Blog Number 209

Greetings and welcome to today's random thought.

Well it has been quite a week.  First off, the kids were still in Indiana with their grandmas while the wife and I enjoyed an empty apartment all to ourselves.  It is basically the first time in 9 years that we have had an empty home other than the occasional times both kids were staying overnight somewhere.  This is definitely the first time we have had multiple nights alone since before my son was born.  Tonight though the kids are on a train with my mother heading south towards Dallas.  They will arrive sometime after noon tomorrow and we are really ready to see them.  This week we have been practicing for when the time comes and the kids move out of the house.  I think we will do OK with the empty nest syndrome when we have to deal with it.

Tonight though the wife and I celebrated our last night alone and the anniversary of our first year in Texas by going out to Pan Acean.  This is a restaurant that we visited last July when we first came down to the Allen area to look for a place to live.  I think that this is the only Pan Acean anywhere (at least I could not find another one with the help of Mr. Google).  It is a very good Asian restaurant.  It is about 25 miles away and only 35 minutes if we took the toll road.  Being a cheapskate and since we had no one back at the apartment to come home to, we took the long route and arrived there in about 45 minutes.  The food was as good as we remembered (Pad Thai and Kung Pao along with some lettuce wraps) and we brought plenty home to reheat for lunch tomorrow.  When it came time to pay the bill I recalled the last visit to this restaurant.  We met my cousin and her (then boyfriend and now) fiance and he picked up the check.  So this is the first time I had to pay for food here.  Also with the check came some fortune cookies.  I chose mine carefully, then swapped with the wife, the swapped back again.  When I finally opened mine up there were 2 fortunes inside instead of the normal one.  I do not know if this is a sign of good luck or bad but here are my fortunes...

You will find your solution where you least expect it. - AND - Do not let great ambitions overshadow small successes.

I am not sure which one I like the best but I am leaning toward the second one right now.  The drive home was nice as we listened to NPR (National Public Radio).  For some reason I find this station interesting (even moreso than Jack FM which I also like).  NPR has all sorts of interesting stories and covers them from different angles than the normal news agencies.

For now though we just have what's left of tonight alone.  Until next time...

Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.

Jon