Since I don't remember to take pics, I'll not likely have a food blog...

But here's the recipe for your enjoyment...

Sopapilla Cheesecake

1 can crescent rolls (have you ever had a bad recipe where this was the #1 ingredient?)
2 8 oz packages cream cheese softened (or nuked for 60-90 seconds)
1/2-3/4 c sugar (depending on your sweet tooth)
3 T melted butter
1 T vanilla
1 T cinnamon
2 T sugar

Preheat oven to 350­°. Grease 8 inch pan and line with half of the crescent rolls. Press seams together to form a crust. Bake 10 mins. Stir together cream cheese, sugar and vanilla. Spoon cream cheese mixture evenly over crescent rolls creating an even layer. Top with remaing crescent dough (seams pressed again). Pour melted butter over the top and sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar (those measurements aren't exact - add more if you like). Bake another 20 mins until golden brown.

Cool enough to not remove the top layers of taste buds, but I enjoy it slightly warm, so I don't cool it too long.

I hope you like it! It's very yummy and easy to throw together if you, like us keep the above ingredients on hand.

I also realize that I utilize too many parantheses in my recipes...that may also bar me from creating a food blog. I'm not an exact cook or baker. I was blessed with my grandmother's sense for it.

Lastly, at 7:15 central time, my mom, sister, sister-in-law, niece, aunt, mom's best friend, mom's best friend's sister and I will be taking off from the Tyler airport for a girls weekend in New York City (my house will remain occupied and guarded - boo on you would be burglars)for my mom's 60th birthday. If you are a Today show watcher, watch for us on Friday - we're going to do our best to get on the fence and on camera. But they start their concert series that day so it may be more crowded than we anticipate. Anyway, we are so super excited and I hope to innundate you with blog posts to follow. In fact, with the add-a-page feature, I'm considering starting a Girlfriend Getaway page. Thoughts?

April Fun Wrap-Up

¡Hola Amigos! Consider that my Cinco de Mayo shout out. I hope this blog finds you all well and as full of Mexican goodies as I am. We had a fiesta at work featuring lunch from On The Border and a sopapilla cheesecake made by yours truly. Muy delicioso, indeed. Seven spanish words in the first paragraph - Ms. Novak, Ms. Fisher and Mrs. Hall - be proud.

I'm really doing my best to live out my word for the year, FUN. In January, I had the Blog Gals reunion. February featured a shopping trip in San Marcos with my mom and aunt. March featured all sorts of birthday fun for my nephew and me, as well as the Wheel of Fortune tryouts. April had some living up to do!

Chilifest
My first fun adventure in April was Chilifest on the 9th. I hadn't been to Chilifest since I moved from Bryan/College Station in 1999. I was a little worried I'd be too old to go. Come to find out, I wasn't. Sure the beer sprays were a little annoying...but it's good for your hair and when the day was at its hottest, I couldn't be too disappointed about a cool sprinkle. We had a good sized group - my sister, some of her friends, my sister-in-law and two of her friends. We enjoyed Cory Morrow, Roger Creager, Eli Young Band and Aaron Watson. By the time he was done, we were ready to head out, so we missed Dwight Yoakam.

Of course no visit to B/CS is complete with out a stop at Wings, World Market (which didn't open until way after I left) and Bucees on the drive home. We laughed, sang, danced a little and had a great time with each other.

Take Me Out to the Ballgame

For my next April fun adventure, I went to the Rangers game on April 26. We had access to season tickets 19 rows off the first base line - closer to home plate than the dugout. To say the seats were incredible, is an understatement! Three coworkers and I enjoyed garlic fries (yum!), Dr. Pepper, good baseball and lots of laughs.

Most of the laughs started at the expense of these two guys behind us. They were cracking us up with this conversations:

(They were probably late 30s, a little country sounding (yes I'm sure that's pots and kettles there) and had already had a drink or two...also, they introduced themselves later so the D1 and D2 are their first initials - the 1 and 2 distinguihes for you)

D1: Dude, you gotta get on facebook.
D2: I don't have time for all that.
D1: You don't know what you're missing! There's a girl on mine who has a picture of herself all bowed up. She has star tattoos on her side (oblique area I'm guessing) that look like they're shooting and her back is all bowed up. It's the meat of the sandwich right there.

At that point, we realized we were all listening to them as we each giggled under our breaths.

A bit later, my coworker asked them to take a picture of us. D2 said "with my camera or yours." He took the picture then told us to let him know if we needed anything else. This voice which I didn't' quite recognize as my own popped off with, "since you're offering, I'll take a good cold beer, just sayin'" He asked what kind. I told him I was teasing, but he insisted so I relented. One of the other girls in our group told him to make it 2. And the sucker delivered.

After he settled back in his seat, he asked if we were there to watch anyone in particular. I said the red team. Haha. He thought I was being mean, but I told him I was just being funny he said he knew how girls were. I told him I may have had a few assertive tendencies, but I really didn't have it in me to be mean to a total stranger. We all talked and joked most of the game and they tried convincing us to go to Humperdinks with them afterwards. Since it was a business trip, that was not an option, but it was fun to be the sort of flirty, quick-witted, into sports chick (which I legitimately am but isn't probably something most folks would guess about me) for an evening. I think I need to muster the courage to be a smart alec to strangers more often. It paid off with lots of laughs, two free beers and an invite we had to refuse.