I have realized, I am completely bored with anything remotely culinary. A culinary artist...I am not. In fact, I am not even sure I should be allowed to use the word "culinary" it sounds too sophisticated for me. I was contemplating signing up for Meals on Wheels...but apparently there are a lot of qualifications...and I don't meet any of them :P But what an idea! I could have dinner delivered every day! I could handle that. There are other programs I could join, but for four people.. the price tag would be a tad hefty.
So, I say all that, to come right back to the beginning, I am bored. So...I enlist the help of friends and family for something new...or at least newish to me.
However, I am sorry - I have a FEW stipulations ( isn't that nice...ask for a favor and then add stipulations??)
1. No weird ingredients that I can't pronounce. If you insist on exoctic ingredients, then you will have to tell me where to find them in the grocery/health food store...otherwise...I'll give up if I can't find it right away:)
2. Once a recipe starts extending beyond like 10 or 12 ingredients, I start getting antsy. Along the same lines..if it requires like 500 steps, I will probably file the sucker in my "someday when I feel like really cooking file)
3. Also, I need something somewhat kid-friendly, but not a big deal. I also have back ups for the kiddos.
4. If you send me dessert recipes, I will simply love you more than everyone else...but I really DO need dinner stuff.
haha..of course with summer coming...I just buy hunks of meat and make Gregg grill...that way all I have do is make side stuff....but I am not a HUGE meat lover (tho chicken, pork and ham are ok) But, at some point, I want some good stuff for dinner. HELP? :) I don't even care if you know me or not...I just care about the food.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Paintball? Whose With Me ?
So, I just finished this article on paintball....and now I want to go. I have never played it before...and there is no doubt that I would be the first one to mess up any planned strategic event. However, summer is definitely the time to try something new. There is something in the air when the summer winds start to blow, something awakens the adventurous (or slightly adventurous) spirit in me. I tried a few new things last year and why not do it again this year. Since Windham Mountain hosts an awesome paintball field (according to my article anyway) I think that might be the place to. So...now I just need to put together a team (to play with me NOT shoot at me!)
Actually, you can bring two groups to play each other and I say, losers buy ice cream :D Sounds like a fun, messy and slightly violent game to me!!!
Thursday, April 16, 2009
I Heart Brooks' :)
Anyone who loves food, loves Brooks' Chicken. I have yet to meet someone who said they didn't LOVE their dinner. Located in Oneonta, the smell of their chicken draws a Sunday crowd like you have never seen. However, I have a deeper love for Brooks...that extends beyond the food.
Not only do the owners know how to kick off a mean BBQ, Mr. Brooks is popular to my family for his fish. He generously extends the invitation to my lil men to fish up at his hunting camp...a lil boys (and big boy) dream day. So, today, sunny and warm - all the boys are off enjoying Mr. Brooks' fish.
So, now it comes down to the crazy question....what to do with entire day to myself. I sometimes wondered what this day would be like after the clingy mommy days began to subside.
It's bittersweet. I could have gone, it was my decision to let the boys go and be boys. But, now a day expands before me and I could go in a hundred different directions. The productive side of me wants to tackle a million projects, the bum side of me wants to grab a book and blanket and head outside for the day and the "work" side of me wants to...nope...there is no work side of me right now :P
I am almost done with Emma...I am not sure if that falls in the "project to tackle" category or a "bum with a book" category. We shall see.
On a completely non-related note...
French Elle magazine shot all of its models sans make-up. And, I have to say...awesome. I think its very alluring and honestly, now that everyone knows how graphic designers manipulate cover models its nice to see a model..looking...almost...real:) I think we might see more of this..but props to the French for now.
Ok, gonna find something to do with my day!
Not only do the owners know how to kick off a mean BBQ, Mr. Brooks is popular to my family for his fish. He generously extends the invitation to my lil men to fish up at his hunting camp...a lil boys (and big boy) dream day. So, today, sunny and warm - all the boys are off enjoying Mr. Brooks' fish.
