5QF 4/26/13

So I told ya'll Monday I was a Menu Planning failure, and I was right, I had a hair appointment Wednesday at 3pm, but the spoiled rich girl before me decided she wanted a full head of highlights instead of a partial like her appointment was made for, and that put my hair lady 45 min behind, so it was nearly 6pm by the time I got out of there. There is a pizza place next door we hadn't tried yet, Village Idiot Pizza, it was really good. Then last night I had picked up Chicken (pecan crusted) from Whole Foods and asparagus but a new friend got free tickets to see Quidam, so now we're doing the chicken and asparagus tonight! See, a total meal planning failure, yet again! Ha!

Welcome to Five Question Friday!! 

Rules for 5QF: Copy and paste the following questions to your blog post, answer them, then watch for the linky post to appear Friday morning and LINK UP!

Oh, and remember (pay close attention...this is the important one)...HAVE FUN!

Questions for Friday, April 26th: (Special thanks to Pam (@trooppetrie) from Troop Petrie, Kate (@KatieB38) from ~Kate's Life~, Kristina (@KristinasCackle) from Kristina's Cackles, Lady Ga-Gas (@gasfamily) from The Gas Family, Megan (@megstidbits) from Tidbits from My World for these 5QF question suggestions! I would love to link you in a future 5QF, so follow me on Twitter (@5crookedhalos) and/or like my Facebook page and watch for my Thursday shout out plea for questions! Remember to @5crookedhalos me and use hashtag #5QF if you go the Twitter route!)

1. Who drives when your family is together, you or your spouse?

It depends on which car we take, if we take his car, he drives, if we take my car I drive. It also depends on time of day, I don't like to drive at night, I have a hard time seeing at night. It also depends on where we are going, where we are, and who knows the area better. When we would go visit our families while we lived in Hawaii we would rent a car, and he'd drive in his home town and I drove in mine.

2. Are you an introvert or extrovert?

I tend to be a little of each, I enjoy making friends, and I have a great time when I do hang out with them, but there is really nothing better than spending a night in with a good show, movie or book. Plus I hate big crowds.

3. Are you married to an introvert or extrovert?

I think he's a little of both also.

4. What's your favorite type of social media?

Facebook, I'm a sucker for those games, even though I've kind of taken a break from them.

5. What's your favorite way to "recharge"?

A nap, a good book, a day in away from people, a get away, cuddles with my hubby!

Menu Planning Confession

Head on over to Jane or The Young Retiree to link up, 

or find some awesome new recipes or meal ideas!

I have a confession to make, I've been a menu planning failure. The last 2 weeks have been really hectic, and crazy. We've had some family issues that have affected (or is it effected) me and rocked me to the core. The week before last we left for Chattanooga so that threw Thursday and Friday off. We came back on Sunday, and so I moved what we were going to have to Monday & Tuesday. But Tuesday things took a turn, and I just could not cook, physically/emotionally could not cook. So I moved Tuesday's meal to Wednesday. Which then messed up the rest of the week, and then Friday I decided I didn't feel like making Chicken Divan, so I decided to do chicken nuggets and french fries, but the Hubs never came home, so I ate alone. 

Monday: The Hubs had a PT test Tuesday morning, so he likes to eat Pasta the night before. So I made Chicken Parmesan with Spaghetti, which I was suppose to make last week, but you know...it was pretty good, aside from the fact that I baked the chicken too long and burnt the bottoms, luckily it was just the bottom, and we could remove the crispy part, and it was fine! 

Tuesday: Filet's wrapped in Bacon. (I found them at Walmart yesterday when I was picking up Monday's dinner) It is one of the Hubs favorite steaks. We are LOVING those Parmesan Potatoes from Foodraf, so I'm going to make those and some fresh green beans.

As for the rest of the week, I'm not sure, but I think I'm going to give menu planning a break...I might be back later this week with what we'll have.

Menu Planning

Head on over to Jane or The Young Retiree to link up, 

or find some awesome new recipes or meal ideas!

*Most of my recipes came from Pinterest, please follow me there to see more delicious recipes and really neat craft projects.*

For those of you who follow me on Twitter and Facebook know that we had to take an emergency trip to Chattanooga. We were going to leave Thursday, so I gave the marinated Steaks to a neighbor. We ended up leaving Friday due to the bad weather Chattanooga was suppose to get, and that was headed our way, plus the Hubs didn't get out of work until 8pm, so he brought home pizza.

