It’s time for 12 of 12 again!

We’re having a fire ant problem in the house – they’re all over the kitchen and eating the bait right and left … and leaving crumbs in it, too.  Ugh.  They were all over the sofa when I sat down this morning – that was new, and I flipped out and went out to get the big guns:

So, first thing this morning I spread out the fire ant treatment.  This afternoon, I found them in the dishwasher.  The dishwasher!

To borrow a line from a recent Hollywood B-movie, I’ve had it with these mother$*&#ing ants in my mother$*&#ing house!

Mocha, as you can see, is significantly less interested in the ant problem.

And here she takes a nap with her stuffed monkey.

Ray and I got out of the house to go meet our friend Michael.

We met up at Chuy’s, a local Tex-Mex restaurant best known for its jalapeno ranch dip (oh, and the time they busted Jenna Bush for underage drinking).

After that, the three of us went to the movies – we went to see the new version of Journey to the Center of the Earth in 3D.

For the record, the 3D is an extra $3.  I kind of agree with the New York Times about the movie: if it weren’t for the 3D, it would have been pretty bad.  So make sure that if you do go, you see it in 3D.  You get to keep the damned glasses, at least.  That almost (OK, not really) makes up for the ticket price.

Back home, Mocha is agitating for a walk.  However, she had to wait because it’s flipping hot in Texas these days – we hit 99 degrees today (37 C).

For dinner, Ray and I went to a local Pho place that we like.  Ray attempted to emulate the pose of … well, here’s Ray:

and here (this isn’t one of the 12) is the owner of a restaurant in Monterrey, Mexico, called “El Rey del Cabrito” who looks just a little too excited about the food his restaurant serves:

Pho rocks.  heh.

OK, so this might seriously be the most Texas photo I’ve ever taken.  Dairy Queen on a Saturday night.

Ray didn’t have to convince me very hard to swing by to pick up the “Blizzard of the Month” because this month it features Thin Mint Girl Scout Cookies.  Thin Mints are my weakness, they’re the thing that I have those stories about?  You know, the ones that start, “This one time when I was in college, I ate a whole box of Thin Mints … “

I ordered a small.  And it was goood…

Happy 12th, everyone!  Hey, take my if you haven’t done so already!