Binge watching The Walking Dead.
Binge watching The Walking Dead.
Watching the last season of MasterChef. Somehow I missed this one, not sure how that happened. Kids keep telling me I need to go on Hell's Kitchen, but I said, "Nope. Two reasons. One, I cannot come up with a signature dish that I can make in 45 minutes, my signature dish is pizza and takes 3 hours. Two, the first time Ramsey went off on me, I'd fire back and be kicked out of the kitchen." Not to mention, you have to go in there knowing how to cook things like risotto and other things nobody else in my house will touch but me.
"Tequila may not be the answer, but it's worth a shot."
"I just go here!"
"I am not psychic. I AM psychotic. BIG difference."
I've never heard of that. I've heard of stuffed crust, and made it a couple of times. It's expensive as hell because you use string cheese and that ain't cheap. You flatten your dough an extra two inches in diameter, arrange the string cheese in a circle, and wrap the dough around it. Sauce, top, and bake like usual.
Then I've heard of stuffed pizza. Where you lay one layer of dough down, sauce it, and add cheese and toppings. Add a second layer of dough on top of that, sealing it together with the bottom layer. Sauce, cheese, and add more toppings if you want. You have to bake that one a little longer because of the double layers of dough. I don't do that one very often because it can be tricky to get the two layers of dough to seal enough that sauce doesn't leak out.
I'll also make calzone for a change of pace. Flatten the dough to about 8" or so in diameter. Sauce, cheese, and top half of it, and fold the other half over. Seal it shut, prick it with a fork a couple of times, and bake it. When I make it for the four of us, I do the fork-pricks in the shape of the first letter of our names.
Easiest is French bread pizza. Buy the French bread already baked (or bake your own if you're ambitions or not afraid to open the Pillsbury can LOL), slice it in half length-wise, then cut them down to whatever size you like. Smaller for kids. Sauce, cheese, top, and bake but only for 5 minutes or so, until the cheese is melted and bubbly.
"Tequila may not be the answer, but it's worth a shot."
"I just go here!"
"I am not psychic. I AM psychotic. BIG difference."
That sounds pretty good! Right now, though, I'm waiting for pizza delivery. Feeling like death warmed over. I had hoped I wouldn't be in the drive-through window, but no. The regular window-girl is now being cross-trained for grill, SO...I'm in the window. Yay. Now my cold is worse.
"Tequila may not be the answer, but it's worth a shot."
"I just go here!"
"I am not psychic. I AM psychotic. BIG difference."
Listening to Madonna's "Immaculate Collection" and resting before dinner. School was out today meaning we were SLAMMED at Freddy's. OMG. Everybody and their brother came to eat today, even the daughter of one of the supervisors of the franchise that owns the McDonald's I used to work at.
"Tequila may not be the answer, but it's worth a shot."
"I just go here!"
"I am not psychic. I AM psychotic. BIG difference."
Perusing the interwebs, piddlefarting, dillydallying, and drinking.
"Tequila may not be the answer, but it's worth a shot."
"I just go here!"
"I am not psychic. I AM psychotic. BIG difference."
I'm updating my playlist of workout music. A few songs weren't doing it for me anymore and I needed some new tunes. Lucky for me I found a few 'new' songs that I know will get my adrenaline going.
Gazing at the moon.
Got chicken warming in the Crock Pot, cheesy rice and green beans cooking on the stove. Alternating between playing Criminal Case and piddlefarting on Facebook and here.
"Tequila may not be the answer, but it's worth a shot."
"I just go here!"
"I am not psychic. I AM psychotic. BIG difference."
Just took a shower. May poke around Netflix till it's time to leave for my haircut.
Did the afternoon dishes
Cleaned the tub and toilet
charging my phone
Now I'm relaxing in a warm home while the first official snowfall occurs out side, as I wait for FedEx and ponder something to watch on Netflix.
Listening to some country music (Dixie Chicks), perusing the interwebs, thinking about dinner, thinking about packing tomorrow's lunch.
"Tequila may not be the answer, but it's worth a shot."
