menu plan monday

see. i told you i would be back.

and thanks to this very nice lady, i found this a.m.a.z.i.n.g. website and found a pretty little "weekly menu plan" form that included a grocery list and lo and behold. 

a menu plan.

did you feel the earth just move? yah, i thought so too.

monday - dinner at mamaw's

tuesday (bible study) - crockpot meatballs (frozen meatballs + salsa + grape jelly) and peanut butter pie

wednesday - grilled chicken (for me) & grilled fish (for the prandsome hince) with broccoli and sweet potato fries

thursday - taco pizza bake thingy (recipe here) with spanish rice - i say "thingy" because i am going to use bisquick to make a biscuit like crust instead of pizza crust

friday - digornio's pizza

saturday - dinner out!

i did it! :D i actually did breakfast and lunch too, but figured that might me tmi. 

happy monday! 

i am linking up with that lovely lady i mentioned up there... org junkie! i heart her.

melt down

here is the forecast for our weekend, here in north central louisiana...

back in may, when temperatures starting reaching into the 90s and 100s it made me reach for this...

or perhaps one of these....

but now i just long for...

if it snowed here i would go crazy, much like this fun guy....

but not crazy like these folks....

points to ponder

1. I think part of a best friend's job should be to immediately clear your computer history if you die.

2. Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you're wrong.

3. I totally take back all those times I didn't want to nap when I was younger.

4. There is great need for a sarcasm font.

5. How the hell are you supposed to fold a fitted sheet?

6. Was learning cursive really necessary?

7. MapQuest really needs to start their directions on # 5. I'm pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.

8. Obituaries would be a lot more interesting if they told you how the person died.

9. I can't remember the last time I wasn't at least kind of tired.

10. Bad decisions make good stories!

11. You never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment at work when you know that you just aren't going to do anything productive for the rest of the day.

12. Can we all just agree to ignore whatever comes after Blue Ray? I don't want to have to restart my collection...again.

13. I'm always slightly terrified when I exit out of Word and it asks me if I want to save any changes to my ten-page technical report that I swear I did not make any changes to.

14. I keep some people's phone numbers in my phone just so I know not to answer when they call.

15. I think the freezer deserves a light as well.

16. I disagree with Kay Jewelers. I would bet on any given Friday or Saturday night more kisses begin with Miller-Lite than Kay.

17. I wish Google Maps had an "Avoid Ghetto" routing option.

18. I have a hard time deciphering the fine line between boredom and hunger.

19. How many times is it appropriate to say "What?" before you just nod and smile because you still didn't hear or understand a word they said?

20. I love the sense of camaraderie when an entire line of cars team up to prevent a jerk from cutting in at the front. Stay strong, brothers and sisters!

21. Shirts get dirty. Underwear gets dirty. Pants? Pants never get dirty, and you can wear them forever.

22. Sometimes I'll look down at my watch 3 consecutive times and still not know what time it is.

23. Even under ideal conditions people have trouble locating their car keys in a pocket, finding their cell phone, and Pinning the Tail on the Donkey - but I'd bet everyone can find and push the snooze button from 3 feet away, in about 1.7 seconds, eyes closed, first time, every time!

24. The first testicular guard, the "Cup," was used in Hockey in 1874 and the first helmet was used in 1974. That means it only took 100 years for men to realize that their brain is also important.

Free Thing and Paint Mishap

i read about this over at the nester's website. totally legit.

sidenote: did you know that {legit} is not a word. look it up. i dare ya.

you go to the one kings lane website (<--- just click here, made it easy for ya...) and register and boom! $15 dollar credit to your account. go ahead, shop around. that $15 goes towards anything on their website, but it can get you these frilly little bakers:

or if you are rich you can get this nice little dish for only $3.

all you have to pay is shipping and handling (which is $7.95.) not a bad deal for pretty baking dishes! 

and if you share this information and tell them i sent you (my email is skye.nicole@yahoo.com) i get another $15 dollar credit. so go ahead and share the word! :D

as for the painting mishap.

someone please slap me. i promise not to hit you back. i totally deserve this.

i am completely embarrassed by this. i went to walmart in a huge rush on my lunch break the other day. i bought a gallon of dutch boy paint. i picked that one because it has the neat pour-spout thingy. i didn't read the label. i thought it was white paint.

