More Proof That God Exists

As one commenter on this blog said, “It’s like p*rn for my mouth…”

Some poor soul without a/c in a place that rains a lot but is currently (or was) experiencing record heat invented….

THE MACGYVER WAFFLE .

Note To Self

It’s probably not a good idea to lock your bedroom door from the inside if you’re going to be outside and there’s no key to be found to let you back in.

Stay At Home Today

I decided to actually stay home today and see what I would do.  So far, so good!  I got everything I need put together to make dinner tonight, Stuffed Zucchini, and I’ll either be making oatmeal cookies or blueberry sweet potato bread later on today.  Maybe both!

Got the dishes done, ran by the post office, decided to stop reading “Airframe” by Michael Crichton because it’s boring as sin, and start putting together some good mail.  Oh, and I chopped up a small cauliflower (a.k.a. “white broccoli” to my kids) for a snack.

Well, now that I’ve whet your appetite with just the very mention of Stuffed Zucchini, I will put down the recipe here:

STUFFED ZUCCHINI

2-3 ginormous zucchini that you picked up at your church library because somebody’s garden grew too many of them and they want to share

3 medium garden-fresh tomatoes from same church friend above.

1 box Stove Top Turkey stuffing, prepared according to directions on box.

1/2 - 1 cup fresh corn kernels

1/3 - 1/2 cup freshly grated parmesan cheese 

Directions:

Pre-heat oven to 375′.

Slice ginormous zucchini in half lengthwise.  Scoop out innards, leaving a slim shell.  Keep half the innards and chop finely, tossing the rest away.

Dice tomatoes and slice kernels from corn ears.

Combine prepared stove top, zucchini guts, diced tomatoes and corn kernels and 1/2 the parmesan cheese.  After it is well mixed, divide equally amongst the zucchini shells and fill to just over the top of the shell.  Sprinkle remaining parmesan cheese on top and bake at 375′ for 20-30 minutes, or until zucchini shell is peirced easily. 

Serve this with some No Knead Bread covered in homemade blueberry butter, sit back, and now you can die happy!

Somebody Kill Me Now, PLEASE

I have a migraine like no other today.  Not even the good stuff takes the edge off.  Somebody kill me now, please….

Somebody Come And Play

Hi there girlfriends.  I’m writing today to tell you that I feel a little bit alone today, and a lot left out.  It seems that there is something called a “Good Mail” movement out there, and you can read more about it here at The Good Mail Blog.  I love doing stuff like this, but I want people to send Good Mail to me, too!

So, now that you’re all informed… does anyone want to play?  I’m going to do it, no matter what.  I know a lot of women who need something like this, and I hope you’ll take action and surprise all your girlfriends, too.

Good vibes, girls!!

Eww, Gross…

Let it be known that you should never, ever go more than one week between mopping your kitchen floor.

Whew!

So, what have you been up to lately?

• Finding out what “normal” means now that the kids are in school.
• Trying to decide what to do with my time.  Lots I want to do at home, only I never seem to be home, so I guess I’ll need to change that.
• De-crapping the house by taking loads of stuff to Goodwill.
• Getting used to Honey being in charge of the money.
• Dying of this frickin’ heat!
• Reading Harry Potter in a record 11.5 hours (with naps & breaks!)

What are you listening to these days?

• My kids bitch & moan at eachother.  (Do they make child-sized tupperware so I can contain it?)
• Bon Jovi “Lost Highway”.  FABULOUS.  Also discovering Ari Hest and Jack Johnson.

Food?  What about food?

• Grapes.  Lots and lots of grapes.  I ran out of my water supply the other day.  The tap water here is… suspect.
• Red pesto farfalle (that’s bowtie pasta for you non-foodies out there) from Trader Joe’s.
• I gave up soda over a week ago and now I’m giving up fast food.  Let us never speak of it again.

What have you been reading (besides Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows?)

• Well, I read Dairy Queen by Catherine Gilbert Murdoch.
• And Austenland by Shannon Hale.  Who also wrote Goose Girl and its accompanying stories which you should absolutely read if you need to get lost in something.
• The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton.  Lovely.
• Now I have to hurry and read The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini because it’s already 3 days overdue and I can’t renew it.
• I also want to read the latest Mitch Albom book, For One More Day since I bought it the day it came out and still haven’t cracked it open!

What’s ahead for you?

• Well, I don’t know exactly.  I know what I like to do, but I need some sort of construction to my day.  Which then alerts my extreme aversion to having a day-to-day schedule so I end up doing not much.
• Baking sweet potato blueberry bread as soon as I go back to the store and get the sweet potatoes I forgot earlier.
• Making more strawberry jam (a.k.a. Sunshine in a Jar) if my strawberry man is still working his little Filipino heart out.
• Possibly laundry.  I want to try Maggie’s Soap Nuts butI forgot to see if Trader Joe’s had them and I’m sure not driving all the way to Whole Foods just for that.  They’re snotty there.
• Making Banana’s Potato Salad.  She invented it for my birthday lunch and it’s holymotheroftastebuds good!