I go back to work in T minus 9 hours. I should be attempting to sleep but I thought to ease my way off of my Grey's Anatomy addiction, I would post a quick update before bed. Otherwise I might accidentally hit "next episode" on Netflix and then another 42 minutes would go down the drain. I'm now nearly halfway through the fifth season. That means that I watched approximately 50 hours of Grey's Anatomy during my vacation. I also read one book (not my book club book, still need to get on that), had two dates with the Hubby and WE STARTED THE DECK!
Well, actually, Hubs started the deck. I babysat. And really, he didn't start the deck as much as took down the old crappy enclosure for the back porch, but STILL! I'm so excited.
In other news, there is yet more proof that 2011 is the year to forget, as today we found out that yet another close family member has yet another type of cancer. And this is a scary kind (hell, they're all scary). I really don't know what to think, what to worry about. I can't worry about it right now but that also means that is all I can do is worry.
In more less important news, I've fallen off the wagon a little this week in my vigilance for healthy living. Snacking more, carbing more (I never cut carbs, but I was being better with carb portion control. Was being the operative word). I only ran twice, and the second time I allowed myself to get picked up at 2.3 miles because my ankle was hurting. That was Tuesday and I still don't have a new ankle brace. This stops tomorrow - I've worked too hard to slide too much. That said, there's no way I'm stepping on the scale until I feel like I've gotten back on the horse.
More information: Spencer got his fake tooth on Friday, I never conquered my insomnia (no kidding), family photos went well on Saturday and It's all I can do not to log back on to Netflix right this very minute.
Okay, now I try to sleep. Ha. Happy vacation to all, and to all a good night!
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Saturday, April 9, 2011
Have a (laughing) cow
I blame it on FoodLush, but I'm now addicted to Laughing Cow cheese wedges. It started as a wedge in the middle of my turkey burger. Which, by the way, is delicious.
But then (take note, Molly) I had half a round of Laughing Cow and didn't know what else to do with it. So I took my favorite breakfast - a fried egg on cheese toast, and replaced the butter and cheese with one wedge of laughing cow. And came up with this:
And now it's all I crave. I dare you to try it.
And now it's all I crave. I dare you to try it.Friday, April 8, 2011
Friday hodgepodge
I'm blogging this from a chair at a nail salon where I am getting my first pedicure since the disastrous pedicure back in September. I know I'm taking a risk, but god, they need to be done so badly. Taupe. We'll see.
I hate the step where they pumice stone the bottom of your feet because I'm so uncomfortably ticklish. And they don't care if you squirm.
I'm also doing some shopping because we are getting family photos done tomorrow and I have NO IDEA what to where. I realize I should have asked opinions earlier than the day before, but if you have an opinion I'd be eternally grateful. The boys are wearing brown and white and my husband is wearing brown. I'm thinking if a cream top and my red flats but honestly I can't decide.
The lady next to me has a size 12 foot. Mine don't feel so big now.
All I've really done on my vacation is watch Grey's Anatomy. I started season 4 this morning. The season finale of season 3 might have been the worst finale I've ever seen. Ever. That said, I'm really enjoying it, and I blame my watching on Mama Fuss. And my friend Evan.
When I tried to type Mama Fuss, autocorrect changed it to bambaataa. I really worry sometimes about this phone. It has a mind of its own.
Also on my vacation, I took my mom to visit family (drive 2 1/2 hours each way, 3 hours there), picked her up from chemo, went to two baseball games, worked on tent decorations for Relay For Life, and today I worked for 3 hours. And I read one book. But really, I want to get home and watch more Grey's.
There's a woman here getting a manicure who has her two year old girl in an umbrella stroller next to her whining while she has her nails done. I think moms are entitled to get their nails fine, obviously, but couldn't someone take care of that kid for you?
Nails done. Blog done. Happy weekend!
I hate the step where they pumice stone the bottom of your feet because I'm so uncomfortably ticklish. And they don't care if you squirm.
I'm also doing some shopping because we are getting family photos done tomorrow and I have NO IDEA what to where. I realize I should have asked opinions earlier than the day before, but if you have an opinion I'd be eternally grateful. The boys are wearing brown and white and my husband is wearing brown. I'm thinking if a cream top and my red flats but honestly I can't decide.
The lady next to me has a size 12 foot. Mine don't feel so big now.
All I've really done on my vacation is watch Grey's Anatomy. I started season 4 this morning. The season finale of season 3 might have been the worst finale I've ever seen. Ever. That said, I'm really enjoying it, and I blame my watching on Mama Fuss. And my friend Evan.
When I tried to type Mama Fuss, autocorrect changed it to bambaataa. I really worry sometimes about this phone. It has a mind of its own.
