-Hopefully- I will remember to take pics later for a more interesting and informative post, but for now I just had to share this extra special glimpse into my life.
I made tonight's dinner this afternoon so I wouldn't have to worry about it later. Fully loaded baked potato soup.
I die.
I *nearly*, and I'm dead serious, licked the pot I cooked it in. I stopped myself just in time and got out a spoon. It's that good.
Keeping' it classy here in Dayton.
Friday, September 21, 2012
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Iced coffee
I have a new favorite drink and I have a feeling it's about to save me loads and loads of money. That's yummy on all counts!
I found this breakfast coffee protein shake at fitisthenewblack.me and thought I'd give it a try. Minus a few things because I'm lazy. Ya know.
Behold, iced coffee at home!
1 cup coffee
1 cup milk
Sweetener of your choice, to taste. I've used a pack of Splenda which is good, but this morning I tried a teaspoon of maple syrup. Yummmmm.
Ice cubes
Pour ingredients in a glass, stir. Drink.
I mean really, can it get any easier?!?
You are welcome. :D
I found this breakfast coffee protein shake at fitisthenewblack.me and thought I'd give it a try. Minus a few things because I'm lazy. Ya know.
Behold, iced coffee at home!
1 cup coffee
1 cup milk
Sweetener of your choice, to taste. I've used a pack of Splenda which is good, but this morning I tried a teaspoon of maple syrup. Yummmmm.
Ice cubes
Pour ingredients in a glass, stir. Drink.
I mean really, can it get any easier?!?
You are welcome. :D
Sunday, September 9, 2012
5.5
5.5 miles in under 55 minutes. MWAHAHAHA!!!!
Too bad I'm running a 5K next month and not a 10K :P
The Hubbs and I signed up for the 2013 Warrior Dash this morning. We'll be running it with some good friends and I am pretty excited. Hubbs will have done Tough Mudder in April so he'll be well prepared for it but I better start lifting and whatnot to prep for the parts other than running!!
I have no idea what I've gotten myself into.
Woohoo!!! :D
(Obnoxious runner's high, much??)
Too bad I'm running a 5K next month and not a 10K :P
The Hubbs and I signed up for the 2013 Warrior Dash this morning. We'll be running it with some good friends and I am pretty excited. Hubbs will have done Tough Mudder in April so he'll be well prepared for it but I better start lifting and whatnot to prep for the parts other than running!!
I have no idea what I've gotten myself into.
Woohoo!!! :D
(Obnoxious runner's high, much??)
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Week of 9/3/12 Goals
Welllllll......looks like last week's goals are this week's goals...I did finally lost our jogging stroller in about five different places so hopefully
That will be gone soon, and I read Paris, My Sweet (meh), but those were the minor, lazy goals. Very easily met. I really need to try harder...
On a fun note, Boyo starts school today!!! If I'm not too incredibly lazy you may see a pic.
Don't hold your breath.
That will be gone soon, and I read Paris, My Sweet (meh), but those were the minor, lazy goals. Very easily met. I really need to try harder...
On a fun note, Boyo starts school today!!! If I'm not too incredibly lazy you may see a pic.
Don't hold your breath.
Monday, August 27, 2012
This week's goals
1. Finish kitchen blog post!!!! Geez.
2. Write blog post for mom-spot.com
3. Pick a non-fiction book to read. Suggestions, anyone? I'm a bookworm and am not picky on the topic.
4. Make my earring frame. Pics and tutorial to follow.
5. Make some bird's nest necklaces for Fall Fling.
6. Try out a new breakfast recipe off of pinterest. I have about 50 pinned so chances are there's one for which I have all the ingredients.
7. Add weight lifting to workout routine. I'm doing pretty well with the running 3-4 times a week but feel like my arms could use a workout as well.
8. Sell our extra jogging stroller. Peace out, dust catcher!! *Note for any parents-to-be...you do not, I repeat do not, need 15374849 different strollers. Get yourself a nice jogger with a rotating front wheel and a nice basket underneath. The end. Amen. Ok, well, while the bambino is in the infant car seat, get something that that handy little contraption snaps into. But after that, one. And now Amen.
Ok, that's all for now. I'll probably update this as the week goes on.
2. Write blog post for mom-spot.com
3. Pick a non-fiction book to read. Suggestions, anyone? I'm a bookworm and am not picky on the topic.
4. Make my earring frame. Pics and tutorial to follow.
5. Make some bird's nest necklaces for Fall Fling.
6. Try out a new breakfast recipe off of pinterest. I have about 50 pinned so chances are there's one for which I have all the ingredients.
7. Add weight lifting to workout routine. I'm doing pretty well with the running 3-4 times a week but feel like my arms could use a workout as well.
8. Sell our extra jogging stroller. Peace out, dust catcher!! *Note for any parents-to-be...you do not, I repeat do not, need 15374849 different strollers. Get yourself a nice jogger with a rotating front wheel and a nice basket underneath. The end. Amen. Ok, well, while the bambino is in the infant car seat, get something that that handy little contraption snaps into. But after that, one. And now Amen.
