Afternoon chickies,,,,,,
its finally stopped raining here after 4 days...I can actually see something yellow wayyyyyyyyy up in the sky!! The kids at work have been so restless being cooped up all week.
Have fun camping Sandra,,,Im so jealous..but its way too cold here still for us. My dd wants to go camping when she comes for a visit the end of June. I cant wait.
Got a walk in wed night in between rain drops...felt good.
We live in the bush..as we call it...we have seen more wildlife in town....
we had a moose and a calf walk right down our street
when I was into walking faithfully every night , I would meet up with a fox every time, just sitting int he middle of the road, like he was waiting for me.
-last summer we had a bear walk into our back of our house..its like a shed ..he was dragging our garbage out. He was HUGE!!
- dh sees two to three moose every day he drives to work
As much as we get used to it we still get excited when it happens though.
its amazing the wildlife we have here......when i sit by my pond in the summer, it attracts birds, toads, chipmunks and squirrels. (they llike to come for a drink) It can get quite busy if Im sitting quiet enough.
I get more excited seeing a big mall then I do seeing a moose...haha guess Im a country bumpkin.
Hey Chicks! I have been SOOOOO busy today! I did about 4 loads of laundry, baked Jim's tollhouse birthday cookies, worked on my medical expense project, made the dreamsicle dessert, and I just put dinner in the oven. Whew!
I hope dinner turns out good. It's dijon mustard rubbed on the chicken, then it's dredged in quick cook oatmeal that has all kinds of spices on it. The chicken gets placed on a Pam coated cookie sheet and then the chicken gets sprayed again before it goes into the oven to bake. I'm hopeful! And the best news is NOOOOO tomatoes!
Melissa, thanks for the tip on the dreamsicle. Thanks to you it set beautifully and is really creamy just like mousse. I can't wait to try it. You'll be busy around your house for a good long time. How GREAT does that sound.....your house!
Niki, I never heard of slippers with arch support. How exciting is that! Do they have a website? Maybe I'll ask for some at Christmas. I'm always barefoot and my heels are always killing me. I try to wear my birkies but I don't like to walk on the carpeting with shoes that I've worn outside. Slippers would be great. I hope your ham was good. I'm sure it would have tasted better with all the fat. But sadly, as you know already, the butt isn't Core. I'm sure it was Core enough with the fat cut off. Yum....I grew up on pork butt!!!!
Kath, well....let's see a picture of your cute self! I should have taken one of myself yesterday with the Stylist's do. Lord only knows I'll never replicate it again! I hope you got a great new phone and went out to eat somewhere fun as long as you were out. Ok....don't make me crazy now with that sore spot in your mouth. Could you just have someone look at it already. I'm a little paranoid with my husband's situation. Now I worry that everything could be serious. If they say it's nothing then you are free to ignore it. I had a sore in my mouth recently and my Doctor said it was just a virus. I told him I felt better that he looked at it. It only cost me $15 for the reassurance. You'll have a great time at the shower and it sounds like you have a great eating plan. I'm SOOOO impressed that you are still 140. I believe you'll be able to hang on to it too! I hope the decongestant worked.
Sandra, CONGRATULATIONS!!!!! I am so proud and happy for you that your hard work is paying off. You give me inspiration! Hope you're having fun. We will miss you.
Patti, we are supposed to have rain through next Thursday! I can't bear the thought but nothing I can do about it. I couldn't live with wildlife. I'm not an urban girl but definitely suburban!
Gotta go...there's a bell ringing for me. I'll be back in the morning! Have great evenings.
Niki, thanks! I probably can't buy them right now since I've had an expensive month and another one coming up in June. I can't wait to hear how you like them. My feet get hot easily. I'll be interested in hearing if they wool makes your feet feel hot. I also can't wear wool (like unlined waistbands make me itch). I'd like to know if they feel itchy to you. I may just give them a try anyway if you don't think they're too hot.
CONGRATS SANDRA - on your great loss ! You go girl! Hope you are having fun in lololand - I just LOVE hot dogs over an open fire - reminds me of camp when I was younger! ...and don't get me going on roasted marshmallows! YUM!
