Can you tell I'm hungry?

I have been tearing some Kale Chips up this week. They aren't as good as Pringles, but they sure do help me get a few servings of veggies in. I'm even going to make some Kale and Sausage pasta (as soon as I find a good recipe).

 

My favorite thing on Earth is Domino's Cheesy Bread. Since I recently got a bread maker, I am going to make this bread this weekend. I am beyond excited, if you've never had it, please order it for lunch. It is garlicky cheesy goodness. I may order me some for lunch, you know for testing purposes.

 

I just turned around to put my tea bag in the trash and I see somebody has used my trash can. That, my friends, is unacceptable behavior. If you have random trash, walk to the kitchen and dispose of it.

 

I can't believe none of y'all had any good snacks to tell me about. Food is on my mind all day every day. I coach my sister through cooking dinner with text messages. My mom calls and says, "I have porkchops, what should I cook?" If I wasn't so lazy and forgetful, I would have a food blog. Not where I create recipe's though, where I find good ones and test them, and tell y'all about them. Perhaps the good Lord can help me get some pep in my step so that I can just make that a feature on this blog, it needs some direction. What y'all think? Would recipe reviews be interesting? I would take pictures of course. Shoot, I should have had TheCount record me almost burning down our apartment building this week. Smoke everywhere. The detector screeching while politely informing me of "fire fire fire," and "carbon monoxide...carbon monoxide." It was hilarious (FYI: 1/2 cup of olive oil is significantly more than 2 teaspoons. One will almost burn your house down, the other serves as a nice coating for Kale Chips).

 

 

*******Completely unrelated I'm thinking about going natural (hair not food). Anybody transitioned to natural before? Any tips, hints, tricks, opinions? Mind you I contemplate this about every 3 months, and have yet to do it.*************

In which I talk about everybody but me

Since I am happily perched upon my high horse today, I shall take this time to talk about what everybody else is doing wrong in their life. Not me though, I'm perfect up here on my high horse.

 

My office mate is going to make me kick her in her teeth. For a multitude of reasons really. One being that she keeps on singing and humming loudly to her music. We normally both sit in here with one earphone in so we still look professional, while still being able to enjoy our individual music. Yesterday, however, I had to put both headphones in and look like a complete jerk to everybody entering our office. I'm working on a really time consuming audit project and I don't have the patience to put up with her random moaning to her music. The other reason I'm going to kick her is that she's trying to get pregnant. One would think that you would be extra healthy during this time. I mean, SisterTM texted me a threat that she was going to fly up here and poke holes in our condoms and add powdered vitamins to all of our foods and beverages. Even that evil little devil spawn knows the importance of starting off healthy. What does my office mate do? Guzzle Pepsi and Coffee. She complains of being tired every single day and says "I must need some caffeine and sugar." Ummmmm idiot girl, that is not the ideal way to provide your body with energy. Since I was helping her track her fertility (uhh yeahhhhhh, we're way too close) she was keeping me in the know about the situation.

Her: Yeah, we did the rabbit thing the dates I was most fertile, so we'll see.

Me: Yeah, and as soon as you stop drinking all that Pepsi and drink a glass or 8 of water every now and then, you'll be good to go.

Her: I know, this time I decided, only water while I'm pregnant. Not 6 pepsi's a day. Maybe that's why my daughter is so hyper now.

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This morning while I was riding my high horse into the building I saw my coworker from the picnic that had the child I had to chase down and return to her. She said she's going back to school. What does she want to be? A dang social worker. I wonder if it'll cause office tension when her coworker shows up at her house to take her own kid from her?

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I'm going to be back to my job hunt for TheCount. Why? Cuz his cheap tail is gonna make me kick him in his teeth too. Since you so stressed about me spending $17 at The Gap on 2 pairs of pants, why don't we get you a job making some more money, cuz I aint leaving my job no time soon in search of greener pastures. He cracks me up and I stress him out. We are not struggling by any means, but he is so serious about stuff that he doesn't leave any room for fun (if you call work pants fun). For the month of June, I'm going to appease him though and not spend money. Let's all join together and pray for a better paying job for him so I'll be able to buy some full price clothes one day!

