Tonight will go down in history (in MY history book, at least).

SETTING THE SCENE
I had to drive to the Topanga Canyon area to pick up some jewelry that I recently had made (the jewelry turned out GREAT by the way!).  A friend drove with me.  We had to be at the pick-up spot at 6pm…perfect rush hour traffic for the drive back to SCV.  In disdain, we decided to wait it out and grab something to eat.  Here’s how the conversation went:

S (Sam):  Where do you want to eat?
M: Wherever.  Chili’s is right there.  But it might be too fast there.
S: yeah, here’s the deal.  I am resigned to the fact that we spend way too much money eating out.  So, while we’re still going to spend money, my thing is that i, at least, want to spend it on something good.  Not Chili’s or Claim Jumper
M: Yeah, I totally agree.  Though Claim Jumpers is pretty good food.
S: yeah, but you know what I mean.  If I’m going to spend money, I want to spend money on new things, variety, ya know?
M: Yep.  (face lights up) you’ve never had sushi, right?
S: (terror fills my soul because my body rejects ALL things from water, except canned tuna) No, I haven’t, but …in the spirit of trying new things and wanting to like fish…let’s do it.  Let’s go for it.

SO, we did it…he LOVES sushi and you should definitely have sushi, for the first time, with someone who loves it.  I had a spicy tuna roll, another tuna thing, a LION roll (shrimp)…  I have to say that the tuna ones were not bad, the shrimp ones got more gross with each bite.  but, let’s remember, I ATE SUSHI!!!!  God has shown His favor on me… I ate sushi (and didn’t hate it).