June 18, 2012

Tony and I had one mission this weekend – to find me a car.  I’ve been renting the Nissan Rogue for the last few weeks.  Since Tony just bought a new car a month ago, we didn’t plan on getting a newer car for me for a few months.  No such luck as our car needed more work than it was worth.  We did end...

I think this weekend I am going to make a healthy breakfast casserole – that way my breakfasts will be portioned out and I don’t have to think about it.  If you have any links to healthy breakfast casseroles, can you leave them in the comments section?  Thanks! Again, I left the house without bringing breakfast.  I knew we had leftover bagels at the office,...

It’s my bosses birthday today, but she’s taking the day off today so I brought in bagels yesterday for the office for a birthday breakfast.  I have to say, without eggs in the middle a plain bagel doesn’t keep you full for long.  I had a sesame bagel with about 2 teaspoons of light veggie cream cheese. I was totally looking forward to biking or...

I had to fuel for my hour and 20 minute train ride to Chicago, so I made an egg white, ham and sharp cheddar breakfast panini – I only took one picture because I was so excited to get to the train station, but it was delicious! I was taking the train in from the far NW suburbs of Chicago.  Hannah and her boyfriend were...

The night before last when we went to bed, our room was so hot.  We knew the temps were going to drop later on in the night, so Tony set up a fan at our bedroom door facing out, and opened our bedroom window to pull in the cooler air.  I had my alarm set for 6:00 to go to the gym, but when I...

Over the weekend I scored on peppers – two big packages for $1 each! I grilled the peppers first, then grilled my cherries for my salsa.  I wanted to make a pepper and potato soup for the week – its so easy and 1.5 cups is like 100 calories.  I packed up my breakfast and lunch, put all my shit in the car and went...

I’ve discovered another phenomenon since Hannah has moved out.  Um, turns out all the pretty body washes like these: were purchased and taken with her.  I no longer smell like mango melon or very vanilla.  Now I smell like Nivea for men and Irish spring soap.  No offense Tony, it smells good on you!  Hannah painted my nails on Mother’s Day – I had to...

I don’t know why I never thought to make a breakfast panini.  I scrambled 2/3 cup of egg whites with baby spinach, and then used two slices of deli ham and American cheese on Turano bread.  Luckily I weighed the bread – the package said 2 slices for 150 calories, or 2 ounces.  Um, turns out one slice is 2 ounces! The only thing that...

Longtime readers will know that my daughter Hannah is a bit of a neat freak.  As in, if she is emptying the dishwasher and sees that I’ve put a gravy boat where the drinking glasses belong, she kinda goes ape shit on my ass. One chore that Hannah always did was garbage and recycling.  I think in the 11 years we’ve been at our house,...

We’ve been lucky to have a string of absolutely perfect weather.  Sunny, puffy white clouds, low 70’s.  I love that it gets down to 50 degrees at night.   If I could, I’d have all the windows open in my house and sleep under a down comforter.   But alas, Tony would likely kick me out of bed. 😀 I repeated yesterdays breakfast, just subbed out the...