Comments on: The Dining Guide

By: kwr221

kwr221 — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 01:30:57 +0000

Ooooh, I like your list.

By: LindaB

LindaB — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 02:57:34 +0000

What are “conch fritters”?

By: gracelynn

gracelynn — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 01:46:06 +0000

ROTFL This is great Tori! I just got home from a weekend away seeing Ivan and Gordon at their solo concerts. And my friend Wanda went with me and your Top Ten list sounds so much like us, especially the part about sitting in booths (we ALWAYS request a booth! Mainly because of my bad back….LOL), have a ball trying to figure out which restaurant we actually are going to dine at for lunch or dinner, and we always complain first and then move on to the laughing streaks. I will remember this list if and when I ever find the right man and get married. Wanda is divorced so I know she’ll understand your Top Ten when she reads it. LOL Oh and I’ll pass this list on to my friend Christine who is getting married the 23rd. She’ll need it!

By: belinda

belinda — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:27:34 +0000

Momma Lloyd trust me, he is up to NO good when he get’s that grin. Or maybe he is practing the RT shuffle in his head for next time we see you so he will be ready?

By: Barbara M. Lloyd

Barbara M. Lloyd — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 03:16:41 +0000

This has been an interesting post. Just make the subject on husbands or food…..and in this case, both….which generated a lot of response. I would still be pouting over my being home with no husband and too much food….if it were not for the fact that I am pondering what is behind Belinda’s husband’s silly little grin.

By: belinda

belinda — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 20:47:58 +0000

Don’t you love it when you pick something new and it is good and hey you got two new things and scored on both! Gotta love that!

Troy has started doing a lot of cooking since he is semi-retired…waiting on next job to come about. He really is doing very well. He grew up with one person always deciding where they would go and where they would eat and he was determined when he got married he would not do that. I get excited when I seen that little grin that tells me HE DOES have something in mind. YES!!!! Of course now that he is doing more of the cooking when he calls to see what I want for supper I find great pleasure in saying “I don’t care” “I Don’t Know”, I always laugh and tell him how much fun it is paying him back for ALL the times he gave me those answers. He is trying new things, will miss it when he goes back to work, but maybe just maybe he will keep it up?

He eats slower than me, always has but I don’t have the excuse of kids. Sometimes I’m finished before he has his plate fixed and sitting down to eat. Guess that comes from growing up. My Mom always fixed us lunch at home, yes we went home every day for a home cooked meal from school. You did not have any time to waste so we sat down ate and headed back to school. You had to eat fast.

I think we might have to find us a Indian restraunt and try some of those dishes you suggested. Wonder if Troy could fix them? Maybe I’ll find a recipe?

By: BrownEyedGirl

BrownEyedGirl — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 20:22:21 +0000

I’m certainly the odd man (woman) out here. I have no close friends (by choice) and don’t go to dinner with my husband. Hmmm – don’t drink coffee either

( We both gourmet cook for fun – I have to fight him for the kitchen on the weekend :o) I’m totally blessed – most husbands I know, don’t cook ( Does Russ do any cooking , Tori??)

Anyway, Tori, I’m glad you and Russ had a nice dinner – No girls for the whole weekend , Huh??? Hope you made the most of it!!

and yes, I eat faster than my husband for the same reasons Tori stated – doing many things at once!! It’s a matter of survival !!

By: tori

tori — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 15:40:54 +0000

Dinner was lovely, thanks for asking. We talked about… the girls, themema, what else?! Ok, other stuff, too. The best part, embarrassingly enough, was not our wonderful conversation but the fact that I ordered two new things along with our ‘usuals’ and SCORE! on both counts. So, fyi, if you like Indian food, check and see if your favorite restaurant has chicken patia and piswari naan. Just saying.
Linda, I am a faster eater than Russ, too. He’s not waay behind me, but my theory is that women get in the habit of shoveling food in quickly because they are usually eating standing up in the kitchen, while dealing with the kids and unloading the dishwasher simultaneously!
Belinda, Russ will maybe offer an opinion about what sounds good to him, but he’s verrrry pliable..

By: belinda

belinda — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 13:48:56 +0000

One question, do most of your husbands pick where you go out to eat or do they let you pick? I have a hard time getting Troy to pick where he wants to go out and eat, another story there. Sometimes he gets this funny little grin on his face when I ask him and he says “I don’t care” and I know that grin after, okay so close to 30 years we will call it 30 years that he has something in mind. After I finally drag it out of him, we go there because he has FINALLY said where he wants to eat. Do you girls have that problem?

By: LindaB

LindaB — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 13:13:41 +0000

I don’t have anything else to say, I just have to post something so I can see the post after me because it’s hidden behind the black border along the right side of this page.

By: belinda

belinda — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 13:08:16 +0000

We ate out yesterday right after I read this. It is so funny how men are all alike when you actually stop and think about it. You just kind of get use to stuff…..don’t really think about it….and then…..you come here and think, yes he does that….and that too…
Men….can’t live without them. What joy they bring into our lives.

