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Thanks for all your well wishes about our basement.  I spent about an hour and a half to two hours shop vacuuming the rest of the water, and did TEN loads of laundry.  I still can’t open my dresser yet, so there is still more laundry to do if those clothes can be saved.  It felt like a Saturday all day yesterday since I took...

You’ll want to make these easy pork and shrimp egg rolls – make a batch over the weekend and reheat later in the week!  But first. . . Thanks for all the nice comments about my “do-over!”  It’s a clean slate, right?   And what better way to start the day than with an almond café mocha green monster. I drank it on the way...

Before I get to the recipe for literally the best Chicago Style homemade popcorn I have ever made (and total crack to both Tony and me, so I won’t be making this for a long time), I have to give a shout out to some more of my blog friends who sent me Christmas cards: If you haven’t read Ally from Sweet & Savory, you...

Can I just say that I wish every week is a 3 day work week?!  It will be Thanksgiving before we know it.  I had a wonderful weekend, the weather was amazeballs – temps in the 50’s?  Yes please! Tony made me two delicious breakfasts, I am being spoiled by his weekend breakfasts, and I love it. Saturday morning?  Spicy French toast.  Sounds weird, but...

Well I am on 8 of my 21 day challenge.  My first thought was to do 4 miles a day, and after day one, I determined that my speed wasn’t quite fast enough to do that mileage on my lunch hour, so I quickly reduced it down to a 5k.  I also said I was going to try to do a 5k every day for...

I am happy to report that my surgery yesterday went really well.  Literally 30 minutes from beginning to end.  I had no idea what to expect, how I would feel afterwards.  Um, turns out I could have probably done this on my lunch hour since the plastic surgeons office is literally 2 minutes from my office. I didn’t want to eat a big breakfast, so...

Guess what was staring in my face every time I went into our lunch room yesterday? Not just any Cheeto – cheddar jalapeno people!  I must have been in the kitchen half a dozen times yesterday making my breakfast and lunch, and filling up my water bottle.  Um, but guess who didn’t eat any?!  Me!  It helped that my co-worker told me “they probably are...

Why do weekends have to go by so fast?  Seems like I just get into the groove of getting stuff done, and in the blink of an eye, its another work week. I did have a great weekend though!  Tony and I went out to dinner Friday night, and while it was a crappy day, it was a perfect day to be bizzy in my...

Thanks again for your well wishes for Charlie.  He even emailed me yesterday to tell me that he couldn’t comment because he it didn’t recognize his email.  So he said “go into your settings on your dashboard and see if there is a box that says “must be logged in to leave a comment.” Here’s the funny part.  In September this year I’ll have had...

I talked to Charlie!  Every time I had called he was sleeping.  I called my Mom and started to talk to her and I heard my brother in the background say “I have cancer.”  You have to know Charlie personally, but he was saying it in a funny voice and it made me laugh. He sounded tired.  His main complaints are the awful, constant bad...