November 30, 2011

I was going through the mail yesterday and Tony and I each got a notice from the IRS.  Um, never a good sign, right?  So I opened it.  Apparently they reviewed our 2009 return and found a credit that was erroneously applied to our account.  We owe them $45.  Fine. The penalty to pay late?  .26 cents.  Still okay.  The interest charge from 2009 to...

Trying to come up with a Paleo diet with foods I have on hand is a bit of a challenge.  Unfortunately right before I was going to take a picture of my breakfast, I realized I put my camera in my camera bag in the “on” position.  Dead as a doornail.  Luckily I had my charger with me and it fully charged by lunch. 😀 Breakfast...

When I first signed up for this six week exercise and Paleo diet program, I had every intention of giving it 110%.  My first week I did great, followed the program, skipped with wine, ate well. But then life got in the way.  Being away for my Mom’s surgery, longer hours at work = less time to meal plan and exercise.  So after 22 days...

Yep, you read that right – my Momma came home from the hospital yesterday!  Hannah was already there, and I called to tell her I was on my way to the hospital and she said “I am putting Nana in the car right now to bring her home!” So happy – as anyone knows who has spent any time in a hospital, you get no...

I had a restaurant.com gift card – spend $35 dollars and get $25 off at Nozumi in South Barrington.  We went there for lunch, only to find out that our coupon was good only for dinner.  Rats!  But we’ve never been disappointed so we stayed. I’ve never had Sapporo beer on tap before – it was so good! I got the short rib lettuce wraps...

My Mom and I once, and only once, got up at like 3:30 in the morning about 15 years ago to get to Best Buy to buy me my first computer.  If I remember correctly the sale price was around $500, which was cheap back then, and each store only guaranteed 10 computers per store. We waited in line for probably three hours before the...

After only having a few hours of sleep the night before last, and working non-stop yesterday at work, I think I crashed at about 9:30 last night and slept 12 hours straight – nice! Luckily I only have my SIL, nephew and grand-nephew coming over and my menu is pretty simple.  I still need to make my mini pumpkin and pecan pies, and we are...

Thank you so much for all your comments and emails yesterday regarding my Mom’s surgery.  Not to go into too much detail (because its her life, not mine!), we thought there may have been a possibility that she had cancerous polyps, but they turned out benign!  So while she is still very tired this morning, she was much more alert than she was when we got into...

I set my alarm for 6:15 yesterday morning so I could get my workout in.  I turned off the alarm, rolled over and the next thing I knew it was 7:30!  Considering I usually leave for work at 8, that didn’t give me much time to publish my blog, fix breakfast, put lunch together and shower and dress. But since I am low maintenance, I...

Since my store had sweet potatoes on sale for .25 cents a pound (a sign next to the sweet potatoes said “.25 cents a pound up to 30 pounds.”  I can’t imagine buying 30 pounds of sweet potatoes! I went on Tastespotting and saw a recipe for sweet potato challah.  I am trying to think, but I don’t think I’ve ever made challah from scratch...