Snakes, Sharpies and Soup

This weekend I came face to face with a real snake for the first time in my life.  I mean, something other than a gardner snake, ya know.

We were just hanging out on Charlie's porch, being overrun by kittens, putting new fenders on the jeep, discovering pinterest, ya know...anyway, one of the horses started freaking out, so Jesse wandered over and saw this big, nasty, fat, snake.  All big, and slithery, and gray...it was nasty.  Of course, it was the one time Jesse didn't bring his shotgun and if Charlie had any in the house they were hiding.  He did have a pistol, so while I put the animals in the house he started throwing rocks at it to get it away from the carport thing so he could shoot it.  It wasn't responding well, though, so he chopped at it with a shovel.  He did get it, but just the end of the tail, which squirmed around and wriggled for quite a while.  It was nasty.
Anyway, in the end, he shot it many, many times with a .22 and then decapitated it with a big tree pruner thing...ya know, a big pole with a rope that chops when you pull on it.

Jesse took a picture of it before mutilating it, and we googled water moccasins and they looked remarkably similar.  Naaaaassttyyy!  Later Jesse was reading (shocker!!) a book about Texas snakes and found a non poisonous kind that it also could have been, but the brutal slaughter of a dangerous predator makes a much better story.
In and amongst the exciting moments, though, was a lot of downtime.  I had to work Friday and Saturday at Party Planet, but only at night, so I spent most of the days watching X-Men (aka wife education), reading Game of Thrones, and creating epic sharpie art that haunted me in my sleep.  Jesse got tired of it quickly, and said I was neglecting him, and I may have gotten slightly high on sharpie fumes, but it was all in good fun.  I was feeling artistic and it gave me something to do.

I also flexed my artistic muscles and made some fantastic chicken tortilla soup.  It has cornmeal in it!  I do trust The Pioneer Woman.  She knooowwws.  Mmmmhmmm.  Even Jesse said it was good, and that is amazing because:
A. It's soup.
B. It had black beans.
C. It also had tomatoes, which Jesse considers a vegetable, even though it's actually a fruit.
So that was a domestic win, I think.
Then on Monday night I spent an hour and a half (almost) making three different Chinese foods that I have

never made before, all deep fried, two with different sauces, and one that was marinated.  And they were all done within like, 10 minutes of each other, which is pretty good for only one frying pan.  It wasn't spot on perfect, but it tasted basically like heaven to me.  I was incredibly hungry and I like chinese food.  The egg rolls, though, were pretty fantastic, starving or not.  Especially since I made my own wrapper and everything.  Chicken, carrots, celery, onion and a teeny big of ginger...Totes having some for lunch today!
....Ok.  Back from mowing down the last two egg rolls.  Still delish, Bee Tee Dubs.

So I was driving home from Charlie's yesterday jammin out in my Tahoe, like a cool person...arm hanging out the wide open window, wearing my sunglasses because it was sunny and I didn't take time to put on makeup...I pulled into the parking lot, continued to sing to myself and dance around a little bit...and then I finally got out of the car and saw the neighbor girl sitting on her porch giving me a strange look.  Classssy.
What else do I have to tell you?
Oh yeah!  The lunchwrap supreme.  I'm gonna go back in time a little bit...I didn't really bring any lunch food with us while we housesat, but I had tortillas, cheese, and ham, and the perfect opportunity to perfect the LunchWrap Supreme.  Basically a ham sandwich grilled in a tortilla.  Do it.  Do it right now.  It's amazing.  Again, I was probably just really hungry.  I want a banana split right now...Ok, Rianna is over and out.  Thank you for your time.