in the lighting department. I think the snowman helps bring the warm and cool lights together. The bad news is, I can't get him to work right.
But more good news. I had a solution.
I'm past the date to return him. I can't even leave a review anymore because he's gone from Amazon. (Probably in rehab.) I can't be too upset though. The reason I bought him a couple of months ago was because he was on sale. Oh well, you win some, you lose some. I'm done with the lights.
You know how they say never go to the grocery store when you're hungry? I have another one. Never shop for clothes when you're cold. I did some online shopping the other day. I bought four sweaters. Yeah, it's winter, but does anyone in SE Texas need four sweaters? Seriously though, they were delivered yesterday and I've been wearing one ever since. I might need more.
There's a show coming to Netflix on December 20th called The Witcher. Eric told me about it months ago. It's a video game that they've turned into a show. Lately I've been seeing ads for it and how great it's supposed to be, compared to Game of Thrones. That's going to be hard to schedule in binge-watching during Christmas.
Okay. It's time to go chill. I need major rest right now. I'm headed towards the snowman's situation, minus the alcohol.
you sit down to write something on your blog and your p.o.s. computer is working at a snail's pace? I'm pretty sure it won't last much longer... the computer, not the slowness. It hung up on saving a picture. Figures. So I have a breaker stopping my dryer from working and now old age is stopping my computer.
Maybe sharing something that makes me happy will balance out technology letting me down.
We have been hooked on Jack in the Box tacos and guess what... We figured out how to make them at home! They are so good.
You know what isn't good? Doing a blog post on my phone. Actually, it sucks. (Not as much as a blog post from the iPad but it still sucks.) I might see how well my phone does at searching for new computers next.
Maybe I'll do it after one more episode of Yellowstone.
I've been binge watching since yesterday. In real time, it's in its second season so I'm almost caught up. I like it but it's probably not for everyone. It's basically a modern day cowboys and Indians show with corruption. Maybe the older cowboys and Indian shows had corruption but I wouldn't know. I don't think I'll start watching Bonanza to find out. Did Bonanza even have Indians? I guess I'll google that.
Okay, I'm off to finish my episode on my iPad while I search for a new computer on my phone.
had a little get-together. It was the baby's first so I put candy in her basket for Eric and Paige to share. Next year they'll have to fight a little harder for it.
I even decided to put out a few decorations.
I went all out. I might do a little more next year. I will say this though, those eggs and that bunny basket came from Dollar Tree. Those might be the cutest things I've ever bought there. Speaking of cute things, I got a bunny box from Gigi's Cupcakes. It was a box of 12 mini cupcakes.
They were cute. For the record though, the bunny box was just a plain box and there were only three of the bunny cupcakes so it could have been called anything else. Chick crate? Nest nest? Carrot cart? Spring-themed variety pack of one dozen mini cupcakes?
All the cuteness aside, we ate. It was an awesome spring day and perfect for grilling. We had burgers, baked beans, potato salad and deviled eggs. I grilled the burgers but also did the baked beans and deviled eggs. I ate entirely too much and made myself sick. By the time dinner and Game of Thrones rolled around, I was fine with just a sandwich.
Can we just take a moment for Game of Thrones? Before going to bed, I had to get on YouTube so I could watch theories and predictions and one made a lot of sense. It was actually two videos and the first was about the Night King and what he really wants. The second video was more to do with The Night King and why there must always be a Stark at Winterfell. It's a lot to take in right before bed.
Game of Thrones airing yesterday, we had our own little watch party. I'd been wanting deviled eggs so I knew I wanted deviled dragon eggs. I looked on Pinterest to see how I could color the eggs. I found one I loved.
At first the colors seemed a little bright so I added a little more black food gel but this time, directly to the eggs' shells.
I was so happy with the final results.
I present to you Deviled Dragon Eggs.
I think I might always color my deviled eggs from now own. Maybe pink and yellow for Easter?
Also on the menu:
Imp Shrimp
Wildling Wings
These were just a bag of Kroger brand frozen hot and spicy wings. I only made five because I don't eat wings but according to Cosme, they were really good. He also wished I would've made more.
Mini Pigeon Pies
Or, little quiches that were another Kroger brand frozen appetizer. We finished off all but one.
Spears of the Unsullied
I already had the asparagus but picked up some prosciutto to wrap them for a little something special. I also sprinkled them with parmesan cheese before I baked them alongside the quiches. We ate all of these too.
Then of course, Ned's Head Brownies.
We had all this while catching up with last season.
By the end of last season's finale, I can't forget that we finished it all off with
White Walker Milkshakes
It would've been better to have them in our silver goblets but those things don't hold much.
After that we were stuffed and I was ready to throw up. On the bright side, I forgot about how I felt as soon as the premier started.
Something also clicked at the finale of last season, watching the Night King fly around on his newly acquired dragon. If the dragon allowed the Night King to ride it, does that mean the Night King is a Targaryen? It's all too much. I need answers... and snacks.