Kathy - have fun at the shower - don't you just love it when your hair turns out great (I have it from a good source that it's the pouf that holds it in place). Tomorrow I shall be poufy froufy ha ha ha (except that it's going to rain again!).
Glad some of you are seeing sunshine - but it's miserable here - and now pouring harder than ever - and slanting like! Took dd and ds to a movie (cross town of course) and driving back was a bit stressful due to all the rain and poor visibility!
Melissa - any more critter sightings? I agree w/Vickie you should try and find something to deter them from coming on your property!
As for this morning - well we got there okay (only drizzling a bit) but there is only ONE visible entrance to the parking garage and due to the dance competition there was a two block traffic jam with cars backed up trying to get in! Not fun.
At least we had enuf time (started inching in around 9:15 am and girls would only be on at around 11:30). So here we all are inching our way slowly and surely to the ticket booth - and 3 lanes converging into one! Seems a lot of discussion and finger pointing going at at ticket booth. We are trying to be patient of course.
I am hugging the bumper of this big white pickup in front of me as I get closer (to nirvana ha ha) and I see the guy carrying out the LOT FULL SIGN!!!! PANIC PANIC! The girls and I just screeching inside the car - no no no. I am literally glued to the car in front of me and I swear to God - as I pull closer - almost there - the parking lot guy puts the LOT FULL SIGN BEHIND MY VAN!!!! So I am somewhat reliieved but feel SO BAD for everyone behind me - esp mom of another dancer - she had to drive all the way back home as her dd forgot her costume 'hat' - and now she coudn't get into the lot - and she did kinda let me in front of her (altho I was there way before her!). Anyhow they are double parking cars everywhere - had to leave my keys...and my dd went back to the other mom's van and got the hat to bring in in case she didn't make it! Such adventures and ulcers!
The venue is pretty icky - no real dressing rooms this time - just one big room for all the girls and each dance school seemed to mark off their own areas. It was also this crappy temporary/portable stage - and it's huge - very wide and acoustics in room very bad!
Anyhow the GREAT NEWS IS DD'S DANCE GOT DYNAMIC GOLD (equivalent of high gold in other competitions and one less than platinum) I swear they do better and better at each competition! The worst part was one of the dancers fell (on her butt) - she looked kinda surprised at first but jumped up smiling and continued dancing - what a trooper - of course I later saw her running off the stage crying and looking for her mom - poor thing! Bad news is I was eating toast w/jam for breakfast - then a brownie later on! I think it was all that stress - and being near a major food court didn't help!
I am pretty sure they can get a platinum for their Tainted Love sr jazz dance - only problem is two girls are away so they have to literally rechoreograph part of it so there are no 'holes' - I am stressing about this already. At least tomorrow night should be easier for parking?
Came home around 2:30 pm and had a NAP - yes - altho I didn't sleep much with phone ringing and kids interruptions. Dh went to his jazz gig tonight which is why I decided to take dd and little ds to movies (big ds gone to INXS concert tonight!!!).
Hair appt tomorrow at 1:15 - roadie equipement work from 4-5 pm then back to the competition around 6 pm for 8:30 dance slot! Is it really mother's day on Sunday?
Frouf, your life is SO exciting compared to mine! I'm happy for mine to be calm though. I don't think I have the nervous system to live yours. I'm glad everything went well and that you got to park. See....sometimes things do work out. Congratulations to Emily! I hope she was happier this week? Will you have time/energy to enjoy Mothers Day?
I'm REALLY going to bed now. I was playing card games.
Kathy, I hope that you have fun with your old co-workers. Congrats on the scale being, and staying, down. What a great feeling. Oh, and we don't have a nature reserve behind us, it's another subdivision! There is some greenspace near our house, but it's not enough that one would expect to see a fox. It's kind of scary. I'll be glad when we get a fence put up.
Vickie, I'm glad that your dreamsicle turned out so well. How did you get it so smooth? Mine is definitely not mousse-like! It sounds like you had a good day and I'm glad.
Frouf, how did it go today?
