look what I did

This is a quickie post, but LOOK what I did >>>> over there, see it's me~ at my day job. The minivan chauffeur ! And yes I did look up that spelling in the dictionary. The post to come is: "Things that go flutter in the night" or " Bats in my Belfrey, if I knew what a belfrey was"

Oi vey I say

Sooo when was that last post? Ah yes, Wednesday, three-ish days ago. and then Dear Hubby came home, in agony with a hurting back. He hurt in a few years back, and isn't a go-to-the-doctor guy. On the advice of Nurse Wendy we've been icing, administering mass quantities of Advil, laying flat on his back. Next up: a nice arsenic laced drink and a sharp blow to the head! Wait, I'm kidding! But the menfolk, well, you know how they are with PAIN and all......he's-a-drivin-me-nuts!

And on top of ALL THAT, I've had to cook dinner for two nights in a row. Not that I don't cook mind you, a little, when I have to, and it comes outta a box..... but. Last nights feast was pork tenderloin, seared and finished cooking in the oven (ala the Take Home Chef show recipe), baby carrots with butter and parsley AND Twice Baked Potatoes (ala Confessions of a Pioneer Women Cooks blog) Check her out, they were fab-U-lous!!! Tonight was sirloin steaks, red beans and rice (Hillbilly Housewife) and vegetable medley. (frozen from Aldi's) Okay so after a widdle painkiller, D.H. did cook the steaks because me and the grill DO.NOT.GET.ALONG. And here's the rub folks, I also cleaned up after these meals all alone. Yes D.H. helps clean up. He's a keeper, that's for sure........

(but if he tries to roll over in bed tonight, grunting and practically moaning......I'm wacking him ala the Soprano's) :)

But wait, there's more......Wendy~ stop rolling your eyes, you know I talk a LOT. The biggest surprise of all....dun dun dun...... it's a BOY!!!! The aforementioned RosieLulu is now the kitten known as DOMINO. or Dom Kitty. or baby Dom. or the Bebe's pick "running around kitty"

Dom, welcome to "The Family."

My house, it smells of vinegar. Odd yes, but strangely comforting. My dd's boyfriend is canning. Pickles, green beans, tomatoes....all from their organic garden. This is the smell of my house when my mother was alive. All thats missing is a fan blowing outwards in the window....but its not-so-hot right now.
Not only did my mother can, she froze veggies, sewed, crocheted, quilted, cooked, baked cookies......the list goes on and on. But the stories are getting lost. Lost in long ago memories, lost with the deceased, lost in time and sadness. Evidently our pediatrician would take payment in the form of home- canned sour cherries, and he liked to spit the pits as far as he could. But it's all a world apart from life now. Life A.D. perhaps?

In response to juliemom: Yes I have a blog. By my pathetic two posts you can see I have "issues" with blogs. Here are five reasons......
1. I forget passwords. (somewhere in cyberspace are my family reunion pictures on photobucket. They keep emailing my password, and I never get it in my inbox)
2. Life....... happens and I am extremely lazy.
3. Five children + one computer = mama fights for internet time. (but haha! they go back to school 9/5)
4. Sometimes I'm funny, sometimes NOT!
5. See the title of my blog? It kinda describes it in three easy words.

Onward: on MY calendar it's August. Could someone please let the weather know this fact? It is raining, grey and it's barely 61 degrees. I have on jeans, should look for socks, and need a jacket to take the dawg out at night. Enough!

Now I am off to the wonderful world of cheap food; Aldi's to get some chili fixins. That's another feature I'd like to add to this blog, cheap food ideas for a lotta people. EX: my dinner table of 7-8. Feel free to chime in......

So here is post #2...it's been awhile huh? Everything in post #1 is the same, add some months to the ages, and Sir Charles has moved to my daughters BF's house....and we have another new kitten: Rosie Lulu. Complete with fleas, but in my quest for more natural remedies/cleaning products/etc I have been bathing her with Dawn dish soap and Xcross fingersX we seem to have won the flea battle. (only casualties: the fleas!)

Just attended my 20th high school reunion from an all girls Catholic school. It was truly a "blast from the past". Some people I'd like to get back in touch with, some definately NOT. And would someone please let someone know the early 80's are waaay over, and pink and kelly green and plaid should only be a Halloween costume. Gag me with a spoon, okay?

So in the good spirit of blogginess, I'll try to update this more frequently. :) Stay tuned......