Uncharted Territory

Kitchen: The Final Frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Samantha. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new cabinets, to seek out new recipes and new flavors, to boldly go where no woman has gone before.


Yeah. New house = new house payments.  That means Hubby and I really really need to be good at eating at home. Also bonus, it's easy to eat the right things (as long as guacamole isn't involved) when I'm at home.  


So I'm trying this: http://thescramble.com/default.aspx


Basically for $30 (or $15 like paid through livingsocial) you get a 6 months subscription of  daily dinner recipes (with nutrition info listed) AND a weekly shopping list (OMG LIFE SAVER!).  Each recipe is supposed to be able to be made in 30 min or less.  You're able to trade out recipes if there's something icky (or in my case a band meanie).  I figured for $15 it was worth a try.  Hubby's biggest problem with eating at home is we tend to just repeat the same 4-5 things over and over again, so this could be huge!


I'll keep you posted on how this works!




<3,
Sam


P.S.  while looking for awesome pictures to go with this blog I totally found my next knitting project!!

It's that time of the week again!

(.. so I copied and pasted.. and what was "Bring Your Own Crazy" on Drazil's blog says "Pea Picky Panda" on mine? so confused)

Bring
Your
Own 
Crazy

A little ditty where we answer a few questions on Friday to get to know each other better and to give our blogging brains a break.  Copy and paste to your own blog if you so desire!  Enjoy!

1.  Sun or rain?  Roses or tulips?  Romantic movie or comedy?

I like the sun after a rain.  When you look in one direction and it's all dark, but the sun is behind you lighting things up.   

this is as close as i could come to finding what I'm trying to describe.

2.  I've been sick lately and haven't eaten in two days - except for ice cream...which leads me to ask - what's your favorite ice cream flavor?

Mint Chocolate Chip.  No questions asked.  (or an Oreo Mint Blizzard)

3.  Are you a door locker - in your house and car?

Usually I'm a locker.  I got into the habit for a while of not locking my car, even at the park-n-ride.  I think maybe I was hoping someone would do me the favor of taking my car so I could get a new one.   But front and back doors always.  The hubby has been locking the door from the house into the garage.. which is driving me crazy when I get home and try to go inside!

4.  In the spirit of my being sick and wanting to die - tell me your "go to remedies" for when you are sick?

Baths.. Just to try and relax

Sleep.  Amen for sleep.

Soup.  I wish my hubby would make me some, but it's like pulling teeth just to get him to buy me some cans. 

5.  Repeat question:  Summarize your week in blog land and in real life.

Blogland has been good, at least when I'm at work and can actually use the Internet to read (does that make me a bad employee?? )   Everybody is super amazing and I'm so glad to have found you all.

Real life.. still unpacking after the move.  I feel like we've made the mistake of unpacking the "essentials" first  and now the 8 million books we need to unpack will never get done.  Ah well.  Not as good this week in the food and exercise department, but it's not the end of the world. 

<3

 Sam

Lunch

So I tried one of these today:

And it was actually pretty good.  it was a small container of reduced fat chives and onions cream cheese, some flat bread crackers, and some turkey.  And when I opened it I discovered a tiny Toblerone!   and all for 270 calories.  I'm sure it's not the perfect bandster lunch.  Maybe a little high in calories? A little low in protein? (11g) .. but I think for a quickie lunch on those days when you just forgot your plan, or late running out the door it's not too bad.  And if it is bad, please yell at me now before I get addicted to these!

Not the best week

THIS has been my downfall this week.

Yeah, so far this week I've gained back most of what I lost last week.  Oops.  Not the end of the world, I know.  But it's damn frustrating.  And it's all on me. I've been eating like crap, and less active.  I haven't been doing my stairs (partially due to my slip soreness this week) ..  I'm full of excuses as usual.

But.. This is okay.  This is not an excuse to pig out the rest of the week (this is my last grande no whip caramel mocha, I swear).  This is not an excuse to say "I'll skip the stairs today, and just start next week".   This IS time to look back and say "yeah, I wasn't great, but I did skip the donuts they brought in yesterday". This IS the time to go home and find my gym bag and put it in my car and go! (damn moving, giving me another easy out for not exercising). 

This surgery IS my reason to keep myself from falling back into old patterns. I DON"T want to fail.  I DON'T want to be 6 months down the road and sitting in the exact same place as I am now.  and I know what I need to do in order to achieve my goals.  Now it's just a matter of DOING it.  

I think I need NIKE to sponsor me! 

<3

Sam

Time to catch up!

