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Tonight Gene and I had meatloaf with cornbread and fried potatoes. I was doubting that we were going to fix something that elaborate because we both didn’t get home until a little after 6 and anyone who has ever cooked meatloaf knows that it takes a minimum of an hour to cook. We like ours extra crispy, so it takes even longer. But, we decided to go ahead and just make our tummies wait. And boy was it worth it. Yummm :)

My meatloaf is super simple and there really are no measurements. I use 1 pound of lean ground turkey, 1/4 c. egg subsitute, 1 “row” of reduced fat ritz crackers, salt, pepper, 1 small onion chopped, 1 green bell pepper chopped and around 1/4 to 1/3 c. ketchup. Mix all of that together until its nice ‘n meatloafey… Smash it into a dish, squirt ketchup all over the top & bake until burnt on the edges. Gene and I looooove the burnt edges :D And the fried potatoes is just chopped up onion & diced potatoes cooked in butter.

Anyway that was our dinner. Tomorrow night I think we are going to have meatloaf sandwiches with leftover meatloaf and leftover potatoes. We are trying to eat up whats in our fridge currently. We have Vegan brownies with coconut pecan frosting and I can gaurantee those wont be in there much longer :) I may take some to work with me tomorrow. Good stuff.

I’ve been reading this website called The Hillbilly Housewife and I am absolutely addicted to it. She has some GREAT money saving tips, time saving tips and recipes. Everything sounds awesome. I made her corn bread recipe and it tastes really yummy. I’ll never buy the packaged cornbread again. It is SO simple! I am on a huge “cooking” kick. Ever since we moved here I really love to do stuff in my kitchen. It is so much more spacious and open than our old rent house. I love to do dishes, cook, etc.

Candy :: Jun.28.2007 :: Diet, Health :: 2 Comments »

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The 26-year-old hotel heiress and notorious party girl walked out of the Century Regional Detention Facility early Tuesday and was immediately driven to her grandparents’ home in fashionable Holmby Hills. She remained inside throughout the day. (Watch as Hilton walks free Video)

Candy :: Jun.27.2007 :: Funnies :: Comments Off

( nine years of laughter )

My goodness I can’t believe I am saying this but tomorrow is Gene and I’s ninth anniversary. Nine years ago on June 25th, he was barely 15 and I was barely 16. He asked me to be his girlfriend and I was ecstatic to say yes. Neither one of us ever imagined that we would be where we are at today. Nine years really doesn’t seem like that long of a time when you think about it but I seriously feel like we have known each other for centuries. However, our love and relationship in general has that “new” feeling EVERY single day.

I guess it is really hard to put into words. Every year I basically try to write out my love for him. Every time I try to describe it and talk about it, I end up frustrated because as cliché as it sounds, there really are no words that could describe it. I guess one of the most important aspects of our relationship, to me anyway, is that we are not only a couple but we are best friends. I trust Gene with every single ounce of my soul. I truly feel like the luckiest woman in the entire universe, every single day.

Tomorrow we’re seeing a movie and I’m not sure what else. We both took off work and we are going to just be together tomorrow. It really doesn’t matter what we do, as long as we are close to each other. We’re guaranteed to have fun, laugh hysterically and admire each other with a love so deep we could both drown in it.

Candy :: Jun.24.2007 :: Love :: 3 Comments »

I’ll make it really easy, I don’t really like dishwashers. I know, most of you are sitting there with your jaw wide open. Wondering, can someone really not like a dishwasher? and the answer is YES! I am extremely anal when it comes to “tasks” and when I start a task, I want to see it through to the end. I don’t even like the idea of sitting my dishes in a dish drainer to dry after hand washing, but my laziness interferes with the analness and the laziness wins, EVERY time :P

There is something about loading a dishwasher over the course of a few days (we are 2 people, not a full family), running it on day 3, unloading on day 4 and starting all over. For some reason, it annoys me soooo much to think about all of the dirty dishes sitting in the dishwasher waiting to be washed. And I am not a crazy hippie or anything, but I don’t like the idea of running a dishwasher when it is only half full and wasting THAT much water. Those things use a lot of water.

