Category: My life

I'm doing the Saturday: 9 again this week. Every Saturday, 9 questions are posted. Sometimes the post has a theme, and at other times the questions are totally unrelated. Saturday 9: How Long 1. Have your discovered a betrayal? If so, did you ask, “How long has THIS been going on”? I don't think I've ever been actually betrayed. 2. What is the longest line you've ever stood in? Would you do it again? I'm guessing that the longest lines I've ever stood in were in Disney World when I went with a friend one summer during high school. We had a bast though. We did go back to Disney about six years ago, but we went in December and there were practically no lines. 3. Someone has hung a sign around your neck, and you have to wear it all day long. What does it say? Probably "Amber's Mom." I don't know if it would be a punishment, a bragging point, or just for identification. 4. As...

We’ve all got one. A list of things we want to do / see / accomplish / taste / feel / try in our lifetime. A bucket list. Here's 15 things off mine. See the Grand Canyon Vacation in Italy Read The Three Musketeers Run a 5K Go on a cruise See a Broadway show in NYC Go to a World Series Game Celebrate Christmas Eve with a Feast of the Seven Fishes Get a massage Write a book, even if no one else ever reads it Eat at LeMont Take ballroom dancing lessons Eat sushi Learn how to cook a signature meal, from appetizer through dessert See Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap at St. Martin's Theatre This is my entry in the Just Ask Bucket List Getaway Giveaway. Just Ask offers a breast and ovarian cancer screening and is encouraging people to share 15 things that I want to enjoy in my lifetime as a reminder to be aware of my health. Want to enter? Head over to TodaysMama.com to get the details. ...

I'm not feeling terribly creative today, so I went in search of a meme. I found Saturday 9, where they post 9 questions every week. 1. Have you ever left a relationship but knew that eventually you'd get back together? Definitely. I can't even count how many times David and I broke up and got back together before we got married. 2. Are there things that you hate to buy? Items that you either hate to spend perfectly good money on or hate to spend the time it takes to buy them? I hate grocery shopping, at least the normal boring trip. It's not fun buying the same cereal, bread and lunch meat week after week. That's why I drag David and Amber with me- if I'm going to have a miserable evening, we all should. Now I really like out of the ordinary grocery stores, like the one we stop at when we go to Amish land with all the jellies, or the giant Giant Eagle...

Today is National Punctuation Day! “The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood.... For the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid.” — Edgar Allan Poe, “Marginalia,” Graham’s Magazine, Feb. 1848 I'm afraid that I can be rather liberal with punctuation and fairly inconsistent— I do love a misplaced dash— but I don't think I'm guilty of the next, at least not too often. (Ignore the first line of this post, please.) “Cut out all those exclamation marks. An exclamation mark is like laughing at your own jokes.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald And I liked this winner of last year's haiku contest at the day's official website. Time to eat grandma. Save her with a comma or Simply savor her. —Tom Murawski...

Today is officially the First Day of Autumn, so I thought I'd make a quick list in honor of the season. 20 Things I Love About Fall Knee socks Hot drinks like apple cider and cocoa Sitting around a campfire Colorful leaves It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown Candy corn Apple dumplings Decorating the house for Halloween Sweaters Snuggling under a blanket Our anniversary Spooky reads Windy days Conneaut Lake Pumpkin Fest Pumpkin pie Corn mazes My birthday Wearing boots again Caramel apples Spending time with family and friends ...

I am not a cook, not really, although I am trying. I have never made a quiche before. I always had the suspicion that it would be hard, but I came across this recipe in one of my old Every Day with Rachael Ray magazines and thought it sounded like something David and I would. It actually turned out really yummy and wasn't difficult. Well, except shredding the cheese- I'm always afraid the grater is going to get my fingertips. Spinach-Mushroom Quiche Serves 4 Ingredients: 2 tablespoons plus 1 teaspoon extra-virgin olive oil 4 yellow-fleshed potatoes, such as yukon gold (about 12 ounces) 1/2 cup finely chopped onion 1 tablespoon cornstarch Salt and pepper Two 5-ounce containers baby spinach 8 ounces mushrooms, sliced 3 ounces Swiss cheese, shredded 2 large eggs plus 2 large egg whites 2/3 cup milk Directions: Preheat the oven to 400°. Grease a 9-inch glass pie dish with 1 teaspoon olive oil. Using a food processor fitted with a shredding attachment, shred the potatoes; transfer to a large bowl and stir...