Holiday Update

It's been a while since I've blogged... and I'm still feeling bad about not being more regular about it... but it's been a busy end of the year. The new job position has been challenging... and having the travel part of it my 2nd week was even more stress...

LUCKILY!!!! The 2nd week was SOOOOOOOO much better than the first. My trainee's in Fort Worth, TX were so nice. They even gave me a card and would love for me to come back.

Anyway, the journey home was crazy... it was a holiday weekend in one of the busiest airports in the US (DFW)... I finally got home around 11pm Friday night... went to a hockey game on Saturday... and to East TN on Sunday for Christmas.

I love seeing my family around the holiday... but had to leave on Tuesday (Christmas evening).

I was sooo glad to chill on Wednesday... I had a crazy pile of laundry from too much time away. I initially planned a shopping day... but was so exhausted... I stayed home all day and was domestic (another thing I dislike)...

Wow... this post is dragging on... I'll post more later... but... there's been crazier things that happened last week...and there is a crapload of Buenos Aires pics/video's that I havent shown...

I hope y'all forgive me! Please stay tuned!!!!

An apology & more

Hey, y'all... so sorry I've been bad about posting new blogs recently. I've been really busy and havent really taken time to blog... frig... this is the first year in about 6 that I didnt even get around to sending Christmas Cards... I feel horrible.

Anyway, I'm in Fort Worth, TX this week for work. Hopefully I will have a better week than last week and have time to blog...

I did read about a website that is going to be a new favorite for me though & thought I would share it with all of you. It's hilarious... this guy takes photos of regular people...and morphs/photoshops celebrity faces on there...

www.planethiltron.com

ENJOY!!!

Circle of Yum Yum Yum

So we went to Radius 10 last night for a celebratory dinner with our friends Casey & Shane... She just accepted a new job, ergo the celebration.

I've been interested in trying this restaurant for some time. It's in a very hip part of Nashville, The Gulch. It's basically downtown and there are a lot of condo developments and restaurants there (we went to Watermark there for my birthday). It's an area I'd seriously consider living in if I wanted a condo... although I'd probably prefer to be right in the downtown core.

Anyway... on to the food... they came out with a complimentary amuse bouche of salmon & meditteranean dressing/something or other. I'm not crazy about salmon and didnt love it, but Hal did.

For the first course, I chose a Kobe Beef Short Rib on a bed of black truffle grits. It was A-M-A-Z-I-N-G. So freaking good I couldve had several of those as my entree... C&S had a calamari appetizer... I'm not a fan of that... apparently it was good though... but the conclusion amongst the table was that my dish was the best.

On to the main course... I had a special dish for the night, Veal Chops. Someone else had a veggie dish (fennel & leek something). Another had beef filet & Hal had Salmon of some sort.

My Veal was to die for... it was so tender & delicious. The only drawback was the bed of sweet potato cake/something that it was on top of. I didnt really like that, but the Veal was slap yo mama good. Everyone also agreed that my entree was the best.

For dessert, Hal & I chose a banana souflee while C&S opted for some yummy ice cream. The banana souflee was also divine.

So bottom line was that the restaurant was a very nice, hip, energetic, well-designed space. I really enjoyed my food also and will definitely return. I just hope that when I do go back, they have the Veal again.

More Argentina posts coming at some point...

Again, so sorry that my postings about Argentina have been slow in posting here... We have some finished, but when uploaded to Youtube... the quality is so crappy that I dont even want to post it... so we are researching how to improve the quality...

Bottom Line: I'll have more Buenos Aires posts as soon as we figure out the kinks.

Anyway, TGIF, y'all!!! I'm excited about the weekend. Tonight we are going out to dinner at a trendy restaurant in the Gulch area of Nashville with some friends. I've been anxious to try this restaurant for a while... it's received great reviews. So tonight is the night!

Last night, we went to a party that Hal's company does for their clients... it's an open bar at a country club... so it doesnt take much convincing to get me in the door!

Tomorrow night is his company dinner for their office staff & significant others... it's a small group and is always fun.

I'm getting anxious about next week, y'all! On Monday, I start delivering my first customer training session in Nashville... I've been in this position for 2 months, but have just been observing others to get a feel for how to approach the trainings. I'm ready to get the first one out of the way to be honest.

The following week, I'm headed to Fort Worth, TX to deliver a training to a group of clients. I'm looking forward to that actually b/c I want to go shopping in Dallas... who knows, maybe I'll do a talky while I'm there!!! Stay tuned.

