Sunday, January 20, 2013

productive weekend

What did you do this weekend? 

Preston has been gone all week in Florida and I decided Friday night to be productive before he comes home Tuesday night and i thought -hey, I'll deep clean the apartment this weekend - it wont take THAT long ... I scrubbed my bathtub for an hour! I thought it was so cool when we moved here that I would have a garden tub! ... i hate it, when it comes to cleaning it. So after that i quit for the night and headed to dinner with almost my entire family (missing two siblings) and several family friends, i feel sorry for the poor waitress that had our table of 20+ lol, I love having such a big immediate family as well as a huge extended one, Thank you, Jesus for the times we get to spend together and have fun. Saturday i was very lazy and slept in (stayed in bed watching tv) till almost 10 before i got up to tackle the rest of my bathroom, I spent a good hour there finishing it up and organizing all the drawers that has needed to be done for months. I finished up my bedroom around 1, you know I regret getting all of this dark wood furniture whenever i have to clean and dust, I should have went with white or iron, next time i get a furniture upgrade I'll have to consider that.  

Saturday night i had a date with my sister wife and my sister Katie and her husband, we love going to shoguns and sitting at the sushi bar and having fried rice, soup, salad and sushi! i used to never eat sushi, didn't even want to try it ( i don't even eat cooked* fish) but Preston finally got me to try this fried shrimp sushi roll one time and i was hooked, ill be brave and try other stuff now and i even like to just get an avocado roll - yummy, it can be an expensive place to eat if you sit at the hibachi tables and order the meals but we would rather have a quiet dinner and for half the cost just chowing down on rice and sushi so we eat there often. Today I finished up my cleaning with the dining room, living room & kitchen and I am DONE. Preston comes home Tuesday and I'm sure the place will look a mess in no time, but at least i tried and i wont have to deep clean again for a while - yay!



I decided that when Preston is not on the road that i wanted to try and cook and eat at home as much as possible so last week i spent a lot of time making a meal plan for the next two weeks and I'm excited about it, yesterday i drug my sister Kate with me and bought all of the groceries for the meals and snacks etc. This weeks menu includes Black beans & rice, no-mess sloppy Joe's ( love them, you put the sloppy Joe mix and cheese inside a rolled out biscuit and fold it over and bake!), Chicken Parmesan, Smothered Pork-chops & Grilled chicken salad. Lunches are boring sandwiches and leftovers but dinners are different every night. Its not really to be healthier (although we should) but it is cost saving for sure and I just like to cook for us and eat together because we don't get a lot of time together once he starts really going out for work, sometimes he is gone months before he comes home again so I soak it up when i can. The chicken Parmesan and smothered pork-chops are new recipes to me and i hope they come out good, ill let you know! 

hoping for a great week!

Jennifer -


















Thursday, January 17, 2013

well .... lets try this again


Where have i been? a year and a half ... hmm, well i guess i'm ready to talk about my pretty average/boring life again. Not much has happened in my life the past year and a half, i lost my beloved grandma (great aunt) and i still miss greatly, I got a new (used) car "Zara" and i love her, i'm still married to a crazy man who drives me nuts and he is still truck driving and gone most of the may-oct months, we're still apartment living and my sister still lives with us, yes i still work for the same doctors office - almost 5 yrs! i'm addicted to Don Juan's chicken tacos ... seriously its a problem, i enjoy my coke (no ice!), no babies, no home yet ... but both are in my sights in the next 18 months... ssshhhh. but seriously im tired of apartment living (a house payment would be cheaper than rent! buying is just so scary to me though) and we hope to try and buy by the first of next year and are working hard towards being able to do that and after thats done - baby, just dont tell my husband:) we have been married 4 yrs in march and he is quickly running out of time for me to wait, so many friends have had babies and are about to have them and i hope to have my turn soon enough. i'm just running out of patience lol.

Anyway enough rambling i need to go spend a few hours deep cleaning my bathroom and scrubbing my tub, uhg. but i'm back in the blog world for now! 

Jennifer -