So, now it comes down to the crazy question....what to do with entire day to myself. I sometimes wondered what this day would be like after the clingy mommy days began to subside.
It's bittersweet. I could have gone, it was my decision to let the boys go and be boys. But, now a day expands before me and I could go in a hundred different directions. The productive side of me wants to tackle a million projects, the bum side of me wants to grab a book and blanket and head outside for the day and the "work" side of me wants to...nope...there is no work side of me right now :P
I am almost done with Emma...I am not sure if that falls in the "project to tackle" category or a "bum with a book" category. We shall see.
On a completely non-related note...
French Elle magazine shot all of its models sans make-up. And, I have to say...awesome. I think its very alluring and honestly, now that everyone knows how graphic designers manipulate cover models its nice to see a model..looking...almost...real:) I think we might see more of this..but props to the French for now.
Ok, gonna find something to do with my day!
Monday, April 13, 2009
Fashion 101
This picture does not need much explaining. However, this is Austin. Austin is wearing a Walmart special.... he has on three shirts mind you. One is a t-shirt, followed by a favorite basketball sweatshirt...followed by his favorite flannel shirt...all of which he REFUSED to take off. The shorts are courtesy of my mom. They were shipped straight from Japan and they go well with the size 4 water boots.
He's so handsome.
He's so handsome.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Binghamton
In case you missed the local and national news regarding the Binghamton Massacre you can click there and get the general idea that a very disgruntled man took out his anger on strangers by shooting them.
This scenario has a repetitive sequence that anyone can relate to.." oh yea...remember...Columbine, September 11, the Oklahoma City bombing, the World Trade Center, the guy who killed people in the nursing home...." the list is unforgiving and endless. However, in the past few weeks I have heard the same question over and over again. "Why would God let this happen or why would God allow this to happen?"
Ugh, what a heavy questions and in a way a legitimate ones. I cannot pretend that in one blog or 1 million blogs I can really answer that question. But, I can ask a few others just to try and think outside the proverbial box.
In pondering those very questions, I have to ask... if God did allow those things to happen...what has he prevented that we know nothing about? What horrific calamities did He stop instead? We can't really know, but its something to think about. We can only ask questions about what we know. We know about Binghamton and we know about Sept. 11, but can we possibly thank God for sparing us from worse? I think so. Who are we to know what he as saved us from?
I also have to wonder, if someone chooses to question God when the horrible things happen...how did they relate to God prior? Did they thank Him profusely for the wonderful events in life? Did they praise Him for the health of their children, their job for the beautiful sunset they saw that day? So, I often wonder why people choose to deal with God or even blame Him for the bad stuff, when they don't deal or thank Him for the good stuff? I am just throwing questions out there :)
Here is one more thought.... What about our free choice? If we are mad at God for allowing the bad things ( like someone CHOOSING to shoot people in Binghamton) are we to be mad at Him for choosing to allow us a free will? Think about that. If God stopped all the bad things (including some minor stupid decisions we make every day) then, He would have to eliminate our free choice. We would then be puppets. Good puppets, but puppets all the same. In reverse, if we put God in the position where we demanded he put a stop to all bad things....then in turn, He becomes a puppet. Neither situation seems ideal really.
So, I don't know why God allowed those people to be killed in Binghamton or why bad things happen to good people, I do know that God LOVES each person and they did not die without his knowledge. However, his gift of free will that He gave to the people He loves, was given to imperfect people who make bad choices. Perhaps acknowledging that a wonderful gift has been abused is slightly more accurate that angrily pumping our fists at the sky and asking why.
I know its easier said when no one I know was actually killed, but I do know what its like to look at my brother after a car accident and know that his life was dangling by a thread. I did not know he would survive and the very "why God?" question was on the tip of every tongue in the hospital that day. So, believe me, I understand the passion behind the question, I understand the fury and the confusion. But, life and death is about so much more than whose to blame.
