A bunch of random things

Not going to lie, but life is busy. And I also don't have much to write about.

Well I did start a new job, so that's something I should cross off my day zero list. I also have to find that list. I love my new job I feel that I can actually go somewhere and the fact that my boss wants me to learn and grow within the company is a great feeling. My old job I just felt that I wasn't going to go anywhere. But change is good.

Husband also started a new job, so now we are in the moment of not seeing each other much. But in the end hopefully we can move out of his mother's basement in a few months and be on our own.

It is the season of baby showers. Had the first one of three (so far) this year today. I was glad this one didn't have many games and many that you had to get up and do things at. The baby was born already (28 weeks early!) so it was good to see that baby is doing well on her long journey ahead.

I think that covers everything. I will try to write more often. I need to find more things to write about weekly. (yeah that's my goal now)

Walking the Dog in Pictures

The weather here has been so nice this past week that after work I've been taking the dog for a walk almost everyday.

Faith do you want to go for a walk? (don't know why this picture is so fuzzy.. still getting used to my new phone)

And a few of her walking:

This was right before she went into a barking fest at the dog across the street

and then my artsy pictures

Spring is almost here!

Sun is setting

I took these on instagram if you want to follow me my name is littlewakey

My weekend in pictures

Just a blog with a few pictures.. Okay, I was bored and wanted to try out a few of the camera's fancy settings

My "coffee" cup.. okay there's hot Chocolate in it. With the cozzie my sister made me.

Dirty laundry.. nuff said

This is faith.. and she's a princess

yup.

Part of my earrings.. I made this one look pretty

The rest of this collection.. very messy.. I don't even know if half of them have a friend.

no, I don't have an earring problem.. okay, yes I do.. 

So I cooked..

And it was soo delicious. I really want to try to cook more often, and last night  I proved to myself that I can cook. I had to use math to make the recipes for just the two of us, so with a little Google and math I was able to do it..

I made Easy Garlic Chicken from this Recipe. The website allows you to choose how many servings.
After reading the comments, I browned the chicken on the stove top for a few minutes on each side. And then put the chicken with the glaze in the oven on 425 for 15 minutes. It was really good this way.

And I made Three Cheese Pasta Bake From this Recipe

I added a little Red Pepper Flake to give it more of a spice. Scott even said it was probably the best thing he's ever had. Which makes me feel good, since I really had to half this recipe and wasn't sure how it would turn out. This would be a great thing to have for family stuff. Was really good. Good thing I have all of the stuff for it to make it again.

It was a lot of food. But today I was able to take it to lunch and eat some of the goodness of the three cheese bake. 

and I'm 29

Last weekend I turned 29.
eek.

I think I gave up on birthdays awhile ago. But this one scares me. Last year of my twenties. Maybe I should start acting like an adult or something. Maybe have a kid. Get a really decent job, or get another job so I can start saving. I'm past the age where I don't have to save. Yeah, there probably was never that age but you know you do what you can do.

I really need to figure out my debt situation. Think about student loans that I've been barley paying off since I finally  graduated in 2009 and all that credit card debt. OH MY! My goal for this year was to not use them, which other than itunes, I've somewhat stopped. Yes, I need to take my credit card off of itunes and either get a gift card every few months or just stop buying that stuff too.

Getting older sucks. Waay to much to think about.

I don't want to grow up :(

Men eating banana's is not cool

I was talking on Facebook to my friend Megan the other day. She was at the hospital waiting for her husband to get our of surgery (it was a small thing, he's good... I think) and she sent me this message via chat:
 The things you see in a hospital waiting room .. some dude just walked in wearing super short shorts, a tank top, winter boots , carrying a briefcase and eating a banana.

My Response: A Banana? -- 

We live in Chicago, it's January I should find that odd, but there are a lot of crazy people who can't get out of their minds that it's 20 degrees not in the 80s.

We went on and on about how odd it was about a guy eating a banana.. really it's not cool to see a guy have a full banana in their mouth.

Exhibit A

Not cool.

Men... cut up ur banana's

I kill Hair Dryers

I have this thing where I kill hair dryers. I've killed some during haircuts where they just die. Then we had a few at my moms that just died on me. Didn't work after I touch it.

I thought yesterday I killed the outlet.. since my hair dryer and the flat iron weren't working. Luckily Scott is all of a sudden Mr. fix it and figured out to press the other reset button and it works now. Phew.

Not much of a blog.. but it's nasty outside right now rain and slowly turning to snow.

How much do I want to live in Florida now right?

Movie Review: Money Ball

I'm going to try to put some movie reviews up on here..

Saw Moneyball last night.  I tried to read the book awhile ago, but it's really into stats, baseball stats. So I stopped reading it, hoping that the movie would be a whole lot better. It's really not. Kinda bland kind of movie. No real feel for the characters either. Scott didn't like it either. His cousin loves it. So I guess it's however you feel about baseball.

So if you love stats I guess you'll like it?

I also did not like that they used a song from 2008 (Lenka - The Show)  as a song that his daughter sang to him that she wrote for him.. while it was supposed to be 2002. We looked up to see if the daughter was the singer, she wasn't. If it's about that year, why don't you use some songs from that year? Not current songs!

I give this movie a C. Don't really need to see it again

It's a New Year!

Sure this post is about 10 days late, but yeah.. I forgot to blog. urgh.

I've had a cold for about a month now. It comes and goes. One day it's here in full force and the next it's completely gone. I take thing when I have it, but when it's gone I stop taking them. Actually some cough medicine makes my stomach hurt as well. I used to have an addiction to cough drops, until I got bad stomach aches and had to stop taking them. -- I really don't want to go to the doctor over the sniffles. But my crazy germ-free coworkers think I have about 10 different disease.. this is what they tell me over sniffles. I'll dale with the sniffles.

New Years was fun. Played the world's longest card game that went from 2011 to 2012-- till about 3am. Urgh. Scott won 11 bucks.. he was the winner. So it was over 11 bucks.

This was a quick update. I'm going to do a day zero one later today.. but it is 50 degrees out and I have a goal today to get out there and take a walk before it all goes down hill.. again.