New Year’s Resolution #2: June’s new restaurant
In June, Jenna and I went to Habanero’s in Leesburg. The food there is very tasty. Even the tortillas have some kind of flavor to them. I don’t remember what I got but I had a lot of beans, which I love. The price wasn’t bad either. They have lunch specials in the $6-7 range.
New Year’s Resolution #2: May’s new restaurantS
I’m catching up with my blogging. In May, I ate at a few new restaurants:
The Dish, Ormond Beach, Florida
- Cool restaurant where you are a few small dishes separate and share among your party. My mom and I went for Mother’s Day. I had Mac & Cheese and Fried Cauliflower. She had some kind of fried fish and sweet potato fries.
Lucy Ho’s, Leesburg, FL
- Jenna and I had some cheap lunch special and it was GROSS. I would not recommend that place.
Pannulo’s, Winter Park
- I had an amazing cheese calzone while on a lunch hour at Rollins in downtown Winter Park. I would definitely recommend this. Very yummy, not too expensive, and in a neat area of town.
Charlie Reese’s last column
555 PEOPLE — by Charlie Reese
Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.
Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?
Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes?
You and I don’t propose a federal budget. The President does.
You and I don’t have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does.
You and I don’t write the tax code, Congress does.
You and I don’t set fiscal policy, Congress does.
You and I don’t control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.
One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one President, and nine Supreme Court justices equates to 555 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.
I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered – but PRIVATE — central bank.
I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a President to do one cotton-picking thing. I don’t care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator’s responsibility to determine how he votes.
Those 555 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.
What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits. The President can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it.
The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes. Who was the speaker of the House? Nancy Pelosi. She was the leader of the majority party. She and fellow House members, not the President, can approve any budget they want. If the President vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to.
It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million cannot replace 555 people who stand convicted — by present facts — of incompetence and irresponsibility. I can’t think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 555 people. When you fully grasp the plain truth that 555 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.
If the tax code is unfair, it’s because they want it unfair.
If the budget is in the red, it’s because they want it in the red.
If the Army & Marines are in Iraq and Afghanistan it’s because they want them in Iraq and Afghanistan.
If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it’s because they want it that way.
There are no insoluble government problems.
Do not let these 555 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power. Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like “the economy,” “inflation,” or “politics” that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.
Those 555 people, and they alone, are responsible.
They, and they alone, have the power.
They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses.
Provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees.
We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!
No one reads my blog either
I don’t care that no one reads my blog. It’s for me. Really, I don’t care. I don’t…
Recyling
Recycling is very important and not hard to do!
Simplify Your Life with Balance
From ZenHabits:::
Posted: 14 Apr 2011 08:48 AM PDT
Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Anastasiya Goers of Balance In Me.
What is the most difficult part about simplifying your life? It is fairly easy to clean your closets and organize your belongings. It is possible to eliminate activities that are not really important to us (watching TV, web surfing.) Even simplifying your finances is not too complicated if you have a general plan.
The most difficult part about simplifying life is dealing with emotional attachments. Let’s say that you have an old picture frame (vase, shirt, shoes etc.) in your house. If it’s just a thing that you picked up on sale or bought ten years ago you will probably be able to change its permanent residence to “trash.” But how would you deal with this thing if you got it from your late grandmother? Maybe your parents gave it to you as a graduation present? Parting with this thing (even if you do not like it too much) gets much more difficult.
Another difficult part about simplifying life is going against social approval. We are so used to a certain order of things and certain cultural rules that we do not even doubt them. We assume that we need to have cable with 200+ channels only because everybody else has it in their homes. We break our backs to sell things for the fundraisers at our kids’ schools just because everybody else does. This list goes on and on.
NYR#1: I haven’t lost any weight yet
I’m doing awesome with my New Years Resolution #2 – try a new restaurant monthly, but miserable on my Resolution #1 – lose 25 pounds. In fact, I think I’ve even gained a few. But each day, each meal is a new opportunity to try again so today I will go for a walk with Ben. Let’s try some mini-goals. This week I will:
- Exercise for at least 10 minutes every day.
- Drink 3 bottles of water a day.
- Lose 1 pound.
As of this morning’s Wii weigh in, I’m at roughly 208.5.
NYR#2: Ate at Red Robin
On April 8, I went to Red Robin in Port Orange, Florida. I had macaroni and cheese with a Caesar salad. I really enjoyed it. The restaurant had a fun atmosphere. I especially liked that I wasn’t forced to have a burger because there were no good meat-free options like some places. It was a little pricey – four of us ate for $55ish – but I’d definitely go again and recommend it to anyone. Afterward we walked around the Pavilion which was also a nice experience.