Happy birthday

To our friend Ed. He’s traversing through Maine this weekend on a pub crawl, hopefully enjoying himself tremendously.  Who knows, maybe he’s bending over right now taking a spanking from each of the peeps in celebration 😉

Aah vacation

It feels so good to know that for the next 10 days I don’t have to fire up the old laptop, or set the alarm for the gym, plan meals, or get dressed for the office.  No conference calls to host, meeting minutes to write, nada. I actually woke up...

Ew, storms again

It seems that we’re to be plagued by them for a bit more yet.  The crews can’t even properly clean up the destruction from days ago because every afternoon there are more storms with lightening and wind, and huge, pelting rain. Seriously, the poor farmers.  My own garden is drowning...

Destruction by mother nature

When I left work last night in Springfield the rain was pounding down, some of it sideways. Visibility for driving was poor. City streets were flooded, some up to a foot or more. Traffic on the highway didn’t move at more than 40 mph. It was a nasty storm. When...

Ick

So, of course, I was shooting my mouth off this past weekend about how many fewer migraines I was getting as of late.  The box doc prescribed a very low hormone bcp and it’s  helped to significantly reduce the occurrence of migraines on a monthly basis.  Well I was plagued...

Mmm rolls….

Fresh out of the oven. My kitchen smells like food porn. If only I could bottle that…. We got a dinner invite for tonight so I baked up some fresh dinner rolls with a small bit of herbes de Provence. I had some left over dough after I had filled...

Breakfast quesadilla

Take one tortilla and line a half of it with thinly sliced pear. Grind some fresh pepper over that and sprinkle on some crumbled goat cheese. Drizzle with honey, fold in half, and toast in a frying pan for a couple of minutes on each side. Add a few strawberries,...

Yum

So for dinner tonight I ripped a marinade recipe straight from Food and Wine. I loved it and Chris hated it. It was this sweet and tangy glaze for pork chops that were grilled, then tossed in chopped peanuts. So tasty! Then I cooked up a side of rice noodles...