1. Because I am five, I got SUPER excited to see this Disney Lipsmackers Vanilla lip gloss on clearance at Target for $1.98!!! It smells and tastes like vanilla icing and it has Minnie Mouse on it. How is this not winning?! Plus, it reminds me of college and high school when my only lip products were Lipsmackers.
2. I had to go to Walgreen’s yesterday to get some Advil ASAP. As I was walking to the register I saw this:
Resort fling? Yes, please! Now my toes are winning because they actually are pretty again! Bring on flip flop season! I am ready! I am feeling peachy! (See what I did there….because my toes are peach…anyone?) I sort of kind of want the other three colors too.
3. Quest Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough. Best. Protein Bar. Ever. Seriously.
4. We had some rough storms last night. Our power went out around 2:00am and it woke me up. I was in and out of sleep and my alarm went of at 4:30 and the power was still out so I knew I couldn’t do T25 (duh, I need the TV) so I reset my alarm for 6:00am and went back to sleep, excited that I could get some more zzzz’s. At 5:00am I heard the power come back on. I got my ass out of bed immediately and worked out. Now if that isn’t dedication, I don’t know what is!!! I had an out and I didn’t take it. Boom.
5. Mac is hilarious. Look at this face!
I imagine him saying this to Gracie.
Because Mac loves to tear the shit out of napkins, paper towels, toilet paper, important receipts that I need.
I know you are probably tired of reading these posts after yesterday…but I really liked the idea and I really enjoyed reading everyone’s yesterday.
I’m the kinda girl who….
–loves to laugh.
–hates to make decisions.
–can’t go to Petsmart on adoption days without crying when I leave the store after seeing all the homeless doggies and not being able to bring them home with me.
–doesn’t like scary movies, or thinking about anything paranormal.
–only sings aloud when alone, and does so like it’s my job.
–cries during sad or really happy moments during a movie or on TV.
–cries during the ASPCA commercials.
–loves with everything I have.
–who is best friends with my mom.
–tries to find the positive in any situation.
–has a lot little bit of road rage.
–is silly more often than serious.
–has the most amazing sister ever.
–loves to play Nintendo.
–triple checks the locks, double checks the straightener, and quadruple checks the alarm.
–would rather have a yummy beer than a glass of wine.
–loves to go shopping. Any time. Any where.
–would have glittery girlie everything in my house if I didn’t live with my husband.
–loves flip flops.
–is afraid to fail.
–trying to be the healthiest, best me that I can be.
Wednesdays. I want to love them because they are the middle of the week. I also hate them because they are the middle of the week. Either way, I have my pink on so let’s confess a few things.
Today’s work out was lower focus once again. Maybe that is why I am hating on Wednesday, it seems to be what Shaun T asks me to do the last two Wednesdays. Lower focus and ab days kill me. I have never been this sore after a work out in my life, I dont think. (Cue the dramatics. I am pretty sure I have been.) Squat. Lounge. Squat. Lunge. Squat jump. Lounge pulse. JUST KILL ME NOW!!! I went to bend down to fix Chris’s pant leg this morning after my work out and I seriously wanted to cry.
This morning I listened to the entertainment buzz on the way in. I don’t know why, I could give two shits less about most celebrity gossip. They were talking about how parents are upset about Miley’s new tour. I am sorry parents, but why are you bitching? Have you seen her on TV lately? Her tongue is hanging out, she is twerking it with everyone and smoking pot at awards shows. Why the fuck do you think her concerts are going to be rated G?!?!!?! You have no right to bitch about how shocked you were that her concert was inappropriate. She is no longer Hannah Montana.
This morning when I was driving in to work I saw a man walking with his pug down the side of the road and I just wanted to stop and say hi to the little curly tailed dog. He just looked so cute walking along side his human with no cares to give. If you aren’t an animal person, you have no soul.
Maybe I have eaten a version of taco salad five times in the last 10 days. It might also be what is planned for dinner tonight. What’s it to you? I get on a food kick. I do the same thing with songs I like.
I am legitimately depressed that almost all of our shows are on a mini break right now. I guess it is because of the Olympics, but really….who is actually watching those? Give me back Revenge, Scandal, HIMYM, Big Bang Theory and all of my other regular scheduled programming!!!!
I have a problem with the Puffed Buffalo Wings flavored Goldfish. I cant stop eating them once I start. Have you tried these things?! They are amazing. I am not buying them anymore. I am pretty sure that fake orange “cheese” flavor is not clean. They might be covered in crack. That is the only reason I can come up with as to why once you pop, you literally can not stop.
Now go link up with the cool people and start your countdown for Friday!