A special day in history...

Today is a special day!!! It's the birthday of one of my favorite people in the world & very entertaining blogger, Josh (Whitney if you are in the know).

I met Josh when he briefly lived in Nashville several years ago...and we've kept in touch even though it seems like he has moved 80 times (Florida, LA, Chicago, San Francisco & now Philly)... Getting to see him once or so a year is always a fun time that I look forward to.

Live it up today, Whit!

Love ya,
Mimi

(Ps... sorry this birthday shout out doesnt even compare to the clip you made for my birthday)

BsAs (Part Four)

Alright... SO SORRY about the delay in getting posts from BsAs on here, but there's a lot more to getting it all together than would appear.

Anyway... On Sunday... we slept kinda late of course... considering I was quite buzzed the previous night (as proven in the previous vlog post), it was necessary.

We got up pretty much just in time to run down to a small take-out lunch/bakery... I had a yummy quiche & Hal had a couple of empanadas... The desserts looked AWESOME and I'm still sad I didnt get a chance to sample them.

After scarfing that down quickly, it was time to be picked up by a tour company to go to a soccer game! I made a video for you all to see.


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I tried to upload that video on youtube, but the quality sucked... it didnt match the original. The Veoh upload still doesnt look as good as the original wmv, but we couldnt figure out the problem.

Anyway, the video's a bit compressed... Hal said a bunch of parts that I found cute were "boring" ... I disagree... but he is doing the editing work, so I didnt fight that battle.

After the soccer game, we came home to check the scores of the American football games... it just so happened that I won the contest Hal & I had going on (which I blogged about a while back). As a result, he owes me a dinner anywhere I want to go... it was nice to win that on the day we attended a real "Futbol" game in South America.

Post football, we walked down to a pizzeria right across from our apartment... it was nice to avoid a scary taxi ride.

Unfortunately, there are no more video blogs of this night... but we later went out to Alsina nightclub. It was a lot of fun... it was in a beautiful building that was once a fabulous mansion. There were hot Go-Go Boys & Girls dancing in cages & a large regular people dance floor... I actually had to participate...and that's not one of my usual activities.

We also ran into two familiar American faces there... we originally saw them in the airport in Miami before the flight down there... I'll talk about one of them again later. It's always nice to meet a fun American friend in a country where there arent many people who speak English as we do.

In conclusion, it was funny on the taxi ride home... it was 4am or so and the buses were PACKED with people (we were in a taxi)... but I just found it odd for them to be so busy at 4am on a Sunday night/Monday morning.

Enough for now... more to follow later!!!

Here are some pic's

Some of the pics are from the previous day... so sorry for the confusion...

***Additional thoughts...

Ok, some things that got squeezed out by my vlog editor... Yes, we got there 2 hours before the soccer game...sigh...and they didnt even sell beer there! Only soda...first non-alcohol sporting event for me in a long time... Also, you'll notice there are some sections at the game with no one sitting there...well.. the opposing team had an empty section on either side that only had police in there to keep the peace... the opposing fans were also encased in barbed-wire fencing... pretty crazy.

My "editor" tried to cut out things in the video so it wouldnt be so long... b/c he didnt think people wanted to watch a long video... in full disclosure.. I've now requested he err on the side of including more and let you fabulous viewers decide on how much time you want to spend watching my sometimes rambling vlogs. :)

BsAs (Part Three) ***Updated with a pic link

If you havent read part 1 & 2... please stop & scroll down to read previous entries...


Ahh... we woke up around noon on Saturday and took a taxi down to the Florida Shopping District... as is the norm in BsAs... the taxi scared the bejesus out of me... but we made it...


Our first task was to find the tour company & get our tix for the Futbol game the following day... we did that.... and then walked around Plaza St. Martin... which was in an earlier pic that I posted.... it is a beautiful park.... pretty statues & we passed it so many other times during our visit....


The shopping district was a lot of fun... the Florida district is several blocks of pedestrian only traffic... there were a lot of shops... I bought a few things & was amazed at the prices... they were pretty inexpensive. We had lunch at Il Gran Caffe... it was a sidewalk thing & was so much fun...


We were on a mission to find Futbol gear for the game the next day... after an exhaustive search... we found what we wanted & hailed a taxi back to Recoleta.....


We had a drink--or four---and the rest is documented in a vlog:



Here's a link to some of the pictures we took in Plaza San Martin