Wordless Wednesday

Valentines Date?

When you think of going out for valentines a romantic evening out usually comes to mind.  Going on a tour of the New York sewage plant doesn't even sound like a fun tour and is definantely not a romatic evening. If you are running short on an idea for a date maybe consider the NYC sewage plant tour.

Could you imagine if you had a first date and the guy tells you that you are going on the sewage tour? bahahaha  Would you go on the date or run away as fast as you could?

NYC sewage plant to offer Valentine's Day tours

Published: Feb 10, 2012

NEW YORK (AP) - It may not smell like a rose but a New York City sewage plant is offering tours for lovers on Valentine's Day.

The tour host and superintendent of the Newtown Creek Wastewater treatment plant in Brooklyn tells the Daily News (http://nydn.us/xEFu6I ) it'll be a unique date, and one that special someone will never forget.

Jim Pynn says the highlight of the tour will be the plant's giant egg-shaped digesters, which break down the noxious waste into harmless sludge and gas.

Pynn says each Valentine's Day visitor will get a Hershey kiss - and at least something to talk about.

Happy Valentines Day!!!!

What do you have planned to do with your love today?

Art and I don't really celebrate valentines. We celebrate February 16 when we had our first day.  Yes, 6 years later we still celebrate our first date. Yes, we can be corny like that! Art said he isn't going to celebrate valentines, since I refused to go out with him 6 yrs ago on valentines.  I had no desire to go on a first date with a guy on valentines. I am actually glad I waited 2 days....it has turned into 6 years!

Pranks

Art and I like to play pranks on each other. Art likes to play them a lot more than I do. I know if I pull a prank that I am going to get paid back and it might be worse than what I did. Art has been watching youtube videos of people pulling pranks.  He keeps threatening he is going to pull stuff on me....well this past weekend he tried to pull 2 pranks.

1. Art & Sammy know don't mess with me when I come in the door because I have to run to the bathroom. Friday night Art followed me & was telling me about the shooting down the street from his parents. I thought it was weird he was following along.
All of a sudden I screamed & jumped. He had put plastic wrap across the toilet. Oh he thought it was the funniest thing EVER! He was laughing so hard. Luckily I realized there was plastic before I peed.

2. Sunday morning Art asked me if he could drink some of the milk in the fridge or if it was just for cooking. I told him he could drink the milk.  All of a sudden I see him get in bed in a glass of milk. He tried to hide it as I poked my head out of the bathroom door. I asked why he was in bed with milk and he better NOT be giving any milk to Sammy. He walked out of the bedroom with his head down.

I get in the shower...all of a sudden I see a hand coming over the shower and I jump to the side. I thought a glass of water was going to come splashing all over...NOPE. He threw a cup of FLOUR...not milk. He missed me! There was dough all over the shower floor.  FAIL!

He better be on the look out because there are some pranks that are going to be coming his way! 

Menu Monday

I am starting to plan my menus for 2 weeks.  I will still post the weekly menu on Monday's. This week I am going to make some recipes from my The Biggest Loser Simple Swaps book. I am learning a lot from the book and really enjoying it. I f there is anything worth reporting on I will post about it next week.

On Monday's I am trying to avoid eating any meat.  On Sunday I have been eating what I want for the most part.  Monday's are the day to get back on track and have a day without meat.

Monday - Vegetarian Curry

Tuesday - Pork Chops and Spicy Crunch Chickpeas

Wednesday - Chicken and Quinoa with Spinach and Cheese

Thursday - Pizza and Arugula Salad

On Sunday I am going to make Mac & Cheese that Krystal made on her blog.  I had a bite of it while I was at her house a couple weeks back. It was A-MAZING!!!!

In the Biggest Loser book I found a recipe for Nutty Waldorf Salad I am also going to make for our lunch.

Saturday Pinterest

Bestie, Food Trucks and Sewing...all in one night!

Last Thursday I was able to spend the evening with my bestie Krystal. We had such a fun night. When I arrived she was making a lemon blueberry tart. A-mazing!  Krystal asked if I would rather go out to Kogi's or she would make dinner. That was a very hard decision. I <3 Krystal's cooking and I <3 Kogi's. I asked her what would be easiest for her and did she feel like going out? We agreed to to find Kogi's. Kogi's is one of my FAVORITE food trucks ever! I haven't been able to find a truck that even compares to them in Nor Cal.

