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Tony had to get up early for a meeting yesterday so I set my alarm for the same time.  I don’t know how he does it, but once his alarm goes off, he turns it off and gets up and gets moving.  Me?  I hit the snooze – but not for long, maybe 15 minutes.  It was perfect – our house was a chilly 50...

Our temperatures have been stunning the last couple days.  The heat is gone and its been replaced by 80 degree days and temps in the high 50’s at night – perfect sleeping weather. Friday’s I grill at my office – my store had carne asada on sale for $2.99 a pound.  Usually its already marinated, but this time it wasn’t.  I googled some marinating recipes...

Thanks to everyone who offered to play Words with Friends!  Right now I have games going on with blog reader Carol and Debbi (check out her baked salsa rice with green chiles, lime and cilantro – yum!).  However, they found me and I have no idea how to “find” you when you gave me your player name – so can you help me figure that...

I have to give Tony props.  He knows I eat, breathe and live food.  When we first got together and I was meal planning, I’d ask “how about pork chops on Thursday?”  He was like “how the hell do I know if I want pork chops on Thursday?!” In the 12 years we’ve been together, I am pretty sure Tony has watched way too many...

My husband knows me SO well.  When I got home from work last night I was just about to go downstairs to get my comfy clothes on, when he yelled “I got you a couple treats – they are in the fridge!”  It’s okay that he tells the dog the same thing. Yep – alcohol and cheese!  Pretty sure I got undressed when I saw...

Tony and I had one mission this weekend – to find me a car.  I’ve been renting the Nissan Rogue for the last few weeks.  Since Tony just bought a new car a month ago, we didn’t plan on getting a newer car for me for a few months.  No such luck as our car needed more work than it was worth.  We did end...

I think this weekend I am going to make a healthy breakfast casserole – that way my breakfasts will be portioned out and I don’t have to think about it.  If you have any links to healthy breakfast casseroles, can you leave them in the comments section?  Thanks! Again, I left the house without bringing breakfast.  I knew we had leftover bagels at the office,...

I had to fuel for my hour and 20 minute train ride to Chicago, so I made an egg white, ham and sharp cheddar breakfast panini – I only took one picture because I was so excited to get to the train station, but it was delicious! I was taking the train in from the far NW suburbs of Chicago.  Hannah and her boyfriend were...

The night before last when we went to bed, our room was so hot.  We knew the temps were going to drop later on in the night, so Tony set up a fan at our bedroom door facing out, and opened our bedroom window to pull in the cooler air.  I had my alarm set for 6:00 to go to the gym, but when I...

Over the weekend I scored on peppers – two big packages for $1 each! I grilled the peppers first, then grilled my cherries for my salsa.  I wanted to make a pepper and potato soup for the week – its so easy and 1.5 cups is like 100 calories.  I packed up my breakfast and lunch, put all my shit in the car and went...