Time to call it a night.......I am leaving the office and going home! This is my last 12 hour day for the week!! Yeah! Tomorrow I get to work a simple 8 hours.....how nice that will be! I don't even have to travel anywhere tomorrow. I have appointments, but they are coming to the office. YEAH!
Month: April 2005
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I just got my first issue of Menu Mailer -Frugal today and the following are the recipes in it.
Roast Rubber Chicken
Crock Pot Roast
Rubber Chicken Burritos
Barbecued Beef Sandwiches
Rubber Chicken Soup
Cheese Strata
As for meat....you use leftovers for the additional chicken and beef meals. You only buy 1 roast chicken about 5 to 6 pounds and 3 pounds beef pot roast. I used to get the regular MM but found it too expensive to buy the groceries for our budget. This seems very doable, most of the stuff I have on hand. And you use the same ingredients over, etc......
We will see what my grocery bill is this week.
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I just received my frist Menu Mailer-Frugal and it looks really good this week. I will make all 6 of the recipes! I look forward to it. So my menu planning is done for the next week. AAAH.....that is nice. I also got my Quick Cooking Magazine in the mail yesterday so I need to look through that and see what I want to make.
Last night I came home to a interesting site. Two cop cars in front of my house. There had been an alteraction of sorts. A teen kids came down our street and threw a pop can at the neighbor boys. Then he came speeding back and squealing tires on the street. My hubby and a neightbor stopped him to make him slow down and he began swearing at them and tried to beat up our neighbor. The kids was jsut out of control! I can't imagine. He was a huge kid over 200 pounds, larger than my hubby. Hubby ended up calling 911 and tell the license plate number. The kid sped off and came back with his mom later and the cops came. My hubby was pretty upset. We have trouble with people speeding on our street and there are so many children playing in tha area. Most of us have 3 children or more. In our two blocks there are at least 60 children. There are 16 jsut in our immediate neighbors. The police told my hubby to continue to get plate numbers and stop people that speed through the neighborhood. This kid had some huge beef with our neighbor boys so that was part of the problem.
Well my last 12 hour day of the week. Time to get ready for work and get out of here! Have a great day!
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Well my voicemail is blinking at me, but I am going to enjoy and eat my supper before getting back to work. I jsut returned to the office after my last homevisit of the day. I plan on doing a few hours of paperwork yet before returning home for the night. I am going to try to work only 40 hours this week. We will see how that goes!
Tommy told me today that he isn't a baby and doesn't want to wear pull-ups! Ok..fine...he had only one accident today at daycare, but then at naptime he had a pull-up on. When I called hubby to check in when I got back to the office he was jsut cleaning Tommy up. Tommy still insists on hiding when he has to go poopy vs telling us and using the toilet. Argh!!!
RESPONSES TO COMMENTS:
pooky2030 - weight loss is going very slow for me, in my opinion, but I am not very patient. For exercises I try to be more active. I walk the steps to my third floor office numerous times a day. I do weight lifting, stretches and crunches at least 3 times a week, but usually more. I walk a mile a day about 3 times a week, but am trying to increase that. I jsut mapped out a way to walk by my office so now that it is nice, I might walk on my lunch break. I usually am too busy to take a lunch break, but maybe I will start. I really am finding weight watcehrs very helpful! Most of the foods I really like are alot of points! So being aware of that am learning portion size and moderation is helpful. So I am working hard to count my points each day and write them down. Also I joined weight watchers with a few friends and that is a great support that really is helping to motivate me I think!
Happylittle- Yep...I am came home from cooking with 4 freezer meals done. ALways a good thing.
Immax3 - I took my vcitamins, but I think I need something stronger. DO you think a case of Dt Mt Dew would be bad today????