Anyway, that has been gnawing at me for a little while :)
On a completely different topic. Its day #33 of P90x and I have survived. Though sometimes I wonder what the heck I am doing, I have to admit there are good changes! I am almost at the end of week five...and it seems crazy that I am ONLY 1/3 of the way done! WHAT! But, its slowly becoming a routine and I am not sure I'll be able to give it up after 90 days. I might cut back a little, but I have to say - now that my body is used to its daily torture...its at least responding. I have even convinced one or two other people to give it a try...ya know...if they can handle it ;)
Ok, i'm done.
This scenario has a repetitive sequence that anyone can relate to.." oh yea...remember...Columbine, September 11, the Oklahoma City bombing, the World Trade Center, the guy who killed people in the nursing home...." the list is unforgiving and endless. However, in the past few weeks I have heard the same question over and over again. "Why would God let this happen or why would God allow this to happen?"
Ugh, what a heavy questions and in a way a legitimate ones. I cannot pretend that in one blog or 1 million blogs I can really answer that question. But, I can ask a few others just to try and think outside the proverbial box.
In pondering those very questions, I have to ask... if God did allow those things to happen...what has he prevented that we know nothing about? What horrific calamities did He stop instead? We can't really know, but its something to think about. We can only ask questions about what we know. We know about Binghamton and we know about Sept. 11, but can we possibly thank God for sparing us from worse? I think so. Who are we to know what he as saved us from?
I also have to wonder, if someone chooses to question God when the horrible things happen...how did they relate to God prior? Did they thank Him profusely for the wonderful events in life? Did they praise Him for the health of their children, their job for the beautiful sunset they saw that day? So, I often wonder why people choose to deal with God or even blame Him for the bad stuff, when they don't deal or thank Him for the good stuff? I am just throwing questions out there :)
Here is one more thought.... What about our free choice? If we are mad at God for allowing the bad things ( like someone CHOOSING to shoot people in Binghamton) are we to be mad at Him for choosing to allow us a free will? Think about that. If God stopped all the bad things (including some minor stupid decisions we make every day) then, He would have to eliminate our free choice. We would then be puppets. Good puppets, but puppets all the same. In reverse, if we put God in the position where we demanded he put a stop to all bad things....then in turn, He becomes a puppet. Neither situation seems ideal really.
So, I don't know why God allowed those people to be killed in Binghamton or why bad things happen to good people, I do know that God LOVES each person and they did not die without his knowledge. However, his gift of free will that He gave to the people He loves, was given to imperfect people who make bad choices. Perhaps acknowledging that a wonderful gift has been abused is slightly more accurate that angrily pumping our fists at the sky and asking why.
I know its easier said when no one I know was actually killed, but I do know what its like to look at my brother after a car accident and know that his life was dangling by a thread. I did not know he would survive and the very "why God?" question was on the tip of every tongue in the hospital that day. So, believe me, I understand the passion behind the question, I understand the fury and the confusion. But, life and death is about so much more than whose to blame.
Anyway, that has been gnawing at me for a little while :)
On a completely different topic. Its day #33 of P90x and I have survived. Though sometimes I wonder what the heck I am doing, I have to admit there are good changes! I am almost at the end of week five...and it seems crazy that I am ONLY 1/3 of the way done! WHAT! But, its slowly becoming a routine and I am not sure I'll be able to give it up after 90 days. I might cut back a little, but I have to say - now that my body is used to its daily torture...its at least responding. I have even convinced one or two other people to give it a try...ya know...if they can handle it ;)
Ok, i'm done.
need i say more...
I know I have lived in NY my entire life (with the exception of four years in college) but it still bums me out when its snows....and its April.
So, it's April, it's spring, it's snowing....need i say more? (I mean, I always could...but lets not ramble on and on and on...:P that would be out of character for me) :)
So, it's April, it's spring, it's snowing....need i say more? (I mean, I always could...but lets not ramble on and on and on...:P that would be out of character for me) :)
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