Thought I would make a stab at a blog post while supper is simmering on the stove. Yes that is true, I am actually cooking. Trying to make an attempt to cook more and eat better. I did manage to make my lunch four days out of five last week and that is major. I have gotten very slack at this meal stuff. For a chubby woman I have a lot of meal planning/cooking issues. I like to think I could be a wonderful cook but often my attempts turn out like tonight's meal. Its a stew or maybe a soup or I could call it a a stoup. Its me, scramble frying some hamburger, then rummaging through the fridge and the pantry for things to throw in the pot, all the while silently praying it will turn out edible. BUT I have made it, it will feed me for awhile and that is my goal. I will work on the technique and the recipes as time goes on but for now, I just am focusing on making it myself rather than buying something. I hate paying for food that is not all that great when I can make my own, and control what goes into it. It may not be gourmet but its healthier for me than what they serve at my office building.
I saw the New Year in quietly as I almost always do. Teddy Bear, KitKat and I went out for Chinese food at the last minute. It was nice and it felt proper as Chinese food is almost mandatory for New Years Eve. We went our separate ways after the meal. I did manage to stay up until midnight. I let the new year in the front door, shooed the old year out the back door and then went to bed. Party animal that's me!!
I did not a lot of anything on New Years Day. I knit, I watched TV, I had several cups of tea with one or two white chocolate cranberry scones on the side. So yummy!! I really do need to try baking scones again myself. I love them. It was a quiet, lazy day and I loved every minute of it. I gave myself permission to have a do nothing day. The only thing missing was I did not spend the day in my jammies, I got dressed but other than that I just had a restful day, which stretched into a restful weekend. It was good. I needed it.
This weekend was a bit busier. Best Friend came for a flying visit. It was short and sweet and as always we talked and talked and talked. She and I can always find things to say. She arrived Friday in time for No Cook and she left early this morning as she had plans with her husband and girls tonight.Supper together and then a walk through the beautiful Christmas lights on the last day they will be turned on. They do this every year so its a tradition for them. My hope is that this year I will get up to her house for a visit. Last year I did not go very many places, I hope to correct that a bit this year. Its been a while since I made it up there. I need to make the effort and get up there.
My Christmas decorations are still up but they will come down this week. As they get put away, I will do a purge and see if I cannot thin out the multitude a bit. I have my reverse advent donations to deliver and lots of quilts to get going on. The Wee Girl's bumper pads and roman blind to do. Today, in my lazy do nothing state of mind, I have been making granny squares with my odds and ends of wool that have accumulated about the place. I hope to whittle down the stash of yarn and material in this house this year. The granny squares will go to Blankets for Canada or I will put them together myself and donate them to the shelter.
For now that is all I can think of to rattle on and on about. I hope your New Year is going well.
Toodles
Linda
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