Las Vegas, Here we come...

These are the days that I'm waiting for. No more being stuck in the house because it's always snowing. Sitting here I have literally memorized every crack on these walls. Then when Summer comes everyone is going to complain that it's too hott and can't wait for the snow..

My dad let me know that he's planning a trip to Las Vegas next month and wanted to know if we wanted to come along. I definetly think it would be fun to go. I've never been there. He's been there a gazillion times and he swears this time he's going to try to look at the scene across the street. You know because there is so much to see you don't have time to see everything.

But If we do go it would only be my and the little one because hubby wouldn't be able to take days off. I would definetly feel bad because he would be working while we would be having tons of fun hundreds of miles away.

If would be such a great experiance for my little one. I doubt she will remember when she's older but a different environment from all the snow now would be fun.

I. am. so. weak.

Well it's official I have nothing left to say. Monday and Tuesday were pretty boring days just the usual clean and stay home. Yesterday the most exciting thing we did was hubby getting a hair cut. Oh and can't forget about my sick night after eating at Red Robin. I was sick all night I probably got food poisoning or something. I still feel a bit weak from all the double hurling I was doing.. yuk yuk OK OK.. Today we're suppose to go and get our taxes done as soon as he gets home from work.

It's funny because I haven't gotten sick this whole time my family was sick. I really thought I was going to catch the cold and have it progress to the 'I'm dying' flu.

I'm hoping that maybe tomorrow we are able to take my little one to watch "Horton hears a who" I'm not sure If I really want to go tomorrow because it's going to be so packed and I'm not up for full theatres of kids screaming, yelling and throwing popcorn in my face. If we do go this would be the first time we've taken our kid out to watch a cartoon in a theatre. We did take her to a drive in to watch Shrek 3 and all she did was climb all over us in the car so that wasn't fun.

I feel so sluggish...

What's for dinner?...

I'm off to go grocery shopping but first I tried to make a grocery list. I was gettting bored of always doing the same meals so my sister gave me these two books



The first one is Robin Miller QUICK FIX MEALS. But let me tell you out of her 200 "simple, delicious recipes" I found only 6 recipes that I likes. YEA only 6! Rachel Ray's 365: NO REPEATS was the same, out of a recipe for every single day I only found 5 that I really enjoyed to make.

Most recipes are just ridiculous. Some have the same ingredients but then for the next evenings meal your adding one additional spice and that's it. No fun! And half of the ingrediants they use are stuff I normally don't purchase anyways. I don't buy Capers, fresh ginger, wasabi paste, dill and so on. Why can't they make new SIMPLE recipes. One recipe I did enjoy alot was from Rachel Ray's book. It was the:

Mega Meatball Pizza:
EVOO
1 pizza dough
palmful of flour
2 tbs finely chopped fresh rosemary
salt
1 1/2 lbs ground sirloin
1 med onion finely chopped
4 garlic cloves
black pepper
1 3 ounce can tomato paste
1/2 c grated Parmigiano-Reggiano
1/2 tsp dried oregano
3/4 c. fresh mozzarella

Preheat oven at 425

Place pizza dough on flour dusted pan and bake for 10 mins.

In a large Skillet add 2 tbsp of EVOO, brown and crumble the meat for a couple of minutes, then add the onions, garlic, s/p. Mix well, then work in the tomato paste, stir in cheese, parsley and oregano.

Remove pizza crush from the oven and top with the meat mixture. Arrange the cheese over the pizza and return it in the oven for another 11-12 mins

whoo

In this recipe she askes for Ground Sirloin but for some reason I did it with Ground Beef and it still turned it really good but now I have to try it with the Sirloin. Rachel has another real good recipe it's the Southwestern Pasta Bake. It's really just penne rigate pasta with ground beef with a cheddar cheese sauce, really good.

So off to the store we go sigh It's so gloomy outside I don't even feel like going..noooo you can't make me!!! I'm sure my little on can live of Ramen Noodle soup!

Finally life can resume...

Finally the Writers Strike is over. Now I can get back to not raising my child right because now our favorite shows are coming back on yea! Not that it really wasn't somewhat of a good thing right? The strike affected your life maybe in a good way. Without our favorite shows on and remembering word for word reruns we stepped away from the tv and probably did other things we hadn't done in awhile. Caught up on reading, went out for walks, started early spring cleaning and maybe even went to bed early.

I know it will take awhile, probably in March or April, before we see any new Grey's Anatomay, Desperate Housewifes and CSI but it's ok, I can wait.

But what's funny is that there were other shows who have a good following and people didn't notice they had all new episodes. I mean it's not like GA, DH, are the only great shows. House just finished his last fresh episode last week. Cold Case had on new episodes up until 3 weeks ago. And then you have the super new episodes of Lost.

How is it that Jay Leno, David Letterman, and even Ellen Degeneres were booed by the WGA when they decided to go back on air after a couple of months, and yet there are up to date new episodes of Oprah. I haven't seen anyone boo her. Are people really that afraid of her? I wonder if the Ellen, Jay, and David writers who booed them were able to still think they could go back to work for their former bosses after dissing them in public.

"Hi, yes Ms. Degeneres, um didn't really mean to be upset at you because you decided to go back to work without me, since I am that writes your lines of 'See if the celeb can guess the word of the day,' and 'we'll be right back'. So I was wondering if I can come back to work. Hello? Hello..."

Snowy Day...

Nothing new or exciting happening today.. oh wait, I got out of my pajamas today--before noon! Yea!

It snowed so much yesterday and today that we got almost 4 inches in snow and I told my husband not to go to work today.. the roads are bad and a part of the highway is closed. Of course he doesn't listen to me and goes anyway. 45 minutes later he calls me and tells me he's only 10 minutes away from the house and he's been stuck in traffic all that time. See, what did I tell him?

It's not that I want him to miss work on purpose it's that they're many driver who think their car is invincible against the ice on the roads. A truck passed on my street that's a 25mph zone, and they drove on it at like 35 probably. You know these ones...




I get scared that he can get into an accident. Try driving in front of that big a hunk of metal with a small car...

Not my car, but you get the point


Anyway he gets off the higways and heads home..So he rested for a couple of hours then headed out to his 2nd job. My poor hubby =)



I'm going to bed early tonight because I have two appointments tomorrow all before lunch. I have one for my daughter at our clinic and at the same clinic after her appt. I have my "yearly" appt. FUN! Where they get to tell me that in one year I have lost only 2 lbs and they look me up and down and ask 'Do you have any health issues'? Well not really, our clinic has really nice staff, except not counting my old doctor, ohhh bitch! Other than that they take forever to call your name but they realise that and apologize, but I also notice that they do talk alot of time in answering question and they don't rush you, which I appreciate.



So my choice of shows tonite while I lay in bed is SciFi Channels: Scary…but True. "It presents real-life ghostly encounters of young people across the globe, whose convincing evidence confirms that scary things don't just happen to adults!" Because I love freaking myself out! And then after that I'm going to watch Linda Blair: Scariest places on earth "A trip to some of the most haunted locations on the planet." Love it! With a cup of hot cocoas, can't wait..

(For some reason my spell check hasn't been working for the past week.. hmm well I hope I spelled everthing right, 'cause, i cane speel, u now..)

Here comes the Choo Choo

So it's been pretty quite around here, nothing new or exciting. Still washing the same dishes, changing diapers, and getting fatter. Karla and I did go downtown yesterday to get some fresh air and it was fun because we took the bus to our train station. It was a fun experience for her because she hadn't gotten on the bus or train before..