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My daddy friended me on Facebook. My mom I was ok with. Him? Not so much. I haven't accepted it yet. I hope he gets bored after a week and doesn't log back on, otherwise he's going to get on my nerves and I'm gonna unfriend him. I hope he takes a cue from my mom, who won't friend anybody under 30 unless they request her. She doesn't want to make anybody uncomfortable. I wonder will my dad's feelings be hurt when TheCount doesn't accept his friend request?

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Alright, let me ride on out of here before somebody tries to trip my horse and I come tumbling down.

 

While the cat's away...

TheCount will be out of town today through Saturday attending the men's conference at church. While I will certainly miss my hubby (well not the fact that lately he keeps waking me up by asking very loudly if I'm sleep. I threw a book and hit him in the face with it Monday night, so I hope that ritual is finally over) I am looking forward to partying hard in the apartment all by my lonesome. I am currently reading Prayer, by Miles Monroe which I will definitely enjoy reading in bed without some big head dude talking in my ear.

 

I also plan to make all sorts of fun foods for one, although I haven't decided what yet. Of course one day will be devoted to chicken and waffles from the carryout.  Anybody have any fun foods I should try? Speak now so I can make it before Mr. I'veNeverSeenItMadeThatWay comes back home. I'm already planning to try Kale Chips which the lovely Brittany of Clumps of Mascara suggested on Twitter the other day. I'm not going to lie, I kind of wouldn't mind eating shrimp all day every day. Shrimp tacos, shrimp and black bean quesadillas, shrimp pasta, regular ole shrimp in a skillet, shrimp nachos... I'd make fried shrimp, but TheCount is the designated fryer because I fail miserably at that task. I inherited a love for shrimp from my dad, I'm convinced it's in my genes. I also have 6 ears of corn waiting for my consumption. Anyway, any cool recipes or your favorite snack ideas that you guys wanna pass on, please do!

 

Since he's leaving mid day, I really don't plan on going to Bible Study that night (ohhh he's gonna fuss at me) but it's because I can't make the drive. Every Wednesday on the way to and from church I am knocked out in the car. I cannot drive between 6-7 pm, I will fall asleep, especially in traffic.

 

I have a project that's been on my desk since last week and I really need to make myself do it. I WILL have it done by noon today, because now I'm just being lazy. It'll probably only take me an hour. I'll start as soon as I finish looking at the grocery store sales papers...

All About Me

I hope you all had a wonderful 3 day weekend, I know I did! I hung out with my best friend and my family which is always good. Saturday was spent preparing for Sunday's cookout followed by TheCount's and my friends descending upon my parents basement to watch the game. I find it hilarious that my parents never complain when all of a sudden TheCount's friends just start ringing the doorbell and coming in. This happens quite often. This time my mom was happy they were there because we wanted to hook my best friend up with one of them. Unfortunately my  best friend, the die hard Lakers fan, acted a darn fool all evening. When we watch basketball games she really gets into it with the yelling and arguing, it's hilarious really, but not for TheCount's laid back friends. They were watching her argue down my 12 year old cousin and they were like ooookkkkkkk. So needless to say, that hookup will never happen.

 

Sunday we went to church and had a cookout at my parent's house. Despite the fact that my cousins get on everybody's nerves, we still enjoyed ourselves. It was hilarious to watch my niece in action. She's 11 and really shy, but she talks a lot, just very softly. She also has a mean streak which she developed by having 3 younger brothers that try and punk her. I went and got her my mannequin so she could play in her hair. As soon as I gave it to her my little cousin asked if she could play with it:

 

Cousin: Can I play with your doll?

Niece: No

TheCount: Tell her she can play, after you are finished playing.

Niece: I told her no and that's what I meant.

Me: Cousin, I just gave her that doll, she hasn't even started playing with it yet.

Cousin: Okkkkk

 

I was cracking up the entire time. When Niece and I went upstairs to get some food, she was like, "that girl is too grown, she doesn't act 9. My mom would have to tell her mom on her." It's funny because I always think the same thing.

 

We finally got our wedding album :) It is beauutttiiifuuulllllll. You guys have no idea! I am beyond excited. I wish you guys could see it. Even my hater aunties were like, "I've never seen anything like this before, this is beautiful TM." Of course QueenHater and grandmomma to MissTooGrown cousin had the nerve to say, "well where am I in the pictures? I guess I wasn't important enough." Duhhh, it wasn't about you! It was about me, and as you can see, I'm on every page, and the cover :)

Let's Eat: Honey porkchops and Potatoes

Last night's dinner was soooooo good. You guys really have no idea. It was sweet and filling I enjoyed it greatly. We had Honey Pecan Porkchops and Kiss O'Honey Potatoes. The porkchop recipe I got from the Random Anderson blog. It's easy to customize this to make however many porkchops you need. Quick and yummy! The potato recipe came from my Get 'em Girls cookbook, that I left at home so I can't post the recipe but it was basically cut up some potatoes and put honey and salt and pepper on them and roast it in the oven for 45 minutes.

