Month: August 2010

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Everything Else

Wish List Wednesday

So I was planning to do a wish list Wednesday post because I love reading them on others blogs. But since I did a little shopping/winning last night & today, I thought I’d share what’s on the way to me!


I won this diaper clutch from Bird E Studio by guessing what Erika was doing last night. {The answer was going to a quilting class!} I plan to use it as a clutch within my purse for now, but I think it’ll be awesome to have once I’m a mom too. Erika made it so that it perfectly fits 2 disposable diapers & a small wipes case.

I’ve been an admirer of all things Gussy for a while now. Maggie’s products are featured a few blogs I love, her blog & her products are so cool & she seems so sweet on twitter (she’s @gussysews). I signed up for her newsletter & received a 15% off coupon code this week. I was wearing a grey top today & I thought it was boring. I remembered she just mentioned these limited addition grey ruffle headbands recently that would be great with my outfit. She’d taken them down from the store, but after I tweeted her she put a few back up so I could buy one! How cute is this?! Later this afternoon, I went back to Gussy & was lusting over this precious umbrella clutch with the red ruffle. Red= perfect to take to NCSU football games! Well, my 15% of worked again & she gave me discounted shipping for 2 items, so I was sold!

I can’t wait to receive my fun new handmade products! I love supporting awesome ladies!

My other purchase today was thanks to a recommendation from World’s Best Cat Litter via twitter (@bestcatlitter) after I was kinda bitching last week about Moe & his litter situation. If you don’t remember from this post, I love the “greeness” of WBCL, that it’s flushable & that it’s made with corn so I don’t worry if Moe licks his paws after stepping through it. I was slack last week & didn’t clean the box very often. As a result, it was smelling & kinda cloughed up the toilet. Anyways, WBCL told me to try the multi cat clumping formula. I was so excited they wrote me back! I went to Petco for cat food & bought the multi cat litter (only $7.99 after using a $3 off coupon). I plan to add it into the existing litter this weekend.

In case anyone cares, I wasn’t given anything for making this post. I’m just sharing my excitement over these products.

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Food

Homemade Banana Pudding

My coworker friend Kim is from Mississippi. That means when it comes to southern food, she & her mom are going to have the best recipes. My work made banana pudding one day & I mentioned it was my favorite dessert. A couple of weeks later she made her family banana pudding recipe & brought a little sample in for me! I brought it home & Jason & I LOVED it!
Luckily for us (& you!!), she shared the recipe with me.
I made it tonight to take to the NCSU Chi O house for their skit preview party tomorrow night. It makes so much that I made a smaller container for us.


Kim’s Homemade Banana Pudding
Ingredients
1 large pkg instant vanilla pudding
2 c cold milk
1 can sweetened condensed milk
1 container Cool Whip, slightly thawed
4-5 bananas. sliced thin
1 box Nilla Wafers

Directions
Make pudding as directed on package: Using wire wisk, mix pudding into cold milk for 2 minutes in large bowl.
Continuing whisking while pouring in condensed milk then Cool Whip.
In 2+ qt container, place layer of wafers, then thinly sliced bananas. Top that with pudding mixture. Continue to layer until all gone. Enjoy!
I used a 1 1/2 qt container & a 1 qt container & almost filled both. I did add some extra Cool Whip that I had left over from when I made the Chilly Pomegranate Pie.


Jason & I couldn’t resist & had some tonight. I crushed up my wafers in the cup. It was so good!!

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Food

Chicken Burritos

I’ve been craving Moe’s Joey Jr for a while. I love that place! But I was looking at my pantry Sunday night & realized I had just about everything to make our own Joey’s at home. I loved them! Jason thought they were good. Good enough that he ate the leftovers instead of me taking them into work. They were easy & delicious. I’m pretty sure this will go on our dinner rotation now. They can be made with the stuffings of your choice. I’ll list what we did. You could easily switch out chicken for beef or ground turkey. We also ate ’em up before I had a chance to photograph them.

Ingredients
Soft taco/burrito sized flour tortillas
~ 1 lb boneless skinless chicken breast tenders, diced
1 pkg taco seasoning
1 can black beans
1 pkg Spanish rice mix
salsa of your choice (we used Newman’s own Mango Salsa & Tostitos Chunky Mild Salsa)
shredded cheese

Directions
Saute chicken until no longer pink. Add 1/2 c water & the seasoning packet. Continue sauteing until water is absorbed (around 4-5 minutes). While chicken cooking, warm black beans in a small pot & follow directions on Spanish rice mix. We warmed torillas for 20 seconds in the microwave to soften. Once everything ready, we made our own burritos by scooping chicken, rice, beans, salsa & cheese into the tortilla. We were prety laid back & served with scoops & a beer. Enjoy!

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Everything Else Food

Eat Pray Love

I went to see that movie tonight with a group of very fun & super nice girls. The group is more my friend Beth’s friends. I’d met a couple of them while at her house while watching The Bachelorette this season, but some I met for the first time tonight. We first grabbed dinner and some of us a quick beer at Fox & Hound. The food was good & so was the conversation, but our waitress not so much. Beth & I ended up leaving to get the rest of us seats, another two bought tickets, & the remaining ones waited for our bills & forged our signatures. Needless to say, she didn’t get great tips from us (aka Nicole!).But the movie, it was good! I’d heard the locations were fabulous & they were. Italy was cool, but even stuffed as a I was from my chicken wrap, that pasta, the buy-bigger-jeans pizza, the wine! I loved this scene. Does that look yummy & cool?! {borrowed photo from here}

The pray part was the slowest for me (I remembered it being that way for me in the book also), but I loved the elephant scene & Richard from TX. I’m like her that I’d never have the patience grace whatever you call it to be silent! God would call me to be the Suzie Cream Puff greeter too! {borrowed from here}

But Bali, it was worth seeing to movie to get to the Love part. The scenery there was amazing. I doubt I’ll make it there, but I’d certainly love to! {borrowed from here gotta love google image!}
I thought Julia Roberts was great. I just love her & pretty much all the movies she makes. I’m also a sucker for a good ending!

I’m finishing my night with a little baking…which might incorporate a little of Eat (breakfast & late night snack anyone?) Pray (I don’t burn them like I did last weekend’s muffins) & Love (its almost midnight & I’m baking for my husband). I promised him that I’d make muffins for us to have for breakfast tomorrow. His breakfast being around 3 hours from now since he goes into work at 4am this weekend. He’d be fine if I didn’t make them, but he would probably stop at McDonald’s. And while not made from scratch, Duncan Hines 100% whole grain Apple Cinnamon muffins (with a coupon!) are cheap, easy & relatively healthy. The timer just buzzed so I’m off. I’ll try to post a photo of them later too.

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Trying To Conceive

Cycle 6…

For those paying attention to our TTC saga, here’s my chart from last month. Random ups & downs, especially after my supposed O date.


I think this cycle’s O date is my earliest yet (day 13). Temps (kinda?) & OPK matched up for it though. At first I was excited with the dip on day 18 (maybe implantation dip?!). Then after the super dip, I realized AF had to be on the way. Total cycle length of 22 days with 9 day LP.

Getting my period did work out well for being able to party it up at a wedding this past Saturday. Of course, I’d rather be pregnant, but lots of wine added to the great time with my family. I’ll be making another post on that when I get the photos from my Dad.