Grace Potter and the Nocturnals "Things I Never Needed"

Domesticity

"These are only temporary anyway" he said as he finished hanging the final (of 4) set of blinds that took a total of 2 hours and countless dropped and lost screws, to get up.

I looked down at the 12 year old, tobacco stained, dusty, once white $4 curtain that had miraculously made the cut in the move.  The once temporary coverings, that the $4 cheap plastic blinds were now replacing.  I smiled up at his proud, self satisfied face on the ladder.

"Of course babe, totally only temporary".

This just got serious...

It's not a big secret that I already have an uncontrollable problem with hot chocolate.  But this just made everything 100x worse!

 

Chocolate Peanut Butter Hot Chocolate

Ingredients

2 cups skim milk

1½ ounces bittersweet chocolate

1½ ounces milk chocolate

3 tablespoons creamy peanut butter

Heavy cream, whipped to soft peaks, for serving

Preparation Instructions

In a medium saucepan over low heat, warm milk until it just begins to simmer and bubbles form around the edge of the pan. Whisk in chocolates and peanut butter until melted and smooth. Cover and continue warming over low heat until warm. For a thicker cup of cocoa, simmer hot chocolate uncovered until desired thickness is achieved. Ladle hot chocolate into individual mugs and top a dollop of whipped cream.

A Sick Love

I can hardly speak, and he can hardly hear.  We are quite the pair!

What is UP?

My brain has been totally misfiring since Sunday night!  Night time hallucinations, muscle spasms...perhaps my fall affected more than my wrist?

Lessons in Chicken

For the past three years I have been trying, apparently futilely, to recreate my father's Chicken Cacciatore recipe.  I've done everything he's said, researched other recipes, wasted a lot of really good and bad wine.  This past week, money is tight, and the cupboard is light, so I took what I had, and decided to follow my own instincts and budget...and I nailed!  Now it may not be exactly like what I knew growing up, not better or worse, but it works.  And for the first time, I was happy, and won't waste an entire crock pot of chicken.
This opened my eyes to a whole host of ways this affects my life.  And I've relaxed a little bit, opened up a little bit, and am finally allowing the tides to run their course, instead of trying to manipulate it my way. 
Now if only this will run into the job search!

Arrrrrgh....!

Yesterday to beat the cold, and the stress, we had a Pirates of the Carribean Marathon.  All three movies in one afternoon/evening.  Over 6 hours of Johnny Depp...swoon!