"I just go here!"
"I am not psychic. I AM psychotic. BIG difference."
Backing up the 500+ words and word replacement I did tonight. To be fair, I wrote it cold and it was like pulling teeth because it's been a long time since i was a little boy. Feature two 10yo boys, one white, one Choctaw, who meet in the woods in 1733. They can't understand each others language so they must rely on sign and mime to communicate. I figured that one out, but had trouble with what to give them to do. (I doubt they would play house as I used to do.) So I finally had Albert go into his pirate playacting and came up with a great ending to that chapter.
I've got another chapter to write cold during the next session. It's about Isi and Mimi's deepening friendship and shouldn't be too much of a challenge. I hope that concludes writing new pieces.
Lying in bed, under the covers, having a cozy. I'm about to get up, get the ribs started in the Crock Pot, then return to my cozy and watch Thursday's Grey's Anatomy.
"Tequila may not be the answer, but it's worth a shot."
"I just go here!"
"I am not psychic. I AM psychotic. BIG difference."
Still in bed myself, debating if I want to stay here a while or get up.. Decisions decisions...
Makes five... left work early and went to the local Urgent Care center, where I got a bronchitis diagnosis. Picked up my prescriptions and am now home and back in bed. Thank goodness.
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
Casper, I love you so much baby boy... waking up with you in the house is a blessing every day! Thank you for filling our home and hearts with so much love, joy, laughter and ever so sweet Sammy smiles! We belong together! XOXOX
Just did the dishes. About to organize the Christmas gifts for my man...as soon as said man leaves.. I have him the task of grocery shopping.. he'll be gone a good bit .
Just got up. Having my morning coffee.
Stay in Drugs. Eat your School. Don't do Vegetables.
Slowly regaining the ability to smell. Ribs smell AMAZING, by the way. Piddlefarting around on the Interwebs, about to start the sides to go with the ribs, mac and cheese and either corn or green beans. Haven't decided yet. Listening to music, got a bottle of whipped cream vodka in the freezer chilling. I bought it two weeks ago and felt like death warmed over so did not drink it. Feeling better tonight, so drinking it. LOL
"Tequila may not be the answer, but it's worth a shot."
"I just go here!"
"I am not psychic. I AM psychotic. BIG difference."
McCormick's, Burnett's, and Pinnacle all make whipped cream vodka. McCormick's and Pinnacle's is only 60-proof, while Burnett's is 80-proof. I drink Burnett's. I'm a lush, but I'm a cheap lush. Pinnacle also makes a cake vodka that is DELISH. I had some for my birthday. Not sure about the area you're in, but where I am, "360" also makes different flavors of vodka, most notably chocolate. I mixed chocolate vodka and whipped cream vodka one night and got completely toasted. It was great.
"Tequila may not be the answer, but it's worth a shot."
"I just go here!"
"I am not psychic. I AM psychotic. BIG difference."
Finished a truckload of editing on my latest WIP. Things are moving along well...I may have this one done ahead of schedule at the current rate I'm going.
I'm almost doe with the third draft. The fourth shouldn't take as long to edit. I did a bit more editing. Surfed for the Choctaw word for bear and stumbled onto the correct word for lake and changed it. The body of water is actually a creek, but lake is as close as I can get in their language. Trying to decide whether to eat dinner now or play games. Hmmm.... Eat while reading the first ever issue of Life Magazine, online.
Doing food prep for my week's lunches. Because I'm still a bit under the weather, I bought stuff that didn't need a whole lot of prep. Mini peppers I put whole into my lunchbox, strawberries, baby carrots. Hard-boiling a dozen eggs because Schmoo wanted a few and I'm gonna make myself some egg salad I think.
As if to add insult to injury, Shark Week began. I was hoping to have a few extra days before so I could get paid and get a couple of energy drinks because dammit I'm drained. It sucks being anemic. Looks like tomorrow's coffee will be a mix of pumpkin spice and dark roast. LOL
"Tequila may not be the answer, but it's worth a shot."
