So, I just thought I would write a short something or another since it's been a few weeks since my last post.
It is Sunday night, 12/18/11 and we still do not have plans for Christmas. My wonderful husband has vacation commitment issues. Every year when we are planning a trip somewhere, it takes my coercing, pushing and prodding, and basically me rooting him on, to finally press the "purchase" button. This year is nothing new. We have found a cruise out of St. Maarten on a smaller Windstar cruise ship that we may decide to take. This trip leaves on Saturday. There is another similar cruise out of Barbados that leaves on Sunday. This leaves us less than one week to figure out a plan of action. Since all my efforts for vacation bargain hunting never get utilized, I've kind of stopped looking. I get frustrated when I find a good trip and Mike just wants to wait "a little longer" so I've left the searching up to him. Hopefully within the next day or so we will have a trip finalized. Worse case scenario, we end up back in Sonoma...which isn't too bad of a scenario!
I'll keep you posted on our whereabouts once I find out myself!
Everyone have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, if I don't post before then!
Sunday, December 18, 2011
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Halloween and Thanksgiving 2011 have come and gone
So here I am, writing a blog post, almost two months after my last post. I should probably work on being better about this.
We just had Thanksgiving at the Clark house last Thursday. Of course, it was a vegetarian Thanksgiving with all the delectable items made by me. I can't take full credit though, because I used recipes for everything I made, and my helpful husband was my sous chef for part of the time. He did a great job chopping, stacking and cleaning. A big thanks must go out to him for his help!
My mom and her husband, as well as my in-laws came to spend the day with us. This is actually the second year we have had a vegetarian Thanksgiving at our house with these same people joining in on the festivities. This year's menu consisted of butternut squash crostinis, blue cheese shortbread and cream cheese, and crispy chick peas for appetizers. The main courses were stuffed acorn squash with feta, a root vegetable mash, wild rice stuffing with dried cranberries, roasted Brussels sprouts with grapes, and roasted garlic cauliflower. For dessert I made pumpkin and pear crisps, Mexican hot chocolate and a cranberry-citrus cake with cranberry compote. The in-laws also brought a pecan pie. I also made a hot spiced apple cider to start the meal. One point I failed to mention is that I intentionally made a "healthy" vegetarian Thanksgiving since Mike has high cholesterol and both sides of the family have heart issues.
Although I feel that this year's Thanksgiving meal was not as successful as last year's, I think this mainly is due to me using plenty of butter and high fatty items in last year's meal, and being sure NOT to use these items this year. But I feel that everyone enjoyed the dishes I made and were plenty full when they left. I know I am my toughest critic.
One thing I regret the last two Thanksgivings': not taking any pictures of the food. If we do this again next year, I will be certain to commemorate the experience in photos.
We just had Thanksgiving at the Clark house last Thursday. Of course, it was a vegetarian Thanksgiving with all the delectable items made by me. I can't take full credit though, because I used recipes for everything I made, and my helpful husband was my sous chef for part of the time. He did a great job chopping, stacking and cleaning. A big thanks must go out to him for his help!
My mom and her husband, as well as my in-laws came to spend the day with us. This is actually the second year we have had a vegetarian Thanksgiving at our house with these same people joining in on the festivities. This year's menu consisted of butternut squash crostinis, blue cheese shortbread and cream cheese, and crispy chick peas for appetizers. The main courses were stuffed acorn squash with feta, a root vegetable mash, wild rice stuffing with dried cranberries, roasted Brussels sprouts with grapes, and roasted garlic cauliflower. For dessert I made pumpkin and pear crisps, Mexican hot chocolate and a cranberry-citrus cake with cranberry compote. The in-laws also brought a pecan pie. I also made a hot spiced apple cider to start the meal. One point I failed to mention is that I intentionally made a "healthy" vegetarian Thanksgiving since Mike has high cholesterol and both sides of the family have heart issues.
Although I feel that this year's Thanksgiving meal was not as successful as last year's, I think this mainly is due to me using plenty of butter and high fatty items in last year's meal, and being sure NOT to use these items this year. But I feel that everyone enjoyed the dishes I made and were plenty full when they left. I know I am my toughest critic.
One thing I regret the last two Thanksgivings': not taking any pictures of the food. If we do this again next year, I will be certain to commemorate the experience in photos.
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
It's been two years...and I'm still alive!
Yes, I have been absent from this blog for almost 2 years now. I've had more important things to do then post on here I guess. But now, I am back to not working and trying to fill my days with something to keep me from getting too bored.
Since you last heard from me, I got a job as a microbiologist in Houston. I spent about 7 months driving 50 miles one way to work and then couldn't take it anymore...I quit. Then I got another job about 30 miles away working as a business manager of an analytical company. Good experience, but still not quite the right fit. So I quit after 1 year. Now, I'm a stay at home mother of 5 cats and 1 dog until the next good opportunity shows itself.
We are still living in Baytown, TX where the mosquitoes are still horrible. We are currently in limbo while waiting to hear if we will be moving to California or another state soon. I sure hope we get the opportunity to get out of here. As nice as it has been to not worry about money since it's so cheap to live here, I absolutely cannot stand living in Texas. If we were to live in Houston, our time spent here may have been more enjoyable, but I expect not by a large margin. I miss DC where the people are multicultural and fit! People here are grossly overweight and it makes me sad to think of what is going on inside their body...I can see what is going on on the outside.
As the weeks pass, I will try and post updates on our living status. Hopefully there is still someone out there who subscribes to this thing!
Since you last heard from me, I got a job as a microbiologist in Houston. I spent about 7 months driving 50 miles one way to work and then couldn't take it anymore...I quit. Then I got another job about 30 miles away working as a business manager of an analytical company. Good experience, but still not quite the right fit. So I quit after 1 year. Now, I'm a stay at home mother of 5 cats and 1 dog until the next good opportunity shows itself.
We are still living in Baytown, TX where the mosquitoes are still horrible. We are currently in limbo while waiting to hear if we will be moving to California or another state soon. I sure hope we get the opportunity to get out of here. As nice as it has been to not worry about money since it's so cheap to live here, I absolutely cannot stand living in Texas. If we were to live in Houston, our time spent here may have been more enjoyable, but I expect not by a large margin. I miss DC where the people are multicultural and fit! People here are grossly overweight and it makes me sad to think of what is going on inside their body...I can see what is going on on the outside.
As the weeks pass, I will try and post updates on our living status. Hopefully there is still someone out there who subscribes to this thing!
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