And I used to not really care but I think my new favorite dishwashing liquid is Dawn. I’ve been using it and I love the clean scent and I love how much it bubbles with a tiny amount. I was never a dish washing soap snob before, but I’m afraid I’ve already stepped over to the dark side :( Sorry guys… There are only a few things I am really, really snobby about. Toilet Paper (Charmin, duh!), Bread (Nature’s Own Light Honey Wheat) and now Dawn Dish Soap. I’m sure I’ll eventually add more to the list.. but hopefully not too much.

Candy :: Jun.18.2007 :: Daily, Shopping :: 1 Comment »

And we’re back to Sunday. I hate Sundays. Laundry and tidying up the house. Boo on that boring stuff. Although it does feel good to have nice clean smelling laundry, sheets on the bed and a vacuumed house. Sundays are always the lazy days before you go back to work. There just isn’t any fun in a Sunday, in my opinion :D

I haven’t written about it but my back has been severely messed up. It started Monday. Monday was the day from hell at work! I was so miserable and I just wanted to go home and get in bed. Tuesday I threw in the towel and decided to go to the chiropractor. Wednesday I went to the chiropractor, feeling like black death. He sent me to a doctor where I got 3 prescriptions. One is an anti-inflammatory, one is a muscle relaxor and the other is a pain pill. So all in all, this week I probably only worked 14 hours – at most. I hate that :( I always get to use my PTO time for boring stuff like being sick and being in bed all day :(  I’m glad to say that my back is doing significantly better but I still can’t go to the store or places and walk a great amount otherwise I will be in horrible pain afterwards. I slept better last night than I have in the last 2 days so that was nice.

This morning Gene and I made waffles for breakfast. He is going to go rent a movie at Blockbuster in a little while and then we are heading downtown to the Asian market for some items we need and Vietnamese baguette sandwiches :) Yummy. I may even splurge on some sushi, too. I’ve been craving sushi big time and their sushi is pretty cheapcompared to stores here. I may also see if we can sneak into Target for a moment so I can look for invites.

I didn’t mention it but I am having a housewarming party. I’ve had everyone and their uncle ask me when my housewarming party is.. So I decided to go ahead and have one. So if anyone has any ideas or suggestions for snack items that are relatively easy to make, let me know! The only thing I know of for sure that I’m making is a cream cheese ball with ritz crackers. I need more suggestions!

Candy :: Jun.17.2007 :: Daily, Health :: 1 Comment »

Since I have absolutely nothing to write about because my back hurts so bad and I’ll spare you from the whining and moaning of that, I uploaded my very first video to You Tube today.. Enjoy!

Candy :: Jun.15.2007 :: Dogs :: 1 Comment »

Changed the colors around a little bit on this bad boy. The “winter” colors were getting pretty darn annoying and quite frankly, was a bit of a downer. So maybe with this little boost, I will start to actually write more. Hah, a girl can dream :D

This weekend flew by. We pretty much spent most of the weekend at home, hangin’ out. Saturday I spent a good 5 hours cleaning and then today my dad came over and we put the shower massages in the bathrooms and attempted to fix the hot water tap in our master bathroom, but failed. Still needs some work but think we are going to just add that to the list of things we’ll need the plumber to fix. Hmph. The joys of being a homeowner ;)

Our new roof looks AWESOME. They started it Thursday morning and finished it Friday morning. I need to talk to the roofer because I noticed they forgot to take the Dish Network dish down that the previous renters left and I am going to take it down anyway, so I’ll need them to patch that spot. Stupid freakin’ Dish Network crap.

Anyway, I am going to get in bed soon. I gotta try my best to go into work early tomorrow. Mondays are always a real pain in the hiney and there is always triple the work to do. A quick briefing of what I do.. I work for a local alarm company and every day I review all of the people who had alarms go off the previous day/night and then I call and follow up on all of them. It’s just an extra way that we can service our customers and show that we really do pay attention to all that goes on with their alarm system. Something that I can gaurantee none of the bigger alarm companies (ADT, Protection One, etc.) don’t do. Anyway, I wont go into all of that nonsense. I love my job but Mondays are quite the b*tch :)

Candy :: Jun.10.2007 :: Home Owners, Website, Workplace :: 2 Comments »