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This & That.

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1. I am a few episodes away from finishing Battlestar Galatica. I have been watching this show for so long that I am not sure how I will handle the fact that there will never be a new episode.   I’m also on the search for a new show to watch.  Any suggestions?

2. This feels like the longest winter ever. Every time I think we are heading towards spring, March decides to gift us with another snow storm. It just doesn’t feel right.

3. Mr. Sweet’s brother & his wife moved back to New Jersey from California a couple of months ago. They were living with her mother until they found a place to live. This weekend we visited their new apartment and I am completely jealous. It gorgeous and in the exact spot I want to move. I am hoping we find something just as nice when we start looking in the summer.

4. I finally decided on Feedly as my new blog reader. The design of the reader has me reading through my 200+ blogs so much quicker and with more ease then Google Reader. So glad that I switched over.

5. I am obsessed with Ghirardelli’s Cabernet Matinee Chocolate at the moment. The chocolate bar is infused with blackberries and Cabernet Sauvignon. Enough said! I bought the bar at Target the other day and hid it away. Mr. Sweet would eat the whole thing if he had the chance.

6. I can’t wait till March 30th!  Doctor Who will be returning on BBC America along with Orphan Black and The Nerdist. AND new episodes of Game of Thrones on HBO.   Mr. Sweet & I are going to have a mini premier at the apartment (invite: 2).

Festivities for one.

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This weekend wasn’t one for the record books. Mr. Sweet & I had a great weekend scheduled – a trip into the city (New York) on Saturday and a St. Patty’s Parade/get together on Sunday. The weather was perfect as well. Mid 50’s with the snow that accumulated last week melted.

Unfortunately, somewhere between Friday evening and Saturday morning my ankle decided to swell. I have had a torn tendon for a couple of months now and decided to go with cortisone shots instead of running head first into surgery.

Since I didn’t want Mr. Sweet to miss out on the St. Patty’s festivities I urged him to go without me. I stayed behind watching romantic comedies, eating chocolate and cuddling with Layla. Even though it wasn’t what was planned I enjoyed having a bit of time to myself.

Delightfully Living: Day 47 – Day 53

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365 photo project – the simple act of taking a picture every day for a year. The idea behind starting the project is for me to try to get myself to slow down and take a different look at the world. The series is called Delightfully Living. This is Day 47 – Day 53.

What you will see: moments of time, food, details of the world around me and things that I enjoy.

Day 47: Hanging around the house watching movies and relaxing. I love Saturday’s where we don’t have anything planned.

Day 48: Mr. Sweet went out for the night and I decided to stay in. A little snack while catching up on all of the shows I recorded on DVR.

Day 49: Schedule our summer vacation 6 months in advance. Can’t wait!

Day 50: After a long day all I wanted to do was cuddle under the covers and watch The Mindy Project.

Day 51: New T-shirt! A Hello Kitty/My Neighbor Totoro Mash-up.

Day 52: It’s been one of those cold weeks where I don’t want to get out of bed. No Sun. Five more minutes!

Day 53: Last night I could seem to get to sleep. I was reading a book via my Kindle app and looked up to see Layla’s face. It looked like a floating kitty head!

 

A motto to live by.

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I get it. I am in my mid–thirties. I am suppose to be pregnant or at least on my way to a second child. We should live in a house with a white picket fence and 1.5 pets. Our car should be a minivan and weekends should be spent watching the kids play a sport. I’m supposed to cook dinner every night and bake for the neighbors on weekends. Dinner parties, book clubs and loafers. Wine and cheese parties, a fancy charity get together and date nights with my husband.

There are days that we really think that life should be like this and that our lives need to stem from a romantic comedy or an indie film. Then we remember that it only happens in movies. Dishes that weren’t done from the night before, being short on cash and wine without the cheese are our kind of days.

I am ok with this. There is no reason I need to be the person I thought I was going to be when I was younger. Situations change, loves lost, some found and I’m not the person I thought I once was going to be. I have a good life. I am in love with a man that is the most wonderfully funny, sweet and sarcastic person I have ever met.  I am closer to my family than I ever thought I would be and my work is fulfilling.

