January 22, 2009

so if I have any regular readers, you’ll know that Tony’s parents gave us this t.v. for Christmas! (thanks again – we love it!)   I was actually speechless when they brought it in!  So this t.v. has high definition so we called DirectTV and scheduled an appointment to get the HD box and replace all the other boxes in our house.  Mind you, there are...

When I got home yesterday, there was more mail than usual since there was no mail on Monday, and half way through I saw a letter from the Chicago Department of Revenue.  My first thought was “we don’t live in Chicago!” I open it up, and there, plain as day, is my truck going through a red light!  WTF?  On busy streets in Chicago they...

I think I did a great job with that roast – it cost $11.50 for the sirloin roast, I got Sunday dinner out of it, then our sammies last night for dinner, and then the remaining roast became roast beef hash thanks to Tony’s awesome suggestion! First I diced up 12 ounces of potato, since I had exactly 12 ounces of roast left. Then I...

Oh my – I think I just ate the best sandwich of my life!  More on that in a second though!  When I was at the store, they actually had corn on the cob on sale!  What, its not July?!   Three ears was only $1 – I love the combo of the yellow and white kernels – it was surprisingly very good! But the star...

I love having a kitchen at my office!  Even though I am pretty much the only one who uses the stove except when we have office parties or around the holidays.  I’ll be cooking up my stir fry while one person after another heats up their Lean Cuisine! I had to cut my work out short – my blood sugar was 133 before I went...

It’s nice to see the sun out today as well as warmer temperatures – we may hit 20 degrees today!   When I was fixing stuff for my lunch, I saw the homemade granola and decided to have that with the regular oats and low fat vanilla yogurt.  I love this combo!  I never did take my dog for a walk last night, but I do...

Yeah!  I finally made a good chicken fried steak!  And it’s all thanks to RobinSue!   The only thing I didn’t have was as crispy a crust as I would have liked, but this was very tasty!  And cube steak is so cheap – I got 5 cube steaks for $3.97! First I chopped the rosemary for my potatoes – I like a fine chop:  Here’s...

On the side I have carrots, cucumbers and light ranch dip: And a small granny smith apple sprinkled with Splenda and cinnamon for dessert: Do the happy dance with me – I worked out at lunch!   I ended up doing 30 on the elliptical, hill climb, then 5 minutes of abs and 5 minutes of s t r e t c h i n g. ...

Believe it or not, I lost 1.1 this past week, bringing me to 163.8.  I shouldn’t complain because I only exercised once last week!  I have to get my a$$ in gear this week! I am so happy I did a full grocery shop this weekend because now I have fruit in the house!   Strawberries were on sale – I got a quart size container...

I handed Tony his plate and went back to the kitchen to plate mine and take the pics!  As I walked back he said “this is probably one of the most flavorful roasts I have ever had!”  I almost stopped in my tracks at that comment!  The reason being is that sometimes I can spend HOURS on a meal, and while in my head I...