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Election Day & Spaghetti Dinner Recipe & Holiday Inn

November 3, 2008 | By Heidi | Filed Under: causes, family, holidays, home, noms, zoo | Leave a Comment

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Well tomorrow is the day…All this election BS will finally be over…the news reports, the commercials, the phone calls…and we’ll know who the next President of the United States will be. I am off work, so the hubbs and I will be voting fairly early I believe…since they are expecting long lines at the polls.

I honestly don’t care who anyone is voting for, everyone has their own political view and opinions and that’s great! Just do make sure that you go out and vote tomorrow. This is an important election and I’ll probably be up half the night to see who the winner is.

Tonight I made a spaghetti for dinner. lol That’s what I call it anyway…”a spaghetti”. lol

I make it with turkey meat, italian is the best, but tonight we had regular…lean turkey…a can of sliced mushrooms…big can, the hubbs and I love the mushroom…a green pepper…fresh from the farmer’s market!…garlic salt…and a bottle of Classico “Traditional Sweet Basil” pasta sauce. Oh, and wheat spaghetti noodles.

I break the noodles and get them going, or the water boiling for them anyways. I cut the pepper up and started cooking it, the mushrooms and some garlic salt in olive oil…added the meat and cooked that until the meat was all good and cooked. Then I dumped the bottle of sauce in and let it simmer…drain the noodles and then put the noodles into a large rectangle glass pan, dump the sauce on…mix and add mozz cheese to the top and bake in the oven for a bit. YUM!!

It’s delish!! Tonight I also added a few leaves of spinach…just to see if it changed anything. I dunno if it did, but it was extra yummy tonight!! And it’s one of the hubbs’ favorite meals too. Plus being that it’s turkey meat, has the extra veggies and all, and it’s got wheat noodles…it’s not all that bad for you.

Sometimes I make garlic bread from leftover hamburger/hotdog buns or something, but tonight I didn’t. I could have though, because we did have some hotdog buns…but I didn’t feel like it. We didn’t need it anyway…the spaghetti was plenty!!

Tomorrow I have to make some veggie goop, and mix it with meat and get Topaz’s food ready to go for him. We had bought some Veggies from our food girl that were by Oma’s…VEGGIE 5 WAY( Olewo Carrot, Green bean, Yellow Squash, Zucchini, and Garlic) 2#bag…and the dogs really seem to like that. I think the garlic had the most to do with it, it was really smelly…not bad, just smelled like food.

I’m hoping to get a big batch of food ready for him and then freeze some individual packages that are already weighed out and everything. Easy for feeding and everything. I have 2 packages of pork chops ready to go into the mix as well as some chicken breasts for the next batch.

He’s just been doing so well, I want him to continue to do so! So we’re doing everything we can for him.

I just got the movie “Holiday Inn” on DVD…it’s a new version in COLOR, which is so cool. I’ve been watching this movie for YEARS…it’s our traditional Christmas Eve movie.
Yeah, I know it’s old…1942! And the original is in black and white, but I like the songs (I may have the soundtrack on my iPod LOL) and I like to have musical type movies on in the background when I’m on the computer…especially when there’s NOTHING on tv!
The hubbs keeps making fun of me because I’ve probably watched the movie 10 times since I got it, and I will watch it over and over again…but really it’s just background.

Men…they don’t get it! LOL

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Sweetest Day & Butt Heaven!!

October 18, 2008 | By Heidi | Filed Under: family, scrappy, twilight | Leave a Comment

Today is Sweeties day here in the states…or here in Michigan anyway, I don’t know if it’s a nationwide holiday or not. For sweeties day, the hubbs got me a new computer chair…and let me tell you…it’s butt heaven!!

He got it at Office Depot and he really went shopping for it with my list of “needs”. We bought one at Target last night and I put it together and really didn’t like it…so we returned it and he went on the hunt for the perfect chair…and he found it too!! It’s really lovely…butt heaven! lol

I finished New Moon and will start Eclipse on Monday. I could easily start it today, but I can’t do anything else while I listen at home so I need to wait if I want to get things done LOL Funny, I have little problem listening at work…but my job is repetitious and I could do it in my sleep.

