Danny and I did good this weekend. We went to the grocery store to stock up on food for the next two weeks. Here's a list of dishes I will be making for us in the coming weeks. I'll post recipes after we've tried them.
Crockpot Cheeseburger Soup - We're both having this for lunch today. I'll let you know how it turns out.
Enchilada Lovers Casserole
Cheesy Chicken Macaroni & Cheese
Chicken Toss with rice
Fiesta Turkey Pie
Beef Stroganoff
Crockpot Chicken and Stuffing
Chili Mac
Spicy Cheese Soup - another soup to freeze for lunches
(Funny side note...the spell check for this blog doesn't like the word crockpot. It's first suggestion as a replacement was crackpot. Not sure I've heard of a crackpot but it made me think of a crack pipe. Big difference between that and a crockpot.)
Monday, March 9, 2009
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Ugly T-Shirt Bowling
Danny and I finally hung out with Laura and Travis and we tagged along with them to Ugly T-Shirt Bowling. It was just regular bowling except you had to come dressed in an ugly t-shirt. I dug through my drawer that afternoon and found Danny and I two shirts to wear. His was this lime green shirt from the restaurant Snooty Pig. My shirt just happened to be my vision, mission, values work shirt.
We all met up at Beach Bowl in Jax. Some of the t-shirts were hilarious. This one guy cut his shirt off to show his belly. It was a site to see. They even made up ballot sheets so we could vote on the ugliest, funniest, and most unique t-shirt. The awards ceremony was hilarious.
Now lets get down to the bowling. I usually start off good and get worse as the night goes on. This time it was the opposite. I started out with a first game of 80 something and came in second to last. My second game was much better. I scored a 99. I almost hit 100 which was my goal.
Before the final game we all started making bets. Laura and Travis bet Danny and I that they would do better than us. The losers would buy lunch for the other group. Turns out Danny had his worst game of the night and I had my best game (scored 100) and we lost. Travis and Laura were on fire. So we owe them lunch. That's ok...it's a good excuse to get together again.
Danny doing a turkey dance after getting 3 strikes in the 10th frame of game 2. Why couldn't he have bowled like this when it counted.
I almost scored 100. If I wouldn't have had a double gutter in the last frame it would have been great.
Woohoo for scoring 100. Booo for loosing to Travis and Laura (otherwise known as Debbie and Mr. Awesome).
We all met up at Beach Bowl in Jax. Some of the t-shirts were hilarious. This one guy cut his shirt off to show his belly. It was a site to see. They even made up ballot sheets so we could vote on the ugliest, funniest, and most unique t-shirt. The awards ceremony was hilarious.
Now lets get down to the bowling. I usually start off good and get worse as the night goes on. This time it was the opposite. I started out with a first game of 80 something and came in second to last. My second game was much better. I scored a 99. I almost hit 100 which was my goal.
Before the final game we all started making bets. Laura and Travis bet Danny and I that they would do better than us. The losers would buy lunch for the other group. Turns out Danny had his worst game of the night and I had my best game (scored 100) and we lost. Travis and Laura were on fire. So we owe them lunch. That's ok...it's a good excuse to get together again.
Danny doing a turkey dance after getting 3 strikes in the 10th frame of game 2. Why couldn't he have bowled like this when it counted.
I almost scored 100. If I wouldn't have had a double gutter in the last frame it would have been great.
Woohoo for scoring 100. Booo for loosing to Travis and Laura (otherwise known as Debbie and Mr. Awesome).
What are they doing?
I had these two flies land on my mirror. They were flying around attached at the butt and then landed on my mirror. I had to take a picture.
My new favorite blog to read.
I found a new favorite blog to read on Friday night while I was home bored. Danny was working of course and I knew that we would need to go to the grocery store this weekend. So I was in search of new recipes and stumbled upon this crockpot blog. This woman made it her New Year's Resolution in 2008 to cook something in her crockpot every day. And she did it. Amazing.
