Dog, Loot, & Dinner

God help me if I’m ever single again.  If something takes more than 15 minutes to prepare, I won’t take the time to make it if it’s just for me.  lol  Here’s my strange dinner that I’m eating as I blog.

Haha!  It’s actually very good.  It’s a Trader Joe’s Marsala patty (vegan) on a piece of Eziekel’s bread, topped with romain and hummus on the side.  I couldn’t commit totally to the hummus as I am a *HUGE* fan of ketchup!  I’m going to say that the hummus works better on this than ketchup, however, and I find this so strange–whatever.  Ketchup I’ll always love you!  Also note–dinner is on my to-do list for to-day.  Haha.

Basically I got everything done on my list, sans walk dog, clean office, and pull more of my favorite birthday trees, which I was planning on doing after dinner.  Took the Bubs with me to run errands, which is something I don’t usually do.

Haha!  Yawning!

That’s more like it.  What a good little buddy!

I got my make-up, then hit Bed Bath & Beyond, then stopped at Petco to get a spare leash and some new chewies for the Bubs.

Mama loot.  I’ll have to special order the larger coffee maker cone.  Boo.

Bubs loot.  He always knows when there’s something for him!

Oh, pig snout?  Sure!  The grossest thing in the multi-chewy pack and of course it’s the first one I give him! 🙂

“Lookie my grody chewy!!”

Up next, cleaning up the Roomba and changing out it’s brushes, sic-ing the Roomba on the office, then walking the dog, I think.  🙂 

Jalapenos are EVIL

Yep.  It’s true.  EVIL I tell ya!

For dinner yesterday (BBQ at the Dad’s to meet Son of Doo-Doo and his sweetie) I made a salad, fruit salad, and some kickass guacamole. 

I had easily washed my hands THREE time since cutting up the jalapeno and thought it was safe to rub my nose.  WRONG!  Seriously, the little mo’fo’s should come with a warning label.  The oils from the pepper stayed on my hands for hours afterwards, after multiple washings, and yes, after I rubbed my nose, you guessed it, nose of fire!  For HOURS the tip of my nose and nostrils burned, which was awesome.  I scratched my face when I washed it before bed, just a little scratch, and for hours my face burned where I had scratched it–I assume from residual jalapeno oil.

Aside from this, is was great to meet Son of Doo-Doo and his girlfriend.  They are very sweet people and Nick and I enjoyed dinner very much.  They were very sweet and procured dairy free ice cream for desert!  Needless to say, I’m looking forward to seeing them again, soon, and getting to know them better.

Today, Nick is in Portland for his dad’s retirement party, so I’m going to have to stay focused today!  He is really great and helping me stay on track.  Today, my to-do list is pretty loaded up.  Here’s a taste:

1.  Send PPT to client

2.  Biz Dev (time to revisit old contacts today!)

3.  Write Birthday Trees (it is my Monday tradition!)

4.  Run errands – I need some of my spf 50 cover-up (drat the sun and aging!), plus I need to go to Bed Bath and Beyond for Roomba brushes (mine, though only 8 months old is starting to show signs of wear and be less effective) and coffee accessories (cone and gold filter cone, and actual water filter thingies) and I’m finally FINALLY going to pop for an ironing board!  Ha!  Life’s little pleasures.  Last night, whilst pressing out Nick’s shirt at 11:30 on the kitchen counter with a hand towel under it was the straw that broke the camels back.  And if I feel so inclined I may pop into the mall here and look for some new boxers for Nick and workout clothes for me.  Exciting, ohhh yeah, you know it! 😉

5.  Pull more Birthday Trees for the book

6.  Walk dog

7.  Clean Office (As a surprise for Nick!  It’s been getting a little grubby and I *think* it could use a deep clean.  🙂

8.  Tidy House

9.  If time, find contacts for Heather for Horny Toad and other possible companies that would be a good fit for her. 

10.  Finally figure out that healthcare crap.  Bah.  I’ve been researching to no avail–so confusing, which I bet is part of the schtick. 

Anyway, I hope you all have a productive Monday!  Nick will be home LATE (after midnight!) so I’ll be cranking away on all of this to keep myself occupied and distracted from missing him! 

Ha, how could I forget?  11. BLOG.  😉  Obviously. 

Ever Have Days Like These?

…you know, the days where you have over a million things to do and you just don’t want to do any of ’em?

Yep.  That’s me today.  I need to shake it off, but instead, am taking a reprieve, here! lol

To Do To-Day!

1.  Biz Dev (it’s never ending!)

2.  Proposal Writing

3.  Pay Bills (yay, only not so much!)

4.  House Miscellany (laundry, tidy, dishes, boo)

5.  Walk Dog (mostly good, when he’s not pulling.)

6.  Run (done, it was hard this morning, what gives!)

7.  Call Panasonic re:  broken TV, repairs, etc….(7 month old TV just breaks! Took ’em two weeks to send repair guy, only to find out the part needed is back ordered, won’t be here for another 4 weeks! So, Imma call them.  This isn’t right.)

8.  BLOG! lol call that one DONE! 😉

I did get birthday trees done last night.  I was up rather late, for me, but hopefully they’ll end up on the website in time.

What else.  Oh YEAH.  I’ve got a beef with Morning Star.  You see, I’ve been buying their supposedly VEGAN grillers patties–at least, they put “certified vegan” on the packaging.  Only it’s a damn dirty trick!  There’s lactic acid in ’em!  NOT VEGAN, right?  Some somewhat haughty lady at the store yesterday pointed that out to me when I said how much I liked them and that they were vegan.  She said, “Well, I don’t buy those.  I keep kosher, and they have a little dairy kosher sticker on them, which means that they must have dairy in them.”  I read the ingredients.  Man, I hate it when other people are right.  😉  What I want to know is, how can a company put vegan on something only to have it not actually be vegan?  Doesn’t that mean they would be just asking for a lawsuit?  I’m not going to go after them–but I am a little bit cheesed off and will probably write a nasty letter and send it to them.  Seriously, what if someone was very allergic to dairy and ate that crap?  Ha, well, I guess that explains why Nick has bad gas after he eats those patties….I just thought it was the added ruffiage.  Heh.

So, I guess I need to go…..waaah!  See y’all later!