My Daily Life, well maybe not every day!

I'm with a lot of other people on here, I can't take the changes.  I can't FIND ANYTHING on here anymore!  I just go in circles!  I'm moving over to Blogger or Blogspot or whatever it's called.  The new place is http://mydaily-ishlife.blogspot.com/

 

Will keep this up for a bit if anyone wants to follow me over...I've already added the places I go to the new one, so I can keep up with you!

Made a quick and yummy dinner tonight.  Made this before and it was a hit.

 

Rice-a-roni Natural Way Parmesean and Romano flavored rice

Diced chicken breast

Italian seasoning

Salt/pepper

garlic

veggies optional

parmesean cheese

 

mince 1 garlic clove, add to pot (w/ lid that fits) with a bit of oil, salt and pepper and italian seasoning on med heat.  Once garlic cooks a bit, add diced chicken and cook until done.  Follow directions on box of rice, I added frozen french cut green beans at this point.  Top with fresh ground pepper and parmesean cheese. 

 

So easy and so yummy!  It's like a quick and easy rissoto!  Didn't think to take a picture until 4 hours after dinner was over!

 

 

Tomorrow's Election Day!  I early voted last week!  This is the first time I've EVER voted and I was so excited!  The first early voting location I went to had a line out the door.  The second one I went to, I only waited about 10 mins.  I'm so excited to be a part of this election and will be actually paying attention tomorrow night as all the channels have poll reports!  So if you didn't early vote, make sure to get out there tomorrow and vote!  Anyone seen the new ad produced by Leo Dicaprio telling you NOT to vote?  It tries to illustrate how every single vote counts!  You're my 5 friends and I'm sending this to you!

 

 

Well today I lost it. 

 

I don’t ever lose it.  I’m strong, I smile through it, grin and bear it, whatever you want to call it.  J’s been out of work for about 6 weeks now.  He tried to get unemployment, but because he worked for his dad the 4^th qtr of 2007, and they didn’t “claim” him or whatever, it shows that he made no income during that period and therefore is not eligible for unemployment.  He’s got a job all lined up, but he’s waiting on his passport to come in.  In the mean time, they want to shut off my lights…and to apply for a program to help me I have to have his social security card.  Which is in AZ.  I’m over being his mom, telling him to apply for unemployment, giving him the number to the lawyer to call, telling him he needs to apply for a “whatever” job to help us through until he starts the real job.  Tired of telling him things like he needs to sell his flippin’ video game character (he’d make probably close to $1000!) to help out.  And tired of him not immediately going “yes, by selling the character, I could make a big difference”, but instead being mad, or sad or whatever about it.  It’s a FLIPPIN’ game character!  Seriously WTF!!!!  I understand he’s depressed about the situation, but time to get over it and DO something about it!!!!  After I found out we couldn’t apply for that program, I balled the WHOLE way home.  Like I said, I DON’T lose it, ever!

 

I’m effin’ OVER this!

Real quick!  I played with my camera last night!  Yay!  Not nearly perfect but a fun start!  Also a picture of my yummy "salad"!  I made more last night!

Finally added the pics to the previous entry for the 4th.  Was on Flickr today looking at pictures, I love photography and wish I could take a class or something!  I love the Macro photography!  My new camera has this setting and although I haven't figured it out yet, I'm gonna work on it!  Actually decided I'm gonna go home and play around with it a bit tonight.  I got some cool flowers at the Farmers Market this weekend, so I can practice on those!

 

There are about 8 local Farmers Markets and I took my girls and my SIL to my favorite one downtown on Saturday morning.  It’s the largest one I’ve been to here and there’s art, vegs, food, etc.  It was kids day and so there was a bouncy castle and a street performer who was juggling.  I got some great organic pasta (found out she sells in the local co-op as well, yay!), a salad mix, a new basil plant (I killed mine already!), and some pretty wild flowers.  I love that market!  My youngest likes to give the performers dollars!  Haha!

 

Made THE best “salad” yesterday!  My favorite tomatoes, fresh mozzarella, and basil with cubed ciabatta with salt/pepper and olive oil drizzled over.  The oil softens the bread as does the tomato juices.  It was SO good!  I ate most of it, only shared a bit with Ree!  And later I wanted more but was out of tomatoes and mozzarella!  I usually take pictures of the food I like with my phone camera, but DUH!  I should start taking it with my real camera!!  DUH!!  For dinner Sat night I made the basil pasta I got at the market with tomato, mozzarella and basil.  I made a quick lemon vinaigrette for the salad mix.  It was yummy with the salami and prosciutto I got at Whole*Foods to go with it!  The roommate that lives with us said I would be right at home in Italy!  Yup, and I like wine, I’d be all set!