Krystal and I at Kogi's waiting for our delish food!

I got the Pacman Quesadilla. DELISH! It had every type of meat with super spicy sauce over the top.

After dinner we headed back to Krystal's. She needed help with making a pillow case for her extremely large pillow. I think it is a called a snoogle or something like that. She had bought fleece material and cut most of the pillow case out. I helped her finish cutting it out, showed her how to thread her machine and then I got to work sewing away. The pillow case turned out super cute! I love the fun fabric Krystal picked out!

Getting to see my friends in So Cal is a great perk of traveling for work.

Bart Thursday- Week 3

When you enter a Bart train it is a scurry to find a seat. Everyone runs in and grabs the first seat they can find. I was all excited to find a seat near the door the other day.  I soon realized why the seat was empty. Right next to my seat was a guy laying across two seats sleeping. The guy was all beat up. One of his eyes was completely swollen shut. His face was purple, blue, red with some dried blood and swollen up. He was thrashing around and kept moving his legs.

I tried not to look at this guy or let him see me looking at him from the corner of my eye. He looked scary! I kept a watch on his every move. Let me just say I didn't feel in danger on the train. It was packed full of people and I was with my regulars. Out of the corner of my eye I see him pull something from his pocket. It was a little bottle of booze. He drank it and then conked out. 

Just another day on Bart.

Wordless Wednesday

My Cousin Amy

A couple people have asked me about last weeks Wordless Wednesday post. I thought the pictures deserved an explanation.  If you didn't see the original post click HERE for all the pictures.

My cousin Amy is a wild adventurous one that always has great ideas to do things. One of her great ideas on NYE was to stack 2 bar stools on top of each other to climb up the Christmas tree. Her brother Justin was sitting near her unfazed by her insanity.  The rest of us were telling her to get down and she was going to fall.  I told her she was going to fall & break her neck.

Poor Gina (her sister) wasn't looking as she staked Gina's bar stools to get to the top of the Christmas tree.  Then my aunt got nervous and decided to go hold the bar stools. This did NOT make Amy happy. She told her to get away and that she was ruining her pictures!

When Amy was about 3 or 4 she climb up on the kitchen counter. She fell off of it and bit her tongue. It wasn't just a little bite. She bit completely through the middle of her tongue. It healed but she still has a scare in the middle of her tongue.

Amy had a little white dog Skippy when she was younger that she use to dye different colors according to the holiday. One time poor Skippy was the color of the rainbow. She would cut it's hair funky ways and dye certain parts of its body with kool-aid.

Amy and I are just a few months apart. We grew up together. I was the one to usually keep us out of trouble and she would convince me to get into trouble. lol I wish we lived closer because we have so much fun together. Always laughing! Today is her 31st birthday.

Happy Birthday cousin!!!!

Menu Monday

This week I made my menu while I was traveling. I sent Art a text asking him what he would like for dinner. He responded with IDK. Ugh come on dear I need some help! Then he suggested that we have 2-3 nights of no meat. I had already put somethings together for our menu prior to him saying no meat. I want to use stuff in the freezer.

I would also like to start grocery shopping every 2 weeks instead of every week. I spent an hour and a half to two hours a week preparing menus, grocery lists, and shopping. That is a lot of time when you only have 2 days off week.

Monday - Meatless chili with a baked red potato

Tuesday - Breakfast eggs, sausage and waffles

Wednesday - Turkey burgers and sweet potato fries

Thursday - Food Trucks

Friday - Chicken tacos

I am going to make my chili in the crockpot. I made beans in the crockpot a couple weeks ago and they turned out amazing. I thought why not make chili in the crockpot. I bought some black beans, kidney beans and tomato sauce. I have frozen tomatoes from our garden I am going to throw in there also. I will let you know how it turns out.

Fulfilled

Over the past couple weeks I have been thinking how fulfilled my life feels. I don't ever remember feeling this happy & content about life for more than a couple hours or a day.



