End of weekend: Synopsis

Long, long, LONG weekend, albeit productive. Yesterday, I cooked for five hours straight and still didn't complete my task list. I prepped five racks of ribs (boiled them in a secret concoction of veggies & spices) for about 7 hours, made a mexican casserole, two chicken parms, and more that I'm too tired to recall. Today I finished cooking the ribs in a special homemade bbq sauce, and also made four strombolis, a huge pot of jambalya, 8lbs of smashed potatoes w/ 5 types of cheese & 3 sticks of butter...needless to say, all food was a GO!
Around 3:45pm, James & I packed up and headed to the barracks to sell our meals. Boy, what a hit! Of the 14 portions of ribs, we sold 11 plates w/ heaps of potatoes @ $10/plate...also, we sold a few of the frozo meals. In general, it was a huge success that will be continued next weekend, and however many more until the weather gets too cold. "Meals on Heels" had a great kickoff, and we made enough money to completely cover all of the startup expenses and then some. And we still have about 20 portions of meals in the freezer, at least $100 worth of profit, or if nothing else, I have dinner cooked for the next few weeks.

James had a super productive weekend. One friend finished the mural in Slade's room. I'm going to go behind him and paint more details to tie it in with the fish I painted.
James & another friend fixed the fence where the dog kept getting out; tore out the trash from the master bedroom demolition & purged it; laid out the insulation in the attic & secured some boards down for storage; moved all the bins I've been organizing out to the garage/attic; primed & painted all of the decorative accessories for Slade's room (bookshelves, etc); and lots of other manly chores that needed doing.

We all relaxed last night (after Slade went to bed) in the garage, spraypainting new decor just for the fun of it. Now we've got some awesome grafitti art and multi-colored fingers.
Today, after selling our meals, Slade stayed with a neighbor while James & I had our FIRST date in a long, long time! We went to see "Max Payne" and it was dumb. I'm a not a harsh judge for movies, but we were both pretty disappointed in the stupidity.

Needless to say, we are both ready for bed! Busy day ahead of us tomorrow!