Monday, June 13, 2011

10 Things I Love in my Kitchen


1. Nut Grinder
Because my mother and my grandmother used one. Pish Posh to the bags that are already chopped. I have my own thank you very much!

2. French Press
Because my husband HATES coffee. When my one cup is all it takes for a great Saturday morning.


3. Colorful Mixing Bowls
Because they’re just so pretty to mix in! When I moved into my new kitchen with the glass paned cabinet, I would not rest until those colorful bowls were behind that glass.

4. My Frog
Because I never realized there would be a time where O would actually wash my own dishes in a sink with a sponge. He has become very useful and not just a cute sink ornament.

5. My Stove
Because we are a poor married couple. I smile when I look at our stove. It came out of a garage Nathan cleaned. Oh, rusty stove…just when I thought I had an iron deficiency after weaning myself off of Peoria water…

6. Toaster Oven
Because Nathan and I are not getting a microwave…more like I won’t let us…I want to see if we can live without one and because toaster oven pizza is AWESOME in the summer so you don’t have to warm up the whole house with the rusty stove.

7. Ants
Because the remind me that even the perfect kitchen isn’t perfect. It also reminds me to do the dishes, put the lid on the sugar, and how AMAZING I am at towel snapping!


8. Grandma's Dishes
Because sometimes it’s not just Gma’s cooking that makes her cheesy potatoes SO good. I have eaten out of these dishes every thanksgiving I have ever been able to eat solid food.

9. Wooden Spoons
Because plastic melts and doesn’t keep the water from overflowing in my noodle water. My go-to kitchen utencial for baking in the kitchen and licking afer cookies!

10. KitchenAid Mixer
Because it’s timeless, it’s multifunctional, it’s durable, its RED, and it just plan makes me feel cool! Sometimes I just pull it out because it reminds me that I can cook.

Monday, May 2, 2011

First Day on the Job...Documented for Humbling Purposes

Things I did that keep me humble today...
- Called someone a brother when he wasn't...
- Made the coffee too strong.
- Pepsi break and it's only 10:30am
- Have already clicked "Still Listening" on Pandora 3 times...
- Tongue twisted phone calls
- Hitting yourself for interupting someone on the phone...(im pretty sure i look like an idiot walking down the hallway hitting myself)
- I fought with the massive, larger than life printer outside two of the ladies offices... "Are you ok out there?"
Awesome.

But, 4:30pm. Oh how different that feels from 7:00pm. Thank you Jesus!!!

Sunday, April 24, 2011

The Great Mother Red Hen

So Nathan told me last week that he had the best birthday present for me and I just needed to let him know when a good time was to go pick it out. Here are the hints that i gathered from what he told me...
- "You need to pick out what color you want."
- "Now, you won't be able to use it until we move out to the Route 40 house, but we can keep it in storage until we move.
- "I think they open and close at 7pm"

So that was the end of that conversation, and then we talked about it and figured out that we could go on Saturday morning before work. So I begged and pleaded for a few more hints... I finally resorted to letters.

"Tell me a letter that's in the word..."
"a."
"That's not a letter! That's a vowel!"
"Ok....*pause*...r."
"Babe, I DO NOT WANT A LAWN MOWER!"
"I'm not saying yes or no anymore!"
"There's no 'r' in Mac."
"Ha... yah."
"YOU'RE GETTING ME A GREAT DANE!!!!"
"Yeah right!"
" Recliner....Craftsmen? Babe, i don't need tools... Cuiesenart...."
"Go to bed!"
SIGH

So we woke up at 6am and got dressed for work. We jumped into the car and headed downtown... toward builders warehouse....UFS...*recliner-that i didnt want*.... and then we turned into the tractor supplies.
Passed the cowboy boots....no red ones btw... and HERE IS WHAT HE GOT ME.....



I basically have the best husband ever! They are the coolest... they smell... but they are cool! They will be out in the garage soon...but for now they are chillin' in the basement. Forrest is really not very happy about this...but she is handling it like any pompous, selfish, "i am better than the world" cat.

Then to day in an ode to Easter, I tried dying egg with neckties. It kind of worked... they looked pretty cool...
Here's hoping we'll be at our new house in about two weeks... but who knows... I'll post updated pictures soon.