I have a dilemma. It’s the DVR. There are shows on there that Tony and I watched together, and I can’t yet watch those shows. However, there were shows only Tony recorded for himself, and would usually watch during the day when I was at work. I can’t seem to get myself to stop the recordings. It’s feels to me like it’s just one more thing that reminds me that he isn’t here anymore. It breaks my heart. But it looks like the D
DVR is going to take care of it whether I like it or not. I guess we have too many shows recorded and it’s going to start deleting the oldest ones. Whale Wars was one of Tony’s favorite programs, but that show kind of drove me nuts after watching it just once. A bunch of hippy kids floating around the sea trying to stop whale poaching. I may not have a problem deleting that one.
For some reason I wasn’t really hungry yesterday, so I ate a Kind bar and my coffee, and told myself if I was hungry later, I could eat something else, but I didn’t. And you don’t have to tell me my snowman mug is cute because, duh, I already know that.
I went to the gym. Remember the guy at the gym that I told about Tony passing away? He told the front office, and they sent me a nice condolence note. The ladies at the front desk knew about Tony being in and out of the hospital, and when I walked in the both came around the front desk and hugged me and told me how sorry they were to hear about my loss. I was SO close to just completely losing it, but I held it together. So nice. I ended up doing arms for strength and then finished with 2 miles on the treadmill.
I still hadn’t done a full grocery shop, because I still have food in the house. One of the last things Tony was able to eat and enjoy, even if he couldn’t eat it all, was Ramen soup bowls. My Walmart sells these for only .29 cents so I think I probably bought Tony a dozen of them! Not the healthiest thing in the world, but I had to run to Mariano’s after my workout to buy creamer for the office. I am still trying to figure out my Christmas meal plan, and after seeing beef rib roast recipes, especially this one, I thought I’d check it out. Um, no. I’ve never seen a piece of meat that expensive before in my life. And the sell by date was yesterday. So I would have to freeze it, then thaw it for Christmas? I decided I am going to do a sirloin tip roast, at a much more reasonable cost of $21, but do the same coffee rub on the link above.
I decided to accessorize my soup with veggies from the salad bar. That container is $1.27 worth of veggies and some extra cooked chicken.
While the noodles “cooked” in the hot water, I just chopped it all up – spinach, carrots, radishes, chick peas and chicken, then put them all together. I also added some sriracha to the broth so it was really spicy and delicious. I liked that the veggies still had some crunch to them.
I wasn’t meeting my friend Alison until 6:30 yesterday for drinks and dinner, so I ended up finishing my Christmas shopping for my sisters family. Can you believe I don’t have any plans for tonight? Well, the plan is to wrap all the presents, so I think I’ll throw on some Christmas music tonight and knock out the wrapping. And maybe I’ll have party pizza Friday!
The place we met at totally goes ALL out for all the holidays in the decorating department:
They had Shock Top on tap, which I love. I didn’t know until my friend told me that it’s a Bud product!
I had a taste for chicken wings – I ate 6 of the 8 – so spicy good!
It was so good to catch up with her. We met at a job nearly 10 years ago, but she’s been gone for 8 years, but she’s one of the ones I actually keep in touch with after we don’t work together anymore. We laughed a lot and I know she was happy to have a 2 1/2 hour dinner with drinks without being interrupted by one of her two cute girls. We were showing each other pictures on our phones, and she showed me a picture of her and her family at a wedding and as soon as I saw that picture I said “your boobs look great in that photo” and she said “um, I know, that’s why it’s our Christmas card picture this year!” Gotta love it. And she wouldn’t let me pay – so next time, it’s on me, okay?
It’s another dreary day outside – I almost don’t remember what the sun looks like! But at least we don’t have any snow, so I guess I can’t complaint too much.
I have been flooded with such generosity from all of you, that in the spirit of the season, I want to pay it forward with a holiday giveaway. I am sure like me, you’ll want to start paying more attention to what you eat and maybe throw a smoothie or two down your gullet a couple times a week. So up for grabs today is a Ninja Professional Blender! I’ve head good things about it, and that other than spending $500 + on a Vitamix, the best blender to crush ice, fruit and veggies the best.
Just leave a comment with a quick Christmas memory. No raffle copter, no facebook or twitter links, just a simple comment. I’ll pick a winner on Monday. Have a great weekend!
My favorite Christmas memory is making tamales with my Grandma for our Christmas Eve dinner. We only have them once a year, and they are worth the wait! Hope you have a Merry Christmas!!
Favorite Christmas memory is my Dad reading the Christmas story out of the Bible every Christmas Eve, then he’d read Twas The Night Before Christmas and we’d get to open 1 present. We still do that even though it’s just me at home during Christmas now 🙂
that idea for soup and veggies is so awesome Biz, thanks for the suggestion. it would cost so much more to get all those veggies from the produce section and prep them, but at the salad bar they’re so affordable for that type of meal.
My daughter was due Dec. 18….so I bought the cutest black patent leather shoes, and red dress for her Christmas pictures. She was 2 weeks late!! Missed Santa all together.
Last Christmas we gave a gift announcing I was pregnant to our families. Insanity ensued.
