Last night, we had a partial dinner fail. We cooked a pre-seasoned teriyaki pork tenderloin in a slow cooker that ended up tasting like teriyaki flavored beef jerky. This is how I could tell Pres didn't like it:
Me: What do you think of the pork?
Pres: smacks lips 4 times and looks up as if he is thinking (His go-to stall tactic while he thinks of a nice way to say he doesn't like something.)
Me: I don't like it either.
Pres: Let's put BBQ sauce on it. (His go-to solution to everything.)
On the other hand, I also cooked peeled sweet potatoes wrapped in foil in the slow cooker at the same time. I added 3/4 cup milk, 3 tbsp. butter, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg. They were great, mostly because sweet potatoes are really made of sugar. And because of the butter.
Butter really is wonderful. And salt. Salt is wonderful too, but if there was a battle between the two for world domination, butter would win.
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Slow steps back to normal
I'm making this start back to blogging as easy as possible, which means there will be a few lists of interesting things for a while. So, let's dive right in. (The word dive makes me think of scuba diving, which you can't do while pregnant. Just FYI.)
Baby News: I've got a new nephew, Nick, who was born last week on Thursday, Nov 6. Exciting! As for myself, I'm 15 weeks, or 3.5 months, pregnant. Our next doctor's appointment is next week. I believe it is possible to find out the sex of the baby at that time, but we've been told we should wait until 20 weeks to be sure. Also, in the next few weeks, I should be able to feel the baby move. More excitement!
Writing News: At the end of our Italy trip, I was notified that one of my stories was accepted for publication in New Texas, a literary magazine out of Sul Ross State University. The story is a non fiction piece about my study abroad trip to Costa Rica. I actually submitted it as a fiction piece a few times with no success when someone suggested that I switch to non fiction. It only took a few minor changes to make the switch. Another factor that I believe contributed to the story being published is that New Texas requires non fiction submissions to "engage key issues in relation to Texas culture." So I guess you could say, in business terms, I marketed my story to a targeted audience. (Also, I got published! I got published!)
Health News: For the past few years, while I've been involved in triathlon training and working out regularly, I assumed that when I was pregnant (which was always a far off type of thing) I would be that pregnant lady in the triathlon suit at the sprint race or that really fit pregnant lady at the gym. There was no way I would "let myself go" when I was pregnant. Ha!
THAT is not what happened. Not this girl. I know that everyone is different, but it's HARD. I was way too sick during the first trimester to do anything and now that I can actually, you know, move without vomiting, I can't breathe. I have no balance. I have to sit down after two flights of stairs! I have to hold on to the treadmill because I start to lean to one side like a falling pine tree. When I do lunges, my arms flail about like the wings of a crashing airplane. I've fallen over at least twice. And really, it's mostly funny to me when something like that happens. I just laugh at myself and think, "yeah, that's right. That's what you get for thinking all those other pregnant people were slackers. In yo' face, Katie, In yo' face."
I actually buckled to one of my stubborn fitness vows (To never hire a personal trainer because I can just read a book and learn the same thing) and hired a personal trainer. I'm glad I did. Right now, I need that really fit person standing next to me, counting for me and being partially responsible for what I'm doing. It's nice to only have to worry about breathing, and to be able to laugh at myself when I start falling over or have to sit down after ten lunges.
Travel (Un)News: When my mom and I went to Italy, I was 4 weeks pregnant. I felt great at the beginning of the trip, not so great at the end of our trip. It's possible that I vowed never to fly on an airplane again. I think my unreasonable pregnancy "thing" during the first trimester was that everything related to Italy made me sick. Everything. Italian food, cheese, the pictures from our trip, the clothes and shoes I wore on the trip, the Amanda Knox trial, the smell of leather. I rid my closet of leather, bought a Vera Bradley purse and only wore plastic beach flip flops for three months. I have just now looked at the pictures from our trip. So you won't see any posts about Italy for a while. Maybe later. Sorry!!
