November 30, 2016

Sorry for the late post.  For the second time in as many weeks, someone committed suicide on my train line.  Last night the train stopped indefinitely 20 miles from my stop.  Luckily Hannah was just finishing up work and drove the 40 mile round trip to picked me up.  It was right around the time Jacob got off of school so we did an impromptu...

The last post that I wrote before Tony passed away was a mere seven days before he died.  I ended that post with this: “I just wish Tony was home where he belongs, yelling at me from the living room “what smells like ass?!” when I cook spicy food in the kitchen while he’s watching Sunday football.  I want my life back.  I know it...

You guys are going to love this braided apple pie – so good! It was nice to have a semi-long weekend.  While I had Thursday and Friday off, I worked Saturday and Sunday at The Chopping Block.   We had a nice Thanksgiving, having my Mom and Jacob’s family over – I think it’s the first time in a very long time that he’s had his...

Yep, more computer problems at my house, although we think it may have to do with the surge protector that I have.  It’s old, and it was making funny noises, so I plan on getting that replaced this weekend.  I was also a grocery shopping/cooking fool last night, so really I didn’t have time to blog even if I had wanted to. I am doing...

So I woke up this morning, walked to my computer to publish my blog post and this is what I saw: I was up 45 minutes before I had to leave, and it was still running when I left.  Gah!  Luckily I posted this to my draft folder vs. keeping it on LiveWriter, which I could only access on my desktop. So enjoy these buttery...

It was a busy weekend working at The Chopping Block.  We are in full season holiday mode, and Saturday was our Taste of Thanksgiving.  We had FOURTEEN dishes for everyone to sample, we had Chef demos going on and complimentary wine tastings.  Sadly, I was on wine sampling and I didn’t actually help cook any of the food, but it smelled amazing by the time...

Yesterday was just a weird day.  I stepped outside to head to the train and had a winter coat on.  While it gets warm during the day, when I leave my house it’s usually in the mid-30s.  I stepped out, pulled out my phone and the weather app said 55 degrees at 7:20 in the morning – nice!  I came back in, switched to a...

Long time readers will kind of laugh at the title of this blog post because every time I try a new pizza dough recipe, I declare it the best I’ve ever had!  I really have no idea where my love affair with pizza came from, because we didn’t eat it all that often growing up.  Maybe because it was such a treat and not a...

Last night after my day job I had to go to the Merchandise Mart for our quarterly employee meeting.  I didn’t get home until a bit after ten and I just didn’t feel like downloading my pictures to do a regular post – turns out I decided watching the Voice on the DVR was a much better idea!  I was happy that a guy named...

What a whirlwind weekend I had!  I worked both Saturday and Sunday, so it was a blessing in disguise that my meet up with a friend after work on Friday fell through last minute.  When I first got my schedule and said that I was working the retain floor at Lincoln Square on Saturday, I didn’t exactly know what that meant.  They had asked me...