Adobo and his new bone!

Ok so since I work and my pup has to remain home all day alone :( I decided he needed something to chew and play with. I got him some bones, look he loves them!! So far life with him in the house just seems complete. He is adapting really well, and he LOVES to please. Grae and him get along so well also. He is just a cutie. He has been using his paper all day when I am at work, so he is zero stress.

Leave it to Japan!!!!- Water Car.

Ok, It has been a few days since my last post. I am still in the process of getting better. I read an article today on the launch of a first mass produced car from Japan that runs strictly on water! I had to post this. Now this car looks tiny, but the concept I hope can be heard around the world with all other automakers. I sure hope that we can get our hands on the Clarity by Honda on the East Coast come 2009. We will see. I am posting the video for the interested parties.

My Plan-The Shelf.

France has it all in the bag.
I am amazed that the US does not see this as the perfect green. I am going to make my first project a wall shelf/headboard for my son's bed. I will be sure to document the process, I am not good with strategics, or reading blue prints, so Aries can help me on that part. Design wise I have it all in my head.

More pics to come... Lisa and Hazel!

I will try to make some furniture from what? Cardboard?

Yep it has been on my mind for three months now, how to build a sectional from cardboard, wood, material, and some huge pillows. I think I will dive into the research and see what I can find. I found this video on youtube that I enjoyed.

My strife, my calling.

Ever heard that saying, "I am going to pay my 'haters' bills today? Well I try to live by that saying. There are a lot of haters that will prevent you from becoming what your true calling is. They may tell you that you are not good enough, or maybe that you are not smart enough. Reality is that we all have talents. Sometimes we have to fall flat to find them, but trust me, they are there. I have found in my life that I have worked tons of dead end jobs and was not sure what I was meant to do with my life. I have questioned my purpose a million times. I have come to learn that questioning gives arise to future ideas and that can then arise to future moves. So with today passing as I sit at the job that I constantly question, I will just think positive thoughts and pay my haters bill today.

Hazel, should you read this, you are strong and so forth with what you strive to be, a lawyer. Test and test until your hand falls off. Lisa, pray hard to find what you want to do once you have both of your girls settled, you are still young and have tons of time to take out with them and take the time to think things through. Aries, do not worry about cruises and times away, we will love you even more once you return. Do not worry that you have to deal with low morale and inequality standards, as you are there to pass time. Once you retire you can do anything your heart desires. And for myself, I am going to keep pushing. I am going to apply for Grad school and I will succeed. I will no longer be in the IT industry where I feel overwhelmed and under appreciated. Today marks a change for all of us.

Love,
C

Day 3 of sickness....going good!

Ok so I was sick, not just a cold. I got the opportunity to go to the Dr. office yesterday after work and he gave me some antibiotics. I am feeling much better today, and hope by Friday I will be back to new. I will be sure to post some new pictures this weekend. I think I am going to have Grae potty trained soon. I can just feel it. I tried a new trick my nanny told me, she told me "turn him around backwards." She is now proactive in helping me accomplish the training. I plan to post the pictures of my preschool search and will have my family vote LOL.

We sent our F-Day cards off yesterday--
Uncle Andy, Dominic, Jessie :)

Could this be my cause of the icklings???

Today while driving home, I was astonished to see an interstate sign off of highway 264 East that read that all drivers must make alternate driving decisions due to high level code orange ozone warning! I felt proud that I was driving a hybrid, but what about changing the laws that only low ozone emissions vehicles are allowed on highways? Why not do something a bit more than posting a sign only when the level escalates? Just does not make much sense to me. If you drive to work, and it is fine, then the temp peaks at like 102 and it is no longer ok, why in the world would someone just not drive home? It defeats the sole purpose, if you ask me. I sure hope the election in 2008 brings some serious talk about going Green!

The Icklings....

Well today is Sunday, June 8th and today I have pretty much been derailed from life. I am sinus sick and just feeling horrible. My husband Aries has taken such good care of me. I am so thankful that he has this Sunday off. He took care of Graeson all day and I got to get some much needed rest. He brought me empanada and strawberry jello Yum... I wanted to snap a pic of the food but could not really function LOL.