I have mentioned a time or two before that I was really close with my Grandma Jerry. She was such an amazing woman and my time with her was cut far too short. I can literally picture every room of her house in my head to this day. What color her couches were, the way she had her dining room laid out, her vanity in her master bedroom, the canning cabinets in her cellar downstairs, and the bread drawer in the kitchen where she kept all of my favorite candy and chips for me when I came to visit. When she passed away, my mom had put aside several items of hers for me to have when I had my own place.
I had collected and brought with me all of those items when I got my first apartment on my own in Atlanta without roommates. I cherished every time I got out one of her mixing bowls to use, and any candy I bought had to be displayed in the two beautiful white candy bowls that she always had displayed in her house. All of these items sit in my kitchen cabinets today.
When we moved into our house last year, my mom came to visit me one day. She handed me a bag and said, “I want you to have this. It was your grandma’s.” I opened the bag and there sat a wooden bowl. I smiled as I pulled it out of the bag and walked right into my kitchen because I knew it already had a home. It was to sit on top of my refrigerator to hold all of my coupons and other random things in the kitchen…..just as it had in Grandma Jerry’s house.
We went on with our planned shopping trip and I didn’t think much about it again until I got home. I grabbed a few of the random things I had in a drawer, and grabbed the bowl down to place them in. I looked in the bowl, and there was a white recipe card. I immediately recognized it. My grandma made amazing Spanish rice. I cant tell you what is so special about it, but EVERYONE who tries it just loves it. When I was little she used to call me her tester or rice expert. She would always make me a sample plate and ask me how much more salt and pepper to add. I remember standing in the kitchen one day as my grandma wrote the recipe down for my mom to make at home for me.
I looked at the recipe card, and at the bottom of the card in her handwriting it said “Deenie can tell you if it needs anything. She’s the rice expert.”
Deenie is what she always called me. She is the only person I ever let call me anything other than Nadine. I remember holding back the tears as I placed the recipe card back in the bottom of the bowl, then placed my other odds and ends on top of it. It still resides in that bowl today.
Today I will share with you the recipe.
Grandma Jerry’s Spanish Rice
What you need:
1 tbsp oil
1 tbsp or a little more of fresh diced onion
1 large can of tomatoes (28 ounce can)
1 cup of regular rice (not minute rice) My grandma cooked this with white rice, but it tastes just as good with brown rice…that is what my mom uses
1 can of chicken broth plus extra
salt
pepper
What you do:
Heat the oil in the skillet, then saute the onion.
Add the can of tomatoes and rice.
Add a can of chicken broth.
Add salt and pepper to taste.
Continue cooking for about around an hour (sometimes it takes longer if you use brown rice) on low heat. You want to keep adding chicken broth randomly and stir so it doesn’t stick.
Insert obligatory complaint about it being Monday already here.
Friday – I was like uhhh what did we do Friday? Then I remembered it was Valentine’s Day. Ha! After work I came home and made our traditional Valentine’s Day lasagna, full fat, full cheese with homemade spaghetti sauce. It was delicious! We just hung around and watched TV. I love nights like that!
Saturday – We had Wild South Brewfest on Saturday. Chris invited our friends from Huntsville down for the day. We met up at Slice at noon for some lunch before we headed on over for our day of trying beers! There were 13 Alabama breweries there and 6 North Carolina ones. I think they said there were 36 different beers you could sample. They also had small plates because well….soak up the alcohol, duh!
It was pretty crowded, but not so much that you couldn’t walk around. They must have only allowed so many people into the event. The ticket proceeds went to Wild South, which is a great cause and what better way to celebrate the wilderness than with some beer?!
They had two bands play. One was a zydeco band and they were pretty good.Very upbeat and entertaining. Not normally music that I would purposefully seek out to hear live, but I certainly enjoyed it! The other band was not as good. It was sort of a buzz kill almost. The music was slower and they just weren’t as lively. It sort of worked out that they came on second though to start to filter out and slow down the drinking I suppose!
After brewest, we headed over to Fuego to have dinner. Funny, as we were just there last weekend. They seriously have the best taco salads ever! We were walking back to the car and the guys begged us to stop by World of Beer for just one more beer. We said FINE! Haha. I didn’t partake in the beer drinking there, I had enough for the day! I sampled several beers, but in total I probably had the equivalent of maybe two beers the entire day.
When we were at World of Beer, there was a homeless lady in there harassing people. That is the one pitfall of that place, it seems almost every time we are there we have to deal with a homeless person that is completely out of line. I am fine if one comes up and asks for money or says hello or whatever….but don’t be vulgar or cause a scene or do something that makes every one feel uncomfortable. They had to kick her out because she was making everyone uncomfortable and saying completely inappropriate things.
Sunday – I did meal planning and grocery shopping then we pretty much spent the rest of the day watching reruns of The Big Bang Theory and a Law and Order SVU marathon. I wanted to get some cleaning done and give the dogs a bath and cut Mac’s fur but I just didn’t feel like it. Oops. Sorry not sorry!
