I Suck At Big Brother

With my friends (Marc and Kelley) and my BFF (Kerry) vacationing down in Onset this week, Karen and I invited my friend (Andrea) over. After all, today was Thursday and we usually get together on Thursday nights.

For dinner, we ordered something easy that Andrea would eat: pizza. We haven't had Sal's Pizza in some time, so we ordered the pizza from there. As usual, the pizza was delicious.

It was definitely good to see Andrea and just hang out with her... although I'm not sure if she'd want to return ever again after all the commotion my children caused with my two year old daughter (Briana) falling down the stairs and my four month old daughter (Bridget) being fussy. But she probably got to see a side of our children that most people don't normally see.

One topic of conversation that came up was sperm banks. The discussion involved my recollection of visiting a sperm bank for a sociology class in college. "Research." Just kidding. Well, it was for a research paper.

I remember at the time that it was neat to take a tour of the facility and see the cryogenic vault. Of course, I was just a kid in college, so a lot of things seemed pretty neat and cool then. I'd be curious to see how many sperm banks now are willing to let students take a free tour of their place.

Sperm aside, the other main topic that came up was Big Brother. Now, I suck at Big Brother. In all of its seasons on television, I have never watched one episode... that is until now. With Andrea over, I happened to catch the beginning of the season premiere this year. Apparently, Andrea used to watch it.

So there we were, all glued to the television watching Big Brother. It was actually an intriguing show. And with nothing else really on television this summer, I may have to watch the show. But apparently, as Andrea warned, the show is a big time commitment as it is on multiple times during the week. So we'll see if I keep up with it or not.

All in all, I had an enjoyable time hanging out with Andrea tonight.

I Suck At Sal's Pizza

With our seemingly busy schedule, it has been some time since Karen and I ordered pizza from Sal's Pizza located in Norwell. I guess you can say I suck at Sal's Pizza.

Today, however, we decided to order pizza for dinner. For both Karen and I, it was a long day. And since both of us were feeling lazy in regards to cooking dinner, we decided to order take out.

Back in my heyday, I could probably polish off Sal's 19" pizza by myself. These days, I'd be lucky enough to eat even half of that now. Luckily, my parents just so happened to have been over today to watch over our seventeen month old daughter (Briana). So we invited them to stay for dinner as well.

Anyway, Sal's pizza was a great way to end the day. For anyone curious, we ordered the BBQ chicken pizza. It was good. The pizza was especially good because it was free! In my book, a free dinner is always a good dinner.

It turns out that Sal's made the wrong pizza for our takeout. Realizing that they made a mistake, the employee apologized and promptly made a new pizza. In addition, he realized that it would be a wait for the new pizza. As a result, he gave us the new pizza for free.

I was pretty excited to get the pizza for free. After all, these days it seems like the art of quality customer service is a thing of the past. So I was pleasantly surprised. It definitely makes me want to eat at Sal's from now on. Needless to say, it was a great way to end the long day.

I Suck At Sal's Pizza

On Monday, Karen and I did something that we have not in quite a long time: we ordered take out. Since having a newborn daughter (Briana) who was born on St. Patrick's Day, Karen and I have mostly had meals at our house. It was not until recently that we even ate out at a restaurant.

It's not that we are trying to eat more meals at home or anything. It's just that we seem to have very little time. By the time we are done changing and feeding Briana (followed by all the cleanup), it is practically time to repeat the cycle.

Monday, however, we were feeling rather lazy in terms of making dinner. So with our total lack of motivation to cook, we decided to order takeout from Sal's Pizza located in Norwell. Now I suck at Sal's Pizza.

Sal's Pizza is home of the 19 inch 3 lb pizza. (I'm sure there's a dirty joke in there... much like the "big as me" video clip of our local weatherman, Pete Bouchard.)

(The video below is of Pete Bouchard.)


Regardless, as tempting as the 3 lb pizza sounded, Karen and I had their 1 lb calzones. Karen had the chicken parmesan calzone while I had the steak and cheese calzone. The calzones were delicious! (Cue Rachael Ray's "Yum-O" sound.) I actually enjoyed Karen's more than I enjoyed mine, not that the steak and cheese was bad. I just thought the chicken parmesan was better.

All in all, the food was good. Plus, it was quick and easy, being so close to our house. It definitely worth it. And it seemed to give Karen and I more time since there was less to clean up after the dinner.