November 20, 2010

on Day 1 of Staycation.  Sleep in! Done.  I didn’t get out of bed until 10:30 this morning! 😀  I’ve been lazy so far too – I made coffee and breakfast, but other than that, I’ve been a lazy bum.  Not for too long though – we have to do our final mow of the season to get up all the leaves in the back...

Can you tell I am just a bit excited about this being my last day of work until November 29?!  Hannah and I have plans for a couple chick flicks, and Tony and I are going to use a restaurant.com gift card we have so he can get oysters on the half shell.  Eww – I think they are slimy, but he absolutely loves them. ...

at work!  Wow, I haven’t been that busy in a long time, but I loved it.  I was non-stop all day.  I even ate my lunch in front of a copier! Luckily I had time to scarf my breakfast down before I got busy.  I used a low carb wrap and made a black bean breakfast taco.  This suprisingly kept me full for hours!  Maybe...

I have been using caloriecount.com for the longest time when I enter recipes to get the necessary nutritional count per serving.  When I entered my lentil and chickpea stew, I thought 77 grams of carbs and 22 grams of fiber per serving was off, but I looked back and I entered everything right. My sister used nutritiondata.com to enter the recipe and my numbers were...

When I went to Goodwill over the weekend with my mom and Hannah, while they immediately gravitate to the clothes, I always head right to housewares.  Sometimes I find unusual bowls, plates, etc.   My two favorite colors are blue and yellow.  In my old house, my kitchen was this exact yellow and my dining room was this color blue, with white baseboards and crown molding....

You knew it was just a matter of time before I started baking bread again.   While yesterday wrapped up our 2nd week of Phase I of South Beach, the two things I missed the most were bread and fruit.  I am still going to be doing a lower carb meal plan, but I will definitely be having fruit and whole grain bread! Tony and I...

I don’t know about you, but when its icky outside, I want to bake.  It’s been tough these past two weeks not to make my artisan bread in 5 minutes, or my chili stuffed baked potatoes.   Since I stocked up on canned pumpkin at Aldi the last time I was there, I decided to make pumpkin scones. Thanks to Tastespotting, I found just what I...

You all know I do my meal and menu planning on the weekend.  I have everything written down, I know exactly what I am having for breakfast lunch and dinner by Sunday of the week at the very latest. I opened my meal plan book to look to see what I had planned for the day.  I was utterly shocked when I saw . ....

Thank you, thank you for all of your wonderful comments yesterday – I think I proved Tony wrong (and while he still will never believe me) that this blogging community is friendship based – thanks to each of you for being my friend! I did only reply to one comment – my step-son commented!!  You can see some pictures of him here. 😀  He’s been...

Tony thinks I am absolutely crazy to call my blog readers my friends.  I’ll say “My friend Shelley just ran a race in Hawaii!” “My friend Christina makes dog treats called Corky Crisps and sells them at craft fairs!” My friend Jen just got back from a trip to Italy!” “My friend Helen jokes about how her husband wishes it was party pizza Friday at...