Combine all ingredients into large pot and bring to boil. Don't worry that the sauce seems thick, all the veggies will add the extra liquid that is needed.
Let simmer for as long as possible, but no less than 1 hour. Simmer on the lowest heat. You want the veggies to be a little soft.
Today was a pretty busy day. I took mom to the base to drop off and pick up some prescriptions and then I got my hair did!!!!
I LOVE getting my hair done. I have the best hair dresser and she always make me feel great!!
I washed a couple more bed sheets and am going to mess around with getting clothes in the right drawers tonight. And DONE!!!!
I wanted to paint the metal of the desk today, but it didn’t really work out. I finally got to sleep in, I think I woke up about 10:30, not for the first time, that would be too awesome. I still woke up several times during the night.
Paul and dad worked on the gate and that is working again. That makes me so happy, I love not having to get out of the car and it is really great for my mom.
Tomorrow is laundry and packing day. My flight is not super early on Monday, but early enough. I am gonna pack pretty light since I am going to help the field people. I am going to wear jeans and probably my safety boots, but maybe not. I can’t image there will be any extra time to be going out out. I didn’t even think that it might be a little bit cold up there. Guess I better check the weather and might have to take a couple sweaters
Alright, I am going to watch some Netflix and go to bed Good night!!!
Today I went ahead and made my weight loss goal. I am 5’2″ and I currently weigh 190 pounds. I want to weigh around 125 pounds – that is a 65 pound weight loss.
That sounds crazy to hear, I think if you know me it might sound crazy to you that I feel like I need to lose that many pounds. Well, it is what it is. 125 pounds for someone my height is not going to be skin and bones. When I was in high school I weighed around 115 and I always thought that I was a little fat. I don’t ever remember being “happy” with my weight, with a crazy flip side that I don’t feel this fat. Right now, I do. I know I have gone overboard with my diet the last couple months and I feel the consequences. Which is why I am laying it down like this – after I just ate some ice cream…
I was supposed to start working out this month and I did the treadmill once. That was it, just once. Why – I don’t know. I just lack motivation so much that it feels like it cripples me.
I have to start making progress in the downward direction before I get too far gone. I hope to be able to post updates that are positive on here and not more sob stories. I may try to find a doctor to see if there is something that I might be qualified to take to help, but that will be secondary to actually working at it. If I don’t see results when I try then we will go that route because something might be wrong.
Today I tested out the two blue colors I got for the metal parts of my desk. I wasn’t sure which I would like, even though I was pretty sure I would like the darker one, so I decided to paint a “test” piece. When I was painting I was sure of the dark blue, but seeing it in inside light vs the sun I am no longer sure! Real problems over here ya’ll!!
I did some web conferences today and even though I messed up the meeting invite 2 times – the meetings actually went pretty well. I do one in the morning and cover the same material in the afternoon and it is pretty amazing the difference in interaction It being Friday doesn’t help, but it was about half the time of the morning meeting
Mom is feeling much better today, she was walking around and eating pretty well. I took her this afternoon to go get a prescription and then we grabbed some food. She didn’t go in anywhere, but she was out of the house.
The people who purchased my old mobile home were supposed to move it today and I was kinda curious to see how it went, but they decided to move it on Monday and now I am going to miss it. Oh well
I must tell everyone about what happened last night after I posted the blog. These stinking puppies went to some mud hole and rolled around in it and came home COVERED in sand and mud… I get them a great pool, fill it with nice cool water, and this is how they repay me! Nickel had the most, there was no way he could come in the house like that. Well, stay in the house for the night. I took him right into the shower – he was not excited and I did have to drag him across the tile floor. Once we were in there, he did good and we got him all clean. After that I swept the floor and I just believe the amount of sand that was on the floor from the front door to my room.
Tomorrow I have a hair appointment!! I LOVE getting my hair done and can’t wait to see what we do tomorrow 😉
Alright, I am going to wrap this up and get ready to take the puppies out again for a workout. I am really getting concerned about what they are going to do over the next two weeks when I am going to be gone. Hopefully they won’t be terrors!!
My sister is selling my old mobile home and they needed the Blazer moved and the wheels were locked up so we really needed to start it to get it to move. My dad and I went over there to change the battery and we got it moved – I think he was a little surprised, but I don’t know what we would have done if it didn’t start.
I also had to grab the AC out of the window for Carlos. That little guy was a bit heavy
Work had some challenges today, but just kept pushing through them. I think I will go ahead and work from home tomorrow again because my mom is still pretty bad off. She ate very little today and is still pretty weak.
