- It felt good on Monday night to strike through my first resolution. The blog has been redone. I really wanted a brighter, cleaner look for the new year and this seems to fit the bill. What do you think? Does everything seem to work okay on your end?
- Tuesday was my first day back to work since 12/23. I had two great holiday weekends book-ending a really lousy vacation. The sickness wreaked havoc on our household until about Thursday, and then Henry was teething and wouldn't stop crying so they sent him home and I had a migraine (and while he wasn't inconsolable at home, he was awfully whiny with my head hurting). Those two weekends were really really good though, so it almost wipes out those really terrible days in the middle.
- We plan on having a garage sale this weekend. Hold me now.
- We are going meatless 4 days a week now, but I have no real recipes and I'm afraid we're going to be eating too much mac and cheese, which slightly defeats the purpose. We have spectacularly failed at this for the first week of the year: wings, chicken sandwich, cream of chicken and rice soup (which Henry ATE so I call it a win), wings, and creole chicken with goat cheese pasta and mashed sweet potatoes. Not a single meat-free night) Recipes? Anyone? Bueller?
- My invite for Pinterest came through Monday night. This is not going to have a good effect on my #2 resolution - stay off the computer. I was never really interested in getting on it, and now I have a feeling I'm going to be up all night on the thing. But cute! Things! It's like a website devoted to letting me make lists, except with pictures. My first list was meat-free recipes.
Friday, January 6, 2012
Five on Friday
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I like the new look and everything seems to be working well.
I went vegetarian for about 9 months, but then dropped it. It wasn't as hard as I thought it would be, but it did put a strain on Matt and I eating together since he loves his meat. He doesn't consider a meal a meal without meat.
The best thing to do is not to think of substituting the meat, but supplementing your non-meat dishes. Add additional vegetables. A few staples that worked well for me were veggie burgers, quesadillas, soup, and roasted vegetables. I'm not a fan of tofu, vegetarian hot dogs, or soy milk. And I still ate eggs and dairy, but not fish (which I think of as meat). Italian dishes work well being vegetarian.
I'm on Pinterest too. I love being able to keep lists of links organized. I used it a lot for my baking over the holidays.
My first book this year was Shadow Heir (Dark Swan #4) and I was disappointed. Parts of it were good and I still like the story, but the villians have become too shallow and the crisis seemed like more of a "oh no too bad" moment than a "people are suffering horribly" moment. I can't wait for Bitterblue in May!
I love the new design!
I don't spend much time on Pinterest. I mainly use it as a bookmarking tool. Whenever I see something I like (usually a recipe), I pin it. I go to Pinterest to look at the stuff I pinned, but rarely just browse.
Bitterblue! Bitterblue! How exciting! :) I need to make a list of all the books I'm missing that I need to get on. I'm reading Swamplandia! and it's okay, but I want to get through it.
I'm reading Emperor's Edge and it's the first book I've been able to get into this year. You might like it and it's free on Kindle, so worth a try. Even though they're unrealistic, there's something about the main characters I just like. I couldn't put it down next week and ended up only getting about 2 hours of sleep.
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