I try to live by this motto: Never regret your choices or where you are in life. Things can always change in an instant. Create the life that you want to live NOW, don’t rely on what you wanted THEN.

Oh Bread, How I miss thee.

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For the last month and a half I have been on a Gluten Free Diet. It has been one of the hardest things for me to get through. A meal with a side of bread is my kryptonite – a warm roll slathered with butter or a croissant with strawberry jam. I am drooling just thinking about it.

There are things that have been happening that have lead me to this point. I was having a lot of G.I. issues for a while and thought it was “normal” since I have had stomach problems since high school. I am constantly tired. I can go home right now, crawl into bed and fall asleep till tomorrow. Joints ache and constant headaches. I am tired of it. I am tired of always feeling exhausted. Little did I know when I started this gluten free lifestyle how it would affect my life.

I have always loved food. I am a self taught baker. Anyone who comes to my house for dinner knows that there will be a dessert to follow which usually involves flour. Cakes, cookies, pies and breads are my specialty. For Christmas, I make dozens of different cookies to give out to my friends and family. If you search through this blog you will see numerous recipes that involve my now number one nemesis…flour.

I now have to brave the isles at my local supermarket to read labels and change the way I am eating and thinking. I was surprised once I took a look at the labels of the foods we have so mindless been devouring. I have realized that a lot of my favorite eateries are unable to provide me with something that I would favor. This experience has been eye opening. I now take pleasure in finding new and exciting ways to cook. K and I are pushed to find restaurants outside of our comfort zone. We are changing for the better.

I have heard that it takes 30 to 60 days to break a habit. I have seen my husband go a year without soda, just because. Now it is my turn to push away the bread basket, to listen to what my body is trying to tell me and make a better life for myself.

I am keeping my fingers crossed and the bread basket far away.

I need to fuel my addiction.

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Is it fall yet? Seriously.

I am not one for the heat. I long for cool nights with the windows open, fluffy blankets, cozy sweaters and warm soups. I know some people eat soups any time of the year, but for me I just find it weird. Hot food for hot weather…no way! Another thing I can’t wait for is the fall TV shows. I have missed some of my favorite shows and can’t wait for the slew of new ones that should be coming out.

Can’t wait to catch up on:

Fringe: Peter? Is he real? Is he there? What is going to happen him?

Castle: Beckett was shot. Castle confessed his love to her (finally). Will she live? Will she remember?

Big Band Theory: Penny and Raj – Did they? Didn’t they?

Community: Chang was not the father (phew!). Where is Pierce going?

The Mentalist: Jane killed Red John in the middle of a mall. There has to be some consequences!

The Vampire Diaries: Stefan is back on the dark side, Elena kissed Damon, Jeremy reunited with his dead vampire ex-girlfriends. Drama!

Can’t wait to start watching:

Grimm: A detective who discovers his destiny is to protect humans from the storybook baddies that have invaded our real world? Say what! I am so there!

New Girl: I am willing to give anything with Zooey Deschanel a try.

Once Upon a Time: Are fairy tales real? They seem to be in Storybrooke, Maine, a town frozen in time with fairy-tale figures who have no recollection of their real identities.

The Ringer: Sarah Michelle Gellar’s back! I am willing to give her a try in this in thriller where she plays a recovering alcoholic, on the run from some baddies and decides to hide out by taking the identity of her wealthy twin sis, who is thought to be dead. Oooo!

Terra Nova: Steven Spielberg-produced dino drama about a family that travels back to prehistoric Earth to save the human race. Sounds very interesting.

What will you be watching once fall returns?

Sit down a bit. Let’s catch up!