She uses her blog to post the recipe and pictures each day of what she made. She won't be updating it as much in 2009 but it will take me forever to get through 366 days (it was a leap year) of recipes.
http://crockpot365.blogspot.com/
I'm making one of the recipes as we speak in my new crockpot. I'm trying the cheeseburger soup recipe. That way I can divy the soup up for us to use for lunch this week. Very exciting.
I'm also very excited about my new crockpot I bought today. I didn't really need a new one but my problem was that I'm away from home for about 11 hours each day and that is way too long for most crockpot recipes. So my new crockpot has a timer and once the time runs out it switches to warm, so this will allow me to use my crockpot no matter how long I'll be away from home. This is going to be great. I'll probably cook a lot more because crockpot cooking is so easy.
Now who wants my old crockpot? Nothing wrong with it...just no timer.
She uses her blog to post the recipe and pictures each day of what she made. She won't be updating it as much in 2009 but it will take me forever to get through 366 days (it was a leap year) of recipes.
http://crockpot365.blogspot.com/
I'm making one of the recipes as we speak in my new crockpot. I'm trying the cheeseburger soup recipe. That way I can divy the soup up for us to use for lunch this week. Very exciting.
I'm also very excited about my new crockpot I bought today. I didn't really need a new one but my problem was that I'm away from home for about 11 hours each day and that is way too long for most crockpot recipes. So my new crockpot has a timer and once the time runs out it switches to warm, so this will allow me to use my crockpot no matter how long I'll be away from home. This is going to be great. I'll probably cook a lot more because crockpot cooking is so easy.
Now who wants my old crockpot? Nothing wrong with it...just no timer.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Thank you Girl Scouts!
I just wanted to give thanks to the Girls Scouts and their COOKIES. Two nights ago I was craving cookies and had nothing in the house that would stop the craving. I was wishing and hoping that Danny would run out and get my something but he didn't volunteer.
Well thankfully yesterday when I stopped to get gas on my way home, there was a poor girl scout and her mom selling cookies at the gas station in the cold weather. It was 49 degrees outside and they were sacrificing themselves for us who just wanted cookies. So I bought three boxes. HEHEHHE
So today as I'm still enjoying my cookies, I say THANK YOU GIRLS SCOUTS FOR YOUR DELICIOUS COOKIES THAT KEEP ME HAPPY.
Well thankfully yesterday when I stopped to get gas on my way home, there was a poor girl scout and her mom selling cookies at the gas station in the cold weather. It was 49 degrees outside and they were sacrificing themselves for us who just wanted cookies. So I bought three boxes. HEHEHHE
So today as I'm still enjoying my cookies, I say THANK YOU GIRLS SCOUTS FOR YOUR DELICIOUS COOKIES THAT KEEP ME HAPPY.
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
My Wii age :(
So tonight after a few glasses of wine for me and a few cocktails for Danny, we started playing the Wii. We now have two nunchucks so we can battle each other in boxing. I knew this would be a tough match because we're both good at boxing. It was very close but I knocked him out in the end. Thank goodness I won because he beat me in every other sport we played. Tennis and bowling. He not only beat me at these...he creamed me. GRRR
So after the beating, I told him he should do the exercise to find out his Wii age. It uses a few games to test your balance, stamina, and skill and then gives you an age. I had heard of other people's ages and was expecting the worst. Danny didn't do so well at tennis, was good at baseball and great at bowling. His Wii age was 44. I thought wow...maybe mine won't be so bad.
Next it was my time. I had baseball first and didn't do so hot. Out of 10 tries I had 2 home runs, lots of balls not go long enough and some foul balls. Then it was Tennis. I think I did pretty good. Most went where they should. Then it was time for bowling. I didn't do so hot. After a few calculating seconds...there it was. My Wii age of 69. AHHHHH.
This is not my Mii but this is what my face looked like when receiving the news. I tried to do it again but I guess you can only try once a day. It is now my goal to lower my Wii age.
So after the beating, I told him he should do the exercise to find out his Wii age. It uses a few games to test your balance, stamina, and skill and then gives you an age. I had heard of other people's ages and was expecting the worst. Danny didn't do so well at tennis, was good at baseball and great at bowling. His Wii age was 44. I thought wow...maybe mine won't be so bad.