Ok, that's all for now. I'll probably update this as the week goes on.
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Hesitations
I haven't posted on here in almost two months. Ridiculous, I know. And do you want to know why? It's not because I don't have ideas. I have a ton. It's not because nothing happens around here. It does. It's not because my kiddos aren't the most adorable/ridiculous/hilarious munchkins on the planet. They are. It's because I worry about what people will think of what I write. Will they care, think it's ridiculous, think I'm full of myself for assuming people want to read about my life and what goes on in it?
Why the heck do I care???!? This is my blog and I will write what I want to write, gosh darnit! If someone doesn't care to read it, well then that's fine! :) No harm no foul. But I'm not going to allow myself to hold back from
writing simply because of what someone might think of it. That's just silly.
So hopefully you will see much more from me in the near future. I actually have a whole kitchen reno post all typed up and just need to add pictures, so hopefully that one will be up in the next day or so. But as I do most of my work from my iPad I find it difficult to add pics that way. I need to borrow the hubbs' laptop for an hour or two :)
That's all for now...signing off!!
Why the heck do I care???!? This is my blog and I will write what I want to write, gosh darnit! If someone doesn't care to read it, well then that's fine! :) No harm no foul. But I'm not going to allow myself to hold back from
writing simply because of what someone might think of it. That's just silly.
So hopefully you will see much more from me in the near future. I actually have a whole kitchen reno post all typed up and just need to add pictures, so hopefully that one will be up in the next day or so. But as I do most of my work from my iPad I find it difficult to add pics that way. I need to borrow the hubbs' laptop for an hour or two :)
That's all for now...signing off!!
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Evernote help me!!! And Mint. And meal planning. Because why not throw it all together!
My brain is a scattered mess. Soo...in an attempt to get myself and my life back under control, Evernote is hopefully coming to my rescue. I've spent the last hour or so making all sorts of lists that will hopefully get me back on track. I'll be making posts about each of these at some point or another (because I'm sooo on the ball with this whole blogging business) but here's a still-incomplete-but-in-progress list of my lists. Yep.
Oh, the exciting life I lead.
The other big things that don't need lists necessarily but are high on my radar right now are budgeting and meal planning. Oh, and running. But that's a completely different topic. The first two somewhat go hand in hand because I've come to realize our budget, while not completely out of control, could certainly use a little help. Enter Mint.com! (Seriously, what the heck did I do before the internet?!?!?) I'm going to set up some lovely little helpers/alerts/thing-a-majiggers in Mint to let me know when we've spent too much or are getting close to the amount I've set. We'll see how that goes.
Wait. Totally went off track where that was supposed to go. So meal planning. The biggest problem in our spending is definitely eating out. We do it way too much and I've figured out it's because we don't meal plan. I go grocery shopping weekly and we eat everything I buy, but I don't seem to buy much in the way of dinner food. Breakfast and lunch, I've got your covered. But dinner, yeah not so much. So this week we're trying out the Whole Foods recipe app to get our meals on track. So far so good! Two meals down, two to go. (I'm not counting tomorrow because we'll be at a cookout and Saturday we have a party.) I built in a gimme day because going cold turkey on the no eating out thing is just not going to work for us. But I think this is really going to help!
Ok, talk about the most random, all over the place post ever. I'll stop now. Check back later if you want to subject yourself to more stream of consciousness writing that makes no sense whatsoever.
- Household to do's
- Fall Fling to do's - An event I'm running for my mom's group, The Family Network. Don't worry, you'll hear all about it as I turn into a nervous wreck over the next four months.
- Blog post ideas - What a Shocker!!
Oh, the exciting life I lead.
The other big things that don't need lists necessarily but are high on my radar right now are budgeting and meal planning. Oh, and running. But that's a completely different topic. The first two somewhat go hand in hand because I've come to realize our budget, while not completely out of control, could certainly use a little help. Enter Mint.com! (Seriously, what the heck did I do before the internet?!?!?) I'm going to set up some lovely little helpers/alerts/thing-a-majiggers in Mint to let me know when we've spent too much or are getting close to the amount I've set. We'll see how that goes.
Wait. Totally went off track where that was supposed to go. So meal planning. The biggest problem in our spending is definitely eating out. We do it way too much and I've figured out it's because we don't meal plan. I go grocery shopping weekly and we eat everything I buy, but I don't seem to buy much in the way of dinner food. Breakfast and lunch, I've got your covered. But dinner, yeah not so much. So this week we're trying out the Whole Foods recipe app to get our meals on track. So far so good! Two meals down, two to go. (I'm not counting tomorrow because we'll be at a cookout and Saturday we have a party.) I built in a gimme day because going cold turkey on the no eating out thing is just not going to work for us. But I think this is really going to help!
Ok, talk about the most random, all over the place post ever. I'll stop now. Check back later if you want to subject yourself to more stream of consciousness writing that makes no sense whatsoever.
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