come visit my life today ...

Wake up - hit the snooze button cause for some reason you are EXHAUSTED.


Turn off alarm because now you are running late. 


Find yourself sitting on the edge of the counter to put in your contacts because standing there is SO hard for some reason.


Go to work and be cranky with every single co-worker (then later apologize and they just shake it off cause they are male and you're the overly sensitive emotional female one) 


Leave work early cause its ACTUALLY your day off but you had to go in and take care of a few clients orders because they were time sensitive. (once again explaining to your coworkers how much you hate your normal routine being interrupted and then avoid the OCD comments)


Lay on your couch reading "BossyPants" by Tina Fey (and laugh hysterically) while the most amazing man in the whole world proceeds to clean your house around your lazy butt. (I did throw the sheets in the washing machine) 


Go to WalMart to pick up ingredients for you to make Shepherds pie (because Mr Wonderful really wants it and since he mopped, moved your feet ONTO the coffee table and then mopped where they were, he totally deserves it) 


Come home and send Mr Wonderful and his buddy to get coffee while you watch Dr Phil. Realise that both Mr Wonderful AND buddy want to watch the crazy mother in law on Dr Phil. (Mr Wonderful loves his someday mother in law btw)


Make Shepherds pie - accept compliments of amazing cooking abilities. Wait for them to finish and give more compliments before you inform them it was all soy/organic ingredients - watch faces fall as they realise they didn't notice the difference.


Take your vitamins. Again, sit on the edge of the counter to take out your contacts and realise that you feel like its 9 million degrees in your bathroom. Wash face with cold water then realise that your feet are freezing and maybe you should double up the vitamins. 


Climb into bed amid the sounds of NHL hockey on the xbox  - write your blog and realise that yeah maybe you feel crappy but all in all it was a pretty great day. 


(currently shivering and wondering if I should go get a flu shot or maybe its too late and I've already been contaminated) 

You MUST read this book - its absolutely hilarious
No really - ask P - I was laughing OUT LOUD so HARD

Well well well....

   I have been so busy the past while its driving me crazy. I feel like I don't have time to do anything for myself lately. I am kind of feeling lost a bit. How do all those working moms and career women do it? I don't think I'm working too much but I think that its the fact that my shift starts in the late morning and that kind of throws off my whole day of being productive. 




I think I need something to kick start me back into the motivation to do things for myself .... normally I would make a date to take myself for cheesecake, the whole lactose intolerance revelation has kind of put a damper on that. And maybe that is what a lot of my issue is - I miss cheese, and milk and baked yumminess. I am definitely an emotional eater so when I'm feeling blah and down, I would go to the fridge, slice a few pieces of cheese and some pickles and grab the crackers and it would just cheer me up. Just letting you know that soy cheese DOES NOT lift my spirits. 


I probably just need to start working out again - that always seems to change my attitude a bit. Now if I could just pull myself out of bed ... soy milk in my coffee is ALSO not helping lift my spirits 

*sigh* 

I can be crafty too!

Time off work while feeling ill = So BoReD!!!

I have been looking for things to do while I'm home. Yay for Pinterest. But I actually had a craft that a friend of mine did in high school and I always wanted to do too.... just never found the time (so, I've been busy since birth I think) 


Pens are a must in my life, I have to write EVERYTHING down. If its not written in my agenda then it doesn't exist. I used to put everything into my BlackBerry but then I have to actually LOOK at that application on my BlackBerry which is usually at the bottom of my massive bag and by the time I fish it out I have missed what I was supposed to do. For some reason the action of physically WRITING something down makes it stick in my brain better.


Anyways, I hate ugly pens. I have always hidden my pens in a drawer or behind stuff,  and then... I can't find them right when I need them.

