High Definition, LSU, and Cookies (Saturday's events)

Ok, so my weekend just seemed to fly by. Every day, I was doing something with friends and time just seemed to not care that I didn't want to go back. Even with a three day weekend (I took Monday off, because I need to use my PTO before the end of the year, we can't carry anything over), it still seemed that the clock was on overdrive.

Saturday, Jerome and I went to Cox to trade in the single digital cable box for two HD cable boxes. One for him and one for me. We stood in line, got the new boxes and were offered two HD cables at that point by the friendly customer service representative. I thought that we could get the cables for a lower price at the Circuit City down the street that is going out of business and have reduced almost every item in their inventory by 40%. We declined the offer and went to Circuit City where we couldn't find HDMI cables for less than what Cox offered. We then decided to go to Sears which was at Cortana Mall, just kitty corner from where Circuit City was. At Sears, there was no dice as the cables we needed were still more expensive than what Cox was offering. So, we returned to Cox with our tails between our legs, only in our absence the line had doubled in size and was stretched outside the lobby to the main entrance. After waiting for about 30 minutes, we finally got our HDMI cables and were running late to meet Lewis and Kevin.

Lewis and Kevin had planned to go to the LSU women's volleyball game against Georgia that day along with making Christmas cookies later that night. Kevin had made a batch of dough the day prior and they were waiting for us to let them into our home so we could put the dough in the fridge before heading to the volleyball game.

(Myself and Mike the Tiger at the vball game.)

After we got our HDMI cables, it was about 12:45pm and Lewis/Kevin had wanted to meet at 12:30pm for the 1:30pm game. But, by this time, Jerome and I hadn't had anything to eat and we were starving, so we stopped by KFC for a quick to go meal and made it home at about 1pm. After rushing the cooking supplies into the house, we all got into the Santa Fe and headed to the game.


LSU won the game against Georgia and while there we met up with Paul and Steve. Then, we went to do what we do best.....eat. We went to a new restaurant in town called ACME Oyster House.

I was familiar with ACME, only because a couple days before hand, I had seen on the food network a short story on ACME Oyster House in New Orleans. Apparently, it's one of the best places to pig out, because you can order dozens and dozens of oysters.

I have never been a fan of oysters, but tried some chargrilled oysters with parmesian cheese. They were really yummy and we tore into them. I will have to try them again in the future.

I also had the New Orleans medley which consisted of red beans and rice, jambalaya, chicken and andouille gumbo, and smoked sausage. YUMMY!

After eating dinner, we came home and started to make Christmas cookies and put to rest three large bottles of wine. The cookie factory was fun as we kept getting up every five minutes to move the cookies from the lower shelf to the upper shelf of the oven, rotating the cookies.

(Kevin was station 1 of the assembly line and rolled/cut the dough.)

(After the cookies cooled, Lewis/Jerome/I stacked the cookies.)
After the cooking, Kevin made icing and Jerome, Lewis, Kevin, myself, and Mel (she had joined us by then) started decorating the cookies.

(Just call us Piccasso.)

(The finished product. This is about 1/2 of the batch we made.)
At about 1:30am that night we started to settle down, but also while making cookies enjoyed our first football game Oklahoma destroy Texas Tech in High Definition. It was a very fun day.

(Lewis and Jerome celebrate our cookies and high definition football game.....I think the wine helped them get in the mood.)