Next it was my time. I had baseball first and didn't do so hot. Out of 10 tries I had 2 home runs, lots of balls not go long enough and some foul balls. Then it was Tennis. I think I did pretty good. Most went where they should. Then it was time for bowling. I didn't do so hot. After a few calculating seconds...there it was. My Wii age of 69. AHHHHH.
This is not my Mii but this is what my face looked like when receiving the news. I tried to do it again but I guess you can only try once a day. It is now my goal to lower my Wii age.
Deer graze along I-95?
I meant to write this blog last night but I never got around to it. So just pretend it is Monday night.
So you all know that I drive around an hour to work and an hour home each day. The drive can get long and boring at times so it doesn't take much to keep me entertained. We'll this winter I started noticing deer grazing right alongside I-95 and they would always be in the same general area. This not only fascinated me, it also terrified me. I mean why would deer choose this spot to feed and how are they not scared about the millions of cars zooming past. It terrified me to think that one night a deer could jump out into my lane. That would be a disaster, as my car is usually going 80, so that would be quite the impact.
So each night as I'd get closer to exit 294 I would start keeping an eye out for the deer. It was usually hard to spot them because it was dark by this time of my drive. Well one day a couple of weeks ago I stayed in Daytona after work to have Happy Hour with some ladies and so I was driving back home around 8:30 p.m. and that night I saw at least 10 deer that night. I couldn't believe it. Some were even frolicing down the highway along a fence. This is not something you usually see out in the open like that.
Well last night I was a little bored on the drive and started thinking about the deer. I also thought this would make a great blog story and what would go better than a picture. So I got my camera out of my purse and had it ready so I could get a picture of these deer to prove my point of how close they feed to the highway. I'm starting to near the area and I see three objects up ahead. I'm in the middle lane and there is a car in the right hand lane. So I slow down so that the other car doesn't block my view and I try and take a picture but I was too slow hitting the button and all I got was a blurry picture. As you can see it doesn't take much to entertain me.
On the rest of my drive home all I thought about was how I would try harder tomorrow to get that picture of the deer. It probably isn't the safest thing to do while driving on I-95 but it sure does brighten up my drive. So maybe tonight when I'm driving home I'll get the picture of my deer. Hopefully they'll be out. It is starting to get lighter out around that time so I would think the deer would start eating later but I guess not.
So you all know that I drive around an hour to work and an hour home each day. The drive can get long and boring at times so it doesn't take much to keep me entertained. We'll this winter I started noticing deer grazing right alongside I-95 and they would always be in the same general area. This not only fascinated me, it also terrified me. I mean why would deer choose this spot to feed and how are they not scared about the millions of cars zooming past. It terrified me to think that one night a deer could jump out into my lane. That would be a disaster, as my car is usually going 80, so that would be quite the impact.
So each night as I'd get closer to exit 294 I would start keeping an eye out for the deer. It was usually hard to spot them because it was dark by this time of my drive. Well one day a couple of weeks ago I stayed in Daytona after work to have Happy Hour with some ladies and so I was driving back home around 8:30 p.m. and that night I saw at least 10 deer that night. I couldn't believe it. Some were even frolicing down the highway along a fence. This is not something you usually see out in the open like that.
Well last night I was a little bored on the drive and started thinking about the deer. I also thought this would make a great blog story and what would go better than a picture. So I got my camera out of my purse and had it ready so I could get a picture of these deer to prove my point of how close they feed to the highway. I'm starting to near the area and I see three objects up ahead. I'm in the middle lane and there is a car in the right hand lane. So I slow down so that the other car doesn't block my view and I try and take a picture but I was too slow hitting the button and all I got was a blurry picture. As you can see it doesn't take much to entertain me.
On the rest of my drive home all I thought about was how I would try harder tomorrow to get that picture of the deer. It probably isn't the safest thing to do while driving on I-95 but it sure does brighten up my drive. So maybe tonight when I'm driving home I'll get the picture of my deer. Hopefully they'll be out. It is starting to get lighter out around that time so I would think the deer would start eating later but I guess not.
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