"I just go here!"
"I am not psychic. I AM psychotic. BIG difference."
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Finished the food prep, didn't have much to do. Slicing tomatoes and boiling eggs. Everything else is ready-to-go. Lunch packed: veggie wrap, 2 hard boiled eggs, 2 mini sweet peppers, strawberries, baby carrots, and a Cara Cara orange sliced 'cuz I don't have enough fingernails to peel it. Right now, I'm listening to music (Lady Gaga at the moment), sipping some sweet tea, and waiting for the conference call for my other job that starts in 40 minutes.
Have I mentioned how much I love the Lipton Sweet Tea K-cups for the Keurig??? No? I LOVE them. They also have unsweet tea, but I like sweet. Hubby loves the hot chocolate K-cups. Rumor has it Campbell's will be coming out with some for some of their soups. Not too sure how that would work, but depending on the flavors they'll offer, I might be willing to give it a go.
"Tequila may not be the answer, but it's worth a shot."
"I just go here!"
"I am not psychic. I AM psychotic. BIG difference."
Gearing up to edit. Ria, my MC has been kidnapped and raped by a renegade Indian. She has gone into herself to escape the abuse (which happens between chapters). She has been rescued and I'm trying to figure out a realistic way to bring her out of it. I'm thinking once she realizes she safe she will slowly come back. What do you think?
Yep, I think that you are right. She needs to feel safe and to know that it'll never happen again, she's protected.
ETA: Insomnia sucks. So does having to factory reset your phone. Ugh, I started having problems with it, so I cleared the cache. Rebooted the phone only to see a message: "Unauthorized program installed, phone locked. See carrier to unlock." WTF.
Naturally, T-Mobile was closed, and I NEED my phone for the alarm clock since SOMEONE lost my tablet. So in a fit of desperation I factory reset it. I had luckily backed up my phone recently, and any pictures I'd taken since that were good I posted on Facebook. I'll need to hook it up to the computer probably tomorrow and get my music back. I listen to Spotify most of the time, anyway.
Considering an upgrade, but the Note 7 is no longer being sold or manufactured because they explode. Kind of leery of Samsung now, so maybe I'll hold on to this phone until T-Mobile gets the Google Pixel.
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"Tequila may not be the answer, but it's worth a shot."
"I just go here!"
"I am not psychic. I AM psychotic. BIG difference."
Having a relief, but I get ahead of myself.
I have been a bit doubtful about my novel's cover image because that type of dress was not worn during the 18th century and I wasn't sure about the necklace. Otherwise, I've been editing a piece of editing. I may or may not continue working.
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Wallowing in self pity… I have a bulge in my corneas. I was scheduled for LASIK surgery on Thursday, but my pre surgery exam this morning showed that I have a little bulge on my cornea and they denied me. I'm heart broken. I was so excited for this surgery
Itll be ok. I'm going out with the bestie tonight. Perhaps a margarita will make my bulgy eyeballs better lol
Missing my Pa every day. RIP Daddy ❤️♥️
“Get drunk and sing Elvira”
Laying in bed till Hubs gets pizza, and we'll watch some tv while we eat.
Editing before doing my evening devotions. Then I may or may not watch the third season of The Walking Dead, which is where I lost interest. I seldom watch anything anymore, because I'm more interested in reading those sites that have list like 10 Crazy Urban Legends in Sports, and those about mysterious disappearances and unsolved murders. That's why I love pinterest. It has tons of that kind of stuff. I was even able to start a spanking new mystery myself the other day about the ritualistic murder Arlis Perry.
Cold, so I'm in bed, wrapped up in my blanket like a burrito.
"Tequila may not be the answer, but it's worth a shot."
"I just go here!"
"I am not psychic. I AM psychotic. BIG difference."
Watching tv, one of the home shopping channels.. in the hunt for more useful kitchen tools and gadgets. I bought this really cool looking knife a few weeks ago. It smoothly glides thru raw chicken. I'm impressed . The more useful tools and gadgets the more I'm interested in cooking something