or 8,415,180 minutes. or 140,253 hours. or 16 years.

That’s how long Kelsie has been alive as of 9:01pm on March 10th. I met Kelsie’s mom (also known as my wife, Wendy) when Kelsie was 4 years old and we’ve never looked back.

Happy Birthday chid!

I did not know that a Reese’s Pieces Blizzard directly counteracted the effects of PMS until just now.

I’m filing that one for reference.

pms, reese’s pieces, dairy queen, shawnw

Long story short, we got Chinese takeout last night, my wife wasn’t home at the time but I got her some Sweet and Sour pork, she got home and ate Kelsie’s General Tso’s on accident. She also poured the remaining sweet and sour sauce on the Tso’s. So, we have plenty of leftover breaded chicken but no sauce.

Kelsie’s hungry, so I look up a sweet and sour sauce recipe in Google and find this:

2 tbsp. cornstarch
1/2 c. sugar
1/4 c. white vinegar
1/4 c. pineapple juice
2 tsp. soy sauce
1/4 c. water

We didn’t have any cornstarch, so we replaced it with 1 tbsp. flour and whisked it real good, heating the mixture on medium just until it started to boil, then we removed it from heat.

I’m posting because I can’t believe how good this simple recipe is! I’m saying this is fantastic sauce! While it was warming it smelled a little vinegar-y but it turned out fantastic. Next time you make home made sweet and sour sauce, give this little recipe a shot. The recipe above made enough for about two servings.

food, sweet and sour, general tso, shawnw

Make sure and call up your Dad today and tell him you love him, and wish him a Happy Father’s Day! To the right is a pic of my pops on one of the first Crashes we did in eXchange. Click the image to see the full set.

Dad and I had chinese at the local buffet (we didn’t eat like it was a buffet; it’s just that the take out place is sloooow) where we talked about a bunch of different stuff. Then, we closed with our favorite chinese buffet dessert. One cup of vanilla ice cream, another full of Fanta orange. Mix to make a scrumptious impromptu orange dreamsicle-like substance. It’s oh-so-delish!

My wife also picked me up a new Starbucks coffee mug (that looks like their paper cups) plus some chocolate covered espresso beans. All in all, a fantastic Father’s Day.

Oh yeah… Kels slept in for Father’s Day. Imagine that. :)

fathers day, starbucks, shawnw

Kelsie turns 15 today (that’s her stuffed in a trash can at church). Yowza! I can remember just yesterday when I met her mom. Kelsie had just turned four, and I was visiting Wendy when Kelsie came out (you know, that little four year old pitter patter… wait, who am I kidding; she was a holy terror, even then!) and her and I chatted about this and that, I did the “take my thumb off” trick, and she looked at me like I was an idiot.

Somehow, I knew at that point that this was going to be very interesting.

So, happy birthday kid. You rock.

kelsie, birthday, shawnw