Those two words used to make me wiggle in excitement. At my age, not so much anymore. This will be my last age changing birthday. I was going to stay 30 forever, but that is so cliche. I can handle 31, since it is the same. Nothing much changed in the past year, so I am cool with being an odd number, only fitting.
Birthday week has been a mundane one so far. Now, I know I am tempting the birthday Gods to throw down some mayhem, but that isn't the game I play. Up until this hump day, I have had some random encounters with things.
Monday brought me a broken turn signal. As I sat at a 4-way stop being a law abiding, turn signal using American, I used my turn to go right. After a few seconds the humming of my signal was still in my ear, but the light was pointing left. No way. I am an airhead, but there was no way I put my signal on left to go right. I was 100 percent sure I indeed used the correct signal when I came to my next stop. Left turn, left signal, left turn completed with the signal not stopping. What the hell? And here I would like to say that I muttered that to myself, but we all know I can chat with myself from time to time.
Come to find out, I broke my turn signal. Now I can't push it down, I have to use the cautionary three blink option Larz came equipped with. I checked to see if it might be a fuse but no such luck. Now, I have to travel to a Dodge dealership and explain the whole sordid affair to those men and make sure they don't rape my checking account. "No sir, I don't need my transmission flushed, I need a turn signal." Take it as you will.
I almost ran out of gas last night after I spent a few hours assisting my editor husband, from now on referred to as Captain Cowman, on the next edition of his magazine the Oklahoma Cowman. I am pretty sure my anal retentive editing skills were lost on him in the eleventh hour of publishing this edition, but I was there to support him and not doing all the errands I was going to accomplish after I clocked out. This was only the second or third time he asked me to help, which might have been the last invitation, and I jumped at the chance to work with him. After all, I am the one that has a communications degree and he is the one with the title, Editor:)
After I left him, I was jamming out... JAMMING OUT..... to some 90's on 9. We live about 10 miles from a gas station and I was a good 4 miles north of it when I saw something. As I head banged a bit, I saw the yellow light of my gas tank. I don't normally go that low, so it was an eery sight. How long had it been on? No one will ever know. Now, my car looks something like an Edmond police officer, so I took the liberty of doing a nice u-turn and hustled back to the station. I literally chugged into the station, only to find the astonishing price of gas! $3.19?!?!? Are you____________. (insert my favorite curse words) Get your shit together Libya! Grab your ears and pull your head out of your asses! Those might have been the thoughts that went through my head, closely followed by thoughts of purchasing a horse and buggy. Oh well. I made it home and to work. Joy.
My diet coke can just blew up on me. I knew it was frozen, but like a Pavlovian dog I opened it. Bills are due, my checking account hates me and I broke a $1200 thingy yesterday. Score one for me. Hell.
So, if you are having a "week" feel free to join me in giving it the bird. We are halfway to the weekend, which you can still get my birthday presents in the mail!!
Cheers!
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Friday, February 18, 2011
A Horrible Smell
This is going to be short and sweet, but it will explain how odd I am.
I got home from happy hour last night and my nose was instantly accosted with a foul, foul smell. Circle K was just reading in the recliner, immune to the pungent aroma coming from somewhere.
In a matter of seconds, I tell him about the smell and walk around my home sniffing around like a bloodhound. I instantly jump to conclusions and decide there is a hole in my roof that let snow into the attic and it is now destroying the roof. Or, our dishwasher took a shit and it leaked into the walls, which would have to be replaced once I bought a new dishwasher. Or, it had to be a dead garbage disposal that was going to require a plumber.
The smell wasn't conquered last night and it hit me like a Mac truck when I cruised around the house this morning. Resigned to parting with money to fix our problem and too scared to look under the couch for fear of finding a dead animal, I set out to make coffee and then it hit me. Literally the smacked me upside the head and told me to simply take out the trash!!!!
(Please don't think that our home is horrible. I doubt a rat entered our home and croaked under the couch, but I was being irrational.)
TGIF. KCK
I got home from happy hour last night and my nose was instantly accosted with a foul, foul smell. Circle K was just reading in the recliner, immune to the pungent aroma coming from somewhere.
In a matter of seconds, I tell him about the smell and walk around my home sniffing around like a bloodhound. I instantly jump to conclusions and decide there is a hole in my roof that let snow into the attic and it is now destroying the roof. Or, our dishwasher took a shit and it leaked into the walls, which would have to be replaced once I bought a new dishwasher. Or, it had to be a dead garbage disposal that was going to require a plumber.
The smell wasn't conquered last night and it hit me like a Mac truck when I cruised around the house this morning. Resigned to parting with money to fix our problem and too scared to look under the couch for fear of finding a dead animal, I set out to make coffee and then it hit me. Literally the smacked me upside the head and told me to simply take out the trash!!!!
(Please don't think that our home is horrible. I doubt a rat entered our home and croaked under the couch, but I was being irrational.)
TGIF. KCK
Monday, February 14, 2011
Monday Obsession: Cooking style
I was reading somewhere the other day that the woman of the house used to spend 20-30 hours a week preparing and cooking for her family. You can do what I just did: stop, take a deep breathe and thank everyone who has ever invented a faster way to prepare food! That got me thinking about my own kitchen prowess. I am pretty okay decent and I can damn sure follow a recipe!!
Along those lines of thinking, I decided to find a few recipes I want to try out. Ones that don't take a mere few minutes to create. We have a whole deep freeze full of beef from a friend of ours (let me tell you quickly about the amazing filet's the other night- simply a slight cute into them and then you could finish with your fork!! Like butter!!!)