So Tori….how was the Indian Food and the nice romantic dinner with your husband.. Blogging minds want to know. FYI he has always had nothing but praises for you when we have been around him. I can remember his comment that “going home is always the best part” after being on the road singing. Hope you two had a great evening.

By: themema

themema — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 12:29:01 +0000

aaaaaww, so sweet. Mosquitos and all. So how did it go? What do you talk about when the girls are both gone. l o l.

By: LindaB

LindaB — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 04:18:34 +0000

As long as we’re talking about having dinner with our husbands, I have this one complaint——-he eats too slow! I gulp my food down like a piranha—in about 9 seconds. Then I have to sit there and entertain myself while he cuts his food into little bites, chews each one thirty times, savors each bite, and talks in between each one. It drives me up the wall. And THEN, he has the audacity to make me feel guilty by saying how much he enjoys my company whenever we eat out! About how much better it is to have dinner with me than the neanderthals at work. And I just smile sweetly and say, “Why, thank you, dear! Can we go now? I have blogs to read, ya know.” Maybe they should have, along with premarriage counseling, a section on finding someone to mate with that eats at the same speed as you do. Not that I am not happy with my slow eater, I have adapted. I take my hand held Yatzee game in my purse for those long leisurely dinners out. And I think of how I will feel someday if he goes before me and I cannot look at him across the table, see that smile that says he’s happy to be with me, and tease him about eating so slowly. Or hear him laugh when I get out my Yatzee game and he starts chewing a little faster.

Cracker Barrel has solved my problem though—-they have that little peg game at each table that keeps me busy throughout the whole meal!

By: tori

tori — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 00:13:12 +0000

Ok, in the interest of full disclosure I will admit that dining with Russ has its upsides. (Not that singing while I do the dishes is one of them. Heck, I’d sing if HE did the dishes!) In fact I will be dining with him this very p.m.- he is on his way home as we speak with a big bag full of take-out Indian food. The girls are gone for the weekend, and we shall enjoy a romantic dinner al fresco (I mean ‘we’re eating outside’, not ‘we’re eating nekkid’– that al fresco thing started sounding funny to me) on the deck, amidst the buzzing mosquitos and begging dogs. And I’m sure our sparkling conversation will sound just like a Noel Coward play.
Possibly with burping.

By: themema

themema — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 23:57:01 +0000

Ok Tori, I promise to deck him if he says anything bad about you. But I can tell you from experience, that he never has expressed anything but great appreciation for you to me. And he has had the chance, if he wanted to!

By: auburn60

auburn60 — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 23:21:41 +0000

That ‘rubbing your temples’ thing by your dinner partner? I get that a lot. I always thought it was…well…possibly migraines. (I’m trying to remember if you ever rubbed your temples when I was
around,Tori. Now I’m paranoid.)
And there’s a rule for gossip if you are a female raised in the South. You can say pretty much whatever you want,as long as it is followed by a ‘bless her heart’. As in ‘She has turned into such an alcoholic slut,bless her heart’. So see-you’re good.
One thing my husband does when we go out is constantly rate the experience. I’ve never been with a female who does that. He talks about the food,the service, the decor and compares it to every other place we have ever been.Or he ruminates on all the other places we could have gone.He chats up the wait staff.He gets invited to visit the chef in the kitchen.He finds mutual friends or relatives with someone who works there. He exchanges business cards.By the time we leave (usually as the place is closing down)he has a whole new set of friends. I’m just sort of along for the ride.

By: Barbara M. Lloyd

Barbara M. Lloyd — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 23:18:28 +0000

Well golly, gee whizz…and I’m home having dinner with my dog….listening to Russ Taff cd’s. Somethings not right here, folks!

Tori, when I first started reading I thought for sure it was going to be about why women need girlfriends. Actually, it was….but the thought that came to mind for me is the woman who says, “I have never had girlfriends; I prefer men friends. Makes me want to work the room and take up a collection for this socially-deprived broad. Life without girlfriends is like breakfast without coffee….or worse.

But, back to the subject of Russ Taff: He can sing while I do the dishes.

By: belinda

belinda — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 20:17:42 +0000

That’s too funny Betty, we just had lunch with her husband last week and knew none of this. At least you have heads up! Enjoy! If your concerts are as great as ours was, you will have a great weekend.

Tori, glad you had a great time out!

By: tori

tori — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 20:10:01 +0000

And if he bitches about me, deck him.
I mean, remind him of what a blessing I am.

By: themema

themema — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 19:57:38 +0000

hmmm, and to think that I will be having dinner with your husband next weekend. I’ll try to remember this quide of what to expect…check out the location of the bathroom ahead of time, know what I am going to order, make it quick and not too elegant, let him talk about his work, have the coffee on the table when he arrives,…….