1.) Working over time because we are short staffed at work.
2.) Taking 6 hours of night class a week at a little place called Penn State.
3.) Trying to cook and keep my head above water.
4.) David's parents visited for david's birthday. we saw Circe Eloise...or something like that. it was top 10 most amazing things I've ever seen and it made me want to go watch more live performances
5.) We have been budgeting like BEASTS and that's not really that important except that it's one thing in my life that is going completely 100% swimmingly so I like to brag about it.
6.) With that well budgeted money, I went and bought myself my very first grown up nook tablet that I am completely upset with. her name is Sally. I just named her that right now. It just came to me. It might switch to Jess since we've been watching a lot of New Girl recently (can you say obsessed? i can. I speak it fluently actually)
I have decided not to actually post recipes any more, but explain my choices behind various menu items because that is more interesting to me to write about. So this week we have (so far) made Minestrone soup (which i can't actually pronounce out loud) and I sort of guessed on the recipe and IT CAME OUT SO GOOD. lucky break char char. the broth was crushed canned tomato and chicken broth and I pre-cooked the noodles like the chef who came to my window at work one day told me to do, and I added kidney beans, and celery and carrots and cannelloni beans and (too much) canned corn. it was amazing. it's already gone. We both devoured all the left overs today. delicious.
Tonight is quiche. We decided to make two. one is in a brownie pan because I don't know what happened to our pie tin. the other one is in a round cake pan because...I don't know what happened to our pie tin. Fantastic. general ingredients include cheese, cottage cheese, eggs, broccoli, spinach, sausage, and something else that i forget. I might add apples next time. We'll see. I also saw a recipe on foodnetwork.com that said to add mayonnaise so I added a tablespoon of that. We'll see. We have also been budgeting our food money really well which meeeeans that we get to eat salmon almost every week!!! MY FAVORITE!!!
Today was the craziest weather.
BACKGROUND: I am in central Pennsylvania and it is October 7th. Some people might assume that it's October and so it's starting to get a little chilly. I would be some of those people and guess what, we would all be DEAD WRONG. We have been suffering a mini-heat wave. David keeps telling me to appreciate it but it's very difficult to appreciate a heatwave when it's at 100000% humidity so I have NOT been enjoying it. I'm tired of cold dinners because it's too hot for soup, and no cuddling. NO CUDDLING=NO FUN. It has also been 0% enjoyable because I know what's about to hit- THE WINTER. and I know that it will totally blindside me whenever it gets here and then I will be literally crying for summer (most likely at some point).
REAL STORY: So, we woke up this morning and it was literally 70 degrees outside. Miserable. And it was cloudy and it was drizzling, but still a billion degrees. So then I get to work and the rain just starts POURING. Like, cats and dogs. horrible. and it's crazy wind and everything. But it's still like, you know, 70 billion degrees outside so it's not even an exciting storm. UNTIL, a customer comes in around 1pm and tells us, IT'S FREEZING OUTSIDE!!! So, in the time of about 4 hours and one severe weather warning (californians- these are messages that they stop playing Ke$ha on the radio for. they are comprised of scary loud siren sounding noises and then an announcer voice who sounds like he's about to tell you that World War Z is ACTUALLY upon us. even if he told me I won a million dollars, his voice is just so scary I would probably politely decline the scary money. they announce things like severe winds, hail that will break your car, and flash floods that sometimes kill people), WINTER CAME! Now it's back to normal late fall, chilly, the leaves don't look like the trees are dying form heat anymore, it actually feels like blustery fall, IT IS AMAZING!!
So, even thought I am seriously allergic- WELCOME BACK FALL! Please lead us through a super short winder and then let it be summer again!!!! VIVA SUMMER!!!
Love Always,
Char
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