Oy, Not having the Internet at home yet is killing me (and still a week to go!) And at the same time it's nice to get a little untied from my computer.  If I can keep it up, it'll go a long ways to helping me get more active.   But now I get to spend the first few house at work catching up on everyone's weekend :)  

As for me, I wasn't very productive in the weigh/exercise department, or the unpacking department.   Although I have an excuse! (don't I always?)  Sunday (which is my saturday)  was my cousin's baby shower.  It was at the Boulder Dushanbe Teahouse which was really cool.  I ate more than I should have, and stuff I shouldn't have but it was good. And it was fun, and part of why I chose the band instead of the bypass was so I could go out and have cucumber with humus, and artichoke stuffed pastries and a tiny little slice of heaven brownie (just as long as I do it very occasionally). 

On my way home, I stopped at the grocery store to get some dishwasher detergent.  And promptly managed to walk in the slippery stuff on the floor and do the splits.  OMG OW.  My groin area is still very very sore.  And I didn't see any store employees, so  no incident report so I can sue! and be rich! except I'm not going to. I'm way too nice.

Also it seems despite my worries the 2cc fill I got recently is working.  I've noticed several episodes of getting mini-stuck.  mini because it goes away quickly as long as I'm not trying to shove more food down my gullet.  Although this morning the hubby was nice enough to get up with me and make breakfast of scrambled eggs (he seemed to think he needed to make 6 eggs for the two of us) .. and scrambled eggs almost got me to my first PB episode.  But not quite.  I'm sure it didn't help I tried to wash the stuck eggs down with some orange juice. I KNOW better.. but obviously not.  :) 

Anywhos, time to go and see what everyone else did this weekend, and time to pray that Downtown Denver stops smelling like a shit truck exploded everywhere.

<3 Sam

Merp? How'd that happen?

Sunday weigh in, and daaaaang. I don't know if last weeks weigh in was small due to TOM, and now I just lost all that water weight, our if this week with moving and my second fill I'm in a good spot, but yay!  Last week I'm pretty sure I was 250 on the dot, so this is 6.something pounds this week. (I'd look at past entries, but I'm doing this on my phone and don't want to lose it) And since this is on my phone, this is all you're getting for now. 

<3 sam

NSV and BYOC

So.. Firstly NSV.   I pulled out a pair of jeans to wear today (yay for Fridays!) that I hadn't worn in .. maybe 3-4 weeks.  OMG these suckers are falling off.  I can pull them off EASILY without unbuttoning them.  And some of my shirts are starting to look huge on me!  Also this morning one of the Police Technicians on the night shift commented that I was melting away!  I'll take it.  :D

and BYOC brought to you by Drazil


It’s BYOC day! Bring Your Own Crazy! We answer a few questions to get to know each other better and to give our blog brains a break! Copy and paste to your own blog and enjoy!!

1. Alright – forgive me – we’re gonna get a little personal here. I was flipping through my organizer and saw in big bright letters “ANNUAL PHYSICAL DUE” coming up soon. Then I remembered that last year my lady bits doc said that since I haven’t had a bad pap in so many years – that I don’t have to come back for another 3 years if I don’t want to. What the what? Did you guys know that?

No speculum in the vaginulum?

Anywhoozle – it sounds all good but really – do any of you follow this medical rule? Do you go every three years if you’ve never had a bad pap?

I try to go yearly.  I'm all good with preventative medicine.  But I think that's a woman thing.  But we all know we're smarter than those guys who only go to the doctor after a body part has fallen off.


2. If you read, what are you reading right now? Or how about what is your fave music right now?

I am such a reader it's not even funny.  When I was a kid, when I got in trouble I was grounded from reading.  Mostly I read Sci-fi/Fantasy.  Currently re-reading the A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R.R. Martin (as he finally published the 5th book and I need to remember what the heck happened in the previous ones)


3. Name some of your favorite smells.

hmm.. Fresh baked goods (not that I bake).  Fresh cut grass..  Lots of fresh things (that don't come out of people)

4. Showers or baths? Shampoo only or shampoo & conditioner? Shave daily or just when you start feeling and looking like an ape?

Both showers and baths.  Showers daily for cleanliness purposes, but baths for relaxing with a book/kindle and candles and smelly stuff.  I'm such a girl and I don't know where it came from.

I have to use both shampoo and conditioner or else I'm never getting a brush through my hair.  And Shave when I'm starting to imitate an ape, or when the hubby complains about my legs cutting his legs up in bed.



5. Repeat question: Summarize your week in real life and in blogland.

Real life: I am a homeowner!! YAY!  moving was rough, took longer than I thought and probably burned a million calories.  And now comes unpacking.  But it'll be so worth it!

In blog-land I've been mostly M.I.A.  with that whole moving thing.  But I spent a good chunk of time catching up yesterday, and hope to stay caught up.  You all make this worth while!

That's it for now!

<3 Sam