I feel my attitude has changed after the last miscarriage. I felt after my ER visit it shook something in my core. I realized afterward how much worse things could have been. I felt more scared 2-3 days after everything happened then when it was going on.


I always try to remain positive to others, but a lot of times I dwell on the negative things inside. What is the point of doing that? When I think of people that upset me I'm going to pray for them & stop being upset. It is giving me a stomach ache worrying, stressing or dwelling on situations I can't change. Me being upset isn't going to fix things. God is the only one to fix things.


I told a friend the other day my heart just feels full. Full of happiness/contentment. I think a lot of it was changing how I look at things. The past 6 months have been full of heartbreaks and struggles at home and at work.


I don't talk about work very often on my blog. Work has been full of daily challenges! I'm thankful for a great boss who has helped me through it. I'm probably not ever going to find a place to work without issues, so I'm going to buckle in for the bumpy ride. I'm not saying I won't change jobs in the future. I just am not jumping ship right now.

Another thing that has helped is going to church. We've been visiting churches recently and I feel we found a great place. It just feels like home.

I don't have everything in life I want right now, but I'm going to be happy with the greats things I do have!

Saturday Pinterest

I am <3 gray & yellow!!!!

How adorable are these wedding ideas?

Shopping

I have done some shopping over the past couple weeks. I have been trying to buy some items that I can wear now and in the spring/summer. Here are the bargains I found over the past 2 weeks.

Kmart

I told my mom when I wore this blouse it reminded me of my Grandma Z. She would LOVE this blouse with the bow.  It was super comfy and cute with black pants. My friend Kendra bought this blouse and 2hen I saw it I HAD to have it. Kendra bought some cute things at Kmart, so I decided to go check them out. This blouse was $7.99.

Black dress - I bought this for $9.99. BARGAIN! It is super comfy!

Old Navy 

I bought this shirt for $8.99

Best bargain of my shopping was this dress for $3.50

 $9.99

I wore the ruffly cream top with my green pleated skirt and a black cardigan.

Marshall's

I have been wanting to add some color to my wardrobe, so why not with a pair of hot pink pants. I was soooo excited to find these. This was my largest priced item over the past couple weeks. I didn't think I could find them cheaper. $24.99

Now I saved my last 2 favorite items to last. I bought the black blazer at Kmart and the lace skirt at Sears Outlet.  I was sooooo excited to find both of these pieces. I have really wanted both items. Last weekend I had actually picked up the material to make a lace skirt. I had just pinned one on Pinterest with instructions on how to make one. I put all the fabric back because I just didn't want to tackle the project right now. 

Art and I went to Sears Outlet to buy him a couple dress shirts. I walked through the skirt section and imagine my surprise when I saw a black lace skirt. It wasn't in the right size, so I searched the rack. Wa-La there was one in my size for only $6.00. I wanted to just SCREAM I was soooo excited! 

During my shopping trip at Kmart I found a bunch of black jackets on clearance for $12.49. I looked through the hangers and none of them had my size. I then went through each one and looked at each tag. there was one in my size with the wrong sized hanger. Eeeekkk!!!! I wore the black jacket with my red skirt from my Tuesday post.

I love shopping clearance and at the outlets, which is wear I found all these items.

Bart Thursday - Week 2

Everyday I ride to work with a certain crew of people and a different crew on the way home. I know who these people are by the nicknames I've given them. Some of my friends and family even know the Bart riders by their nicknames. As the Bart stories continue I will be talking about each of them.



This week we will feature the woman with the cow jacket. Everyday she wears a denim shirt with these cows sewn on the back of the shirt. I've seen the material before at Walmart back in the 90s. Anyways....On the way home from work I walk to Bart & ride home with a coworker. It has become a joke of where are our people. We look for the cow woman, grandma, nose ring woman and a few others. Last week my coworker asked “where is the cow woman?” I knew exactly who she was talking about and I hadn't seen her in weeks.

I had to go into work early one morning. As I'm waiting at Bart at 5freakingam guess who walks up? The cow woman! I almost screamed! Looks like she is going to & from work at earlier times!!! The mystery has been solved!!!!

Wordless Wednesday