic lemons with the lemon juice inside but I don't have that, either. By the way, "Mahi Mahi Maui" is really fun to say. More fun to eat.

Tommy and his camera

Tommy's camera does not have an LCD screen like mine does, but he still flips the camera around to show me what picture he's taken. I'll have you know that he's very talented at taking imaginary pictures. His new fascination has been with the movie, Spiderwick. I laugh that Tom had thought the movie would be too scary for him. He's got just about all the dialogue memorised. My review on that movie and Demetri Martin's stand-up, Person, will come soon.

The title says it all. I found Scoop for $3.99 at Blockbuster today and I'm so excited! Hurray!

Here is a great video from Turner Classic Movies. This is one of my favorite channels and sadly I don't get it any more (damn Charter....). I first discovered the channel in 8th grade when I watched Easter Parade for my Judy Garland project. The great thing about this channel is that before and after the movies, someone comes on and gives a brief history of the movie that is about to play. They also give really interesting facts about the movie. Here is a video that came on before The Miracle of Morgan's Creek.

Okay, so every once in a while Star 94 has a contest that is similar to Survivor, but it is much less dangerous. 8 contestants have to live in 2 cars and they can only get out to occasionally have a bathroom break and to eat, but only at specific times. It started yesterday and I learned that someone that I've known since middle school is going to be one of the contestants. Now, she and I never really got along, but I am voting other people off so that she can stay in. Oh, did I mention that the person who stays the longest gets to keep the car that they had to live in the entire month? Right now Roxanne is in a Red Milan and I really hope that she does win. So, if you get the chance vote other people off (I'm glad I learned that before I voted because I would have probably voted her off on accident). Here is the link!!!!

Star 94: Ultimate Reality Show

Live Webcam, Text The Contestants, and Confessionals

Haikus are poems
They are quite enjoyable
I can't write them.

That was inspired by a note that Tucker wrote....his was actually funny though.

Keep clicking on this picture until it's big enough to read. I promise it will get there, it's just stubborn.

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Bailey on the couch

Bailey's father picked her up several hours later than what he had told her, but I'm not complaining. When she went, Tommy decided to take out his anger about the situation on me. The poor thing is out of siblings for two weeks until Bailey returns and then August when his big brothers come home.

Being down to one kid is a very odd feeling. It will make going places easier, for the most part, but with the weather rolling in predictably when Tom is finished with his workday - which is earlier than the standard workday so with cooperative weather I'd have good light and dramatic shadows to play with - there's still not a whole lot I can do... unless I muster up the courage to start photographing lightning. I've come to view Florida lightning as especially dangerous and unpredictable, but I also have to photograph lightning to bring all these ideas in my head into reality. This one-child timeframe is complicated further with Tom going to Jacksonville from the 7th to the 10th. But it's only three days plus some travel. He'll work with me, I'm sure. He has been so far. It's a real downer that he'll be out of town on his birthday.

I haven't concreted any plans for the fourth. Tom keeps asking me what we're going to do. I don't even know what we'll do just the three of us. With the way Indy hates thunderstorms, I think the fireworks in the neighbourhood are going to freak him out. Wherever we go, maybe we should bring him with us.

We had hotdogs for lunch but are still planning to have bratwurst for dinner. We need to do some shopping first, for propane and also for milk. Tommy was very creative in arranging his lunch, using one of Bailey's paint palettes. Thank goodness it was thoroughly cleaned out and disinfected!

Tommy's creative lunch display

Tom, Tommy, and Lt. Brad Wasmus

My Sunday was pretty uneventful. After I delivered a print to CCFEMS 12, we had breakfast, went shopping and stopped by CCFEMS 7 so Tom could see an old friend. There wasn't much else to the day after that, just relaxing. We had subs and watched Spiderwick again.

Bailey starts her two-week visitation with her father this afternoon. It's the longest she's been away from home and, of course, they're taking her all the way to Chicago instead of considering the possibility that she's going to get homesick [read: miss her mother] at some point. I don't remember if I'm supposed to meet him in Punta Gorda or if he's coming here. He was supposed to email and didn't. So, I'll see if he calls me in a panic because I'm not in Punta Gorda, or if he shows up here. I think because he's taking her on Tommy's birthday and there was the disagreement about it, he knows I'm not going out of my way.

I actually wouldn't mind going to Punta Gorda today. It'd be a good opportunity to find those South County Park geocaches.

While the older boys have decided not to go on visitations when they're old enough to not be forced (13, I think?) (they know better than I do), Tommy is the only child that never has to go anywhere. So, I guess we're looking at camps or my parents' house when he gets a little older. Then again, I really hate having an empty house.