Be My Valentine

Hi, all!

I hope everyone had a nice Valentine's Day -- kisses and hugs to you all :)

Keaton works every Tuesday through Saturday, so I'm SUPER happy V-Day fell on a Monday this year. I woulda been one lonely girl.

Last night we tried out a new (fairly new to Cedar Falls and new to us!) hibachi steak house called Sakura. I had ribeye and chicken and Keats had shrimp and mahi mahi, and then tons of fried rice, noodles, and vegetables. Oh my goodness, it was SO DELICIOUS! I've been to a couple hibachi places, but Keats had never been...they're so much fun. I love the little show they put on before they cook the food in front of you. We got seated with 8 other people (4 couples) and they were a riot. They even bought us Sake bombs...my first ever!

CHEEEESE!

Yum!

After dinner, we came home right away so I could study for a test I had this morning (bad timing, eh?) and then we played Tumblin' Dice. We got the game from my Aunt and Uncle (Laurie and Andy) and it's a lot of fun. I had never seen or heard of it before this past summer when we played it up at their house. And guess what?! The cat likes to play the game too! (Insert sarcasm and eye-rolling.)

You try to get the highest score by pushing/flicking the dice down the tiers (without them falling off or getting knocked off). As you would imagine, the cat tries to attack each one as it's flinging around!

This is how I found him after about 20 minutes of constantly getting smacked off the table.

"Well, since I can't lay on the table, I'll lay in here."

Keaton's job is going really well and he's still liking it a lot so far! His normal shift is from 4pm-12am, but he's been working late the last couple of weeks. (Like, 5:30am one day!)

I think that's about all I have for now. I should be studying for test #2 I have this week but I couldn't leave all of our blog-reader's with nothing to look at! (All two of you, haha.)

Do Me a Kindness...

I remember sitting in Grandma Judy's living room about 3 years ago, laughing hystericallyat this short video clip that Uncle Tony had shown us. After I got back home, I searched the video on the internet and then posted it on my Facebook page. After I had posted the video, I never really heard anything else about the hilarious clip until this past summer. Everybody was re-posting it on Facebook and my brother kept asking "HEY, HAVE YOU SEEN THIS?!" every time I saw him.

I'm talking about the clip (brought to fame by YouTube) known as "Winnebago Man," "The Angriest Man in the World," and "The Angry RV Salesman." It’s a compilation of the outtakes from a Winnebago RV commercial shoot.

Why do I care about it so much? Well, besides the hilarity of it, my Uncle Tony helped with the commercial filming back in 1988, and he's actually in the clip a couple of times.

Note: Forest City, my hometown, is where Winnebago motorhomes are made – for those of you (mostly the readers from CO!) who maybe weren’t aware.

Anywho, Winnebago Man is now a documentary and again, Uncle Tony is in the movie! I still get all excited when I see the interview with him or when other people are talking about him. In the ‘Features’ section of the DVD, they have the Winnebago Man premier in New York City and after the viewing, one man asks Jack Rebney if he’s seen Tony or anyone from the filming since (or something along those lines!). “TONY, THAT’S MY UNCLE!!” Haha, I’m so proud ;)

Congrats (I think?!) Uncle Tony, who knew it would turn into something this big!

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Now, everybody go check it out! Winnebago Man (The video on the main page is the trailor and if you go to "About" it will have the original clip from YouTube)

WARNING: I would advise turning the volume down and not viewing in front of the little ones :)