Snowmageddon!

I want you all to imagine your high school PROM. Now, imagine your PROM in the ballroom of a world-class hotel in downtown Milwaukee. For your enjoyment, there is free beer and wine, casino games, a fantastic live band, and a photo booth. Now for the kicker, when you take your date home at the end of the night, they have no curfew, and there are no dads waiting at the front door. Sounds like a good time to me. Well, these are just a few highlights from the Marquette Dental School Winter Ball that Gina and I attended this past weekend at the InterContinental Milwaukee Hotel. My expectations going into the evening were pretty low. I was only looking forward to seeing Gina in her beautiful new dress and spending the night with good friends. However, the night turned out to be a truly great time. I almost forgot the dinner. We were treated to Chicken Wellington, which was absolutely fantastic! An aside: The Wellington was stuffed with fantastic mushrooms in gravy, which I had to reproduce in my spinach, swiss, and mushroom omelets the next morning. In case you were wondering, I nailed ‘em.

As I write this blog entry, Gina and I are stuck in our apartment because Mother Nature has decided to bring us a blizzard warning, winter storm warning, wind advisory, lakeshore flood warning, and a civil danger warning (meaning if you attempt to drive anywhere and get stuck, you are not going to get any help from emergency crews). We woke up this morning to about 2 feet of snow along with snowdrifts upward of 4 feet, and our car was nearly buried. One of the worst snow storms in the history of this area gave us its best shot. A snowplow moved a good portion of the snow in our parking lot, but I still had to do a fair amount of shoveling. Anybody reading this blog should know, I would be ecstatic to receive a new snow blower for Christmas or any other occasion! Anyway, it was nice to get a snow day and have a day off from work. Speaking of work, they informed us that due to the weather conditions, we are not come in to work. However, if we do not come in to work we have to take a vacation day. Could somebody please explain this logic to me? Beep..beep…beep…what’s that? Oh, it’s our oven timer going off. OH MY GOSH!!! Fresh Chocolate chip cookies! Thanks Gina! Now, what was I saying again? It doesn’t matter anymore because I have no fewer than 3 cookies in my mouth right now thanks to my amazing wife.

I guess that’s going to do it for now. I hope you are all enjoying the blog so far. It has only been 8 days since my first post, so I would consider that a success. I hope my writing ability improves as time goes on. Again, if you have any questions or suggestions about entry topics, please leave comments. Thank you!

Potential Upcoming Topic(s):

- SUPER BOWL!!! (Rodgers, Matthews, Woodson, Driver co-MVPs. Hines Ward and Roethlisberger still douche bags)

- I really want to do an entry on UW’s wrestling team (I’ll wait until the NCAA tourney)

- Conan O’Brien’s beard

Derek’s Beer of the Week: Dragon’s Milk Stout by New Holland Brewery

-Absolutely delicious beer, full of flavor, but beware it weighs in at a hefty 10% ABV. It will jump up and bite ya.

Derek’s favorite song currently: Stop for a Minute by Keane

Great Book: The Ask by Sam Lipsyte

Cheers,

Derek