Also on my vacation, I took my mom to visit family (drive 2 1/2 hours each way, 3 hours there), picked her up from chemo, went to two baseball games, worked on tent decorations for Relay For Life, and today I worked for 3 hours. And I read one book. But really, I want to get home and watch more Grey's.
There's a woman here getting a manicure who has her two year old girl in an umbrella stroller next to her whining while she has her nails done. I think moms are entitled to get their nails fine, obviously, but couldn't someone take care of that kid for you?
Nails done. Blog done. Happy weekend!
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Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Sleep ... I need to find a way to get more of it.
It's after 2am, and I'm awake. Not only am I awake, I've been awake this whole evening and I'm not even that tired. Tomorrow's going to be such a bitch, but more so is going to be next Monday when I'm expected to go back to work and I haven't figured how to get this insomnia thing under control.
When I complain about my lack of sleep, I feel like such a baby because generally (except for tonight), I'm falling asleep around midnight or 12:30, and I get a solid 6 hours of sleep a night. When I say it that way, what the heck am I complaining about? But I NEED MORE. I really need to be falling asleep at 10pm and getting a full 7.5 to 8, and then getting up an hour earlier than I do so that I can actually get to work on time instead of scraping in right before my boss does so I can feign being to work on time. This right here - it's not working.
Plus, it would really help if I could hit the gym or go for a run before work instead of my lunchtime. I miss reading on my lunch. I'm on my third season of Grey's Anatomy but I haven't even read more than two pages of my book club book (or any other for that matter). I read 16 books in March, and I haven't even read the first chapter of one this month!
I'm enjoying my vacation, generally. Monday was purely exhausting. I drove my mom and both children two hours south to spend time with all her relatives for the afternoon and then drove her back. I love my relatives, but I don't really feel that I have much in common with them. They're all very nice, albeit loud and opinionated, but the moment I hit the other side of the bridge my blood pressure rises. What is it about certain cities that just drive you nuts?
Tuesday I spent most of the day watching Netflix and enjoying the rainy weather. I wanted to run but I woke up after the clouds broke so I was SOL ... and didn't get dressed until the afternoon. Ran errands, had lunch at Tijuana Flats (yum, chicken flautas ... how does anyone ever order anything else there?)
Wednesday we have plans to have brunch and go to an afternoon baseball game ... second date in one month! And it's not even a third of the way through! How's that for good news? Hopefully maybe I'll wear myself out and sleep will find me. I miss sleep. He's being a far too elusive friend.
When I complain about my lack of sleep, I feel like such a baby because generally (except for tonight), I'm falling asleep around midnight or 12:30, and I get a solid 6 hours of sleep a night. When I say it that way, what the heck am I complaining about? But I NEED MORE. I really need to be falling asleep at 10pm and getting a full 7.5 to 8, and then getting up an hour earlier than I do so that I can actually get to work on time instead of scraping in right before my boss does so I can feign being to work on time. This right here - it's not working.
Plus, it would really help if I could hit the gym or go for a run before work instead of my lunchtime. I miss reading on my lunch. I'm on my third season of Grey's Anatomy but I haven't even read more than two pages of my book club book (or any other for that matter). I read 16 books in March, and I haven't even read the first chapter of one this month!
I'm enjoying my vacation, generally. Monday was purely exhausting. I drove my mom and both children two hours south to spend time with all her relatives for the afternoon and then drove her back. I love my relatives, but I don't really feel that I have much in common with them. They're all very nice, albeit loud and opinionated, but the moment I hit the other side of the bridge my blood pressure rises. What is it about certain cities that just drive you nuts?
Tuesday I spent most of the day watching Netflix and enjoying the rainy weather. I wanted to run but I woke up after the clouds broke so I was SOL ... and didn't get dressed until the afternoon. Ran errands, had lunch at Tijuana Flats (yum, chicken flautas ... how does anyone ever order anything else there?)
Wednesday we have plans to have brunch and go to an afternoon baseball game ... second date in one month! And it's not even a third of the way through! How's that for good news? Hopefully maybe I'll wear myself out and sleep will find me. I miss sleep. He's being a far too elusive friend.
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
TOT - Dates
1. What is your ideal best date?
Anything that includes a good meal and good conversation with my husband. Any date is a good date when you have two kids.
2. How long does it take you to get ready to go on a date?
It depends on if I've already taken a shower and dried my hair. I'd say average would be an hour, but often a lot less.