I listened a little last night and ended up falling asleep with it on…I woke up at like 3am and turned it off. Then I had to turn it back to when I remembered it last and lost like a whole hour. It’s ok though, I needed to go back to get the gist of the story.

I have about 5 gazillion scrappy kits to sort through and move to their proper home on my external drive. I’ve been putting it off because it’s time consuming and annoying lol But in a minute I’ll have to start unzipping them elsewhere!! LOL

I finally go around to making a scrappy page with some of the pictures from my sister’s wedding earlier this month.

Credits:
*will add later*

This page took me a long time…I was so undecided as to what to put on there. My sister is not traditional in the least and as you can see, neither was the wedding! It was a good time though and they are really happy and I’m happy for them both!

The journaling was part of their vows. I will make other pages using other parts of their vows as well as more/different pictures. I have a few pages in mind.

Anyways…it took me WAY too long to make the page, way too long to get photoshop to cooperate and let me shrink the jpg and I’m about to go watch a moovie with the hubs. Hopefully we can agree on something…we never do with movies though! LOL

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Wedding Recap, New Camera, Daytrip to Frankenmuth & Laptop!!

October 12, 2008 | By Heidi | Filed Under: family, michigan | Leave a Comment

I’m a bad blogger, I’ve been busy this week and have been neglecting my blog!!

The wedding was last weekend and it was a good time. The ceremony was a handfasting and was really unique. My sister’s Wiccan and her husband is Scottish and she loves all things Celtic, so it was a very interesting mix. I’ll post some scrappy layouts as soon as I make them!

His family is HUGE and they are very nice and were hospitable to us. The drive up north was pretty with the fall colors and the dogs did well in the car. We couldn’t rent a minivan as we had planned…but that’s ok. Everything worked out well! I am, however, VERY glad it’s over. Not in a bad way or anything, but it was kind of stressful for me….and I wasn’t even the one getting married!!

My bonus FINALLY came and we got the opportunity to pay off a few things, my car included! WHEW!!! No more car payment! I also got a couple toys to play with!!

 
This is my new camera! I got a Canon Rebel XSi and let me say, I LOVE IT!!! I know it’s going to take me a long time to learn how to really use it, but the picture quality is outstanding! I feel like a grown up picture taker now! haha I am adding my Flickr widget or gadget on the side…check out some of my pictures. These won’t be personal pix, I have another site for those…but just landscapey ones and ones of the animals. 
I used it yesterday when my husband, my sister and I drove north for a couple hours to Frankenmuth, MI which is like a little German town. It’s really cool there, they have horses and carriages and great food. We ate a late dinner at the Bavarian Inn after shopping all day.
They have this quilt store at the River Place that I’ve always walked into and drooled over the quilts that they have there. I really love quilts and always wanted one, but they’re so much money. Well they were having an AWESOME sale and I was able to get a Queen sized quilt for 35.00! I can’t wait to snuggle up with it!
They also have this HUGE Christmas Store called Bronners. It’s really cool there, the store is massive and is definitely a daytrip in itself! We didn’t have time to make it down there, but we did drive through the parking lot to see all of the cool Christmas decorations that are lit…probably all year round. They also sell alot of original glass ornaments in just about every shape/theme imaginable. And they have these cool personalized bulbs. My inlaws have a bulb for each of us with our names on it on their Christmas Tree. Check out their online catalog and you’ll see what I mean!
Here are a few pictures. 

Frankenmuth, MI
Frankenmuth, MI
Frankenmuth, MI
Frankenmuth, MI

I LOVE the last one with the fall colors…it was pretty up there and so pretty driving up! I would have stopped if we weren’t with my sister and it wasn’t so late in the day.

Ok moving along to….my laptop! woo hoo!! I got an HP. It’s a 17 in, 4 gig RAM, 320 gig hard drive. Bigger than my desktop! LOL Took me a bit to figure out the wireless thing, but I got it and we’re good to go. I need to get a case for it and I’ll be all set. It’s kind of weird to not use a mouse. I ended up getting one, but don’t really plan on using it ALL the time.

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