 Alright back to work for me!  Maybe if I can get the blasted Macro setting figured out, I’ll put up some pictures soon!  MAYBE!  Take care all!

The weekend was good, just too short!  Jeremy came home Thursday, got home around 6:30, so we went and ate Chinese and looked around some of the shops in the shopping center.  I hadn’t been to Big*Lots in years, so we went there.  It was more expensive then I thought it should be!  Maybe I’m just cheap!  I think that’s it!  Haha!

 

Friday we took the girls to see Kung*Fu*Panda, with Jack Black.  It was SO funny!  I highly recommend it!  There were parts that made me laugh out loud, that’s always a good thing!  We came home and I grilled burgers, brats and hot dogs and made some corn to go with.  It was yummy!  Anything on the grill tastes good!  Around 8:30 we went to his granny’s house with most of the family.  His male cousins are all in their 20’s, so they did all the lighting of the fire works, and sparklers for the girls.  So I got to just hang out and watch!  We got a new camera a few weeks ago and it has a fireworks setting.  So I got to try that out.  I’ll get some pictures up later, they’re pretty cool.  At one point I had the camera pointed up to get a shot of a firework and I hear his cousin go “oh shit!”  It takes me a second and I look down and there are purple fireworks heading horizontal, not vertical like they should be!  His uncle had been “doctoring” some of the bigger ones and it didn’t go as planned!  But since no one got hurt, it was funny!  His cousin was trying to video the firework on her phone, so the video is completely dark and you just hear her go “oh shit” and then you hear like people yelling.  It’s really funny!  We hung out with everyone until about 11:30 then went home to bed.

 

Saturday we just hung out at the house and were lazy.  Saturday night we went for sushi and stuffed ourselves like usual!  We always order WAY too much and we usually try 1 or 2 new things.  Well this time we didn’t like the new things we tried and we were stuffed, but we felt bad not taking the leftovers with us (even though we had NO plans on eating it!).  So we take most of what is left, except for like 6 pieces.  We’re getting ready to leave and the sushi chef is telling us to take it all, etc.  Again, we feel guity, so we pile it all in the box.  And we’re laughing too, ‘cause really, who feels guilty not taking left overs!?  Haha!  We leave with our box of stuff we don’t like and find the nearest dumpster to leave it in!  ‘Cause I don’t want raw fish sitting in my dumpster at home for 2 days in 90 degree heat!  YUCK!!  We rented movies that night, so I watched Fools Gold with my boyfriend Matt McC!  It’s pretty good, even Jeremy liked it!

 

Sunday was even more lazy than Saturday!  Jeremy left to go back to AZ about 7 pm, he hates to leave so he puts it off as long as he can.  Just did laundry and watched that movie Becoming Jane or Being Jane?  The one with Anne Hathaway playing Jane Austin and James McAvoy.  It was good, I liked it.  Then I went to bed and had to get up this morning and come to work.  Boo

 

My youngest started summer school today.  And the school was SO not organized!  Last week I had her transferred to another school for summer school so she could stay in her summer program before/after and also wouldn’t have to drive the girls 2 different places and pick them up 2 different places.  So I take her to school this morning to find her class and get her set up.  They’re not doing it that way, the kids meet in the cafeteria and get their teachers from there.  So I think ok, she’s set.  Wrong!  I get a call from her summer program teacher about an hour after school started saying she went with her grandpa for the day!  Apparently the school didn’t have an updated roster and thankfully my brother in law is going to the same school for summer school and my FIL was there.  Otherwise the school would have had no way to contact me and say they didn’t have her on their list!!!!!  Hello!  She’s 7!  It was a big cluster f***!  I call the district and they’re the ones that tell me the school didn’t have the correct roster, they’re coming to get a new one about noon and I can go to the school to get it all settled.  Yeah, ‘cause I don’t have to work or anything!  I already took time off this morning to get her set up, and look what happened there.  I talked to my FIL and he said there were a bunch of kids not on the list.  What did they do with all those kids they didn’t have contact info for their parents?  I’m so not happy about this!  I’m lucky my FIL was there and that she could have also gone to the summer program.  Otherwise she would be sitting at a school that didn’t have a clue!  The more I sit here thinking about it, the more I’m not happy about it.