We were extremely lucky he was given Friday off. And I was so glad we were able to go home. My sister really needed me. I'll post about that later though, please continue to pray for us, but now it's time for our menu for the week.


Monday: Chicken Bundles - found this on Pinterest from TidyMom, made them a couple weeks ago, and Hubs really liked them. We'll have a Knorr's Rice Side Chicken Broccoli

Tuesday: (all these are from Pinterest) Bourbon Street Rib-Eye, from All Recipes, Roasted Mushroom Medley from Italian Food Forever, Parmesan Potatoes from Foodraf

Wednesday: Chicken Parmesan with Spaghetti and Garlic Bread

Thursday: Hamburger Helper....

Friday: Chicken Divan & Rice

Menu Planning Monday, on Monday, wow....

Head on over to Jane or The Young Retiree to link up, 

or find some awesome new recipes or meal ideas!

*Most of my recipes came from Pinterest, please follow me there to see more delicious recipes and really neat craft projects.*

Monday: Since Hubs was sick Friday I didn't make dinner, so we'll have Spaghetti and Meat sauce and Garlic Cheese bread

Tuesday: Slow Cooker Southwestern 2 Bean Chicken from The Gracious Pantry (another Pinterest find) 

I've modified the recipe since we made it a few weeks ago though. It's just chicken, tomatoes and salsa, black beans and corn. That’s it, in the crock pot for a few hours…it took all of 3 minutes to throw together, maybe 5…

Wednesday: (all these are from Pinterest) Bourbon Street Rib-Eye, from All Recipes, Roasted Mushroom Medley from Italian Food Forever, Parmesan Potatoes from Foodraf

Thursday: Chicken Bundles - found this on Pinterest from TidyMom, made them a couple weeks ago, and Hubs really liked them. We'll have a Knorr's Rice Side Chicken Broccoli


Friday: Red Lobster's Crab Stuffed Mushrooms from Secret Restaurant Recipes (going to use bigger mushrooms), left over Parmesan Potatoes and green beans

Now to make my grocery list and head to the grocery store!

Low Key Weekends

Hubs came home from work early Friday sick. And the kind of sick I don't do well with. I can't even hear someone on TV throw up, or see it. You know that scene from Breaking Dawn 1, where Bella is throwing up and they show the throw up coming out. Yea, I turned my head, closed my eyes, and now that I have the BluRay I mute it. I just can't deal...But I took care of him the best I could. Went to Walmart, got medicine and saltines and bread. I got back, gave him the medicine and saltines, and it was all downhill from there. He had a headache. So after getting some advice from Mama M on twitter (Thanks btw!), I had him sip small sips of Gatorade every 5 minutes. He kept that down, so I let him take some Tylenol, and boy was that a bad idea. From that point on he didn't eat, drink or take anything. Finally later that night he decided to try Sprite. He hasn't thrown up since. But because we didn't know if he'd throw up again, I slept in the guest bedroom, partly because I can't deal with throw up, but also so I wouldn't get his germs. I sprayed Lysol and washed my hands after I saw him. So far I haven't gotten really sick. I think my stomach was upset just because of dealing with him. He's still not 100% but he's eating and drinking and keeping things down. So yay! And I'm not sick *knock on wood*

He had to work Saturday. They picked up a new cycle of S.I.Ts (Soldiers in Training) Saturday. So he'll be super busy until they graduate June 13!

So needless to say, we didn't do much of anything this weekend. And I hope next weekend we can do a little more. The weather is warming up, so maybe we'll go to the state park or something.

Hope ya'll had a great weekend!

5QF

Welcome to Five Question Friday!! You've come to the right place if you want a fun, easy post to get you through!

Rules for 5QF: Copy and paste the following questions to your blog post, answer them, then watch for the linky post to appear Friday morning and LINK UP!

Oh, and remember (pay close attention...this is the important one)...HAVE FUN!

Questions for Friday, April 4th: (Special thanks to Pam (@trooppetrie) from Troop Petrie, Melissa (@Melissa_M80), Brooke (@HallBro) from Brooke and Michael, Kate (@KatieB38) from ~Kate's Life~, and little ol' moi for these 5QF question suggestions! I would love to link you in a future 5QF, so follow me on Twitter (@5crookedhalos) and/or like my Facebook page and watch for my Thursday shout out plea for questions! Remember to @5crookedhalos me and use hashtag #5QF if you go the Twitter route!)

