December 18, 2012

I know it’s less than a week before Christmas, but weather wise, it just hasn’t felt like it.  Until yesterday.  It was overcast, rainy, then snowy, then windy.  I usually make my boss and I a hot café mocha in the afternoon.  My boss asked “hey Biz, are we doing café mochas today?”  I normally do them around 4:00, but it was only 2:15 and...

We live 50 miles NW of Chicago.  One of the greatest cities in the world is in our backyard and we don’t take advantage of it as much as we should.  Um, turns out Tony as big a fan of the city as me, so whenever I can get a chance to go to Chicago with my Mom, sister or daughter, I jump at the...

I envy people that can bake cookies, cakes, etc.  (Veronica, I am looking at you!).  Tony and I were both saying that the reason we prefer cooking so much is that you can adjust things as you go.  Adding salt, herbs, whatever, to bring a dish around. Baking?  Not so much.  It’s a science and one faulty move can turn a whole recipe to crap. ...

We had one secretary out of the office yesterday, so I had to work for six people yesterday.  And with us having a shorter day because of our Christmas lunch, everyone was In high gear – which I absolutely love – makes the work day go by much faster. It wasn’t until I was driving to our lunch event that I heard the awful news...

Wow.  Just wow.  For your comments yesterday, for the emails to send me Christmas cards and gifts, it’s just so overwhelming!  Who would have thought that writing a blog post about being in a funk, could actually pull me out of it! Here’s what I did to turn my frown upside down.  I turned on the Christmas music station and listened to that on my...

I have to admit I’ve been in a bit of a holiday funk. I don’t send Christmas cards anymore, which I already would have worked on and sent out by now.  Tony is going to help me this weekend somehow get our Christmas tree out of the attic – .  We are on a really tight budget so there won’t be any Christmas shopping done....

It struck me yesterday as I was going trough the mail that I had only gotten one Christmas card so far this year.  In years past I’ve even made my Christmas cards from scratch.  I always had a picture of Hannah and Joe on the inside, sometimes the dog would cooperate.  I stopped sending cards after Hannah graduated from high school. Maybe because of e-cards...

After I downloaded my pictures for the day, I realized that I didn’t have the most nutritious day food wise!  I only spent $40 bucks at the store this week and just threw stuff into the cart.  Um, it was tasty though! I made a shredded zucchini egg white breakfast sammie.  I assembled it at work, but the cheese on and put it in the...

Another weekend came and went.  Tony made me one of his famous breakfasts on Saturday – this was breakfast and lunch. It was rainy, overcast and cold all weekend.  The kind of weekend where you just want to lay on the couch, under a blanket and just watch t.v., which was pretty much how we spent our Saturday.  Is it sad that today is Monday...

I have to laugh at some of the photos I take.  Even after nearly two years of having my DSLR camera, I still struggle to get it to work the way I want.  Case in point.  Here is a picture of my breakfast yesterday morning. I have no idea what the hell setting it was on.  But I switched the dial around and this was...