Baby News: I've got a new nephew, Nick, who was born last week on Thursday, Nov 6. Exciting! As for myself, I'm 15 weeks, or 3.5 months, pregnant. Our next doctor's appointment is next week. I believe it is possible to find out the sex of the baby at that time, but we've been told we should wait until 20 weeks to be sure. Also, in the next few weeks, I should be able to feel the baby move. More excitement!
Writing News: At the end of our Italy trip, I was notified that one of my stories was accepted for publication in New Texas, a literary magazine out of Sul Ross State University. The story is a non fiction piece about my study abroad trip to Costa Rica. I actually submitted it as a fiction piece a few times with no success when someone suggested that I switch to non fiction. It only took a few minor changes to make the switch. Another factor that I believe contributed to the story being published is that New Texas requires non fiction submissions to "engage key issues in relation to Texas culture." So I guess you could say, in business terms, I marketed my story to a targeted audience. (Also, I got published! I got published!)
Health News: For the past few years, while I've been involved in triathlon training and working out regularly, I assumed that when I was pregnant (which was always a far off type of thing) I would be that pregnant lady in the triathlon suit at the sprint race or that really fit pregnant lady at the gym. There was no way I would "let myself go" when I was pregnant. Ha!
THAT is not what happened. Not this girl. I know that everyone is different, but it's HARD. I was way too sick during the first trimester to do anything and now that I can actually, you know, move without vomiting, I can't breathe. I have no balance. I have to sit down after two flights of stairs! I have to hold on to the treadmill because I start to lean to one side like a falling pine tree. When I do lunges, my arms flail about like the wings of a crashing airplane. I've fallen over at least twice. And really, it's mostly funny to me when something like that happens. I just laugh at myself and think, "yeah, that's right. That's what you get for thinking all those other pregnant people were slackers. In yo' face, Katie, In yo' face."
I actually buckled to one of my stubborn fitness vows (To never hire a personal trainer because I can just read a book and learn the same thing) and hired a personal trainer. I'm glad I did. Right now, I need that really fit person standing next to me, counting for me and being partially responsible for what I'm doing. It's nice to only have to worry about breathing, and to be able to laugh at myself when I start falling over or have to sit down after ten lunges.
Travel (Un)News: When my mom and I went to Italy, I was 4 weeks pregnant. I felt great at the beginning of the trip, not so great at the end of our trip. It's possible that I vowed never to fly on an airplane again. I think my unreasonable pregnancy "thing" during the first trimester was that everything related to Italy made me sick. Everything. Italian food, cheese, the pictures from our trip, the clothes and shoes I wore on the trip, the Amanda Knox trial, the smell of leather. I rid my closet of leather, bought a Vera Bradley purse and only wore plastic beach flip flops for three months. I have just now looked at the pictures from our trip. So you won't see any posts about Italy for a while. Maybe later. Sorry!!
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
We're pregnant!
Babies!
So... this is why I haven't done anything more that sit on my couch for the past three months with a massive headache. I'm feeling much better now, so I think I can handle this blog thing again.
Although, I had to make it much more simple or I wouldn't be able to look at it. I don't know why, but everything gives me a headache.
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Sunday, August 21, 2011
What's growing on around here
I planted seeds the other day. Specifically, basil, parsley and chives.
This is a first! However... I made the mistake of
planting the whole basil seed packet in two jars like the one above. So
this weekend, I spent some time separating seedlings.
I had a few left over jars – which makes it seem like I do cool things with jars, like storing food or crafts or something. This is not the case. I purchased said jars because they look like baby food jars, and I planned to serve dessert in them at a baby shower, but the person making the dessert had other plans. This, however, is a different story. SO – I had these jars sitting around, asking to be used as seedling planters.
I think my little guys look pretty happy. Of course, this is only the basil, and only half the basil. I gave the other half to some friends (one of them was Mr. NHS 1996). There were so many seedlings that Pres "had" to run to Lowe's for some little seedling planter thingies. It was a really nice husband thing to do.
The parsley and chive seedlings are just now starting to show. Not so sure what I'm going to do about that.
In other news, we finally have blooms on our passion vine. We bought
this plant at the beginning of summer and it's just now blooming. Hurray! And also, 9 days until Italy!
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