April 18, 2014

Without eating dinner the night before, I was HANGRY when I woke up.  I ended up eating a giant copycat granola bar – I seem to never cut them all the same size, and my last row I had two giant ones – probably 400 calories each, but that’s all I ate for breakfast.  That’s the last bite – I ate the whole thing in...

I was cleaning out my wallet the other day and realized I had a Panera gift card that still had $15 dollars on it.  My daughter must have given it to me – she is actually now an Assistant Morning Shift Manager and will start training new employees next month at Panera.  In May she will have worked there for two years already – time...

Even though the sun was shining bright yesterday morning when I woke up, the fact that it was 23 degrees, but felt like 15 degrees and the fact that there was snow on MY chair, was a bit depressing. But we got up in the 40s, so most of it is already melted, so I got that going for me.  I am dreaming of our...

Even though it was 37 degrees when I got up, I put on a winter hat, got bundled up and headed out for a 30 minute walk before work.  It was chilly!  But it was nice to see some grass down by the river. But because we had so much rain on Sunday – it was wormpalooza!  Everywhere I looked there were worms! I came...

Right after I shut off the computer Saturday morning, the storms rolled in – we got hail!  Sorry the video is so shitty, but you’ll get the idea. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0chkn6Ji_BU&feature=youtu.be By the time we got up moved about it was 11:30.  We hemmed and hawed whether we wanted breakfast or lunch, and lunch won.  We ended up going to Texas Roadhouse – it opened up in...

This is going to be super quick because we have storms rolling in and I have to shut down our computer.   Heather, I finally used the last of the Starbuck’s gift card you sent me and got a protein box from there – I just added the strawberries.  I love picky type breakfast plates like this.  Now that the gift card is used up I...

As I was blogging before work yesterday I was thinking what to fix for breakfast and lunch – towards the end of the week my meal plan gets a bit wonky and as I was typing I was thinking “I have a baked potato in the fridge and fresh chicken breast I need to cook up.”  I quickly got some rice going in my rice...

I don’t know why I don’t bake as much as I cook.  I guess it’s because baking is more of a science – it’s a perfect ratio of ingredients, and if one of those are off, it just doesn’t turn out.  I much prefer cooking to baking.  But, with the millions of food blogs out there, I think I am in the minority on that...

I am happy to say that as of April 8, 2014 – ALL THE SNOW AND ICE IS GONE!  And I can even see a bit of green grass trying to poke through the ground.  I think we may have finally turned the corner on the longest winter of my life. I had more biscuits leftover, so I decided to make my own breakfast biscuit...

When I was getting our taxes done with our accountant last month, she got to the part about charitable contributions.  Huh.  Other than donating clothes to Goodwill, that was about the extent of our charitable contributions – I thought to myself “how sad is that?!”  Even though I work two jobs, that doesn’t mean I can’t find a way to give a little. So when...