 

After dinner we went for a walk which is always fun. We found all sorts of mini parks (like 6) so we stopped to swing and play a few times (while I twittered the pictures, lol). We even almost picked up 2 little girls! We were walking past their house and they were strapped in their tree swings.

 

LittleGirl: Hi!

Me: Hi!

LittleGirl: What y'all doing?

Me: Just going for a little walk

LittleGirl: Can we come?

Me: Ohhh you guys are having much more fun in your cool swings, you don't want to walk with us

TheirDad: Good answer

LittleGirl: Okkkkkkk, well bye

Us: Bye!

 

Y'all know I would have let those little girls walk with us if their daddy would have went along with it, right? I love the kiddies, it would have been so much fun. When we walked away TheCount said that he half expected me to walk over to the little girls and scoop them out of their chair and tell their daddy that we would bring them back after our walk. I reallllllyyyyyy wanted too, but no good parent would go for that. We went looking around at houses for sale in the neighborhoods right behind our apartment complex, let's just say complete sticker shock. We saw one house that was completely lame in my opinion with a kitchen smaller than our apartment kitchen and it was listed at $429,000. Ain't no way we were gonna pay that for the house we saw. Next week we'll walk a different way and check those house prices out because I like the area, but not enough to overpay for a house.

 

Anybody have any big weekend plans? We have a few cookouts to go to and we are going to go pick up our fancy schmancy wedding pictures this weekend :)

I like your style

Ever since I did my hair curly everybody has been  commenting on it. Folks that never paid me any attention before took note of how they liked it. People that call me Jackie or Jennifer (neither of those are my name) on a regular basis took note that I had a new curly do and how they liked it. I started to think that everybody has been sitting back with voodoo dolls just praying that one day I would do something with this pile of mess on my head and now that I have, they are eternally grateful. After getting a complement from the unlikeliest of people last night, I asked TheCount about this.

 

Me: It's crazy, but folks who don't pay me any mind have told me how much they liked my hair. It's like everybody hated how I looked before and they've been praying I would change it.

TheCount: God knows I've been praying and pleading that for once you would do something different.

Me: Whatchu just say?

TheCount: I said you look very pretty honey.

Me: Yeah okkkkkk

 

 

I guess I'll be rocking the curly do for a while, especially since it hides the fact that I need a relaxer, and it's super low maintenance. Let me go to you tube and see what other hairstyles I can learn...

 

 

Is it naptime yet?

Why did I think today was Thursday? As I was talking to myself and Jesus this morning in the shower I was thinking about the weekend and such when I realized, oh wait, it's Wednesday slow down TM.

 

Since it was a lovely day outside yesterday I decided TheCount and I should have dinner in the park. I went to a local black family owned carryout to pick up our dinner because I wanted to do my part to support local businesses. It was nice watching them season and  cook my food while I waited because nothing beats fresh chicken and fish! The food was good, buy I must admit my dad's (who has a catering business) is better. Since he wants to open a restaurant someday I guess that's good. TheCount and I had a lovely time eating, then walking around the lake, then playing basketball, then one of us sneaking off to buy ice cream, then heading back home to watch the game. Good times had by all. We both fell asleep on the couch which always puts a smile on my face for some reason. I guess because it feels comforting.

 

We got a call from our photographer last night letting us know that our wedding book is done! We'll probably go pick it up this weekend.

 

I am exhausted even though I went to bed before 10. I think it's because I'm finally almost over being sick and my body's fighting extra hard to get the rest of this crap out. I wake up the upstairs neighbor every night with my coughing, it makes me feel bad because I hear him snoring so peacefully (random sidenote: this man must not have a tv or anything because I never hear tv shows or music only snoring and 2am business calls. I really wonder about his life a lot more than I should: end sidenote) then I start hacking and the snoring stops and I hear him shifting around, poor man. I would bake him some cookies, but who wants to eat food from somebody you hear coughing and dry heaving every night?