Vikings started back up on The History Channel on November 28. We were excited. While at my doctor appointment on the 28th I kept reminding myself that as much as I didn't want to be there, at least I had Vikings to look forward to. When the time came, we didn't get around to watching. No biggie but then it hit me that we'd never watched directly from tv, it was always Amazon Prime. That meant I didn't have a dvr set. That meant the November 28th premier wasn't recorded. I set the dvr and saw that while we'd catch every other episode, the first one for the second half of season 5 wouldn't air again. Great. We were stuck. We couldn't continue without season 5, episode 11. That went on for a couple of weeks while I accepted the fact that we would have to catch up online later.
A couple of days ago I checked the History Channel app on my iPad just to see if that episode might be up even though I knew it wasn't on Amazon. There it was. I told Cosme. He wasn't thrilled about watching it on an iPad but I reminded him of our Amazon Fire Stick and there you go.
Last night we caught up on the Fire Stick via The History Channel app.
We were not disappointed. I need more ASAP. Cosme woke up this morning still analyzing with predictions about that final scene. I can't wait for next Wednesday.
I planted this shrub... I don't remember when. It was years ago, maybe ten? Anyway, it's blooming right now and it smells so good.
I also think my watering schedule is paying off. The grass is looking better. I like watching the sprinkler when the sun is coming up behind it. I guess it's just a chill kind of thing.
What is not a chill kind of thing is when it's still dark out and I'm moving the sprinkler and come back to the house to turn it on and see a bug. (Said bug was probably a tree roach but seemed flatter.) What's even less chill than that is when I used my flip flop to swat him dead, he somehow flipped from the house to my shoe to MY SHIRT. I swatted him off and killed him WAY dead, no acrobatics this time. I ran into the house freaking out and pulled my shirt off as soon as I shut the door. I had to get the roach cootie shirt off. That was definitely not chill.
A little later I came in here to open the computer and started hearing a noise. It sounded like a sprinkler's stream hitting a window. That was weird because I didn't have it set to hit any of the windows. I went outside to check and somehow the sprinkler had come loose and scooted its way out of the ground at an angle. It was watering the front flower bed and front door.
Anyway, the roach and sprinkler mishaps are over and done with. The rest of the day will be awesome.
In Vikings news, we finished. Now we are waiting with the rest of the world. That show is good. I can't believe I couldn't get into it the first time I tried to watch. I've decided though that if I'd been a viking, I'd probably be the person who walked around beating the drum. Luckily, I wasn't a viking and I'm the person who only needs to eat breakfast and wash clothes.
rough this morning. I'm always super sensitive to smells. I just did the litter box and it almost didn't end well. I'm recovering right now.
I was looking online over the weekend, thinking of all the things I could ask for when my birthday rolls around. It all started because of Pinterest and pergolas. Anyway, I ended up at this grill somehow, not that I want or need it. A grill with wifi. How have any of us managed all this time?
I guess they took hotspot to an all new level.
We also ran out of dog food on Saturday. I didn't make it to the store because I had other things going on, like cleaning and Vikings. They were fed for the day so I decided I'd go Sunday morning for food. We let them outside before heading to Kroger. This is how our dogs let us know we failed them.
They expect breakfast as soon as they go out and if they don't get it, they lay there staring at the bowl until we get the message... or until food magically appears. We got the message.
I felt like drawing or something along those lines the other day. In junior high, when we first learned contour lines and how to draw our hand, it became a goto for me. Can't think of anything to draw? Draw your hand. That's what I did. Oh, then I added my stick of charcoal on the page so my drawn hand could hold it. It's not awesome or anything and I've done it plenty of times but it led to a mess and that led to me getting my camera out.
I haven't looked at the pictures yet but maybe I'll pull them up today and share tomorrow. I don't know. There wasn't anything awesome there either, just me wanting to do something.
We've also started the first half of the fifth season of Vikings. After this we'll be caught up. This show is seriously good. We were about to head to bed last night but we had to see how a situation played out. We ended up watching the whole next episode. We turned everything off in the living room and watched a little more in the bedroom. I don't even know when the rest of the season comes out. I guess I need to look that up so I can stay on top of things.
Now I've got to go turn my water off. I'm determined to get the grass looking good again. I really think it was the snow we got. I noticed there are quite a few yards that normally look perfect and this year they all seem a little off. Glad it's not just us.
I think I might go finish that oatmeal I started before doing the litter box. Toast might be a better option.
calling and canceling Trugreen yesterday. Our yard doesn't look good this year. It could look a lot worse but it doesn't look good. It doesn't look like we've been paying a company to treat it.
Look at all the junk growing in our yard.
I've been watering this morning. I've also been walking around tearing off the strands of crab grass that drop all those little seedlings for us to have even more crab grass next year. It's annoying.
We could just do the lawn on our own like we used to. Then again, it does look better with Trugreen than it ever did with me doing it. Besides, did Maggie eat the spreader? I don't remember. She ate a lot of our lawn stuff.