I made flight arrangements for the next trip, I am out next week and then the following week as well. I am going to be traveling so much in these two weeks – should be a different hotel every night on both! I haven’t done that in a long time.
I changed my bed sheets tonight – which includes the cover blanked – to a brand new one I got – I love it
I am going to be playing with the puppies soon to tire them out. I tried very hard to keep them awake today so that they will be tired when it is bed time.
I want to have a picture on every post so that it looks a little more interesting on Facebook. I am not trying to make them all pictures of the puppies, but so far that has been the case. So enjoy
Goodnight!!!
It makes me crazy that she lays here, but she loves it :)
We try to use water guns to get the puppies to stop barking in the house, but Nickel had ate the one we had. I got like a 12 pack from Amazon, but they were a bit too cheap and didn’t really work. So mom decided to get some better ones from the store. I just had to get one because Nickel keeps barking inside. It is so freakin loud. I haven’t used it yet, not sure if he will hate it or not really care.
I am feeling a lot better about my room now that I am basically done with the “remodel”. Not sure what to call it, how about makeover.
Nickel is being crazy tonight. I have figured out that he sleeps all day and decides to gain all this energy when it is time to go to bed I have played tennis with them 3 times in an effort to get him exhausted, it has not worked…
So sorry that this blog is not to interesting. Will work on being more interesting tomorrow
Today was a difficult one. I didn’t sleep great and on the drive into the office I was really struggling with not falling asleep in traffic. It was physically painful to focus on staying awake. I just can’t keep this up. I want everything to go back to normal!!!!!!!
I came home early with hopes of taking a nap and it was useless. I wasn’t even close to falling asleep. Now it is the time I want to go to bed and I am not really feeling tired.
Alright – enough complaining!! I played ball with the puppies. They are getting so good at catching the ball in the air and I am trying to get them to put it back in the basket when they fetch it. Dime is going to be the one to master that first, Nickel is stubborn.
I finished putting together the other nightstand tonight. It all looks good. I have some car cleaning stuff to take to the garage but other than that, I am done with the like organization part of the room.
Let’s see, I can’t really thing of anything else interesting that happened. Sometimes my life is just normal and not the usual rainbows and sunshine I just can’t help how funny I am
OK, goodnight and sweet dreams everyone
Nickel couldn’t stay awake…Nickel couldn’t fall asleep…
I got my end tables in the mail today!!!! I built one of them, but it like totally kicked my booty so I will do the other one tomorrow. The goal of these is to put sweaters and bedding stuff in them so that my dresser can be stuff I use more often I feel so accomplished and that is great!! I know I am such a nerd. A friend of mine said something like it looks like Pinterest exploded in my clean corner – I thought that was hilarious It’s not just me that is funny, I try to surround myself with funny people!
Alright, must go play tennis with the dogs, they are going crazy with built up energy!
They are getting so freakin good at catch! I can’t wait to do another video of it. I have to get a mount for my phone and I will put the tripod up and just film, maybe next week.
Had a good day at work today. Not super eventful I suppose, especially for a Monday. I made my flight and hotel arrangements for next week – CHICAGO!!! I say that like I am going downtown to the Hilton, I am flying into Midway and headed right to Calumet City and then to Ohio. So, lots of driving, 8 hours total and 4 hotels for 5 days We may be getting on a packed travel schedule here this month, I will keep you posted.
I am going to get ready for bed, I am a bit worn out! Also, my teeth have been really sensitive to cold lately and that give me a bad headache Aleve PM and sleep will come soon Goodnight!!!
Well, it was bound to happen and it has… Nickel ate the living room remote control. Luckily we have the original remotes to use until I can program a new one, but what a little BRAT! When he gets upset he does these things and most of the time no one is around to notice what he is doing to correct him. I don’t know what to do with this dog
Today was laundry day, which went quickly since I was sick most of last week. Mom wanted to go to the store to get a new lamp shade so I took her and we stopped and picked up some dinner. That was pretty great
I cleaned the stickers off my metal pieces for my desk and will hopefully get them painted this week. When I am not 100% sure about something I really drag my feet on it I just want to make sure it is right.
I talked with dad and we are going to build another picnic table! Gonna come up with some moving system for it so we can just move it out of the way. Found the same plans as the one we made 15 years ago. Will be doing things a little different this time though May use different wood for the top and will work on something to personalize it, like burning our names into it or something.
Alright, sorry it is so short, but I am going to finish up my room and get to bed early today. I have been sleeping very poor still. BYE!!!
Aleve PM and sleep will come soon 
