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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...

My Dad used to always joke that somehow when he was driving by Dunkin Donuts, somehow an apple fritter jumped into his car and made it’s way home to our house.  Huh!  My Dad was also insulin dependent diabetic, and I believe pretty much every food he ate was “insulin worthy” but none more than an apple fritter.   Well, the apple didn’t fall far from...

I have no idea what it is, but Friday’s at work seem like as long as Monday – Thursday does.  I had to laugh at some of your comments about office people eating other peoples food, and LTR sent this eCard to me and it had me laughing out loud! Thanks sweetie!  My egg cooker I normally use at work was in the dishwasher that...

Today is my MIL’s birthday!  Hope you have a great day Bonnie!   While she is in sunny Florida, um, let’s just say that I am not a fan of seeing this temperature in October: I usually never wear a coat to work until at least December, but I had to put a sweater on yesterday – there was frost on the ground too. While I...

I guess I’ve got recipe contest fever!  I’ve been entering any and every contest lately that I can find online.  Some you enter and then won’t hear if you’ve made it as a finalist or won for months, others need your votes to get through.   I entered Fisher Nuts recipe contest for the chance to win a trip to NYC, and meet Chef Alex Guarnashelli.  ...

I had the best breakfast yesterday – it was so flavorful and tasty, I might just fix it again today.  I used one of my naan breads as the base for breakfast pizza.  I scrambled egg whites with jarred roasted red peppers.  I put a teaspoon of Sabra red pepper hummus on the bottom of the naan, then topped it with baby spinach, the scrambled...