Uncategorized

Best laid plans.  Isn’t that how the story goes?  Remember how organized I was over the weekend?  I had basically gotten everything together for the week.  My giant bag of food was packed, I had clean gym clothes AND REMEMBERED to put my shoes in my bag.  Life was good! Until I walked off without my food for the day.  I was so pissed because...

I think if you were to define my weekend, it would be “my cleaning pants are on!”  Hannah and I always joked when she lived at home that while she always liked to clean, I had to be in the mood to clean, and the days I felt like putting on my “cleaning pants” she was never in the mood!  But, my pantry was a...

Okay, I agree it’s not quite normal to decide after a minute of waking up and brushing your teeth to look at the clock and decide “I have time to make granola bars!”  While I love my Copycat Nature Valley Granola Bars recipe, it’s sometimes hit or miss, and I can swear I make it the same every single time.  Sometimes it’s perfect, other times...

One of the good things about having a blog is the ability to look back and see when something happened.  You’d think that certain dates would stick in your mind, but I find myself from time to time looking back to see what year something actually happened.  For some reason I thought Tony’s colon cancer was in 2010, but low and behold, it was 2011. ...

I ended up having the other half of my breakfast baked potato yesterday.  Still so filling and delicious!  These pictures are kind of crappy because I was messing around with my camera and forgot to lower the ISO, so tey are a bit grainy.  Since I was going to Tony’s doctor appointment, I had to work through lunch.  I had so much beef stew leftover,...

We live in a small town, but I decided to get to the polls a bit early just in case there was a line.  Nope!  I think I was in and out of there in about two minutes! Happy to say that Pat Quinn is out on his ass.  Hopefully he’ll just retire quietly.  Bruce Rauner is our new governor –  I appreciate the fact...

My daughter Hannah started drinking coffee about the age of 13.  We used to have a carafe style type coffee pot and I think Tony and I were blaming each other for drinking all the coffee, when Hannah was sneaking cups out of it.  Fast forward 10 years and I think she goes to Starbucks at least every other day.  I am more of a...

I didn’t come up with the idea, but I think blog reader Carol sent me a link to Roni from  an Instagram post that she was going to go as a bottle of sriracha for Halloween.  As luck would have it, Hannah bought me a sriracha t-shirt for my birthday last year.  All I needed to buy was the green hat and red pants.  Um,...

My office always dresses up for Halloween, which I think is awesome.  I love Halloween!  When Hannah was little we had the best Halloween parties.  But as the years have gone by, the interest to dress up has lost interest in everyone.  Well, except for me!  Damn those people, I will be dressing up today!  You’ll just have to stop by tomorrow and see what...

When I was heating up another slice of my zucchini potato quiche, I remembered that I had a container of baby spinach in the work fridge, and decided to make a side salad to go with it.  There is a restaurant in South Barrington that has the best quiche called L’Eiffel Bistro – so light and fluffy!  And their quiche always comes with a side...