Thursday, October 13, 2011
Confessions Day 3
Well, I am kind of proud of myself. If there was any day this week that I would have cheated and ordered pizza it was yesterday but I didn't. I didn't really cook anything fancy but we ate at home and that was the main thing. We did have hot dogs for lunch but it was mainly a blah day. Small victory but a victory none the less.
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Confessions Day 2
Yesterday we did pretty good. I did oversleep but once I got up I cooked breakfast. I am not one for cooking breakfast. I am fine with just some coffee and toast or cereal but I decided to make French Toast. This was my fist attempt. It would not win any awards or anything but it was pretty good.
For lunch we just went on the light side and had sandwiches since we had a good sized late breakfast.
Dinner was a success I think. We had salmon with lemon dill caper sauce and pasta with spinach and shrimp and cherry tomatoes.
I really need to find a small inexpensive bookshelf to put my cookbooks on. It would make it a lot easier for me to make a grocery list if my cookbooks were not spread out all over the house. I will look around for one in the next week or so.
For lunch we just went on the light side and had sandwiches since we had a good sized late breakfast.
Dinner was a success I think. We had salmon with lemon dill caper sauce and pasta with spinach and shrimp and cherry tomatoes.
I really need to find a small inexpensive bookshelf to put my cookbooks on. It would make it a lot easier for me to make a grocery list if my cookbooks were not spread out all over the house. I will look around for one in the next week or so.
Monday, October 10, 2011
Confessions of a Lazy Cook
Confession time.
Mark and I are terrible about buying groceries and cooking. I hate to go to the grocery store by myself and he hates to go altogether. When we don't buy groceries I can't cook so it becomes easy to say, 'just go to McDonald's for dinner" and so forth. We spend ridiculous amounts of money this way. It thins our pocket books and fattens our waists. Yet, we do it. So, this week I have put my foot down. I went to HEB and bought groceries and we are not eating out until this weekend when we are on the road and don't really have viable options other than eating out. So, I figured, I would blog about it. Maybe that would excite me and keep me motivated.
Day 1
Dinner
I cooked spaghetti and meat sauce and some whole wheat rolls. I kept it simple for tonight since I was tired from the shopping but as soon as I got in I put the groceries away and started cooking.
One day at a time. Trading bad habits for good healthier habits.
Mark and I are terrible about buying groceries and cooking. I hate to go to the grocery store by myself and he hates to go altogether. When we don't buy groceries I can't cook so it becomes easy to say, 'just go to McDonald's for dinner" and so forth. We spend ridiculous amounts of money this way. It thins our pocket books and fattens our waists. Yet, we do it. So, this week I have put my foot down. I went to HEB and bought groceries and we are not eating out until this weekend when we are on the road and don't really have viable options other than eating out. So, I figured, I would blog about it. Maybe that would excite me and keep me motivated.
Day 1
Dinner
I cooked spaghetti and meat sauce and some whole wheat rolls. I kept it simple for tonight since I was tired from the shopping but as soon as I got in I put the groceries away and started cooking.
One day at a time. Trading bad habits for good healthier habits.
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
New Computer
Yay! I am back! I finally got a working computer going. Sadly, it is not a Mac. I guess I am once again a PC. haha I can live with that.
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Friends are good.
I have TWO followers now! I feel slightly less sad and pathetic now! WOOT WOOT!
Thank you friends!
Thank you friends!
Monday, January 3, 2011
Forgetful Resolutions
Today I think I am losing my mind. I have been so forgetful all day. I head to the kitchen to feed the cats and realize I need to make coffee. I get the Coffee brewing and forget to feed the cats. I went to the closet twice to put away clothes and get hangers and both times forgot the hangers. Sanity is over rated anyways right?
So, today is the first Monday if the new year and the new decade. I did not really make any resolutions. I don't see the point. Attaching the name "resolutions" for me is just a welcome mat for failure. I am working out and reading more and other things like that but because I want to make better choices for my life and not be judge by some list of resolutions come the next Dec 31st. I want to know on New Year's eve that I am there a better person, a stronger person by the choices I made every day. Maybe in some way that is a resolution in itself. I don't know.
