Wednesday, October 22, 2008

random thoughts this morning...


  • Our house computer is possessed. The CD tray has been opening and closing all night long on its own. It is currently doing so every few seconds as I type this....creepy!

  • My cats are also crazy - evidenced by waking up at 4:45 am this morning to a howling, hissing, yowling ball of yellow and black fur rolling back and forth down the hallway for the next 20 minutes

  • I love Corn Bran I could go into all the love I have for this crunchy goodness of low point cereal. However that would take forever and I need to get to work. Lets just say I bought two "Extra Large Trial Packs" for 1.00 each at Superstore last week, and I'm a happy woman.


Tuesday, October 21, 2008

what's this...two in one day?

Shocking I know.

As I said previously, G is working night shift tonight - which runs from 8:00 pm - 3:00 am, leaving me all by myself. Normally this means one of two things:
1. If my depression is not in check I crawl into bed, lonely and lacking motivation to do anything but eat ice cream and watch crappy tv
2. I am really really productive.

Tonight was a night of productivity. In my attempt to continue down the road of healthy eating I made these:



I marinated chicken in lemon juice, oregano, dill, balsamic vinagar, olive oil, honey and garlic. I kebob'd the chicken and BBQ till done. I'm pretty proud as they look really yummy - and I normally burn everything I BBQ (please pretend you don't see the burn marks on the chicken in the above picture!) I have one kebob packed in my lunch for tomorrow with a large salad. The rest should last until Friday for lunches (provided G doesn't find them first!)

As mentioned, I've packed myself a healthy lunch for tomorrow, full of fruits and veggies goodness! I didnt' realize how long it had been since I'd packed a lunch, until I opened up my lunch box --- EWWWWW! I forgot about a banana that I'd left in there, lets just say it fermented and leave it at that.

I also threw all the ingrediants in the slowcooker for "Stew Good to Be True" to cook tomorrow. All I have to do is turn it on tomorrow morning before leaving and it should be smelling yummy by the time I get home. I love my slow cooker.

The kitchen is clean and I've been so productive, I figured I deserved a small treat:



A small pour of dads homemade strawberry fruit wine (in my MASSIVE wine glasses)!

That being said, I think I'm off to bed with my wine and the last few chapters of my new Faye Kellerman book.

To that end, I leave you with a picture of the handsome man who keeps me company when G is working nights:



hehehe, what did you expect? Please excuse G's sneakers. Sully has a foot and shoe obsession (he is so my cat!)

I'm home!!

Yay! As much as I love the travel I get to do for my job (I enjoy it so much more than sitting at a desk doing administrative tasks...which is what happened all summer when our training schedule slowed down!) I really enjoy coming home as well.

Flew in from Montreal today and landed in Halifax this afternoon. I was supposed to work until 7:00 answering the phones for one of our union vacation bids, however the last bid came in at 6:15 so I was able to leave early. Which was great, because it meant I actually got to see G this evening before he left for work! Yay! He works nights and leaves at 7:00, when I work until 7:00 we never see each other (except when sleeping of course). Today I was home by 6:45 and we got some time together. Only 20 minutes, but it was 20 good minutes ;)

The other great part about coming home was that G was a great boyfriend and had put some stuff in the slowcooker, which meant that supper was ready and waiting for me when I got in the door. What a nice thing to come home to.

He was to cute - I had mentioned a few things he could toss in the slow cooker - chicken, corn, salsa. Thats fine, but he took it upon himself to spice things up a bit. He was so proud of himself.

So dinner tonight:
chicken
salsa
corn
can of black beans
brown and wild rice blend
spiced with lime juice and a 1/2 bottle of Keiths

I sprinkled it with PC Southwestern shredded cheese and a TBSP of lite sour cream. YUMMY! Definitely a make again. Since G doesn't cook much, when he does and it turns out well he gets all puffed up like a peacock about it. I tend to stroke the ego a little bit as well (mainly in the hopes that this keeps him in the kitchen more often!)