Step 1 - Buy ugly pens and CUTE flowers (DollarStore has tons of bunches)

 

Step 2 - Cut a single flower off the bunch, tape the "stem" down the side of the Ugly Pen
I used green tape cause I had it left over but masking tape or anything works

Step 3: Cover from the top of the Ugly Pen over the taped part with Floral Tape
(Also found at the dollar store) also sometimes called Stem Wrap
Just wrap it around tight at a bit of an angle down the pen. 

Step 4: Continue until all your Ugly Pens are covered

Ta-Da!! Pretty pens! 

And I'm Back!

Wow I have been so crazy busy and haven't even turned on my laptop in weeks. Sorry !!  (I even got the comment the other day from a friend I ran into that she hasn't seen me on Facebook in "forever" haha) 


So things have been hectic around here. I'll update as I can over the next few days.


I have actually been off work for about a week now and I don't go back in until Monday. I have been having a lot of stomach problems over the past month - just kept feeling like I had a flu bug and could not shake it. Anyways, it finally got so bad that I left work and was in bed for a day - so I made a doctors appointment. Well, after basically draining my body of blood the results are in - I'm very lactose intolerant. 


Ok - confusion, the last time I actually drank a glass of milk, I think cookies were involved and I am pretty sure I was doing homework. (ok maybe not that far back but I haven't been much of a milk drinker as an adult) So I had a talk with my doctor - its not just the milk, its anything that contains lactose. Do YOU know HOW many things contain lactose??? Maybe I'm just dumb but I was shocked at reading the labels in the grocery store of things I normally just pick up and don't think twice about. 


So for the next 3 months I am on a completely lactose free diet, then once my body has had that time to repair itself a bit (apparently I have some damage) I can start taking these pills that allow my body to break down lactose without making me sick. 


Man do I want a Dairy Queen Blizzard ;-) 


But as far as things go - this is REALLY easy to manage. When they start talking about Crohns and Celiac's and all those scary terms, no dairy isn't that bad at all. 


Well except soy cheese is kinda .... weird. *gag face*

If you need me....

P has gone away up north to work for a few days  :-(  on a happy note I got an email from the library today that a book I had put on hold was waiting for me!!

 If you need me I'll be reading! <3 

Sour Cream Chicken

I have become addicted to Pinterest.com . It is AMAZING! If you aren't addicted yet you should check it out but plan on spending some serious time going through all the amazing things on there.

 Anyways, I have found that there are amazing recipes on there - and I have started collecting. P is NOT a picky eater at all so I am free to basically experiment at any time and he'll eat it. (Sometimes he'll inform me afterwards its not a keeper) 

Tonight we tried Sour Cream Chicken and its a KEEPER! 

Absolutely delicious (and I didn't use Pepperidge Farms bread crumbs because they were impossible to find) 

If you click on the link above it will take you directly to the recipe that I found on pinterest.

I suggest you try this - SO good and really simple. I threw it together after work and watched America's Next Top Model at the same time ;-) 

Time to pop in the oven for half an hour (used fillets instead of full breasts)

Absolutely delicious! Its in our box of GOOD FOOD

Enjoy! 

New House!

We did it!! 


LOVING the new house. P got home the night before moving day so we stayed up kinda late getting organised then woke up early to do the walk thru and get our keys - then it was MOVING TIME. We were lucky to borrow P's dad's truck and B came and helped us out A TON! I don't know how we had so much stuff crammed into such a tiny little space. But now we are loving life.


I have a normal sized kitchen and I am so excited to COOK in it! Makes me super happy to have counter top space and enough storage to keep on hand that I don't feel like I am running to the grocery store every single day to get something to make dinner with! 


Also have a new kitchen table and chairs that P put together (with a fair amount of curse words) all by himself with me drinking a Pepsi and supervising and rolling my eyes at him. Kinda feeling grown up lately ... I'm sure that will pass soon. 

I'm officially home!! 

Most of my stuff ... nothing lost or broken! 

The really large living room with HUGE windows - I <3 Light!

The other side of the living room - and more stuff

Eek!! Sooooo excited to use this kitchen!