Chuy's

So, my brother works at the Chuy's here and so I have been a number of times since it opened... and I have to say they have some very good veggie options!! The other night I had the Veggie Enchiladas with charro beans (no pork in any of their beans!) and the hatch chili rice. My brother had been suggesting them for a while... and WOW was he right!! They are awesome!!! I totally suggest they be tried! All sorts of grilled veggies stuffed inside blue corn tortillas in a covered in hatch chili sauce.... AMAZING!!!

Vegan in tha 'Co????

Getting back to the ole hometown has been quite an experience....But the most striking is the fact that now that I don't eat meat, and was for the most part going vegan in FTW....I have no clue what to eat in this town.... I always brag that our saving grace is the great food.... I mean... Come on!!! Whatever you want in the delicious food department, the ole hometown has... and boy do those local places do it right!!!! Not in a chain restaurant crappy mass produced type way either!! Want a great handmade bacon potato egg cheese and bean breakfast burrito that will really fill you up?? Leal's will do it any way you want it and make it tasty and huge!! And their salsa is awesome.... Craving a pizza?? Poppa Rollos peperoni on thin and crispy with garlic butter... cheesy, crispy pepperoni goodness will fill that void... Maybe you want a soup and sandwich? Original Schmaltz-no tomato-with Wisconsin cheddar soup and a delicious fountain Big Red is blue plate greatness... Piles of Nachos is your hankering? Those Panchos Nachos at La Fiesta and a big old margarita hit the spot every time... How bout just pure sinful delightful indulgent greatness?? Gut-pack served right up at Vitek's!! What did you say? A burger??? Well what type do you want??? Because the great burger joints are legendary.... Double-R, Bill & Bobs, Kitoks with a side of those oriental fries,Cupp's Drive In, Health Camp, the legendary Kim's and of course, where they still beat those patties like my great grandmother taught 'em, Captain Billy's.....But what on earth am I going to eat as a vegetarian?? This is the land of all things MEAT!!! In FTW and even the big DCO eating vegetarian was like an adventure, a whole new menu opened up... but here  I'm stumped!! I have NO craving to eat meat, I just, for once, have no idea of what's good to eat here that doesn't include a slab of death..... So... I have decided as I explore, and venture out from moms I am going to do a review of the best vegetarian dishes in the ole 254!! Bring it on!! I challenge you to a meatless tasty adventure!

Shoe Issues

Packing up my closet getting ready to move and came across the dress I wore at law school graduation and remember a shoe disaster that day... I seem to always be having shoe issues... Maybe it's me?? I have had some serious shoe mishaps...

TOP 5

5. Heel on my most favorite strappy pumps with the crystal encrusted heels breaking at JN's SMU volleyball game--don't ask why I was wearing such fancy shoes to VB... I'm still not sure... Let's just say I adored those shoes...

4. Getting my pumps stuck in the grate outside the front doors of the DCO Courthouse in front of security at 8:30 on a Monday... Tripped out of shoe and had to bend down and yank out of metal grate a la wedding planner... Very cool moment for me.. The security guys all laughed and teased me for weeks.

3. Showing up to my externship in CACU in TCO  wearing 2 different black pumps... I thought my back was all screwed up b/c I was limping when I left my house that morning.. Nope just 2 different height heels... Oh and it was raining crazy bad that day so forever more there was one dramatically more weathered shoe from each pair...

2. Heel breaking off in court last week... And having to still do a plea (on another attorney's client!) in front of the Judge, DA's, court staff, bailiffs, EVERYONE and hobble around the rest of the day "air walking" with literally only one heel... Loved the strange looks I received!! (see above pic)

1. Law School Graduation... I am sure the 5 bottles of champagne in the mimosas I brought in 44oz Styrofoam cups had nothing to do with my issues ... On my way from the garage (with giant paper bag with my ladies drinks in my arms) to the pit my (luckily) leather wrapped heel broke in two... I am sure it was totally the shoes fault that I stumbled down the flight of stairs after getting my diploma from Prof T... Thankfully I fell/stumbled straight into the waiting arms of KB at the turn of the stairs... Otherwise who knows where I would have ended up... So glad she was there... It could have been embarrassing!!

So is it me??

First Blog

So... guess I'm popping the proverbial blog cherry... I just never have really thought that I had anything to say that people would want to read, and feared the whole exposing myself to the www... that scary place that anyone could access you... but I have decided to bite the bullet... join the new millennium... So... with that I am starting my very own blog... not sure yet exactly what I will write about... no kids to fill my day... no big travels or adventures planned... yet! I, however, am planning on the 2010's being the best decade yet, so there shall be many adventures to fill this blog... so for today we will start with where I am in my life right now... I am about to turn 31 in a little over a month and am putting my career on hold, taking a leave of absence from the law firm I built with my partner, and moving home with my mother to help her with my grandmother who is in her last months in this life... ahh... the ups and downs of life! Who could have ever guessed I would ever voluntarily be moving back in with mom!!