Free Lunch - Thanks Paul!

I got a free lunch at my day job today. Our group had pizza from the Rascal House to celebrate Paul's 35 year anniversary with the company.

Paul started as a shipping clerk, 2 years later became a computer operator, and has been a programmer now for 31 years. He shared some amusing anecdotes about the early days of computing and things like punch cards.

In other news, Victoria has had a newspaper and 2 TV interviews in the past 2 days over the Good Friday Miracle Fish Sticks she has listed on eBay! All of them approached her. The newspaper reporter actually contacted her through eBay. The first TV reporter contacted her through the newspaper reporter and the 2nd one contacted her through our church. The church secretary laughingly forwarded the message.

Finally, if you are a college basketball fan, hop on over to my pizza blog and join the free NCAA basketball tournament pick 'em contest. You could win a free pizza!

Ask Any Girl

Stepdaughter Emma was involved in her high school drama club this fall, working on the set production for Ask Any Girl, based on the 1959 movie (I think). Victoria attended on Thursday & Friday and the whole family was planning to attend on Saturday.

Unfortunately, Saturday's performance was canceled. The school was hosting an ROTC event in the afternoon and several people collapsed. This led to a fear of carbon monoxide or some other dangerous gas leak. So the school was shut down.

We'll find out later today if Saturday's performance will be rescheduled.

I did get to see several of the drama team when they had a post-play party at my pizzeria on Friday night.

Sticks And Stones ... And Car Trunk Lids?

Last weekend started off with a bang! While I was at my fantasy football draft, Emma broke her hand. She had went to a high school football game with her cousin. Apparently she bent over to pick up something, putting her hand on the edge of the open trunk for balance. Meanwhile someone slammed the trunk shut. Ouch!

Victoria took her to get an X-Ray and they didn't get home until almost 3 AM.

Saturday morning we (all 9 of us) were up at 7 AM and soon on our way to the Firelands 5K. Brooke ran the 1 mile fun run, while Luke and I (and several other uncles and cousins) ran the 5K. Following that, we went out to my mom's for lunch.

Next it was back in to town to watch the parade. Emma stayed at Chris's to rest. The rest of the kids picked up more candy than they could eat in a month! Victoria begged, pleaded, and cajoled, to get as many boxes of Dots as she could.

After the parade we went to the festival. For only $5, you get in to the festival and can ride all the rides. This is a great bargain! The kids rode a few rides, we played a few games of Bingo at the Ruritan pavilion (where my dad always used to work when I was younger), and the kids each got $5. Most of them used it to play a dart game and win a blow-up toy.

George used his to play the duck game. He didn't really care about the prizes, but he loved watching those ducks go around in a circle and sticking his arms in the water!

Saturday night was a feast at Chris & Todd's, featuring hot dogs, brats, pizza bites, and best of all, dirt dessert. Then we spent the night back at Mom's (less 2 kids that stayed at Chris & Todd's).

Sunday morning we got up and headed to the cottage to visit Victoria's parents and celebrate her sister Dawn's birthday. After the Pizza Hut fiasco, we got lunch at McDonald's. We spent the afternoon fishing and swimming in Lake Erie, before having dinner and cake and then driving back for another night at Mom's.

Monday, Labor Day, we got ready and went to yet another picnic, this one at Dick & Debbi's. I grilled the hot dogs, reminiscent of my days working for my sister Sharon at the Flower Hospital company picnic. Lunch was followed by a few games of cornhole.

Finally, we dropped my kids off at their mom's and made it back home, just in time for me to make it to my pizza delivery job.

It's a good thing we didn't have soccer this weekend!

Friday Pizza Review - Pizza Hut

Tonight we got pizza from Pizza Hut. We got a CheezyBites with half bacon and half cheese only, and a medium thin crust pizza with half pepperoni and half bacon.

Pizza Hut has a deal where you can get a medium pizza for $7 with the purchase of a large so our total price was around $20.

The CheesyBites don't taste much different than a normal Stuffed Crust pizza but it is kind of neat to have them in bite-size pieces.

Rachel said "It was good and I liked it. I liked the CheesyBites the best."

Luke said "It was pretty good. The pizza was a little greasier than I like."

Victoria said "It looks like a big flower. Unique and delicious."

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Friday Pizza Review - Marco's

The past few weeks we have been ordering pizza from a different pizza shop every Friday night. Usually wherever we have a coupon for or some other good deal.

Tonight we ordered from Marco's. With the coupon, we were able to get 2 large 1-topping pizzas, an order of CheezyBread, and a 2-liter of Coke for $19.99.

Nathan ate the bacon pizza and said, "Good, very good. It actually tasted like double-bacon. Excellent."

Luke had a slice of bacon and a slice of pepperoni pizza. "It was good but the crust was a little salty" he said after he got home from indoor soccer practice.

Brooke said, "I didn't have much, but CheezyBread was good!"



Rachel said, "I ate some CheezyBread and it was good."

George had no comment but you can tell by looking at his face that he liked it!



Emma was absent.

Dad thought the pizza was tasty. It's more of a hand-tossed crust and the sauce is kind of sweet. The parmesan cheese sprinkled on the CheezyBread makes it extra-delicious.