My Saturday night dinner

So Saturday Christy and I went to J. Willy's Bar and Grille with Casey and Kelly. Christy had been jonesin' to go there since Gordon Ramsey was there a few weeks ago. Christy was sick when he was there, so she didn't get to go "see" the transformation.

See Christy is really impressed with Gordon Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares show on BBC. She was excited to here that he might be in the area for the American version (Airing on Fox this fall). Craptastic thing was that she decided to get sick as a dog only to wake up from cold/flu medicine induced nap to the noon news that Ramsey was in own tight then. Oh well, that's Murphy messin' with ya.

So we finally got a nice night away from kid and decided that since Casey and Kelly were in the same boat we should at least go see what he place looks like. I was impressed.

It's a laid back, but very nice looking place. quite a few 4 top tables and "horse shoe" shaped booths that look like they could sit between 4-6 folks, with a bunch of 6 tops set into another section. A separate, but opened bar (so no smoking at all, I am still grateful for that St/ Joseph county!). TVs out of the way but visible and two GIGANTIC projection screen TVs right smack dab in the middle of the dining area (very nice for tourney time, even if the hockey game was on some small one in the corner).

Any way, the food was very good and not too expensive. Hell, the four of us couldn't break $100 even with 2 appetizers, 4 entrees drinks, some more drinks (c'mon it was me and Casey), and deserts.

All in all, it was a very good dinner. Much better than some cookie-cutter T.G Appleganili's, that for sure. We talked to our waitress and found out that the whole menu is Gordon Ramsey's input and everything is made there, even the fantastic chocolate pie I had.

We'll defiantly go back there. I wonder if Emma would like the grilled cheese?

I haven't kept up with this in forever!

I know that one of the best ways to keep creative , professionally, at home an in general, is to BE creative everyday. So I'm going to try to put more words on paper, well pixels on screen at least, starting today. I may rant ramble or even just muse, but I will write.

I do know that, technically speaking, my writing is not the best. I love the run on sentence so much I never see it coming. Hopefully, I can work on proper writing while I throw word out to make sense.

So a quick catch up since June 2006 when I last bothered to commit any time to this space..

• My daughter is growing up VERY fast! She's fantastic and I can't honestly imagine my life without her anymore.
• My career is doing well. I've settled into the fact that I am a technician and i like it! I'm not going to get rich, but we'll get by. I just enjoy my work and the thing I get to do with it to contemplate leaving right now.
• I'm still a dork...I've cut back considerably on my comic book reading/buying, but at heart, i love them and if I could I'd bring hone almost all of them every week!
• I still a bigger dork...on top of playing HeroClix for almost 6 years now, 6 months ago I volunteered to be a"regional" envoy. Envoy is the term that Wizkids uses for the poor saps that agreed to give away a big chunk of their free time to facilitate game play. Well as a Regional Envoy, I have the responsibility to keep in contact with area venues (places that host games) and other envoys, make sure that all the rules are being followed and to help monitor the game's health in the local market.
• Christy is working for a wood distribution company, if she wants to tell people about that I'll let her do it.

Well, let's see if I can keep this up for more than a few days before getting bored and forgetting all about it again!