it is a tintable base. duuuurrrr. so now i have a gallon of tintable base in my carport. and i can't work on my filing cabinet. duuuuurrrrr. does anyone know, if i take it back to walmart, if they will tint it for me? even though its been opened and i don't have the receipt? help!

im really dumb.

but, i did get a free baking dish. :D

the vintage pearl and the filing cabinet

i absolutely love everything erin at the vintage pearl creates.

she has such an old soul and a contemporary mind and i think that combination helps her create some of the most perfect and beautiful jewely I have ever seen.

see here, her newest creation:

i love the font she chose, with its little curly q's, and the irregularity of the shape screams one-of-a-kind to me! the freshwater pearl adds just the right amount of drama and girly-ness and the simple chain only completes the feel of the necklace and doesn't take away from it.

wouldn't you just wig out to own one of these???

go over to her b-e-a-uuutiful blog today and enter to win one of three she is giving away! :D tell her i sent you! hehe...

on a completely different note, i spent about an hour last night sanding down a filing cabinet that my auntie kay bought me while i was in georgia a couple of weeks ago. i tried to take a before picture but my camera did not want to cooperate. i ended up taking one with my cell phone after i sanded it down and it looked much better than any i took with my actual camera! anyways, here it is, after sanding:

note the macrame chair in the background.... my husband's grandmother made that. pretty cool huh? we have four of them and we puffy heart love them.

the top is a door that opens with a shelf in there. if i can fit my printer in there i am going to hide it there. the bottom is a filing cabinet drawer where i will keep our important documents. i have been searching for something like this for a while. we currently keep our papers in a paper box. it is not pretty. i am quite tired of looking at it actually. so, needless to say, i am very excited about getting rid of the paper box and getting it all moved into this soon-to-be beautiful piece!

the plan is to paint it white, distress, glaze and replace the hardware. i will have a post hopefully up this weekend about the entire process. (my first before and after... im um... KIND OF EXCITED.)

Menu Plan Monday

i love to plan menus. one menu i recently planned was a menu for our vacation at Possum Kingdom Lake.  it looked a little something like this:

PK menu plan :D

it was so detailed that all the blue text directly linked to the corresponding page in the workbook with the recipe, along with WW points and nutritional information. i am only slightly ocd. (yeeeeaahhh right, i'm not fooling anyone but myself there...)

so, why on earth is it that i am able to plan such a detailed, three-meal-a-day menu for a vacation but i cannot for the life of me plan a dinner menu at home. i just don't understand. we eat dinner at home a measely four nights a week, and one of those is snacks for bible study. it's not like i am planning for a family of 6, it is just me and my pransome hince. what the q, right?

so today i am making a promise to myself. if i don't do any other blogging during the week, i am going to join in on menu-plan mondays.

monday: dinner at mamaws - a family has taken us in, God help their souls, and they feed us every monday night.

tuesday: bible study - snack night. buffalo chicken dip with celery and carrots and ham and cheese finger sammiches

wednesday: parmesan encrusted chicken breasts/tilapia with sweet potato fries and broccolli

thursday: grilled turkey medallions, green beans, mashed potatoes.

friday: dinner with the warners - chili dogs before the football game. :D

saturday: cinnamon rolls for breakfast; lunch on the go (we are feeding the homeless with the youth this saturday. i should probably just fast for the entire day to appreciate what little bit of grace God chooses to give me...) and dinner will be a toss up of leftovers with some sort of protien thrown in there.

CRAP.

just figured out why i am so horrible at this.

i make these plans and go to the trouble of making sure we have all the necessary ingredients and seasonings etc etc and then i remember, like a ton of bricks, that my dinner schedule and hubby's dinner schedule do not coincide.

wednesday nights he has choir practice. thursday he is going to the deer lease to help set up feeders, mow right-of-ways and set up his deer stand. that is two nights that i have planned thrown right out the window. he will probably not be back in time for dinner on friday either. so that leaves.... um. no days to plan for except saturday.

and i am really thinking about fasting.

POOP.

i will try again next week.

:(

regardless of the turnout, the effort should be appreciated. i am linking to org junkie. :D