Pyrex dishes & other amazingness

So, I've been in Houston for 6 days total now...and I JUST got over the one-hour difference between Central and Eastern time! Who'd a thunk!? I've been making lists like crazy (like I always do) and I've gotten everything except two items done.

That means that I've:

• Gotten PYREX BAKING DISHES and dishtowels with a Target gift card from friends!
• Opened checking, savings, and IRA accounts.
• Sent paperwork off to previous job to have pension transferred to IRA.
• Applied for new car insurance; cancelled old car insurance.
• Gotten my registration and plates. (More to come on this story later...)
• Gotten my license. (Again...more to come...)
• Updated contact information with all major accounts.
• Gotten new (local) phone number.
• Gotten a Houston Library System library card. (Manny laughed at how excited I was.)
• BEEN ABLE TO GET HOME FROM VARIOUS AND UNFAMILIAR PLACES WITHOUT THE AID OF MY VERIZON NAVIGATOR!!!

And lots of other stuff...that I can't remember because I threw away the lists!

Speaking of Pyrex dishes...I was so excited to make my first big meal in my new 9"x 13" pan...I made my mama's AMAZING Parmesan Chicken...with peas, and applesauce, and warm fluffy biscuits. Now, this is a good home-cooked meal...a good hearty meal........FOR A WHITE GIRL! I slave (and I do mean slave) because I made a few "oopses" in the preparation of the chicken...and what does Manny say? He ambles into the kitchen and looking in the oven and each pot, says, "A

ren't you going to make rice?" Well, I was about to eat my hat! I tried explaining to him that it has to be a Caucasian/Hispanic disconnect. I mean, let me explain to you that I was in the kitchen so long that my feet actually hurt. That is an inordinate amount of time. And what was I doing? I was making delicious food...more than both of us could eat (so that he would have lunch, or I could freeze it for another night) AND I squeezed 12 limes by hand with no juicer...with my hands and a spoon - to make HOMEMADE KEY LIME PIE with a HOMEMADE GRAHAM CRACKER CRUST, and he complains about NO RICE!? Geez!!! :) Well, that's all for now...more tomorrow on the DMV...