Mood:  caffeinated

It’s Meeeelting!!!

Yesterday was crazy! Flyboy’s phone like never stopped ringing! As of 1800 he was told that he didn’t need to come into work on Wednesday (today) due to the weather, then, around 2000 his phone rang and was told otherwise. Good thing I decided to de-ice the car yesterday afternoon!! So, since he was afternoon scheduler, I just got back from dropping him off.

I will say that driving conditions are A LOT better than they were yesterday! Yuck!!! Flyboy got this itch to go walking to the mailbox yesterday, so we dressed up in a bunch of layers and headed down there. It was a nice little walk until having to walk back UP the icy/snowy hill. Haha. I asked him if he wanted to walk to the dollar store (1/2 mile) to get some hot cocoa mix. He of course said yes. I didn’t realize how icy it had gotten. All the plants were frozen solid, like during our nasty ice storm a while back. However it was really pretty though. The ground wasn’t too bad to walk on, it was mostly sleet. On our way back from the store we ended up helping a lady who got stuck in the snowy sleet. (It wasn’t a bad hill, the person behind her got up it just fine and they weren’t in a Jeep! I think it was a driver issue, but she greatly appreciated our help. Poor thing, you could see the panic in her eyes =/ ) It was a good work out though. I decided I didn’t want to drive to the gym on those nasty roads, so the walk to the store and our push ups and sit ups at the house, I think fulfilled our workout quota for the day.

Today was measurement day and the start of increased time and reps, but since weather kept us from the running I am deciding that we will maintain the workout agenda from last week for this week and measure and “up” everything next week. So we are behind schedule, but I think it is wise if we are trying to properly improve. Today is extra cardio day though, so that should be fun.

This afternoon/this morning the roads were alright until we had to cross over the bridge to get to the base gate. It was covered thick in sleet, and honestly, I have no idea how I made it to the gate without getting stuck somewhere on the bridge. I know I was having a hard time with the ground clearance, but somehow I managed. I know that when I pick him up I am definitely going to a different gate unless the sun melts a bunch more off.  I really don’t want to do that again. Haha

Tomorrow is grocery shopping day and Flyboy wants to tag along before he has to go to work. (Afternoon scheduler again) So needless to say I need to make a shopping list again. I also got my electric bill today and am a little tweaked about it. We have pretty much have had the heater off, it is set at like 68, so I am pretty dern cold, over here and yet our bill is $148!!! That is almost 20 bucks more than last month, and last month I was washing everything in hot water, twice, because of my itchiness. Explain this? We are waiting to see if our next bill is lower, and if it is then our guess that our microwave (that was draining everything) was the cause of this high bill. I know that OGE is charging a big monthly fee because they are trying to pay off the damages they had to repair from our ice storm, but still. Yeah, this bill was a kick to the gut. Fun times.

I don’t know what dinner will be tonight. On Monday evening I threw together this really thick, hearty tasty dish out of thin air. I was pretty surprised.

1 can of cream of mushroom soup

1 can of milk (filled the soup can with milk from the fridge)

1 can of uncooked rice

3 inches of Velveeta (cut the Velveeta at the 3 in mark)

1 ½ cup steamed broccoli

1 cooked chicken breast (cut in pieces)

I threw all that in the crock pot and 4 hours later it was done. (I think if you used raw meat it would take much longer) But I tell you what, I was a little apprehensive about the cheese but it turned out great. It made about 4 coffee cups worth of hearty goodness. Yeah, Flyboy likes it enough that he wants it added to my frequent meal list. This week I am going to try a few new recipes and I think Flyboy is really excited about it. Honestly I am getting tired of the routine meals, plus I think having a change up in meals will help with losing weight. (I don’t know that for fact, but it only seems like it would. Different nutrients, throws your body off? “Hey! Was that... was that... a... carrot??? No way! Red alert! Lets go, lets go lets go!” Well something like that. Haha)

I think I am going to start on my shopping list; it needs a bunch of reorganizing. So I will let you go for now. Take care!!

~NikiRose