Patti, whoa do you ever have some wildlife! I don't know if I could get used to that. I can handle cute and fuzzy critters, but bears? I can't imagine.
Well I think I'm going to find a snack and maybe do some more around the house. DH is still at church tonight.
Frouf, what a day! Bless your heart. I'm glad that things ended up well though and that you got a chance to rest, at least a little bit, this afternoon.
OK here I am and you're all in bed!
I must confess I didn't have a very good eating day today. I think it's TOM-related.
I finally made a hair appointment for myself. Tomorrow morning at 9:15. I'm excited not to look like a shaggy dog any more.
Alright, guess I'll go find something to do with myself. Good night everyone!
Hey, all. We got home around midnight, watched TV for about two minutes, then turned off the light and went to bed. Not to sleep, mind you, but to bed. I laid there for what seemed like a week and finally decided to get up. It's 5:30 and I just took *one* pain pill. I'm telling you what, this pain is so indescribable that I'm starting to feel like there's something wrong with me. My whole leg hurts up to my thigh, and the foot burns and aches and throbs with every heartbeat. And I have just about had it, so Monday I'm calling the doctor to complain. Yeah, like he can do something about it, but maybe they can give me something different (like you've ALL suggested in the past). I can't work while on these drugs, not that they're all that effective anyway, but I also can't work while in pain. AARRGGGHH!!
We had a good time tonight though. It was SO nice to get out and see people, even if it is mostly people I'll be seeing Monday at work anyway. Jon lives on a golf course, and so we were in the backyard for a lot of it, even after dark, because they were doing night golf. If you've never seen it (and I hadn't) it's just sooo cool! The balls light up and flicker, then there are colored neon markers along the fairway and around the greens. Now Judd is wanting to go play at night, of course.
I should get Kate to take a pic of my hair and if I do, I'll post it. She's coming over sometime in the afternoon. Sometime Saturday morning we have to go vote for city elections, go to the cell phone store since we ran out of time before the party and didn't go, and then Judd has golf at 1:00. Saturday night is Mavericks playoff game so we'll be plunked in front of the TV all night.
Well, gee willies! I had to go back and read threads and gracious goodness, Frouf, you had a DAY! Congrats to Emily and her group but girl I would have been stressed to the max with the drizzle and parking and drama of it all. If toast/jam and a brownie were the worst things you did, I'd call that successful eating! And I think of all of us here, you deserve a huge Mother's Day blessing. You continually do so much for her and big DS (and Sam too, but he's still little enough to be a sweet and grateful child). Anyway, I hope it's your best Mother's Day yet.
Vickie, that was quite a busy day you had! I am very interested to know how the chicken turned out. I make something that everybody loves but it has breadcrumbs as the coating. If I could substitute oatmeal and have it deemed Core, and still be good enough for the masses, that would be great! I usually rub FF Italian dressing on the chicken before coating in the crumbs so Dijon would be a nice change as well. And now all this Dreamsicle talk has me wanting to make it too. I have all the stuff; just getting in there and doing it is holding me back.
Patti, you are so funny! I would just shriek if there was a bear in my back yard. Or a moose walking down the street! Closest thing we have is cows and they're pretty tame. We have had them in the front yard and on the street when there was a farm behind us but a few years ago, it was sold to a developer and now there are houses back there. Speaking of which ...
Melissa, girl, that green belt is close enough to a nature reserve for me! Could you stand it if it was any more natural? I know we probably invaded the animals' space, since they were more than likely here first, but you know if they see a porch light or something, they should just move on down the road and get to the woods. They're probably more scared of us than we are of them. Since it's hair week on the board, I'm glad you made your appointment.
Shaun has a DEP meeting this morning, which stands for Delayed Entry Program. It's a once monthly meeting where they go over different things, maybe do a few exercises, and generally let the recruiter know what they're up to. He has 3 months to go before shipping out (ya right, shipping out to Chicago but that's still what they call it) which as you know won't come soon enough for me. I left him some money before we went to Jon's house and told him to walk up and get a haircut. He's looking like Shaggy from Scooby-Doo. I hope he did it; I didn't see him after we got home last night. Seems like he's trying a little harder though. I know he's bored and really miserable being stuck here with no car. If he had one though, he could work but additionally he'd just be out getting in trouble so maybe it's not so bad that he doesn't have one. At least now when he leaves we won't have to worry about disposing of a car.