1. Would you go to your high school reunion?
My 10 year is this summer, and I'd like to go, but I don't want to go alone, I'd like my husband to go with  me, but with his new job, it's hard to plan things, and since we don't have an exact date it makes it harder. Sure there are people I could care less to see, but there are some I'd love to see. Every time I'm in town I'm so busy with family, and we're usually not there long enough to meet up with everyone. I don't think it's a surprise to anyone when they hear I hated my high school, until senior year.

2. What's something that you've recently splurged on; either for yourself or someone else?
I fixed the damage on my car. I used part of our tax return, and went through the insurance, so it wouldn't cost us a whole lot, and I had 3 things fixed, 2 of which went through insurance, the other was under our deductible and won't count against us. And we have accident forgiveness, and since we've been long term customers the second claim shouldn't raise our premiums too much.

3. How do you handle your child's fever?
Don't have kids yet, so I don't have any clue! Haha!

4. What's the nicest thing to happen to you lately?
We went to Florida to see some of my family that I haven't seen in 10+ years. Got to spend the weekend down there, and my husband got to meet them for the first time.

We took a day trip to Myrtle Beach, got to eat at Joe's Crab Shack, go to the Ripley's Aquarium and eat at the Hard Rock Cafe. We will definitely be going back for longer. There was so much to do, and it'll be neat to go when it's warmer, it was pretty cold to be at the beach!

Another neat thing, on twitter, Josh Wolf (@joshwolfcomedy), a comedian from Chelsea Lately, replied twice to a couple tweets I replied/retweeted. He is seriously one of my favorites from Chelsea Lately, I've always thought he was cute, and he likes the Red Sox, and I'm reading his book right now, and it's making me like him even more. Seriously, check out his book - It Takes Balls - Dating Single Moms and Other Confessions from an Unprepared Single Dad


5. What is your current favorite song?


and

1 Year Ago

April 1 marked 2 years since Steven left for Afghanistan, and today marks a year that he's been home!!

Waiting for them to get there, I am NOT good at waiting!

 Things have been good since he's been home. We stayed in Hawaii for about 8 months after he got back, and now we're in South Carolina. And hopefully he won't deploy again, at least not for a really long time. Right now he's in a job that is non-deployable, and hopefully in August we'll find out if we're going to Oklahoma, where he'll be non-deployable for at least 6 months.

That first hug was AMAZING!

The deployment wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it would be. But I think it helped that I worked the whole time he was gone! And I had some awesome friends! And we didn't have kids. So I only had to worry about me, and how I was feeling, rather than how my kids were handling their father being gone. Sure I had my moments, and I absolutely missed my husband more than anything. But I went into the marriage knowing this was something that was going to happen. Sure that doesn't make it any easier to deal with, but it keeps you in check when you start to feel sorry for yourself, and complain about it. I knew what I was getting into, and I agreed to this lifestyle. And this lifestyle is not for everyone!

He's home! And my awesome decorations!

 I made some amazing friends while he was gone. We had so many awesome get togethers, and girls nights, and dinners, and just hanging out. People I could go to if I got overwhelmed, people who wouldn't let me get overwhelmed! I sure do miss my ladies! I have met a few ladies here, but none of them have compared to the ones I met in Hawaii. I think they set the bar way too high!! I do like the ladies I've met here, and I look forward to getting to know them better, and meeting more!

Had to get a picture with the sign I made!

I'm really looking forward to what the next year will bring. And I'm sure whatever it is, we'll come through it with flying colors, like we did the deployment. And the move.

Thanks again to Taylor at Nine3Oh Creative (or her FB page) 

Menu Planning Monday (on Tuesday)

Well, Tuesday, because I've been in a Dinner rut...so head on over to Jane or The Young Retiree to link up, or find some awesome new recipes or meal ideas!

Monday - We got KFC, cheap, easy, yummy

Tuesday - Steak, Mushrooms(found the recipe on Pinterest) and Mashed Red Potatoes - *breaking news - we did NOT have corn with mashed potatoes, which has always been something I've had to do*

Wednesday - Chili - my dear friend Lisa gave me her recipe, and I tweaked it for us, and it is now our favorite crock pot meal

Thursday - Garlic Chicken & Potatoes(found the recipe on Land O Lakes website, using their Saute Express butters) Except I'll buy the potato and green beans from Green Giant, LOL...

Friday - Spaghetti and Meat sauce and Garlic Cheese bread