Posted by Carrie on 03 Jul 2010 | Tagged as: Cooking, Rants and vents
After a day of mild frustration (bickering from the kids, slight rejection for both of them from neighborhood punks children, Eric sick and resting in bed all day long), I was pretty darn proud of myself for not only not scooping the boys up and taking us out to eat, or even ordering pizza (both [...]
Posted by Carrie on 01 Jul 2010 | Tagged as: Food and drink, Pictures and movies
Eric walked through the door a moment ago, just as I was rummaging through the pantry. “I had lunch, but I’m still hungry,” I grumped. He handed me the mail, which included a box – a free sample from Clif! What perfect timing! I don’t usually do reviews on the blog, but it just seemed [...]
Posted by Carrie on 30 Apr 2010 | Tagged as: Completely random, Fitness and Health, Food and drink
Was gorgeous and warm this morning – upper 60s into the lower 70s, beautiful sun, a nice breeze. I decided, on the spur of the moment, to go for a bike ride instead of heading right to the gym after dropping Gabe off at school. Of course, as it was the first bike ride of [...]
Posted by Carrie on 20 Apr 2010 | Tagged as: Cooking, Pictures and movies
Seitan. According to Kevin on Top Chef, nobody likes it, and it’s the yuck. Of course, he also said that it was fermented pressed soybeans, so I’ll take that with a grain of salt. As of the beginning of drafting this entry, I was in the process of making my first batch of it, even [...]
Posted by Carrie on 22 Mar 2010 | Tagged as: Cooking, Eric
Eric’s been struggling with diabetes issues lately. To make a long and complicated story short, the things he’s been trying aren’t working very well anymore, and something has to change. The paths remaining to him are starting to shrink in number, unfortunately. I was commiserating with him this morning; it’s about all I can do [...]
Posted by Carrie on 21 Feb 2010 | Tagged as: Completely random, Fitness and Health, Food and drink
I took an “unscheduled” rest day from running (“unscheduled” because I haven’t started my formal training plan for Devil’s Lake yet); I’ve been very slowly amping up the mileage for the past several weeks, for no particular reason except that I felt like it, and after kissing fifty miles per week for the past three, [...]
Posted by Carrie on 14 Feb 2010 | Tagged as: Food and drink, Items of Interest, Warm fuzzy
Okay, first I ran just under thirteen miles with running club, the first five of which I did with a very fast runner who (lucky for me, not for him) was recovering from surgeries, so I could keep up. (Until he challenged me to a sprint up a hill. ) Then coffee, with lots of [...]
Posted by Carrie on 21 Jan 2010 | Tagged as: Completely random, Cooking, Gabriel
Fact: on MOPS mornings, I don’t ordinarily have coffee, since I know I’ll have coffee there. Fact: I don’t ordinarily eat breakfast those mornings, either, since ditto. Fact: I can’t cook without caffeine of some sort in my system. Fact: I was on tap for a “hot dish” for this morning’s meeting. Results: I had [...]
Posted by Carrie on 19 Dec 2009 | Tagged as: Completely random, Food and drink
I might have jinxed myself a couple days ago, when I posted to Facebook, “Unless something changes in the coming days (don’t bet it won’t), it actually doesn’t look good for having a white Christmas.” At the time, there were only a couple of snowshowers – not even with any measurable accumulation – forecast for [...]
Posted by Carrie on 11 Dec 2009 | Tagged as: Completely random, Familial things, Food and drink
I’m using this in my coffee this morning, after I found it at the coop grocery store yesterday. It’s pretty good! I don’t usually drink soy milk (I prefer almond milk, when it comes to alternative “dairy”), but I was in the mood for something seasonal, and you just can’t chug eggnog in any kind [...]