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Sit down a bit. Let’s catch up! I’m constantly amazed by how much time can fly by on this blog without an update. The months have gone by fast in my life, and I thought it’s about time for a little update…

  • My husband has finally finished his internship. We have had three months of him working seven days at week. Sure the experience that he has gained is great, but the time that has gone by has been considerable. We haven’t seen our friends, our parents or gone on a vacation. The outcome of the internship was a job offer. I am so proud of him and his accomplishments.
  • We have a new member of the family. No, it is not a baby. She is Layla, our cat. She is seven year’s old with the energy of a kitten. She makes us laugh constantly and we are so glad to call her our own. I can’t seem to remember life without her.
  • Emotionally I have been on highs and lows. So much is going on right now and it has been hard. I am trying to keep spirits up and trying to find the light at the end of the tunnel. I keep thinking that everything happens for a reason. I will learn from this…
  • I have started a Gluten Free Diet a month and a half ago. It has been a hard change and I have slipped up once and a while. I think this has also contributed to my emotional highs and lows. Hopefully by this time next month I will be completely gluten free.
  • A friend of mine is in a three part mini series that you should check out on TLC called “Big Sexy” (check your local listings for time and availability). I am so proud of her and I knew from the first day that I met her she would be going places. Congrats Nikki!
  • I have been a bookworm. Since K had been working so much I had a lot of time on my hands. I have gobbled up more books then I could count. I started looking into Amazon’s free kindle books because the cost was getting too high. Why didn’t I think of the local library? I have no idea.
  • I also have become a huge cinephile (an enthusiast of films). We were getting three dvds shipped via Netflix for most of the summer. Alas, we had to change it to two because prices at Netflix are getting ridiculous. We did keep streaming though.
  • Cooking and baking have been nonexistent. You wouldn’t believe how long it has been since I have baked. I really need to head back into my kitchen. She is like my therapist.

SO as you can see things haven’t been terribly exciting, just busy. It is my hope to once again write on this blog daily. We will just have to see what the future holds…

There is a vacation in my future. Somewhere…

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Life has been busy. Overwhelmingly hectic weeks at work with project and meetings lined up for miles, birthday parties, cleaning and entertaining whenever we have a chance, organizing and spring cleaning our apartment, making, completing and abandoning a lot of to-do lists, and so on and so forth.

I’ve realized that I seem to be on this never-ending quest to catch up in every single aspect of my life.  There never seems to be enough time lately to finish a project, visit friends, take a trip, visit old co-workers or just sit and relax.

Sometimes people comment on how K and I have everything together.  Our house always looks immaculate and our schedules booked to perfection.  Little do they know that it takes a lot of hard work and sometimes a bit of our sleep.

Even though today is in the 80’s and the sun is shining, I can’t help but think how much we still need to get done.  We most likely will have people coming over today and the house is a wreck.  We have clothing that needs to get cleaned, I need a dress for an upcoming wedding and K still needs to get work clothing for his upcoming internship.  Every day we are on the go and this summer is not going to let up.  With K’s new internship it means 7 days of work for him and work and picking up the slack at home for me.  A vacation or a getaway is not near in our future.

I also have realized that this blog has been suffering.  Twenty three days without a written word.  I believe that is a record for me.  I just haven’t had the time to sit, let alone write.  I miss being able to take a picture of what we have eaten and post about it.  I miss Monday Five Countdowns, the 101 in 1001 List, Fill in the Blank Friday’s and just my usual ramblings.

K and were talking yesterday on our daily walk about taking a vacation like our honeymoon when everything has settled down.  We took a week to fly to Jamaica and stay at a Sandles.  We both agree it was the most amazing vacation that we have ever taken.  Maybe it was because it was our first vacation together as a married couple or just the thought of being away.  We crave the simplicity of that vacation and moments when we can sit by ourselves not doing a thing and not feeling guilty about it.  One of the best things about that vacation was we were not attached to our cell phones.  Due to roaming charges we had to have our phone off for 90% of the vacation.  No texting.  No calls.  Nothing to disturb us from each other. It was pure bliss!

We would like to lie on a bed in the sun and not have anywhere to go or anything to do.  Read a book, cuddle and talk to each other, have a wonderfully cool cocktail.  I can’t tell you how appealing that sort of thing sounds right now. Too bad we have to wait at least 4 months for it to become a possibility.