Oh well, I'll keep on doing my best. At least the gardenias are blooming and I get to smell them every time I go out to mess with the sprinkler.
Thinking about all of this is leading me to think about other things, like when I was up at City Hall to pay the water bill and they can't explain to me why our bill spiked so high last month but was back to normal this month. They told me to check for leaky toilets. I told them I'm sure a leaky toilet didn't fix itself. Also, everyone in the neighborhood had the same complaint. They told me to check the meter reading... STOP. NOT MY JOB. While I'm thinking about everybody not holding up to their end of the deal, it leaves me thinking about TxDOT and their inability to maintain their weeds behind our fence. I think I'll give them a call today. I shouldn't have to pay someone to get back there and clean out property that isn't mine and if they give me permission to do it, again, NOT MY JOB.
Oh boy, this post sent me on a downward spiral fast. Well, it sent my mood on a downward spiral but not so much the blood pressure.
Changing the subject.
Update on Vikings: we started season 4 last night. I can't believe it took us so long to start this series.
Okay, that didn't work. I need to get stuff done before I get dressed and go throwing fits all over town. Let's hope some of the chores keep me distracted. Nobody needs to deal with that today... especially not me.
busy there for a minute. Monday was busy and I just didn't have time to get on the computer. I started the day off making a shepherd's pie and needed to fill out certificates for the church. Making Tuesday's dinner at 7:00 Monday morning wasn't necessary but I knew I wouldn't have time to cook on Tuesday and wanted something we could easily reheat when we got home. (It all worked out because I was so tired by the end of Monday we had Tuesday's dinner that night too.) Cosme's dad needed a ride to MD Anderson Tuesday so I took them and waited at Eric's while they met with his doctors. His first appointment was at 10:30 and Eric asked if I'd pick up McDonalds when I came over. Well, we got to the hospital a little earlier than expected. I dropped them off at 9:40. It was just about to turn 10:00 when I got to Eric's neighborhood. I went ahead and stopped at PetSmart for cat food. (Then learned that it's $8 cheaper at Tractor Supply so decided I'd wait to get it when I got back to Angleton.) I drove over to McDonalds and decided I'd go in to order. Not sure if they served lunch at 10:00 or 10:30, I hoped that if they knew I wanted to order lunch and I was only a little early, they'd bend the rules. I asked what time lunch was served. 10:30. I told the cashier I'd just stand there until it's time, a whole 30 minutes. I waited. About 15 minutes later a manager said she'd noticed I'd been standing there and asked if I needed help. I told her I was just waiting for lunch to be served. She asked if they told me they couldn't do it and I explained. She rolled her eyes at the cashier and told me to just ask for a manager next time. She took my order and referred to me as "my lady" the whole time. I felt fancy and I liked that. The odd thing is, that's not the first time I've been out where the workers have called me that. Anyway, I got our food and left. Back at the apartment I realized they gave me an extra apple pie. That's what I'm having for breakfast... because that's what fancy people do.
I was dreading the drive from The Heights to the Medical Center and then from the Medical Center down 288. I picked them up around 4:30 and traffic really wasn't that bad. Well, it was bad but not as bad as I predicted.
Rewinding and totally out of order, I was at Kroger on Friday. They had pork shoulder roasts on sale for a good price, 88 cents a pound. I wanted to get one but they were so big and I didn't know if we could eat that much pork roast. I mean I would normally make pulled pork but did we really want bbq after 2 weeks of it? No. I didn't know what else to make with it so I started to walk away then one of the meat counter workers asked me if I got a roast. I explained to her why I didn't get one. She told me she used one for carnitas. She said it was a crock pot version that was finished off under the broiler for crispiness. I asked her for the recipe and she sent it to me. Then I picked a roast and they cut it in half so I could store the rest in the freezer. I used this recipe HERE. I took her advice and added more lime to the crockpot and only used plain chili powder since I don't like the heat. It was really good. We didn't use the tortillas I bought but instead ate it with rice and black beans, like something we'd had in Puerto Rico. We still have a little in the refrigerator so we might even have that for dinner... since I left the shepherd's pie out last night. WHY DO I DO THAT??? I COULD KICK MYSELF! I've got to learn to just put it up as soon as I'm done, even though Cosme wanted to hurry and pick back up on our Vikings marathon.
About that... I started to watch Vikings a year or so ago. It was a slow start and I just couldn't get into it. I stopped. I started back up a few weeks ago and then I couldn't stop. I got halfway through season 3 and told Cosme he NEEDED to watch it with me. I started over from the beginning. It was still a slow start but once it gets going, it's really good. So if you want a good show (that's about to start its sixth season), watch Vikings. It's on the History Channel but we're catching up on Amazon.
I've got to go get stuff done now. I need to do the laundry I didn't do yesterday and make another dessert. I think I might spend a little time drawing today too. I'll start on all that after I dump out the ruined shepherd's pie. That bothers me. Shepherd's pie is one of those things I really like but never think to make. Oh well, at least this time we'd gotten several servings out of it... but we could've had several more.
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