Happy Birthday B!

Aug 30th, 10 / 6 Comments

Psssst, if you are interested in winning some Spanx, enter my give-away here!

Today is my husband B’s 29th birthday.

(Which means his 30th birthday is also his Golden Birthday and that means at this time, next year, we will do something extra special!)

Happy Birthday Darling! This means I shall take the opportunity to tease you a little. Natch.

Saturday night we celebrated B’s birthday with friends by going out for some delicious oysters, burgers & beer. Happy birthday indeed! As the night wore on The Namby Pamby and B parted ways from the ladies of the group and went out to the bars for guy time, which roughly translates to: too many tequila shots.  This of course meant that Sunday he woke up with what some might refer to as a “raging hangover.” Unfortunately for B the best I could do was toss him a Perrier and run off to meet some internet friends for a day at the Children’s Museum, which meant that the Sunday errand of grocery shopping was on him.  What could go wrong?

You see where this is going don’t you?

It means that instead of 2 cans of tomato sauce for the lasagna, we had 2 cans of diced tomatoes.

There was no Greek yogurt to be found.

There was also no string cheese. Or fruit. Or potatoes, sweet or russet.

I also can’t find the cheese or baguette for his birthday dinner request of home made french onion soup.

We don’t have any of the ingredients for shrimp & penne pasta which I’m making on Wednesday for a group of lovely ladies, but that is because B thought I said I was making risotto. Which we also don’t have the ingredients for because he forgot them.

I did however find a roll of strawberry Mentos, 2 bags of tortilla chips, and a new toy for the dog.

Happy birthday sweetheart! Enjoy your Kindle! We are having cheese-less onion nachos for dinner & Mentos for dessert!

Chicago, Domesticity Win, Family, Married Life, Recipe ala Daisy

To Do- Updated with To Done

Aug 27th, 10 / 8 Comments

Oh & of course, in case you missed it, I’m holding a giveaway- SPANX!- over here. It just takes a comment to enter!

This week, as I was reading my blog-friend Lacey (Perks of Being a Jap) it hit me that I have a nagging to-do list. You know, those things that you keep telling yourself you really should get to. The things that never get done, that slowly pile up until the dog literally knocks them over, or the time comes that you need the project done & it isn’t and you just kind of hate yourself for never getting around to it. This weekend I’ve decided I’m knocking things off that list, one by one, and cleaning up the mind clutter that accumulates around them. No more reminding myself as I drive home from work or nod off to sleep that I really just need to…yeah..I’ll get that done….tomorrow?

  • Order replacement lenses for B’s sunglasses that he dropped on a tile floor (DONE!)

 

  • Take my new wool coat to the seamstress to have the sleeves taken up (Not done….)

 

  • Drop off the bag of clothes I’m donating to our local thrift shop (DONE!)

 

  • Start. Working. On. The. Curtains. (Step one: buy curtain rod & steam curtains) (DONE!)

 

  • Gather up sweaters that need mending (stupid moth!) and get them to Without A Trace (Not done…)

 

  • Research picture frames – it is getting time to swap out all the random photo frames I have in the guest room & master bedroom for some more uniform brushed nickle frames. (Suggestions anyone? I’m looking to do this inexpensively.) (Research begun)

 

  •  Drop off the dry cleaning (Not done…)

 

  •  Take old towels to the boat trailer (DONE!)

 

  • Decide, once and for all, what to do with our wicker bar stool that suddenly disintegrated. Fix it or toss it, but for goodnes sakes, no more waffling! (DONE!)

 

  •  Buy more file folders & finally finish filing everything in the filing cabinet- no more piles in the office on top of the filing cabinet. (DONE!)

I’ll report back on Monday…but in the interim…what about you?

 

Chicago, Domesticity Win, Married Life

Promises Promises

Aug 27th, 10 / 1 Comment

Now that I’m home from BlogHer, I’ve been given the opportunity to do some fun giveaways for products that I use & enjoy (there is one going on right now!)  But, as Katie pointed out: blogs are not about reviews, they are about writing. You don’t come here for swag or free stuff (I hope?) you come here because you enjoy my stories or my writing. Or you are my Mother. So I have decided to make a few promises to you, my readers, about my give-aways:

1. I will space them out. This isn’t going to become a promotional zone.

2. Every give away will be hosted on my subdomain: www.blog.daisyjd.com, not on my main page. You will have to click over & you will know that you will be reading a sponsored post. This means you will never get to the bottom of a post only to discover it is/was sponsored.

3. I won’t make you jump through 1000 hoops to enter a contest. I agree that entering a contest should be something simple, not a long process of Tweeting, Facebook following & the like.

Speaking of…… if you click over to my subdomain you might found an awesome giveaway of the Spanx/ASSETS variety….

Chicago