So, I thawed out a ginormous chuck roast to use in a pot roast. People- do not fear the chuck roast. They are so simply!! Purchase a crock pot and go to town with them!!!! Anywho- after I thawed this giant hunk of meat in the fridge for a couple of days, I made a grocery store run and decided to dive into the creation of a rather large Sunday evening dinner, al la like my Grandma does!!
I settled upon the Pioneer Woman's Beef Stew with Beer and Paprika. Let me tell you the time is well worth the wait. It took about two hours from browning of the meat to shutting the burner off to cool. It calls for two pounds of meat- I haven't a clue if I used that much or more!!!
KCK's additions to the recipe include: Add two bay leaves when you start the initial simmering and leave them for the duration.
I used half a container of baby portabella mushrooms and added them when the carrots and potatoes went in! AmAzInG!! Let me tell you!
To accompany it I made homemade cole slaw and then made a loaf of French bread, with a twist!I rolled the dough in a mixture of basil, rosemary and garlic powder before popping it in the oven. Chingy said it was the bomb, I almost broke my arm patting myself on the back!!
COLE SLAW: (again I don't' measure)
1/2 bag Walmart brand shredded cabbage, carrots cole slaw mix
Mix mayo, red wine vinegar, sugar, celery seed, salt and pepper to taste and right amount to coat. Toss to mix! Simple and yummy.
Left over cabbage mix will become part of a beerox recipe later this week!! And the rest of the mushrooms will get sauteed for our Valentines day Filet's!!
My stomach is growling! I better get to work. Become obsessed with meat and eat all the beef you can y'all!!!
Along those lines of thinking, I decided to find a few recipes I want to try out. Ones that don't take a mere few minutes to create. We have a whole deep freeze full of beef from a friend of ours (let me tell you quickly about the amazing filet's the other night- simply a slight cute into them and then you could finish with your fork!! Like butter!!!)
So, I thawed out a ginormous chuck roast to use in a pot roast. People- do not fear the chuck roast. They are so simply!! Purchase a crock pot and go to town with them!!!! Anywho- after I thawed this giant hunk of meat in the fridge for a couple of days, I made a grocery store run and decided to dive into the creation of a rather large Sunday evening dinner, al la like my Grandma does!!
I settled upon the Pioneer Woman's Beef Stew with Beer and Paprika. Let me tell you the time is well worth the wait. It took about two hours from browning of the meat to shutting the burner off to cool. It calls for two pounds of meat- I haven't a clue if I used that much or more!!!
KCK's additions to the recipe include: Add two bay leaves when you start the initial simmering and leave them for the duration.
I used half a container of baby portabella mushrooms and added them when the carrots and potatoes went in! AmAzInG!! Let me tell you!
To accompany it I made homemade cole slaw and then made a loaf of French bread, with a twist!I rolled the dough in a mixture of basil, rosemary and garlic powder before popping it in the oven. Chingy said it was the bomb, I almost broke my arm patting myself on the back!!
COLE SLAW: (again I don't' measure)
1/2 bag Walmart brand shredded cabbage, carrots cole slaw mix
Mix mayo, red wine vinegar, sugar, celery seed, salt and pepper to taste and right amount to coat. Toss to mix! Simple and yummy.
Left over cabbage mix will become part of a beerox recipe later this week!! And the rest of the mushrooms will get sauteed for our Valentines day Filet's!!
My stomach is growling! I better get to work. Become obsessed with meat and eat all the beef you can y'all!!!
Monday, February 7, 2011
My Obsession Mondays
People do all sorts of fun days of the week blog crap. I am falling in line. I declare Monday's to be "My Obsession Mondays." I want you to want to be like me.... and I want you to have everything I have. Therefore, you need to know what I have:) Joking. Just wanted to share.
I am not trendy, nor am I a curvebender. I just like to overshare. I want you to get a kick out of the crap in my life.
Today isn't going to get things started off with a huge bang, so I hope to amp it up later. After Ft. Worth I got some sort of crud:( Cry for me, you know you want to. Well, that crud came with all the typical cold, blah feelings and the one I hate the most. DRY nasal passages and dry throat. You know that feeling. Like sandpaper in your nose when you draw a deep breathe.
Drumroll please... Ayr Saline Nasal Gel. My brother told me about this stuff around NWSS time and I finally found some at Walgreens. It was a savior this weekend as the air got more dry. It helped me a ton and is currently setting on my desk. I feel like I used a ton but haven't even put a dent in the tube. Great value.
I am not trendy, nor am I a curvebender. I just like to overshare. I want you to get a kick out of the crap in my life.
Today isn't going to get things started off with a huge bang, so I hope to amp it up later. After Ft. Worth I got some sort of crud:( Cry for me, you know you want to. Well, that crud came with all the typical cold, blah feelings and the one I hate the most. DRY nasal passages and dry throat. You know that feeling. Like sandpaper in your nose when you draw a deep breathe.
Drumroll please... Ayr Saline Nasal Gel. My brother told me about this stuff around NWSS time and I finally found some at Walgreens. It was a savior this weekend as the air got more dry. It helped me a ton and is currently setting on my desk. I feel like I used a ton but haven't even put a dent in the tube. Great value.
If you are sick, get some. Honestly will keep you somewhat sane.
Hope everyone gets healthy again. Heard of too many people being sick. Let's kick it!
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