Show Us Your Life: Resolutions

I'm joining Kelly's Korner blog and sharing my New Years goals. Does anyone else hate the pressure cooker otherwise known as "New Years"?? Ha!


Here's what I'm going to do in 2010. (Have we decided whether we're saying "twenty-ten" or "two thousand and ten"??)

1) Run a 5K with the hubby. Ya'll, I can barely run a lap on the track so this one is pretty lofty!
2) Volunteer more. This year I spent some time with the Ronald McDonald House that helps my husband's hospital and I want to find other ways to give my time.
3) Go to the beach. Us Kansans have a pretty raw deal with the whole living-by-the-beach thing.
4) Find a church we like in our new city. We've started and it's so hard to find a church that feels "right".

So what are your goals?? I hope you have a great year, you're able to go after all your goals and you live life abundantly in 2010!

A Day In The Life

Joe was feeling much better today after what appears to have been food poisining (darn hospital cafeteria panini!!) so he went on to work. This month he's doing a Nephrology rotation. I hope I spelled that right, and yes, I had to ask him what that is (kidneys, apparently!) The schedule is really light so he was home by lunch. We loaded Boomer up in the car and made a trip to PetCo because we are out of dog food and I always bring Joe because we buy in bulk! Ha!


I was glad Joe was with me because we had a.. ahem.. Code Brown inside the store.

And moving on.

Tonight for dinner I made something I think you HAVE to TRY if you
a) like spicy food
b) like Mexican food
c) are looking for a healthy meal that doesn't taste like a carrot stick!

Spicy Chicken Tacos

Ingredients:
1 tsp chili powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp ground cumin
1/2 tsp ground black pepper
cayenne (as much as you like depending on how spicy you want)
1 lb. skinless, boneless chicken breasts
cooking spray (or I use olive oil)
corn tortillas
green cabbage, thinly sliced
Monterrey Jack cheese, shredded
sour cream
salsa

Prepare grill, George Foreman or skillet. Combine chili powder, cumin, pepper and cayenne in a bowl. Cut chicken into bite sized pieces and rub the mix over the chicken (don't be too liberal because it will be way too spicy!) Grill the chicken. Heat tortillas and fill with toppings.

Sometimes I double the seasoning mix and I also play with different toppings. Since tomatoes are out of season, tonight I used carrots and chives with the cheese, salsa and sour cream.

Yum!

These are in the weekly rotation around our house!

We ate our tacos while watching the college football championship. We decided to root for Alabama. We both graduated from OU so it is in our crimson blood to hate Texas. Ha! The first OU football game Joe and I ever went to was the first OU home football game of the 2002 season. We were both freshmen and we played Alabama. I got SO sunburned and I also tried so hard to pretend I knew everything about football to impress Joe. Ladies, the trick is to clap when everyone else does! Ha!

Speaking of Alabama, did you see this cute girl in the stands? Honey, love the jacket. I don't know that I would have considered houndstooth for a football game but it totally works!!!
(Update: Hubby tells me that wearing houndstooth is an Alabama tradition. I only wish OU would start a fashionable tradition like this!)

One of my favorite people in the world, my friend Jill emailed me yesterday and asked when was too early to start putting Valentine's Day decorations up. Now! I say it's never too early. I love the pink. I went ahead and set out my pink zebra napkins I got for a quarter at a garage sale.

Sick

Joe was on call last night so I went to bed alone but woke up this morning to the sound of him gargling "Brit...Brit.." while standing in the doorway of our bedroom. Then he ran into the bathroom and managed to puke approximately everything he's eaten since 1997.

He was so sick this morning he didn't even go see his patients and apparently, barely managed to make it home. Bless his heart.

So today I'll be serving soup, cold washcloths and Powerade.

The good news?

He was scheduled for a root canal this morning at 9am. Just to be clear, it has been postponed.

Sail Away

Joe and I have been talking about vacations a lot lately.

Maybe it's because it's cold outside.

Maybe because we've settled back into the routine of life after the holidays.

But then I saw this picture I have saved on my computer. And I don't even know if I need a vacation because having this in my backyard with some sun, sweet tea and a good book seems real nice right now!

Our Christmas Tree Has Left The Building

We had quite the stressful afternoon!

Joe is on call tonight so he had the afternoon off. We went to lunch at Olive Garden (love the soup and salad lunch special!!) then we decided we had enough time and energy to get our HUGE (dead) Christmas tree out of the house. Joe said he was nervous about how we would get it out but I was confident that it would be easy because I had bought a Tree Removal Bag last year in the after Christmas sales. A bag! Made to wrap trees so you simply carry them right out of the house! What could be easier??

That, my friends, is foreshadowing.

I had bought this "tree removal bag" but let me tell you, it was about as thin as a contact lens and the branches poked right through it. So I decided to wrap a big blanket around the tree. We started dragging all eleven feet of it towards the front door (we had taken all the ornaments off yesterday).

Well.

I forgot the tree stand still had water in it.

So we dumped stinky, murky water all over our carpet. Huge puddle. Still holding the tree... now panicking!!!

We finally wedged it through the front door, into the yard and then on top of the car.



And we look like we were in a brawl with a couple of alley cats. And the cats won. We're scratched up everywhere!

I think from now on we will buy a small real Christmas tree and use all artificial for the rest of the house.

The good news: the tree is GONE! Ha!

Snowed In

This was a Christmas for the record books!

On Christmas Eve Joe and I drove to Kansas City in
the
Blizzard of 2009

I can't even remember the last time we had a white Christmas before this one.

Across our families ALL of our Christmas dinners were canceled and we holed up at Joe's parents and played games, ate lots of food and played in the snow like kids.

Yes, I made a snow angel!! haha!

Joe managed to blow some snow around (not that it did much good because it just kept falling!)

We finally made it to my parent's house to celebrate Christmas with them on Sunday.

And now that we're home I can't find the motivation to get our Christmas decorations down and put away.

When do you take your holiday stuff down? Do you wait until after New Years??

Have Yourself...

Have yourself a merry little Christmas

because

I'll be home for Christmas

and I plan to

Let it snow

even if

Baby, it's cold outside