Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Long Time No See...





Well hey all!  I know its been a while... but you know how things go.  Life tends to get in the way of the things we love to do sometimes!

So, let me catch you up on where I've been and where I am going.  I went through a skin fiasco last year... about the time I slacked off on the blog.  Seems a product I was using for "13" years, that was labeled as botanical I might add, seems to have contained steroids that were not listed in the ingredients.  Skin still hasn't quite gotten back to normal... but it looks so much better.  This is a little sample of what I dealt with for 6 months!  Yikes!

Then of course there were the holidays... and you know we are always the hostests with the mostests... so that was a few months of crazy!  

Oh and I totally have to fill you in on the animal situation.  Remember the cat that we inherited from Gram's? Well she ended up picking fights with Beazie (our spoiled cat)... started spraying in Beazie's litter box, and Beazie didn't want to go in there anymore.  One morning I heard Beazie crying so loud in the dining room... I went in there to find that she pooped... in the floor... 3 DAYS BEFORE THANKSGIVING!!!!  I didn't know why she was doing this, until one night when we were going to bed... The Hubs walked past Gram's cat and caught her spraying the wall with urine!  The cat has been in the garage ever since.  I spent 3 days searching Pinterest for ways to get rid of cat urine smell, being that all the family was on their way, and to top it off had to figure out how to get Beazie back to her litter box.  Got Beazie a new litter box, and put it in a totally different location... everything worked out, and we had no surprises in the dining room for the holidays.  Shew!  3 months later... the sprayer is still in the garage.  We take good care of her... but won't let her in the house.  Cat urine and my obsessive compulsiveness  just don't jive well together!  

As for the new year... well it's still sunny and warm here in Cali.  I'm still able to wear my flip flops most days!  We are in a drought you know.  I want some rain and cold weather... we got jipped this year.  I have come up with some really good recipes that will be making their appearance over the next few weeks.  I have decided to do weekly posts for now instead of daily, so I can still share food and thoughts, but not overwhelm myself.  I've gotten back to my workouts too!  I actually took before pictures... but you won't find those on here until I have amazing after pictures to post as well.  Since my diet is clean... I don't have to worry about falling off the wagon... but my wagon needs a lot of work.  I've gotten fluffy!  That's all I am going to say about that!   A friend of mine posted this on Facebook and I keep reminding myself of it daily! 
What no skinny Fairy?  Say it isn't so!!!  Glad to be back!  Recipes Soon!  Promise!