My Chaotic Realm

...One week into February & I am still on track with the fitness challenge. January is already in the scrapbook AND the trip we just completed is about to be! Off today (which is not the norm) because I work tomorrow. A teammate needed to swap days so I am about to run to St Patrick's and make a banner for this Sundays concert featuring Sibyl Child & Dr John Paul. See details for this free event HERE. . Book Making is on my horizon this week, I hope... shall see. Think work is about to be short one more person starting 2/13. YeeHa....not. Rock Garden is still a work in progress...need more marble (aka need more $). We are under a tornado watch until 2pm due to a line of severe thunderstorms coming from the west so we've battened down the hatches & secured loose yard items. Bud is in and already snoring in his bed. He's no dummy! Made some really tasty spinach pancakes for breakfast. got a dry mix with spinach in it (lowers the carbs that way) from MS_Patticakes...

I miss the Long Beach Rouses, damnit!! Monday I went & got ingredients for a weeks worth of healthy meals, enough to make 2 dinners & 2 leftover lunches. Breakfast is almost always a couple of eggs in some form with guacamole or bacon or some such... no need to shop for that. But I did pick up pesto, feta, black olives, pork chops, chicken, beef, etc. Monday's dinner was a fantastic Pesto chicken casserole and made enough so there were leftovers for lunch today. Tonight's dinner (and tomorrow's lunch) was Pork Chops Marinated in Pesto served with broccoli and cauliflower in cheese and small salad. Wednesday I am off so will cook for 2 days again (Weds & Thurs)... the menu (as of now) is Weds: Pizza night !! Pizza will be wheat free... wow...using eggs and cheese for crust then topping with sun dried tomatoes,fresh tomatoes from the garden, black olives, mozzarella & provolone with some leftover chicken shredded across the top. . And a little oregano and...

Today I am off work... YIPPEE! Got up a little after 6am and sipped coffee. Tidied up my area table from all the stuff that had been dropped there MTW. Cleaned kitties dining area & refilled the bowls with fresh food. Cleaned the coffee table of its accrued debris. Washed all the dishes that piled up so far this week from my work schedule. I take breakfast, lunch & dinner everyday to work so had lots of empty (and dirty) containers in the sink, sigh. Then, since the kitchen was all clean... I wrecked it. I have made Cilantro Lime "Rice" using cauliflower (recipe HERE ) and Indian Roasted Butternut Squash (recipe HERE ) . Next will be some sort of slow cooker meal so I have something else to go with those dishes for Friday & Saturday meals. On Sunday I made Cuban Flank Steak in the slow cooker (recipe HERE ) but needed something a little different to mix up my meals for the rest of the week. Now, with breakfast having been eaten it is time to shower, go get cat fo...

Got my car into the shop for new tires this morning so I am in captivity at home today until it is ready. Got back to the house by 8:30am and I have already finished mowing the back yard (Laureli got most of it yesterday), cooked lunches and dinners for Tuesday and Wednesday (I work) then got dinner ready for tonight, all the dishes are washed...feeling pretty good!! So now heading to art table and going to get caught up on 3 different ATC swaps , make a couple of birthday cards and then I am ALL CAUGHT UP!! OMG!! Observed the new moon on the beach Saturday... spent great day with good people yesterday, and today is recharge and get ready for four day week at work. I got this!! And, I will leave you with a picture I took while on vacation... enjoy