EXTRA MEAT!!!!

While getting something to eat at one of Utah's finest dinning establishments, I stumbled upon one of the worst business practices I have seen here in Utah. Unfortunately for me, when I stumbled, I landed face first in it.

Dayna and I have launched this initiative to consume less food. One of the ways we (more me than her) control our intake is through sharing meals when we eat out. But the problem when we would split that delicious Pork Barboacoa Salad at Cafe Rio is we were always arguing the other person ate too much meat. The problem was easily solved by us eating one salad and an order of extra meat.

I don't ever recall the embarrassment inflicted upon you when you order extra meat until the other night. I simply requested extra meat on the pork salad. I figured they would just heap on more pork, I would pay my few extra bucks and we would both move on with our lives. But no, just as the guy blobs on that extra portion of meat, he screams, "EXTRA MEAT!!!" Which in turn, the 20 people working behind the counter all scream, "EXTRA MEAT!!!" I was left standing there, embarrassed, feeling as if everyone in the restaurant was judging me, wanting to explain that I am going to share the salad with my wife and unconvincingly trying to suck my gut in.

I don't get this outrageous practice. I understand at Cold Stone where everyone screams and sings, ringing bells just for tipping the pimpled faced teenager behind the counter a buck. You are being singled out, but for your generosity, not the amount of food you plan to consume. Who would judge you for giving a minimum wage employee a dollar?? But Cafe Rio doesn't do this, they want you to spend more money (not going directly to the broken English speaking employee, but to the company) and single you out as the fat guy in line.

Will there ever be a day when you can order extra meat at Cafe Rio and not be singled out as the fat guy?? This isn't New York for crying out loud.

Ponderosa

So...cool. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We haven't been the best at updating our blog. While I have to take some blame for our lack of posts, I am going to pass the brunt of the blame to my lovely, beautiful wife. I will give you a quick synopsis, but you will have to get the details and the pictures from her. In fact, in our last family meeting, Dayna was voted the family historian and the chief financial officer (CFO). Her career has really skyrocketed and the glass ceiling is nowhere in sight!!! It's just unfortunate for her that the CEO (me) gets 2 votes at every meeting, compared to all other individuals getting 1 vote (regardless of the number of positions held within the family/corporation). She has thought, pondered and schemed many ways to throw a coup, but it is all wasted time she could be fulfilling her historian duties documenting our lives on this blog. Her only way out of this conundrum is to add individuals to the corporation...

Nonetheless, I have digressed. Here are a few exciting/maybe-not-so-exciting things we have done since our last post months ago. We took a road trip down the Oregon coast to the Redwoods in California (PS, California has just taught us all an important lesson about lending the government money). We went to the motherland (Korea). We went to Japan. I went back to Canada (it was cold). I have gained 40 pounds in one year. We went to Iowa for New Years and exciting Jasper, IN after that.

The pretty much us up to the topic of this post. We have sold our house in Magna. I can't say too much about the sale itself and still keep this blog kid friendly. So...that is that. But, we also bought a beautiful home in Houston. I just named him Lucien. So, the one pic in this post, is a picture of Lucien.

We are looking forward to the move, which begins in about 2 weeks. Ta-ta Magna, hello Houston!!!