 

Well I hope everyone had a great weekend!  And I’ll try to get picks up tonight!

I think all my new adds are called “update” why break the streak now?  Jeremy is still in AZ, the girls are still driving me crazy, I still love the people I work with….um I don’t know what else there is to update?!  The girls just got out of school last week, they’re on a year round type schedule, and they go back July 28^th!  The youngest is going to summer school in July for 3 weeks, since when does elementary school have summer school?  So then I will have even more out of the way stops for day care in the morning and afternoon, as a “single” mom!  What fun!!  And I still have to get day care arranged for her, because at the school that summer school is being held there’s not a after/before program.  What the hell kind of sense does that make?  School starts at like 845 and is out at like 345!  HELLO!!

 I love food!  And for some reason when I’m proud of what I make, I take pictures of it!  I work with a lady from Louisiana, and my dad’s family is from Louisiana/Mississippi, so I love southern/Cajun food and always talk to her about it.  Well I’d seen shrimp and grits on tv programs and always wanted to try it but never found a restaurant with it on the menu.  So I made shrimp and grits yesterday and it was pretty good!  There’s actually ham in it too, who would’ve thunk!   I obviously couldn’t find the Tasso ham, I think that’s what it’s called, so I used pancetta like Paula Deans recipe said could be substituted.  Yea, didn’t like it with the pancetta, tasted too much like prosciutto, although the rest of it was very tasty!.  So next time I think I’ll either use just a ham steak or salt pork (if I can find that).  But yeah!  I’ve finally had shrimp and grits!!  I can't get the picture to work right now, but when I do, I'll put it up!

Well Jeremy left to AZ on Sunday.  His dad has a large flat trailer, so they put his Ranger and motorcycle on that, filled the beds up with furniture and off they went.  He got a 1 bedroom apt for now, until the girls and I get down there in a few months.  It’s only 6 hours away, so we’ll still see him for weekends.  So the house has been quiet the last few nights, plus he took our little min pin Coco with him.  I’m so used to her following me or being in blankets (you have to watch out when you sit down!).  So it’s a bit empty feeling at home right now.

 

My SIL, BIL and the baby were in town this weekend, so that was good at least!  We went to the MIL’s house on Saturday for lunch with everyone and then saw them that night at my FIL’s.  The baby is 4 months now, and laughing and just as cute as could be!  The girls and I went to Jeremy’s granny’s on Sunday after he left to see SIL again and spend some more time with them before they left town.  My SIL used to live with us in Jersey, and ever since she left, we hardly see her now that she’s married and living down south.  So I miss her a lot and am always SO excited when they come to town. 

 

Other than that, there’s not much to report on…

"Caution can either save your life or it can be a disease"

-Sean Penn, Sundance Channels Iconoclast with Sean Penn and Jon Krakauer

 

I have the caution disease and I HATE it!

 

Two Names You Go By: Steph, mom

Things You Are Wearing Right Now: black pants, grey shirt

Two things you want (or have) in a relationship: laughter, trust

Two of Your Favorite Things to do: day trips all by myself (museums, Santa Fe, etc.), be silly with my girls

Two things you did last night: tried to go to yoga, ate dinner

Two people you Last Talked To: applicant, one of our site managers

Two Things You're doing tomorrow: work, going to science fair  

Two Longest Car Rides: NJ to NM, NM to NJ!  Both made too many times!

Two Favorite Drinks: Non-Alcoholic: Ice Tea and Lemonade. Alcoholic: Presidente Margarita and mojitos

Two Things About Me you may not have known: I love to spend time alone, I worry I come across a lot less serious than I should at work even though I do a great job!

Two jobs I have had in my life: cake decorator at Baskin Robbins, physical therapy front desk (my favorite so far!).

Two Movies I would watch over and over: Hope Floats and any Will Farrell movie!

Two of my favorite foods: Sushi, pretty much anything else, I LOVE food!

Two places I'd rather be right now: San Antonio and at lottery headquarters collecting my multi-million dollar winnings!

It’s been so long since I’ve posted, I feel so bad.  I keep up with everyone’s blogs, just not so good at keeping up with mine! Plus, besides the everyday blahs not much has happened.

