Karaoke Love

I love karaoke! Those who know me, know this about me...those who know me a little bit, probably know this about me...those who don't know me and are reading this, well now you do.  People always tell me when I ask them to sing karaoke.."but I'm not a good singer"...isn't that the joy of karaoke...you don't have to be good but still get to feel like a super star?? I'm fortunate to have a husband who likes it as well (notice I did not put love).  When we moved into our house in White Bear Lake we bought our first karaoke machine and sang in our basement ALL the time!  When we met our neighbors across the street they mentioned they saw us through the window singing which led us to explain that no we were not professional singers practicing, we were karaoke addicts! My friend Sarah shares my love of karaoke...it's awesome!
So if you ever want someone to sing karaoke with I'm your gal.  I have my own machine and a pretty good array of music as well... now I'm in the mood to sing...guess what I'll be doing tonight=D

So for our sporadic pescatarian (eats seafood but no other meat) month I caught a few images of some of the things I made:
note: yes the plates are old and I purposely look for them at thrift stores cause I LOVE them!..Grant not so much...he says to stop bringing in that 70's stuff=D

So just because you eat vegetarian doesn't mean that you eat healthy...which is true for us more than we would like.  This here is a recipe from my friend Sharon.  On an egg roll wrap set in front of you diamond shaped you lay down piece of havarti cheese, a pickle spear on top of that and sprinkle with a lil dill weed. Roll up like the pictures on the package tell you and seal seams with beaten egg around the edges.  Fry up and serve with ranch...DELICIOUS!  

This is the soup I mentioned in an earlier blog.  Vegetable broth, carrots, celery and cheese tortellini to add volume...mmmm=)

I heart stir fry!  I put like every vegetable imaginable...Broccoli, cauliflower, pea pods, onion, celery, carrots, peppers, chestnuts, bamboo shoots... and I use a stir fry mix.  If you out there in blog land have a good stir fry sauce recipe please let me know! My friend Janet turned me onto Quinoa and that's what I use instead of rice now.  I don't like brown rice so this is my "healthy" alternative to white rice.

Special K bars...yep, vegetarian=)

Pet peeve

Probably one of my biggest pet peeves is when your standing in line, a cashier comes to a register and says "I can help the next person" and someone who just got there runs over leaving the person who is next in line and been waiting to wait longer.  It happened at noodles and company the other day and it happens all the time.  To me it's budging and childish.  What makes your time more valuable than mine?  When I go up to cashier I always purposely grab the next person in line so this doesn't happen and boy do I get looks...REALLY? I did have a gentleman at kwik trip tell me "your next you can go" so there are good people who understand what next in line means.
 

Gnomie Love

Many know of my love for gnomies and I came across this picture and fell in love with it...ahhhhh:)

Becoming a vegetarian part II

  We ate meat.  Although for me I did reduce the amount of meat I ate significantly, Grant loves his McDonalds and quite simply he's a meat and potatoes boy.  I'm going to continue to eat a lot less meat but believe it will still be in my diet occasionally which I feel good about.  One recipe I made meatless was a soup.  I make chicken noodle soup frequently.  Instead I made a vegetarian soup:
Vegetable broth
Carrots
Celery
Cheese tortellini

We also did more with shrimp which is technically pescotarian, not vegetarian.  I have not got my self to buy a 5.50 box of hemp milk to retry it so I've just been drinking cows milk but not as much. 

So with that I'm a girl that dreams of being a pescotarian and but will be an occasional meat eating girl instead=)

becoming a Vegetarian???

So I've been toying with the idea of eating a lot less meat to not eating it at all.  Well I have my hubby on board with me to try it for a month.  We will still eat seafood but no land animals. Also am going to drink no cow milk which I love but I also like rice milk.  I'm not a huge fan of soy or almond milk straight up.  I tried hemp a long time ago and don't remember if I liked it and I have yet to try coconut which will be something I do soon.  When I had my surgery in that first two months I lost 22lbs.  I haven't stepped on a scale but I'm sure that with my appetite back the lbs came back as well. I know that doesn't have to do with meat per say but I hate not feeling healthy and after I eat meat I don't feel healthy.  I'm super excited about eating lots of veggies and fruit cause I personally LOVE them.  This is going to be a lot more difficult for Grant but am excited that he's acting excited about it.  I told him if nothing else special k bars don't have meat=D I've been watching many documentaries pertaining to health and 2 that really had an impact on me were Food Matters and fork over knife.  So here's to hoping that we can do it and it sticks.  The month starts on Monday so any prayers, suggestions and motivation would be most awesome!

Food Matters (I think I posted this before but what the heck it pertains to the post)

Fork over Knife

My biggest dream: The Simple Life

I really want to embrace a simpler life.  One in which just being with my hubby and reading a book on the deck/patio is a daily routine.  I don't want to have lots of money, but just enough to be comfortable.  I don't want to have lots of possessions but a few things to make our little home cozy.  I recently finished my dream book and every picture that appealed to me of living spaces were little and had cozy outdoors.  Ever see the movie The Holiday? Think the little cottage in England=)..Jack Black was super cute in that movie but onto more of my dream=D  I want to move to a climate where I can enjoy my outdoors most days of the year and thus far have found San Diego to be the closest to that....(have any low humidity not blasted hot in the summer ideas, let us know!) I really think that's what is  important in this life; having close relationships with our families and friends. The want of nice houses, cars, etc put us at work so much more and farther from what's important.  So I'm making this my ultimate dream and hoping I get this dream by age 40.  It may not happen in the next year or two years but I do plan to make this happen!


Love this house for it's uniqueness and it would look lovely with Gnomies in the yard=)

Comfy, entertaining, and could definitely find your table set at a yard sale!