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LOOK at this new blog I stumbled upon today!!

http://www.phoood.com/weblog/ is where I found the pic of the pannido. KISMET!

Phoood.com is a FANTASTIC food review website that is right up the Bitch’s alley! Anyone who references McRib nostalgia is a friend in the BdJ book.

CHECK IT OUT!!

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Dear WaWa,

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways:

• Ham n cheese bagel melt
• Crab and corn chowder
• Mashed potatos
• Icee
• Cheddar stuffed pretzel
• Macaroni n cheese
• Italian wedding soup
• Cup of meatballs
• Sliced mangos

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When I was searching for a photo of the Chris Long Sandwich (no such luck), I stumbled upon this website:

http://www.roadfood.com/

Shane, will this be the solution to our years-long quandry of where to eat on the way to and from Virginia? I guess we will find out this weekend!

I was very excited to see Ann’s Soul Food, Wings, and Things in Stafford, VA is mentioned on this site. It’s right up Route 1 from the Burg. I want some meatloaf. And some things: Ann’s Soul Food, Wings, and Things

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…to Old Virginnie!! (sp?)

Another whirlwind weekend on the road!! We had not been to VA in a while.

Thursday night we stayed in Charlottesville and hung out with Kimmers, C, K & M at our old stomping grounds on the Corner. Look at the awesome present Kimmers got for me!

30 Ciders + 4 Lambic + 1 Champagne = Happy Birthday to Me!! Loved the shane & bitch playing cards and dueling Napoleon Dynamite cards too. Thanks Kimmers!!

We actually squeezed in a lot of action during our 15.5 hours in Cville, including a trip to the Biltmore, late night snacks at Littlejohn’s and The White Spot, drinks at Michael’s Bistro and lunch at Martha’s Cafe.

I had a Five Easy Pieces at Littlejohn’s. A favorite late night snack of The Bitch for over 16 years! Turkey, bacon, muenster, mustard, 1000 island on pumpernickel. Hell yeah.

We had the epiphany that the entire Corner smells like a dirty keg bucket and that we don’t like that. I hated to say bye to Kimmers so fast, but on the 4th we had to truck it to West Point.

I heart West Point. We got to spend quality time with Hank, Mumma, W, Carrie, thole, J Classic and their families. We also got to meet the newest member of the family, little Baby D. He is SO CUTE and is like a tiny little piece of orange yarn.

Shane was a trooper and got us through the heinous traffic on I-64 and I-85 today, and we landed at home like an hour ago. We are not going anywhere for 25 days. Good.

It was great to see everyone in VA!! I hope the rest of the BDJ audience had an equally stellar weekend!

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Shane and I made our 2nd annual Spring trip to Vegas last week. What happened in Vegas stayed in Vegas, for the most part, but here are some tips that I picked up along the way:

• Leave that 3rd suitcase at home! The $25 extra bag charge is now in effect. Cha-chong!!
• Include some weekdays in your stay – Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday were SO pleasant without all the douche bags in the house. Plus the rooms are cheaper too! 
• Pack your own water, sunscreen, and toiletries – I used to run with the idea that anything I need on a trip, I can buy at the hotel. Not in Vegas. The markup on those sort of items is OUTRAGEOUS. $6 water?! $25 sunscreen?! F that. And don’t even get me started on the cost of the mini-bar.
• Pants are optional – there were ass dresses everywhere!
• Always make sure there is a mall inside your hotel – The Venetian is awesome. They have every imaginable high-end mall store, plus a Barney’s. This made it very easy for me to get in my daily round of exershopping while Shane slept in.
• I have found my true calling. It is now my dream to be a part of the  “Streetmosphere” in the Venetian, as a living statue. All you have to do is stand around (really still) in a costume all day! Granted, being photographed by tourons would be slightly annoying, but it seems like a really low-stress job.
• In-suite dining is better than dining out! Or at least just as good. You never have to wait for a drink and there aren’t annoying people around. We dined in-room about half the time. Best out-of-room dining experience was at Emeril’s Table 10 - Lobster pot pie, Rotisserie Duck, Lobster Mac & Cheese, and Taters!
• Stay at a nice hotel but gamble at a cheap casino. My heart belongs to Casino Royale, where dealers go to die and you can always get a $1.50 beer and a $5 craps table. And really, the weirdos at the cheap casinos are much more tolerable than the assholes at the nice casinos. And the nice casinos are FULL of assholes. Plus the dirty casinos have random fun stuff like Beer Pong (I think that was at Bill’s) and Denny’s! Shane and I always ended up at Casino Royale at the end of the night. Tropicana, Excalibur, and O’Shea’s are other great cheap ones.
• There is still at least one Sigma Derby in Vegas (MGM Grand!!). The Derby is an old-school mechanical racetrack where you bet on winning combinations of ponies. It only costs 25 cents per play, so you can play the derby forever on just a couple of bucks. And I love watching the little mechanical ponies run around the track. Unfortunately the Sigma Derby takes up a lot of space, so most of the casinos have gotten rid of them in favor of smaller high-dollar slots. SAVE THE SIGMA DERBY!
• In Vegas, Michael Jackson is still the King of Pop. Not only are there videos of him shopping in the Grand Canal Shoppes at the Venetian, everywhere you turn, they are blasting Thriller, Billie Jean, Beat it, and the like.
• Fake outdoors is way better than real outdoors. Every day is sunny and perfectly temperature controlled. Plus, the sun never goes down. They have fake outdoors at the Venetian and Paris and probably some others. Tres bien!
• Engage the services of a pet sitter while you are gone - ”For Pet’s Sake” cost the same as boarding Mommy’s Pretty Princess at the vet, and she was WAY less traumatized. Plus, pet sitter will bring in mail and water plants. If we had plants.
• Get some sleep! The best part of any vacation is the sleeping.

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“Don’t know whatcha got til it’s gone”….or so the Cinderella song goes. This song pops into my head everytime I am in a local convenience store here in NC. Cuz if there is one thing that was completely taken for granted in my past, it is the pleasure palace known as 7-11. Oh how I miss the luxury of slurpees. No one makes a frozen slushee drink like good old 7-11. And the chili from a pump is divine. Pita sandwiches, string cheese, breakfast biscuits, taquitos, nachos, and more…..I moved away from VA almost 10 years ago, and in that time I have developed zero brand loyalty to any of our local marts. I can’t even name them. Road trips are abysmal, until we cross the state line. My beloved 7-11 is still going strong in VA, and now they have Wawa too. Wawa is as awesome as 7-11, but different. They don’t have a proper Slurpee but what they lack in slushy drink, they make up for with bagel melts, cheese filled pretzels, mashed potatos, mac n cheese, Italian wedding soup, and a constantly changing daily menu of hot yummy.

I am leaving for my doctor appt in VA sometime tomorrow. And you can bet your sweet bippy that I will be hitting 7-11 and Wawa on the way! The Bitch is always looking for that silver lining….. 

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I heart West Virginia!

There is a Keno lounge tucked away in the back of the sports bar in our hotel. It feels like a modern-day speakeasy. It is smaller than the suite we are staying in. There were lots of fun people, including some self-proclaimed “rubes” from Idaho. I think Napoleon Dynamite’s grandma was in there for a while too. Grandma(pa?) won $350 playing nickel slots. I learned an important lesson about the shortcomings of electronic gaming: “It ain’t really playin if you can’t bluff”

Amen my brother!

Jesscoe White, Dancin Outlaw, easily could have been in the house.

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