I think I would find it difficult too to remove the tv shows but on the other side: they are just tv shows. You remember Tony is so many more ways.
I’m passing on the giveaway, don’t want to be healthy LOL. No, seriously shipping costs will be very high if you would pick me and I won’t do that to you.
Wow that piece of meat is really expensive, I would pass on it too. I have everything that isn’t fresh already bought. On Tuesday I will buy the fresh products I need and on Wednesday I’m picking up the meat I ordered.
Your evening out with your friend looks like a lot of fun!
Hope you have a good weekend sweety.
Coming down the stairs and seeing Barbie’s dream house…..best.memory.EVER.
One Christmas, my mom had the idea to number the gifts from Santa instead of labeling which child they went to. The only problem was that she lost her list of which gift belonged to each child. We were young and took my Mom’s direction when a present was opened and she would say, “Oh, Santa must have left that for your sister. Switch with her.” I’ll never forget it.
The first thing that popped into my head about Christmas was being a grade schooler and paging through the big JC Penney catalog every year to plan out all the things you wanted to ask for. For many years I wanted the Snoopy snow cone machine but I never got it. I’ve seen it recently in the ads for like $15, and I think I should buy it for myself but It probably wouldn’t work when you try to use it and that’s why I never got it, because my mom knew it was a pile of junk.
My favorite Christmas memory was hanging our stockings by the fireplace. There are 6 kids in our family, and the stockings hung across the mantel. I remember waking up Christmas morning to our stockings full of oranges, nuts, candy and a toy. Whenever I smell oranges they always remind me of Christmas.
A great Christmas memory is going to my grandmother’s house on Christmas Day to play with my 16 cousins. That’s a lot of people packed in a little house! Tons of fun, though. I’ll be thinking of you this Christmas season, Beth. Take care!
Since you live in Chicago, I’ll share a memory that’s Chicago related from when I lived there. One of my favorite parts of living in the windy city is Christmas time. I would love strolling down the Mag Mile with a steamed Chai Latte in my hand. If I was lucky, a saxophone play would be sitting on a street corner playing a holiday tone. I loved and still miss the energy of the city, cabs honking and even pushing my way through crowds. Christmas in Chicago is the best!
Fun fact: I have never eaten Cup O Noodles out of the Styrofoam cup. Never even considered putting it in a bowl, or adding things to it! Your lunch looked good. 🙂
Too many Christmas memories to really break them down, so I’ll tell you this one – when I was still a teenager, we went to a close family friend’s house for Christmas Eve dinner. They made hot mulled wine, and we all had some. Naturally we were all in a good mood with that warm alcohol flowing through our veins, and we started to laugh…and then, one by one, we realized that our teeth were practically black from the hot red wine, which made us laugh some more…which made us see more black teeth…oh my god, we were all in tears, it was so freaking funny!
My favorite Christmas memory is every year my dad would read my sister and I “The Night Before Christmas” and my sister and I would sleep together in the same bed. It’s a tradition I hope to carry on to my kids!
When my son was three he loved Toy Story and had lots of action figures of those characters. He had some small ones from Happy Meals and Santa brought him some as well. We got to my Mom’s on Christmas morning, Bobby announced to her, “Nana! I got a BIG BUZZ and a LITTLE WOODY!” Lol…i wish I’d had the video camera rolling.
Actually my best Christmas memory will be just from last weekend when my oldest daughter told me I was finally a be a grandmother.
My favorite Christmas memories are every one the last 12 years. I am a single mom of 2 boys ages 16 &13. For 12 years we have a tradition of not leaving the house Chritmas. We stay in our pjs all day, open presents, I make a big breakfast, we snack all day, watch movies and end with a yummy dinner pjs and all. My boys say they will bring their wives and children over for our tradition many years from now including the pjs, we will see!! Right now it is a relaxing and cherished day!!!!!
Love ya, Biz. I think it would be hard to delete the DVR. Just one more thing that breaks my heart for you. My favorite Christmas memory is the last one I had with my maternal grandmother. She had been sick for a few years and that Christmas was the last time I saw her before she passed away. Fast forward to October and she slipped away before I could get up there. It’s the biggest regret I have in life, that I couldn’t get up there to see her before she died.
Fantastic idea to healthify your ramen!
One of my favorite Christmas memories:
I was raised by a single mom, who was a nurse. One year, as per usual, funds were really tight for Christmas. One of the doctors mom worked with knew of her predicament and also happened to have a daughter several years older than me. She had outgrown all her dolls and barbies. Christmas Eve (we are German, that is when we celebrate and open gifts) there was a huge set up of over a dozen barbies, a barbie ski house lodge thing, snow mobiles for them, clothes galore and every other accessory you could imagine! I knew they were second hand but I didn’t care. I couldn’t believe my eyes! Never in my life had I gotten such an amazing gift!
I remember as a kid getting a “Penny Brite” doll because my mom that Barbie was too sexy. I put a banana peel inside the case Penny came in and months later my mom opened it and it was all moldy…she wasn’t too pleased. My sister got a Man from Uncle secret spy brief case that shot plastic bullets and I wished I had too.