New Year!

 Well, where to start? Not much is new in my life besides getting my car inspected and registered which is good that it's done.

Life is good, the holidays were a little stressful but were ok. I didn't do a whole lot over the holidays.

I can hear my smart garden watering itself, lol. I bought a small smart garden from Aldi last May and I love using it! I bought a greens kit and put the pods in last night. In a week I should see little leaves sprouting and soon I will have fresh lettuce! 

I want to buy another smart garden but it will be a goal, I will save up, and when I have the money I will buy a smart garden that can hold 12 pods instead of 4. This smart garden was a great investment!

Today I am relaxing since it's crappy weather out, went and bought more hay for the guinea pig because the hay was low and came back home. The roads are not great but it's winter.

That is all I have, for now, wanted to update here since I don't do that very often. Off I go to find something to watch and relax.

Late Update

As I get ready for bed, I decided to post. I need to work on posting more on this blog.

Anyways, things are good right now and I’m doing ok. Just need to worry about bills and saving money for my car inspection, tires and registration. I may wait til the end of the month to do inspection.

Be right back…. 

Okay I am back!

All ready for bed now.

So things are good and I’m working extra this week and hopefully get a 3 day weekend.

I went to a craft fair yesterday and bought donuts and a female Viking gnome and her name is Isabella.

It was fun and I love Isabella the Viking gnome. Hopefully I can get another gnome so she can have a friend. 

Good night everyone.

I'm Slacking!

 I'm slacking but not a lot, I had the holiday off and splurged on one thing for myself. I bought a soda stream online and will get it next week, I bought this because I like carbonated water and I need to look at flavors or what I can do to add flavor.

Not much is new, I am relaxing and may go to the store with my grampa tomorrow to help him. 

Everything else is going well and I am happy. That is all I have for now but hope to post a bit more in the next few weeks.

Way Behind on Things!

 Hello, long time no see! Crazy it has been since I have not posted in the last few months. Sometimes or well most of the time, I forget I can write in here as well.

Things are good and I start some part-time work on Monday which is great! I'm excited to get out of the house more and talk to people.

My stomach is growling even though I had breakfast, crazy but guesses I need a mid-morning snack.

I am going downstairs soon to cook turkey bacon, I will be making a chicken bacon ranch pasta salad on Monday and want to cook the turkey bacon ahead of time. I always thought turkey bacon would not taste good when I worked at a college cafeteria but I was wrong, it's not bad at all and I love it. 

Now I buy Turkey bacon and love cooking it and having it with meals, think it will go good on a tuna sandwich today.

Now I will be ending here so I can cook turkey bacon. Have a great Friday!

Cinnamon and Sugar Popcorn

 Hello and happy Tuesday! I hope all of you are well and having a great week so far. My week has been ok so far and today I made popcorn and added some Cinnamon and Sugar to the popcorn.

You are probably wondering why I am talking about this. Since the first of the year, I have been working on my health and wellness journey. I started working out and logging food and losing some weight, my mental health had a great boost and I was happy.

I don't work out as often but I look for new foods or recipes and try new things. An online friend suggested popcorn because I had said I wanted junk food and popcorn is lower in calories when it is plain. 

You can add seasoning to the popcorn and give it some flavor so, I looked online and found a few ways to dress up popcorn. I don't mind plain popcorn but it would need some flavor.

Today I made a small batch of popcorn, I have a popcorn container from the Pampered chef that you can use in the microwave to pop the popcorn, used a small amount of olive oil, and put the microwave on for 4 minutes.

After the popcorn was done, I took it out of the microwave and added cinnamon and sugar while tossing (shaking) it up. I only used 2 teaspoonfuls of cinnamon and sugar.

This is what my popcorn looked like when it was done with cinnamon and sugar.

This is the popcorn maker I am talking about:

This was a great item to buy and I love using it! You can wash it and reuse it again.

That is my news and update, for now, I hope everyone has a great week!

 

Some Knitting and Cleaning Today

Good morning to all you beautiful people!! Happy Friday or Saturday! 

I’m doing a little cleaning before I go back to sleep, I work a short morning shift and I’m still tired.

Things are good and life is good. I have been posting recipes on my other blog, made a few of them, and have been knitting. 

Going to start another pattern today for knitting and will only keep it to 2 projects for now. Sometimes I like to start more and I don’t want to do that.

Also need to use up my yarn stash before buying any more yarn.

I don’t think there is anything else to share with you folks, I think I covered everything.

Now I need to clean out my smart garden (grows salad greens and basil) then a short nap and do some knitting.

Have a beautiful day! ❤️😁

Dishes Done! Now to Knit!

 Hello to everyone! I hope all of you are well today and I hope that the week is going well fr you.

I just did some dishes,  not all of them are done but let the ones I did wash, dry. I also made ramen noodles for my lunch for tomorrow.

I have been looking at meal prep videos to get some inspiration and I have been using bento boxes for my lunches while I am home during the day. I love bento boxes!!!

Tomorrow I will have ramen noodles in chicken broth, thin-sliced pork chops, and need to figure out a vegetable and maybe a small snack. The ramen noodles I got from the grocery store were in the Asian aisle and it was a miso soup with ramen noodles.

I am not a fan of miso soup and yes I have tried it, just don't like it. I like the noodles and cooked those instead. Just need to cook the pork chops tomorrow and figure out the vegetable and make black bean corn salsa salad.

Grocery day is Thursday and I am sticking to a budget when going, I did add apples but I may go apple picking this weekend after giving blood. Don't worry, I will load up on snacks and plenty of water.

Cortlands are almost ready and they are my favourite apple and I would love some apples with almond butter.

Now that I have ranted on long enough, I need to find something to watch and work on my knitting project. 

Thanks for reading and have a great day!