 

Ok, I’m  lying, there has been some things happening.  About the 2^nd week of January, Jeremy’s dad decided they would in fact not be able to afford him any longer.  So he’s been out of work for just about over a month now.  He starts next Monday in AZ at the Army school house teaching the job he did for the Army both as an enlisted person and also as a civilian.  So he’ll be going out to AZ this weekend to get settled.  The girls and I will stay in NM until school is out and we sell the house or rent out the house.  We haven’t decided what to do about it yet.  And in today’s market, I’m dreading dealing with it at all!

 

Work is going really well for me, we’ve just come off a ramp so our hiring is slowing down a bit, but I’ve got other projects to do so I’m keeping very busy.  I love the people I work with so it will be hard to leave.  Plus, just the fact of having to find yet another job, I’m SO not looking forward to that!

 

We’ve caught the dog bug again in my house.  Since Jeremy has been home, he was watching the dog show on TV last week and started emailing me dogs from local shelters!  I’m the one that usually catches this bug and is the one doing the emailing!  That’s how we ended up with our 3 dogs!  When he called me and said he sent me some dogs I just started laughing and told him he’d caught the bug!  So I started looking online too and ended up at the IMPS website, the same place we got our 2 min pins from a few years back. Since Jeremy is headed to AZ I looked at the AZ dogs available and found the cutest 5 year old chocolate min pin.  And it’s a boy!  I showed Jeremy and he was like “let’s get him!”  So we are in the process of applying, finding out more info on him, etc.  If anyone has adopted a dog lately, you’ll know it’s almost as intensive a process as adopting a person!  So we’re keeping our fingers crossed that we get him.  His current name is Corbin and I usually want to keep the names they come with from the shelter/foster home, but I don’t know if I could keep the name Corbin.  Really don’t like it!  So if we get him, Corbin may become Enzo!  Here’s a picture from the IMPS site, not too great a picture but enough to see what he looks like.  He’s beautiful!

 

Hope everyone is doing well, like I said I do keep up with your blogs!  Talk to everyone soon!

Updates!  Not much to update except for I’ve been SUPER busy at work!  I usually email my one friend throughout the day, but I’ve been so busy she’s been wondering if I was mad at her!

 

Christmas at our house was good.  I only started to shop on the 20^th, so I had a BUSY weekend!  We did Christmas with my MIL on Sunday, since my SIL and her family were only in town for like 24 hours!  That was pretty good, my hubby had to work so he didn’t have to go!  Monday, Christmas eve, morning we did Christmas with my FIL and that was nice too.  Left the kids there and finished shopping and actually wrapped everything!  I am usually up until like 3 am Christmas eve night wrapping everything!  I swear that for next year, I’m starting early!  Instead of trying to cram $hopping into a few weeks, I’m going to spread out the spending!  Of course I say this every year.  But this year, I’m sticking to it!  Even if it’s only little things like stocking stuffers!  Buy it, throw it into a box, and be better prepared!  We’ll see how that goes!  Christmas morning we got up about 7:30, opened the presents with the girls, showered and spent the rest of the day at hubby’s granny’s house.  It was so nice, you can kick your shoes off and take a nap, you don’t have to visit if you don’t want, just kick back and watch Christmas movies on tv.  We came home around 6, watched movies and just hung out while the girls played with all their crap!  Back to work today, for 3 days, and then another 4 day weekend!  Yeah!  Hope everyone had a good holiday! 

 

I might not post often, but I do visit your guys’ sites!

Hey all, I’m back.  I’ve been around to visit you guys, just in a funk and not much to say.  Halloween was good, I had a grim reaper and a spider queen.  We went to their granny’s house, as she feeds the kids, then we hit her street.  Then we went to their aunt’s house, as they always decorate really cool and hit their street.  By the time we got home it was 8 o’clock and cold and windy, so we called it a night.  It was my birthday this past Sunday, so we went to eat at the Melting Pot, the fondue place.  It was pretty good.  Sunday my actual birthday, I just relaxed, watched movies and took the girls to get some jeans.  I put some laundry away, cleaned my room and did some more laundry.  Nothing too exciting.  I can’t believe Thanksgiving is just weeks away.  But since we’re home, we go to granny’s house and she cooks for everyone.  So it should be good, good food, family and relaxing!  I hope everyone is good, I’ll stop by y’alls pages too!