I'm taking crack dip,

What dip? I'm going to guess the 7-layer "mexican" kind.

and am gonna drink gimlets.

Yum!

Nope. Crack dip is so good it's like crack.

8 oz. softened cream cheese, 1 can sweet corn, 1 can chopped green chiles, 1 can chopped olives, 1 diced red pepper 1 pckg. dry ranch dip.

Salt and pepper to taste. Mix, refrigerate. Serve with tortilla chips or whatev.

I have never heard of such a thing! That does sound good.

Crack dip is so good it's like crack.

I think that's true of the 7-layer! And most other dips, to be honest.

It's my friend Jen's mom's dip. We started calling it crackalicious years ago, and now it's just Crack Dip.

I think thigh holsters are so hot because thighs are sexy. And there`s the conceal/reveal implication which is not necessarily there with a gun at your waist. Shoulder holsters are hot because they imply competence; you use your firearm as part of your daily labor. But thigh holsters are hot because they imply badassery.
 
I just had to go to town for one thing too. Although I guess I could have also bought milk. Instead I bought furring strips to install my attic floor decking. Hee. I get a Leatherman for my birthday and all of a sudden I think I`m Bob Vila.
 
Anyway. I got a mocha as a reward for going back out in crazy tourist traffic. We were supposed to stop on our way back from our minihike but forgot. The walk was really nice, though, rim overlook trail, very pretty. Anyway, I am in for the day now...going to watch some football and chillax.

I bet a good mushroom gravy would be delicious on meatballs

A stronagoff-y kind of flavor would be great, yeah. (The traditional Swedish meatball cream sauce is just white sauce made with meatball drippings. And since these are frozen meatballs, I have no drippings!)

(Don't tell anyone I used cream of mushroom soup to make the sauce instead of putting on pants and buying mushrooms, k?)

Had my first cataloging class this morning. I'm a bit meh on the subject matter, but since it's a required class, I gotta take it. (I was surprised to find out that UofI's MLS program, one of the top 3 in the country, doesn't require a cataloging class.)

Two cool things about the class: the teacher's manner reminds me of my favorite undergrad prof--a bit abrupt, but very forthright and this guy has an even drier sense of humor than the prof at Marquette did. And the other thing is that my classmates sound pretty darn interesting. Got the standard mix of just-got-their-BAs 22 year olds, later-in-their-20s people who've figured out that an MLS would be a better choice than their first degree/current drone job, those of us 40somethings who are looking for a second/third career (or better pay in our current one), and one standout, a lady in her early 60s who is on her third work-till-retirement job and is auditing this class because her MLS degree dates back to 1970 and cataloging is completely different in the computer age.

Oh, and her first work-till-retirement job was as the library director for the public library system on St. Lucia in the Caribbean!! Apparently, people who spend their working lives in tropical paradise retire to Grim-Lower-Middle-Class-Suburb, Illinois.

Apparently, people who spend their working lives in tropical paradise retire to Grim-Lower-Middle-Class-Suburb, Illinois.

Well, that kind of makes sense. Enjoy the sun and surf young, and move back to winter when all you want to do is read, watch movies and drink tea.

So, they finally got me -- I ordered the new-version Domino's for the first time, and I like it less! Good to know. Of course, I also have better delivery pizza here, so I'm going say Never Again.

Jesse, I've found the new crust is way too distractingly flavoured. The deep dish pizza is not actually deep dish and is much tastier. But I still haven't found good local delivery yet.