3. What would you wear on the date?
It depends on the date. With two kids, I generally consider any outing that doesn't involve children, a date. Last year we had to get a babysitter so we could get our bedroom furniture from Ikea, and I consider that something of a date. It was a lot of fun. But in general, on a traditional movie/dinner date I'd wear jean, heels and a nice top. Maybe with some boobage. If it's a fancy restaurant, a gray pencil skirt with heels, a nice top and boobage.
4. If you are married, how often do you go on dates? If you are single, when was your last date?
Like I said, I'm a little liberal on what I consider a "date". An outing that takes more than an hour including driving and gets us out without children is a date for me. I have a resolution this year for eight dates including 6 movies in the theatre, but we are really headed for an average of one a month which is awesome. I really can't tell you how many dates we had last year - maybe two?
5. What was your worst date?
I went on a date with a guy I met online back before online dating was the norm. We met in a chat room and he liked the fact that I was studying German. We met at Steak n Shake. It turned out he was a neo-Nazi. True story.
Ooh, also there was the time I went to my date's junior prom in my mom's wedding dress.
6. Do you/Did you kiss on your first date?
I didn't really have a dating policy but I often kissed on the first date.
7. If married, how long before you knew he/she was the one? If single, how long before you know if the person is marriage material?
We had our first date December 10 (or 13, I'd need to pull a calendar to tell you for sure). He had pretty much moved in by January. I knew pretty quick.
8. Do you prefer day dates or night dates?
I don't really have a preference, but I think it depends on the time of year. Right now, day is great - it's SOOO beautiful out there (I say this as it's been storming for about 2 hours with no end in sight, but it's usually sunny and beautiful) but I have always felt that coming out of a movie when it was light outside was just weird.
9. How old were you when you first were allowed to date?
There wasn't a set time, but I started dating mostly when I had a car.
10. What is the most embarrassing moment you have had on a date?
I can't think of one off the top of my head although I have a personal embarrassment about how one of my long-term relationships started. I was dating this one guy, and he had a habit of disappearing from the radar for several days to a week at a time. I really liked him so I put up with it, but I was annoyed one time and was on the phone talking to a friend of mine whose birthday it was. He wanted to know if I wanted to meet up, so we hung out for a bit that night and ended up making out. When he dropped me off at my car he said, "So when are we going to tell them?" (meaning our mutual friends that we hung out with).
"Tell them what?"
"That we're together"
"Uhh ... maybe we should keep it a secret for a little bit" (ahem, I didn't realize that one night of kissing meant we were dating. Plus, I kind of had a boyfriend. I didn't actually comment on any of this.)
I still hadn't heard from other boyfriend by a couple days later so I officially admitted to the world that I was dating guy #2, and we were together (and engaged and living together) for three years. Two weeks after I was official with guy #2, I heard from guy #1 - it turned out he had been deathly sick and hadn't left his apartment for more than two weeks. Oops!
Anything that includes a good meal and good conversation with my husband. Any date is a good date when you have two kids.
2. How long does it take you to get ready to go on a date?
It depends on if I've already taken a shower and dried my hair. I'd say average would be an hour, but often a lot less.
3. What would you wear on the date?
It depends on the date. With two kids, I generally consider any outing that doesn't involve children, a date. Last year we had to get a babysitter so we could get our bedroom furniture from Ikea, and I consider that something of a date. It was a lot of fun. But in general, on a traditional movie/dinner date I'd wear jean, heels and a nice top. Maybe with some boobage. If it's a fancy restaurant, a gray pencil skirt with heels, a nice top and boobage.
4. If you are married, how often do you go on dates? If you are single, when was your last date?
Like I said, I'm a little liberal on what I consider a "date". An outing that takes more than an hour including driving and gets us out without children is a date for me. I have a resolution this year for eight dates including 6 movies in the theatre, but we are really headed for an average of one a month which is awesome. I really can't tell you how many dates we had last year - maybe two?
5. What was your worst date?
I went on a date with a guy I met online back before online dating was the norm. We met in a chat room and he liked the fact that I was studying German. We met at Steak n Shake. It turned out he was a neo-Nazi. True story.
Ooh, also there was the time I went to my date's junior prom in my mom's wedding dress.
6. Do you/Did you kiss on your first date?
I didn't really have a dating policy but I often kissed on the first date.
7. If married, how long before you knew he/she was the one? If single, how long before you know if the person is marriage material?
We had our first date December 10 (or 13, I'd need to pull a calendar to tell you for sure). He had pretty much moved in by January. I knew pretty quick.
8. Do you prefer day dates or night dates?
I don't really have a preference, but I think it depends on the time of year. Right now, day is great - it's SOOO beautiful out there (I say this as it's been storming for about 2 hours with no end in sight, but it's usually sunny and beautiful) but I have always felt that coming out of a movie when it was light outside was just weird.