I decided that I needed man's intervention so I took some MucinexD sinus/congestion meds and hope that it will clear my head up and my ears up. It came from no where, I felt a bit of a sinus pressure yesterday at the BBQ but just thought it was the heat. I will mark today as the first offical day of treatment and if a no go with the OTC meds I will go and set up a Dr. Appointment. After all I have free insurance through the Navy, why not use it??

Here is to the next 24 hours of treatment.

My quest for a new vitamin.

Ok, so the other day I was in Target picking up a few things with my husband and son. I remembered that I needed to get Grae some vitamins. As a toddler he does not eat anywhere near what he should eat as far as full nutrition. If you consider his diet, he needs a miracle vitamin. So anyways, as I round the corner to the vitamin isle I am stopped in my tracks! How in the world can one store carry so many vitamins? Thank the Lord I was there for his vitamins and not on a quest for a vitamin for myself, because I would have fainted of pure exhaustion from the search. There are over 200 vitamins that our body requires on a monthly basis. I know as well as most, I do not get all the vitamins I need. Being that I was providing my son with his simple (chewy vitamins with iron), I decided that I may need to find me a vitamin as well so I tried these chewy creatures that I give my son, and I have to say... they are not half bad. 

I do wonder though, why give us so much vitamin C if we intend to just pee it all out? And why do they never give us Vitamin D, if these are for kiddos why not give them what they may be missing and not all the other stuff that even I cannot pronounce? You will have to search high and low to find a kiddy vitamin with Iron or Vitamin D, which according to my pedi, are CRUCIAL to toddlers. 

GNC here I come...???

Is it concentrate or not people???

As a mom I have to guess on everything I place into my son's diet, why is that? When something on a box or container says 100 percent, why do we find in small print somewhere "from concentrate?" I just do not get it. Is it a 100 % or not people? Why not just say, this is not 100 % juice it does contain a concentrate. Well we all know that answer right? It is basically advertising. We are prone to strong numbers such as 100% because it sounds almost bullet proof. I think it is quite amusing how we are forced to believe that we are getting 100% and even though it is 1/2 concentrate, in the end we see the big 100, just blows my mind. 

The Miracles of Boiling Water.

I would like to take a moment and thank the man, woman, master mind that invented pasta. I have to say that pasta is my all time favorite American food. I like it all ways. Tonight was a relaxing meal night at I prepped simplicity in a pan. I know that everyone that

enjoys a good pasta enjoys this route. Taking something so simple and so dry only to have the ability to make something so wonderful and tasty. I always deck mine out my favorite seasoning (Ms. Dash Garlic and Ms. Dash Italian Seasoning). Yum..Yum.

My Simple Taco Salad.

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Yum Garlic Fried Hotdogs with Cherry Tomato and White Rice-Steal a girls heart why don't you?

Need I say more??? Who would not eat this up? My favorite tomato would be the small cherry ones (the ones that squish right into the sides of my cheeks) OR the vine grown ones which are perfect for stews and soups. The smaller ones have a sweater taste that goes very nice with the rice and fried hot dog. I like to buy Ms. Dash (Garlic and Herb) seasoning and sprinkle just a touch as I fry them in my Green Pan. Yep green pan, non toxic and environmentally safe! Makes the food just taste different too! 

Day One- June 4, 2008

Some call it poor man's food, I call it the PI diet. 

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In my house, we have a 4-cup rice cooker that is cooking all day, every day. It is kind of funny because I am white but have not really grown up eating American food. When I was around eight, I remember I was over visiting a friend that was Thai. That sleep over changed my entire diet. I found that American food was not all it was cracked up to be after all. Being I was raised in the hollar (short for sticks, the county, boon docks), I only knew fried southern food up until I was eight. After that it was noodles, rice, pork, spring rolls, and more. Long and behold I do not marry American either, LOL, so my taste in food has been and always will be NON American. That is not to say that I do not eat or cook American, just it is not the top of my food chain choice.