SmileNJ - Soup.....you know in my family my hubby was the only one that loved soup. I being a good wife would make him homemade soup often since he liked it. I really do like ot have soup and rolls now, but only homemade soup. We don't eat the canned stuff. I find alot of benefits with soup for a meal. It is a quick light meal since i usually have various frozen soups in my freezer. It also gets my kids to eat vegetables. Actaully all my kids have become pretty good about eating soup. Cost effecitve.....you need very little meat to make the meal! I also keep a container in my freezer where if we have left over vegetables from supper, I put them in there and when I make soup I have a variety of vegetables to put in as well. Boy.....way more than you wanted to know about soup! Can you tell I am avoiding getting back to work?
Boclark - I liked the book Good Harbor by Anite Diamant, but not nearly as much as Red Tent. Red Tent is on of my favorite books!
OK, OK...OK....I can't avoid it anymore time to get finish with my supper and get back work. If I only have a 1/2 hour break the sooner I can go home! Have a great evening!!!!!!
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Ok....now my day is on it's way and I am more awake! LOL!! I even went to bed early last night...hmmmm... Spring is actually hitting Minnesota today! I could wear Capri's and sandals to work today! WOW!
My 7:00 appointment tonight cancelled so I will be working in the office. That is ok, I have plenty of paperwork to do as well. So my last home visit for the day will be at 4:00 then back to the office until at least 8:30.
Today I have weight watchers over lunch. I am dreading that as I am sure I have gained weight! I didn't go last week since I was out of town for work and I didn't count points alot of the week. I will try to do better with counting this week. Really I will!
My friend just informed me I have the wrong week for book group so I have another week to get my book done! YEAH!! I think that is very doable! I will have it done by then! My goal this year was to read every book for my group. Last year I only read 1/2 of them, but I was in the car accident and very sick through out the year.
I am listening to Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Fowler and it seems to be ok, but I have never read any Jane Austen so if I had I might get a bit more out of the discussions that are happening in the book. I have to drive to Red WIng tomorrow so I should get quite a bit of this book done too. Man will my mileage check this month be pretty big! WOW! I have been driving and driving....but at least I get alot of books listened to!
Well I better firm up my to do list for today here and work than I need to go up to Weight Watchers. Wish me luck!
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The cooking session went very well. All the ladies always ask afterwards when the next one is!! The next one will be marinades and side dishes. We will do that sometime in June in time for grilling season. My feet hurt from all the standing though.
My hubby is such a sweety, he came up to the church to help clean up at the end of the cooking session. What a nice surprise! I am very lucky I do not have one of those hubbys that stays home on Sundays and I have to attend church alone. I had to attend church alone in my frist marriage. My hubby attends church with the family ever Sunday. He is a good Dad teaching his sons how to be a good hubby and father. Have you ever heard the saying a couple that attends church together, stays together. I truly belive that is true. It makes a huge difference in our relationship. I don't know how I got on that subject.....I guess I am jsut feeling very blessed and thankful today for my hubby.
Well time to get things ready for tomorrow and head to bed to read for a while. Hope everyone had a great weekend. Sorry I didn't get around to everyones site. Hopefully I will get caught up soon!
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About 15 minutes and then I have to be back at church to set up for the cooking session. My friend Staci did all the shopping this time, but I am going up to help with set up and cook the chicken. I also have all the Baptism Lambs made for the year so far. We have had 10 baptisms so far this year in our church. So I will get the babies' lambs on the banner too. I ran out of some of the supplies so I will need to buy some more! I can't wait until Tommy is older and I have more time to volunteer a bit more at church or at least keep up with my current commitments. Hubby and I both do quite a bit, but wouldn't mind doing more.
Beautiful day today, but will be in cooking until at least 7:00. I hope I can fit in a walk afterwards. Hubby and Tommy went to the park to play since I am going to be gone. Josh went to a friends house to fix his computer. It is so funny last night Josh helped hubby make a flash graphic and his friend's parents call him to have him fix their computer. I think he is going into the right field, he is pretty talented when it comes to computers. Then Josh is going with Amy to her Aunts house for a BBQ. So will be another quiet day in our house. I made Josh do dishes before he could go and he wasn't so thrilled about that. But he did them without complaint. That is part of being a part of a family everyone helps.........
Time to get to church......see ya later!
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