37 and counting
Every now and then, I catch myself doing something that would have never occured 15 years earlier.
Take yesterday. The Dallas Morning News Food section has a front page item on chipotle onion brisket with corn tomato salad. The food section is laying on a table of the break room at work. And it looks really, really good. I want this brisket like a crack head wants a pipe. 15 year ago, this mental fix would have been sated by a trip to Sonny Bryant's for a BBQ hit. But I don't think this way any longer. So I pick up a pair of scissors and cut out the article. It was if I was watching myself from afar as I performed this act as my brain was screaming "What the Hell??". Then I remembered "Oh yeah. I'm 37." 37-year-olds by houses, have kids, put money in 401K's for their retirement, take up cooking out of either a hobby or neccesity and, apparrently, the clip recipes out of daily newspapers for future use.
This weekend, there's a rock show I've been looking forward to --- Sam Phillips will be doing her torch song thing at the Son's of Hermann. I've always wanted to see her, but never have. I liked her best when she was in the pop rock realm of Bikini's & Martinis, but this new turn will certainly be good and different. She's playing on Sunday. I plan on making the brisket on Sunday too. But I'm more looking forward to making the brisket. That must be because I'm 37.
Take yesterday. The Dallas Morning News Food section has a front page item on chipotle onion brisket with corn tomato salad. The food section is laying on a table of the break room at work. And it looks really, really good. I want this brisket like a crack head wants a pipe. 15 year ago, this mental fix would have been sated by a trip to Sonny Bryant's for a BBQ hit. But I don't think this way any longer. So I pick up a pair of scissors and cut out the article. It was if I was watching myself from afar as I performed this act as my brain was screaming "What the Hell??". Then I remembered "Oh yeah. I'm 37." 37-year-olds by houses, have kids, put money in 401K's for their retirement, take up cooking out of either a hobby or neccesity and, apparrently, the clip recipes out of daily newspapers for future use.
This weekend, there's a rock show I've been looking forward to --- Sam Phillips will be doing her torch song thing at the Son's of Hermann. I've always wanted to see her, but never have. I liked her best when she was in the pop rock realm of Bikini's & Martinis, but this new turn will certainly be good and different. She's playing on Sunday. I plan on making the brisket on Sunday too. But I'm more looking forward to making the brisket. That must be because I'm 37.
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