9. How old were you when you first were allowed to date?
There wasn't a set time, but I started dating mostly when I had a car.
10. What is the most embarrassing moment you have had on a date?
I can't think of one off the top of my head although I have a personal embarrassment about how one of my long-term relationships started. I was dating this one guy, and he had a habit of disappearing from the radar for several days to a week at a time. I really liked him so I put up with it, but I was annoyed one time and was on the phone talking to a friend of mine whose birthday it was. He wanted to know if I wanted to meet up, so we hung out for a bit that night and ended up making out. When he dropped me off at my car he said, "So when are we going to tell them?" (meaning our mutual friends that we hung out with).
"Tell them what?"
"That we're together"
"Uhh ... maybe we should keep it a secret for a little bit" (ahem, I didn't realize that one night of kissing meant we were dating. Plus, I kind of had a boyfriend. I didn't actually comment on any of this.)
I still hadn't heard from other boyfriend by a couple days later so I officially admitted to the world that I was dating guy #2, and we were together (and engaged and living together) for three years. Two weeks after I was official with guy #2, I heard from guy #1 - it turned out he had been deathly sick and hadn't left his apartment for more than two weeks. Oops!
Monday, April 4, 2011
Just a few things
- my car smells like mildew because of all the rain last week. Actually, it smells like mildew specifically because of Monday, when I decided to do my grocery shopping in the monsoon. 20 seconds of having the door open means my car may have been flooded. Or at least, it smells that way.
- I'm driving my mother and two kids down to Bradenton to visit kin. Shoot me now.
- Let's hope the automobile Febreeze works the way it's suppose to.
- I bought more tank tops this weekend. I'm addicted. I can't buy pants because ideally I would like to drop another pants size, so I just keep buying shirts.
- I have one pair of work pants that still fit. It's exciting that all the other ones are too big, but really not convenient. I'm subsisting on a pair of khakis, a couple pairs of jeans and my skirts. I refuse to buy transition pants.
- I'm sick of using the "we have a toddler" excuse all the time in my house. We have a toddler. Things aren't going to be perfect. You may have to deal with the toilet paper sitting on the windowsill instead of on the roll so that he doesn't play waterfall after he poops and try to flush the entire roll.
- I got my hair cut last weekend and I LOVE IT. Love it. Maybe there will be photos.
Okay, here's a photo:
Bah on my lack of ability to take decent pictures of myself (and please ignore the paint spot on my bedroom ceiling), but you get the point.
- I'm driving my mother and two kids down to Bradenton to visit kin. Shoot me now.
- Let's hope the automobile Febreeze works the way it's suppose to.
- I bought more tank tops this weekend. I'm addicted. I can't buy pants because ideally I would like to drop another pants size, so I just keep buying shirts.
- I have one pair of work pants that still fit. It's exciting that all the other ones are too big, but really not convenient. I'm subsisting on a pair of khakis, a couple pairs of jeans and my skirts. I refuse to buy transition pants.
- I'm sick of using the "we have a toddler" excuse all the time in my house. We have a toddler. Things aren't going to be perfect. You may have to deal with the toilet paper sitting on the windowsill instead of on the roll so that he doesn't play waterfall after he poops and try to flush the entire roll.
- I got my hair cut last weekend and I LOVE IT. Love it. Maybe there will be photos.
Okay, here's a photo:
Bah on my lack of ability to take decent pictures of myself (and please ignore the paint spot on my bedroom ceiling), but you get the point.
Sunday, April 3, 2011
Baking fool - with a recipe!
Saturday morning I decided to do some baking. I have a toddler who still refuses to eat vegetables and an infant who has decided he likes to eat absolutely everything, so I figured that since I just professed to not being much of a baker I should make some more butternut squash waffles (with spinach), and make up some recipes for carrot banana bread and zucchini spinach muffins. You know, just off the cuff.
I was baking for four hours. I might be delirious.
But I have for you my recipe for Carrot Banana Bread. It's a combination of carrot cake ingredients and banana bread ingredients. I winged it (wang it?) and I think I'm in love with this bread.
Carrot Banana Cake Bread
2 1/2 bananas
3/4 cup carrots, shredded
1/2 cup crushed pineapple
1/3 cup Greek yogurt
2 eggs
3/4 cup sugar
2 cups flour
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp baking soda
preheat the oven to 325 degrees. grease your loaf pan, and then dust with flour (or just use Baker's Pam). blend first 6 ingredients together. sift the last four ingredients together and blend into the wet. Pour into pan and bake for 50 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. Let set for 10 minutes to cool before inhaling eight pieces at a time.
*Note: my second one I only had two bananas so I upped the pineapple and then I added about a cup of crushed walnuts.
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