Month: February 2017

Sunday Somethings

Sunday Somethings

Hello, Sunday. I’m continuing my fun-employment in sunny Florida at Disney and it’s been fab. No news is great news these days, so my pool time has remained pure and free from internet intrusion. Thus, I’m joining up with Biscuit and (Biscuit’s) sister to do a…

Monday Musings

Monday Musings

Hello, Monday. Well, I’m officially fun-employed. After seven years, seven months and four days, I packed up my cube last Friday and bid a sugar-and-champagne fueled teary farewell to my job and my friends, and still thinking about it makes me want to start crying…

Mazariners (Swedish Almond Tarts)

Mazariners (Swedish Almond Tarts)

Since telling my work colleagues bit by bit about my impending departure (Friday, yo!), I’ve been overwhelmed by so many good thoughts and wishes and hugs and smiles, and showered with offers for lunch and coffee.  It all makes me wonder if I should be leaving jobs more often. I kid, but it goes to show how wonderful all my work peeps are. And these mazariners are just another example of that.

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Sunday Somethings

Sunday Somethings

Hello, Sunday. Well we’ve got one weekend to go before I pack up this shrimp shack and move to colder temps. I spent all of it with my favorites, and I’m trying really hard not to think about how life will be when they’re not…

Labneh with Roasted Grapes

Labneh with Roasted Grapes

There is too much to do, not enough time, not enough hours, not enough arms, and what suffers is the food.  However, rather than reaching for the closest fast food item, I tend toward the opposite: less is more, and things like warm yogurt and…

Monday Musings

Monday Musings

Oh my gosh…time, time…where is it GOING?  Before I knew it the weekend was gone and then it was Sunday and then brunch happened and then the Super Bowl, and here I am again on Monday night, turning Somethings into Musings.  The good news is, I found an apartment, and will not be homeless come February 21st which is moving day (!).  Help me, dear me.

Anyway, a day late, here are all of my weekly thoughts. The ones caught my eye and the ones that I’ve been saving all week to share with you. Breathe.

And I am very glad that you’re here. 

Let’s all be happier.  These are doable, and I will vouch that #13, a mere smile at the grocery cashier today, got me a free cookie!  Smiles are a two way street.  Smile for you, and in this case, cookie for me.

Related: Don’t let your newsfeed emotionally destroy you. You know that black hole…it will.

Good news! Public schools…not as bad as we all are meant to believe.

Dumbledore logic?  It doesn’t make sense, yet us Potterheads believe it anyway.

Related: Little Buddha got sorted into Ravenclaw and confirms what I’ve always said- that he’s way smarter than I am (Gryffindor, here).

Also related:  Don’t mess with Jo Rowling on the twitter. She’ll verbally whip your ass, and provide all the laughs for the rest of us.

Think you know Friends? Can YOU get 20/20 on this quiz? The best my friends I could do was 19…let me know how you do.

Dress like a woman?  This is what we say about that.

I made a babka and it was so delicious. You should make it too!

Flight attendant saves girl from human trafficking. Bravo!

The last Beauty and the Beast trailer is out! My calendar is marked with a big red rose.

And finally this, all the fuzzies.  A group of strangers clean swastikas off the inside of subway trains. And THAT, is what the U.S. is all about.

Have a good week!

Written whilst chilling to the Michael Bolton Pandora station. You laugh, but give it a listen and you won’t want to listen to anything else.  

Chicken Taco Chili

Chicken Taco Chili

Chicken taco chili is the combination of chicken tacos and chicken chili, and uses mostly pantry and freezer staples and a store-bought rotisserie chicken.