So, today is the first Monday if the new year and the new decade. I did not really make any resolutions. I don't see the point. Attaching the name "resolutions" for me is just a welcome mat for failure. I am working out and reading more and other things like that but because I want to make better choices for my life and not be judge by some list of resolutions come the next Dec 31st. I want to know on New Year's eve that I am there a better person, a stronger person by the choices I made every day. Maybe in some way that is a resolution in itself. I don't know.
Sunday, January 2, 2011
Control Issues?
Today's Word of Wisdom:
We never really know what the future holds. Our worlds can change in a flash—that’s just the way life is. we see this truth in the world around us again and again. A serene life comes from adjusting and adapting—never from trying to control.
This is 2 days in a row. I am beginning to think that maybe someone is trying to send me a message. It looks like that might be a theme for 2011. Am I that much of a control freak? We shall see as the year unfolds.
We never really know what the future holds. Our worlds can change in a flash—that’s just the way life is. we see this truth in the world around us again and again. A serene life comes from adjusting and adapting—never from trying to control.
This is 2 days in a row. I am beginning to think that maybe someone is trying to send me a message. It looks like that might be a theme for 2011. Am I that much of a control freak? We shall see as the year unfolds.
Saturday, January 1, 2011
Welcome 2011
I got my new daily calendar email set up today. Last year, I did a daily trivia calendar. This year, I am doing a Women's Devotional. So, if I come across ones that I really like, I will share them here along with my thoughts. This may be done everyday or every once in a blue moon. If you know me well at all, you know not to count out either possibility.
Today's Words of Wisdom for Women:
Our lives will be much easier if we learn the skills to deal with what comes at us and don’t focus our energies on trying to control everything with which we come into contact.
I really find this one to be timely today. As with most people, I did a lot of reflecting as we went in to the start of this new decade. I also thought back on previous decade beginnings and realized something a bit alarming. New decades are not kind to me at all!
2001 was by far the worst for me and my family as well as the nation. We saw job loss, floods, death and 9/11. I felt for nearly the entire year that I was just barely hanging on and that at any minute I might collapse entirely.
1991 was an awful year. It was the year of the divorce. I spent most of that year trying to find myself and trying to find my way out of troubles I had caused for myself and those around me.
1981 brought in a few tumbles of its own. I was too young to really remember most of it but I do know that my dad got bit my a poisonous spider and nearly died. This injury is still affecting him today.
I do not know what 2011 will bring for me and my family but I have to learn to face things as they happen and not try to control everything. I am nearly 40 years old and this lesson is still one that I have not seemed to get a grip on. I don't like things that I can't control. I don't like feeling like the things that happen around me are beyond my ability to control and deal with. But, by the grace of God, I will endeavor to yield control to Him. I may be entering 2011 a bit cautiously but I am also going in more prayerfully. I may not like all that 2011 throws at me but I am leaning on the strenght of God to see me through.
Today's Words of Wisdom for Women:
Our lives will be much easier if we learn the skills to deal with what comes at us and don’t focus our energies on trying to control everything with which we come into contact.
I really find this one to be timely today. As with most people, I did a lot of reflecting as we went in to the start of this new decade. I also thought back on previous decade beginnings and realized something a bit alarming. New decades are not kind to me at all!
2001 was by far the worst for me and my family as well as the nation. We saw job loss, floods, death and 9/11. I felt for nearly the entire year that I was just barely hanging on and that at any minute I might collapse entirely.
1991 was an awful year. It was the year of the divorce. I spent most of that year trying to find myself and trying to find my way out of troubles I had caused for myself and those around me.
1981 brought in a few tumbles of its own. I was too young to really remember most of it but I do know that my dad got bit my a poisonous spider and nearly died. This injury is still affecting him today.
I do not know what 2011 will bring for me and my family but I have to learn to face things as they happen and not try to control everything. I am nearly 40 years old and this lesson is still one that I have not seemed to get a grip on. I don't like things that I can't control. I don't like feeling like the things that happen around me are beyond my ability to control and deal with. But, by the grace of God, I will endeavor to yield control to Him. I may be entering 2011 a bit cautiously but I am also going in more prayerfully. I may not like all that 2011 throws at me but I am leaning on the strenght of God to see me through.
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