MilSpouse Day & Weekend Plans

Today is Military Spouse Appreciation Day to my fellow Military Spouses! Hope you have a great day!

We're making our way to Dahlonega today (whenever Steven gets back from doing a few things at work), he is doing a GORUCK Light Challenge in Atlanta tomorrow, so we're going to see his family for a night, and then he'll go to Atlanta, and I'll just chill in Dahlonega. He has to be in Atlanta at 7am, and I don't want to get up that early, so I'll spend the day there.

5QF 5/3/13

That last question, I asked it =P To play along, get the questions and link up here

1. What is your next home improvement goal?
Next week I have professional organizers coming to help unpack and set up the dining room and living room. If we have time, I'm going to have them help with our bedroom and one of our guest rooms. We need HELP!

2. If you could only read one book for the rest of your life, what would it be? No religious texts (ie Bible, Quran, Torah, etc, etc)...
This is a tough question, I don't think I could pick just one book. Maybe a series, but not a book, and the series I would pick would be either Hunger Games Trilogy or The Twilight Saga, or The Sisterhood Series (by Fern Michaels) (because there are 21 of them! Ha)

3. What is on top of your refrigerator?
Breakfast foods (cereal, pop tarts) and our paper towel holder

4. What are your favorite or most used phone apps?
Favorite & Most Used are basically the same - Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Starbucks, Been Together, Big Day, CocoPPa
Games - Fish Out Of Water, What's the Phrase, What's the Word, Ruzzle, Diamond Dash

5. What's the one thing you hate most about your spouses job?

I love my husband's job, and I am so proud to be an Army Wife, but right now, I hate it, I hate that he works until 8pm or later every day, he leaves the house at 5:15 every morning btw, at this point with how little I see my husband he might as well be deployed or in the field for a month. I'm also sick of people not taking care of their responsibilities. Just because you are on the way out of the Army does NOT make it okay to just stop telling people what is going on, and leaving it to my husband to clean up your mess. And that my friends is all I'll say...

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.