Random Friday

I rented Better Off Dead from Netflix (because I had never seen it before) and Christian and I watched it last night. Now I get it when people growl, "I want my two dollars!" And the french foreign exchange student wasn't actually french. My french accent is better than hers. But besides that, I laughed a lot. Maybe in part because we started the movie at 10:00 and I was exhausted. But still, I found the ridiculousness of it hilarious.
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Part of me has been feeling bad lately. I mean, I'm still posting once or twice a week, but I'm having a really hard time being on the computer otherwise. I do have time to read most of your posts, but I certainly have been quiet on the comment front. I don't want my blog friends (you) to think I have deserted you. Then I had a revelation: It's summertime, I have two busy boys and a newborn, I'm still trying to figure all of this out, and... school starts in five weeks! And Aidan starts kindergarten! I will have four hours every morning with just Kaitlyn. Then I started having grandiose ideas about how my house will be sparkling clean, I will blog and leave my comment trailings all around the blogosphere, Kaitlyn and I will play, and I can get all of my errands done during that time. And then reality came crashing down around me. But still, four hours! I really hope to feel a little less frazzled after school starts.
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I started a new blog. I know, I know, insert groans here. But here's the back story: I don't particularly like cooking. I very rarely follow recipes when making dinner. And I am not ultra organized and therefore do not make menus. What usually happens is around 4:30 I start thinking, Hmmm, what should we eat tonight? Then I scrounge around and find something that will suffice. More often than not I make the same five or six things (eggs and hashbrowns, german pancakes, spaghetti, etc.) And then about once every two months, when I get fed up with making second-class dinners, I sit down and make a list of fourteen or fifteen items that I can make for dinner over the next couple of weeks. My problem is actually coming up with dinner ideas (especially since I don't like to use recipes). Then I realized that some of my favorite dinner ideas (or even some of the easiest ideas, like tacos) don't seem to register in my brain very often. For me, coming up with the idea (and remembering it for future reference) is the hardest part.

So a few nights ago, I remembered how much I like shepherd's pie, so I made it for dinner. Then I started thinking, What if I have a list where I write down things I make each night, so for the times when I can't decide what to make I can go to this list and jog my memory? And voilà - a blog is born. No recipes, just writing down every day what I am making for dinner. If you want to click over and leave a comment telling me what you are making, it would really help me too so that I can have even more options in my food arsenal. If anything, click over and read my subtitle (check with a dictionary if you must, hee hee).

Dinner's On!

Oh yeah, just so you know - we bought a quarter of a cow last week, so most likely there will be a LOT of beef meals in the near future.