A potpourri of trivial things

Today's post is going to be just a couple of small things that don't really go together....but I can throw it all in a random post so you can see what's happening in our "exciting" life.

I do have pictures to post from our adventure in Austin --- but today I have payroll to work on, so it's gonna have to wait.

This picture is from our drive home on Sunday.  We wanted pizza -- and we found this pizza shop in a little town in the middle of nowhere.  It wasn't the worst pizza we've ever had -- but it wasn't the best either.  Mediocore would be a good description.  I love market research!

We've been getting up every morning and either walking the neighborhood or doing the treadmill.  We are ready to add more equipment to our home gym.  Tuesday we went out to Sears and tried out multiple exercise bikes trying to find the one we liked best.  Our biggest decision was to whether we wanted the sit up and down kind or the recumbent kind......this is the one we picked....and ordered it online last night.  We should have it in about a week!

Yesterday Paul wanted me to make him a big batch of the famous "cabbage soup".  I personally just can't eat that stuff, cause it still reminds me of those days when I did that diet and had to eat it for 7 days in a row.  Now.....I can't even think about having to eat that stuff.  My dinner: omellette with spinach, bacon, onions, and cheddar topped with Fire Roasted Pepper Salsa.  Heavenly!  Sometimes it's good to just have breakfast for dinner!

And now.....my paperwork awaits me!

It's a sad day :-(

Wow.....I sure feel down in the dumps today.

The results of the election last night did it.

I am worried about what the future of our country holds at the hand of our re-elected President.

I'm tired of working my butt off only to be forced to hand it over to people who come here illegally or to those who would rather lay around and take the handouts given to them instead of working for themselves.

I'm worried about how to keep our stores staffed with good employees.  Instead we are left to deal with people only applying for a job so that they can keep their unemployment benefits.  Those same benefits that I am paying for.

I'm tired of watching an arrogant leader of this country who cares nothing for the people -- only his socialist beliefs.

I'm tired of lining the pockets of the undeserving with my hard earned money and having to be taxed even more because they don't have enough.

But it's over....it's done with......and there's nothing that can change the outcome.  Maybe this election should be a wake up call to us all.  It's pretty sad when the elections anymore are voting for the "least worst" candidate.  What happened to all the great leaders?

I did my part and voted for whom I thought would turn the country around.  It didn't work out this time.  We are outnumbered by the people waiting for their handouts.

Hopefully, the next 4 years can go by quickly without destroying this great country any more than it already has.  Hopefully, the next 4 years we can all learn something from this and stop letting our elected officials tell us what to do -- they work for us -- we should be telling them what to do.

Everyone in this country is entitled to their own opinion.....this one just happens to be mine.

Fail. Sucess. Fail.

Last week I spent LOTS of time in my kitchen.  Some of my projects turned out good......and some not quite so good.

But in order to get the cooking done....you need the supplies.  Here's my partial stockpile:

Unfortunately, my first batch of Pumpkin Pie fudge was a FAIL.  Luckily, it was my test batch.....since I have never made fudge before in my life.  Not until I found Pumpkin Pie Fudge (this stuff is dangerous and could seriously become addicting).  This batch never did get firm....it was a big sticky mess and yes I do know where I made my mistake.  Oh well....there was still more fudge to make!

The next day.....I spent 4 hours in the kitchen and it was a SUCCESS (well at least part of it).  I managed to make 3 batches of fudge and 3 batches of brownies for the staff.  This fudge turned out amazing and I think that my brownies were just way too cute to eat!

  

But, all my hard work in the kitchen that day yielded another FAIL.  I had been craving Mazita Pie lately (can't tell you why.....it's probably been at least 20 years since I've eaten it).  So I made up a big batch of my special spaghetti sauce.

Layered all the ingredients.  I did add some green onions to it.....cause we like onions.

 

And threw a little lettuce and cilantro on the top of it.

It tasted like one big soggy mess.  We even invited Cris over to give it a try and he wasn't impressed either.  So.......I guess I won't be serving this again!

I've had my Martha Stewart/Betty Crocker moment now.......I think I'll move on to some other things!

The moment just began

The minute his car pulled into the driveway and he crossed the threshold of our door.

Our vacation began.

It's not much.....but to us, it's heaven.

We are finally getting away for a brief time -- but it will be fun for whatever time it is.

Wow.....I finally have a little flicker of excitement.

Gotta go........we've got 3 glorious hours of driving ahead of us!

What no blogging?

Sorry.....been a small delay in the blogging lately.

I have lots of subject matter.  Lots of pictures to download.  Just haven't found the time to do it.

Life is busy.....I'm sure it's that way for all of us. 

I've been doing a great job of walking every morning -- yay me!

Stay tuned.....keep checking in.  I've gots lots of things I want to share with you!

Today's forecast:

According to the Weather Channel it's:  Abundant Sunshine.  High 70.

Wow....sounds like a gorgeous day to me.  Glad we're not in the path of the hurricane.  Which reminds us of another story.

In February in the year of Hurricane Katrina....we went to New Orleans.  In September of that year....they got destroyed by a hurricane.

In March of this year we went to New York City....in October they are about to get hit with a huge hurricane.

Don't want to alarm anyone....I wanted to take Paul to Miami for his birthday in December....maybe Miami better be on alert about June of next year.

My forecast for today:  Pay bills.  New customer packets.  First of the month stuff.  Miscellaneous catch up stuff. 

A proud achievement

It's great when you actually get something accomplished that you've been planning for a long time.  The boys have only been gone for 2 years now and we've finally finished their makeovers!
Aaron's room was turned into Paul's new office.  He loves it.

Cris' room was just magically transformed into our new guest room (and Paul or Debbie's room when one person wants to watch TV in bed and when one person doesn't OR when one person snores and the other person just really is trying to get some sleep).

The walls have been painted, the furniture painted, a new bed, carpets shampooed, new ceiling fan, new window treatments.....and it's finally done!  (Well, not exactly......it's walls are still a little naked and we still need to put a chair or something in there.....but hey.....it's done enough that we can start using it).

Here is the final product.....

The entertainment center looks beautiful since I painted it.  It looks a little empty with that tiny TV, but we are planning on buying a new HUGE screen TV for the living room and moving that one upstairs and it will fit perfectly into it's new home. 

Well now we have a beautiful new guestroom ready for guests.  But don't get too excited yet -- no invitations to visit are being sent out yet.  The rest of the house IS NOT guest ready.  But we're working on it.....one small step at a time!