Okay I've talked to myself for long enough. I'm going to read for a while.
Good Morning Chicks! I just got up at 6:00. I couldn't sleep any more because I was having bad dreams. I think there's a nap in my future.
Kathy, I'm really glad you got out and had fun last night but your ankle situation sounds horrible. I'd sure be wanting to know if pain up your thigh is to be expected. I'd say different medicine is in order. So you're not doing full days next week are you? Are your exercises going ok? The night golfing sounds cool. If I was Judd, I'd want to try it also. I'd always heard that the balls are even more outrageously expensive than the regular ones are. I'd don't know if it's true or not. It'd be fun to have Kate take a picture. Even if she doesn't, I know you're going to enjoy seeing her for Mother's Day. It's hard to believe that Shaun still has 3 months left to go. I hope he got the darned haircut so that you don't have to fret about him. Too bad there's no drugstore or something within walking distance of your house where he could work. I'd be bored and crazy too.
Melissa, sorry we all went to bed on you. I didn't see that you were on with me last night. I really hope you enjoy some pampering today during your haircut. God only knows that you have been too busy to do anything for yourself lately besides work and move. How is the drive to work from the house? I hope it's better. As for the mousse, it couldn't be more moussie! I decided to beat the pudding when I put it into the jello for 2 full minutes since you stir the pudding when you make it for 2 minutes. You just have to be real careful to use the lowest setting on the hand mixer since the stuff is all almost water. It set into this great "stuff"! I told Jim that it's something I could make for a party so I'm VERY excited about it. I put it into those little tupperware 1/2 cup snack cups and it made 9!!!! Next time, I'm going to put in a little more fruit so it'll probably make 10 of them. I could have eaten a little bit bigger portion but these little cups are really convenient and keep me kind of in control. It's very sweet and really helped with my sweet tooth. I also used the white chocolate pudding instead of the vanilla and I think it helped with the illusion of mousse.
The chicken tasted good but I think it needs some work. It called for instant oatmeal but I used quick cook. I don't know if that's what made the difference but it didn't get as crunchy as I hoped. Also, the spices were inconsistent even though I mixed up the oatmeal real good. I'm thinking about two things for next time. I might grind up the oatmeal a little bit next time and/or just sprinkle the spices on each piece of chicken instead of putting them into the bowl with the oatmeal. Aside from the coating, the flavor was quite yummy. Cornmeal chicken is still my favorite. Hmmmm.....I wonder how cornmeal would have been instead of the oatmeal. Anywhoooo, I'll post the recipe and you can all decide how to experiment.
I also loved everything about the lemon garlic chicken. The only thing I can't decide is whether or not I need to cut down the amount of olive oil in the marinade. I'm trying to reconcile how much stays on the chicken. It calls for 1/3 cup and I marinated 8 thighs. There was still marinade left in the bag. I probably could cut it down to 1/4 cup of oil. That would still be 4 tablespoons/12 teaspoons of oil. What do you all think? Should I cut it down even lower?
Well, that's the cooking corner on the Core Board for this morning.
Ok.....I was hoping that someone was here to talk to so that I didn't have to get on the treadmill. But, alas, no one is here. I guess I'll go work on my weight. I ate 2 chocolate chip cookies and they were divine. I don't know how you folks bake and exercise self-control. I will NOT eat any more of them. I don't want to have to be crying on Monday because I gained.
I can't bear the thought but nothing I can do about it. I couldn't live with wildlife. I'm not an urban girl but definitely suburban!
Could you stand it if it was any more natural? I know we probably invaded the animals' space, since they were more than likely here first, but you know if they see a porch light or something, they should just move on down the road and get to the woods. They're probably more scared of us than we are of them. Since it's hair week on the board, I'm glad you made your appointment.
