Happy 4th

Happy 4th of July!!

How's your weekend shaping up?

Mine started early. I was off work early yesterday... I had a most excellent afternoon full of chillin'! Didn't even care that I had things left undone. Last night we went to The Bullring, a 3/8 mile track out by the Nascar track here in Las Vegas. They had a night full of racing and a fireworks finale. My personal favorite part was watching Samuel Hubinette, a stunt car racer who also does drift competition for Mopar. He was a stunt racer in one of the Fast and the Furious movies, and I see why, he was pretty amazing. I'd sooooo love to learn to drift like that. Here's a little video I took. Mind you, when he's doing circles in the center of the track, there are two people standing there in the middle:

He was there to promote a drift competition they're having at the racetrack next weekend. You might notice a guy in the video wearing a huge die mask - he's the mascot for the racetrack, and his name is Pit Boss. Kind of clever, really - but wow whoever in there has to be damn hot. Madison just loved him, which cracked me up!

We missed the fireworks show because Madison got really tired, but she enjoyed herself while we were there. I'm really not much of a race fan but that short track stuff can be pretty cool.

Today we're hanging out at home, we're all hot and tired. But Madison and I made time to bake some cookies:

Yeah those are supposed to be stars, LOL. We made sugar cookies using Splenda. Honestly, they're not all that great, there is too much of something in them, I'm just not sure what. But it was fun, nonetheless. I never did claim to be Betty Crocker...

I'll do the What's on My iPod post tomorrow. :)

Bonus Day Off

The day off: total success. My toes are a pretty pink and my nails don't look like I pick at the cuticles. I was able to get some errands done and still manage to enjoy myself. I did some window shopping today, too. Window shopping is good - it's healthy to just look sometimes. However, it's like Medieval torture. It's much more fun to just get what I want. :)

On the way home, I gave Madison a sugar free piece of cinnamon gum. It was her first taste of the cinnamon flavored variety. After about five minutes of chewing the gum:

"So, Madison... do you like the cinnamon gum?"

"Yes, I like it. But... But my brain. It makes my brain feel hot."

Oh... and I don't think anyone has noticed, I have a music video playlist at the bottom of the page. I made it rather simplistic and I'll get around to tweak it a bit, but browse and enjoy - the playlist is made from some that I've been linking to in the "What's In My iPod" posts.