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I haven’t gotten all the numbers back on my last doctors appointment, but the nurse called me yesterday to tell me that my cholesterol is high.  Really high.  I didn’t even think to ask the number, but I should be getting all the results in the mail in a couple days.  I’ve been on cholesterol medicine since September, and never really thought much of it. ...

I wish my Dad could have lived long enough to enjoy digital photography.  My Dad was an avid photographer, so much so that we had a dark room in our basement.  I remember going downstairs as a child, seeing the red light flashing outside the dark room which meant I couldn’t go in just yet. When I did watch my Dad develop the film, it...

My secret (or not so secret) dream job would be to own a food truck and be open for breakfast and lunch.  I’d serve all sorts of scones, biscotti, good coffee and delicious egg sandwiches on homemade biscuits. Lunch would be paninis!  Roast beef and goat cheese with roasted red pepper, BLTs, ham and Swiss cheese with horseradish mustard.  And all my sandwiches of course...

Raise your hands if you are addicted to Pinterest!    So much stuff on there its kind of ridiculous.  I’ve had this pin of detox water pinned for a while.  I mean what’s the point of having a pin if you don’t use it? (which reminds me I should meal plan off my recipe board!). I made it the night before, and drank two large...

Dear Chobani.  Oh how I love thee.  You have been good to me the last couple years, sending me free products, t-shirts and spoons.  I’ve been spreading the word about your wonderful yogurt so much so that my boss who once thought she hated Greek yogurt has come to love it. But this week you weren’t on sale.  And the Yoplait was and it was...

More blue skies and warmer temps are coming our way  – woop!  Right now at 9:00 a.m. on Saturday morning it’s already 52 degrees with a high of 65 with no rain in the forecast until Monday. Since I was putting so much stuff together for my grilled lunch at work, I was happy to have once slice left of my potato crusted quiche left...

I love when days start out with blue skies – it immediately picks up my mood! When I went to my my potato crusted quiche for my boss and I yesterday, I reached for my zucchini to shred and put into the quiche.  Sadly, it got frozen in the back of my fridge, as did my radishes which was going to pickle this weekend. But...

Okay, we just have to get through two more days of chilly weather and hopefully we will break free from what has seemed like the longest winter in history.  I was listening to the radio last week and a local station was having a “Half Way to Halloween” party and I felt like yelling “it still FEELS like Halloween weather!”  Right now at 7:15 in...

Saturday morning Tony and I were thrilled to see the sun.  After a pretty lazy morning we decided to head out to lunch and to do a bit of grocery shopping. We went to a place called The Assembly.  Back in the day, this was one of the only restaurants/bar in the area, and Tony spent quite a bit of time there in the 80’s. ...

Chicagoland got about five inches of rain overnight Wednesday night.  Before I went to bed, I was putting laundry in the dryer and saw a bit of seepage in one corner and didn’t think much of it. Many moons ago I had a job that required me to be at work at 7:00 a.m.  Tony ended up building me a closet in the basement so...