the laundry process

so i've come to find that laundry is a several step process for me. so here are the steps i go through, which can take up to a week to get completely through.

1. motivate myself to do laundry.
2. start running out of clean clothes.
3. find a free night and put clothes in the washer.
4. then put them in the dryer, doing approximately 3 loads total.
5. motivate myself to fold the clothes.
6. fold clothes
7. actually put the clothes away when i can't stand to look at them any more.

i realize this is not the most efficient process, but of all the things i dislike doing, laundry tops the list.
and so tonight i'm hoping to accomplish steps 5-7. step 1 started sometime last week so i'm right on schedule.

fog

now usually i don't mind the weather, especially when it's winter. but this fog is crazy! i got up this morning and drove to work in the fog. then drove to clay in the fog after i got off work. then drove home after a haircut and supper with the parents, you guessed it, in the fog.

and what did i learn...well it's kinda stressful to drive in the fog for an hour at night. also i can't imagine driving in thick fog on a road i'm not familiar with, by thick i mean i solely relied on watching the white line beside me to drive and maintain my lane, no looking ahead. that would be very intense to drive on unfamiliar roads at night in the thick fog.

but praise be to God, i made it home safely.

also i've heard it said that snow comes 90 days after fog. so let's find out if this is true. 90 days from today is april 18th. bring on the snow!

shallots and capers

so i decided that this afternoon i'd cook something for supper. so i pulled out the new cookbook and started looking. found a recipe for lemon chicken pasta toss. i decided to make it, but unlike the last time i tried to cook something i would make sure i had all the ingredients i needed and use them.

and so i wrote out my list of what i needed thinking i was pretty sure i knew what everything was or at least had a general idea of where i could find what was on my list.

i was at wal-mart, thinking that shallots were some sort of mushroom type thing. come to find out, i was wrong, so very wrong. i had no idea what shallots or capers were. so as any young person would do, i called my mom. i'm sure i gave the fam quite the laugh.

so i found out they didn't have what i wanted and moved on to hyvee. there i see a sign that says garlic (another ingredient i needed, but of course i knew what this was). and what do you know, right beside the garlic is a sign that says shallots. so one ingredient down, one to go.

i searched the store and found pickled capers, but wanted to know if there were regular ones, cuz as we all know pickled stuff tastes a lot different than regular stuff. so i called my mom again. while on the phone i must have been speaking fairly loudly cuz a hyvee employee comes up to me with a bottle of capers. so i tell mom i'll call her back. and ask the guy if these are the only capers they have. they are and so i buy them, successful in my mission.

and so i now know what shallots and capers are, and where to find them in hyvee. it was an exciting day.

mail

so today was the first day i checked my mail all week due to the extreme cold temperatures. and apparently this was the week everyone decided to send me stuff, cuz there was a lot crammed in there. as i was heading back to my car a little was heading to check her families mail and she got wide eyed when she saw my stack and said, "you got a lot of mail." i chuckled and said, "yeah, it's the first time this weeks i've checked it."

oh to be young again and enjoy the simple things in life, like getting mail. and so i enjoyed opening every single piece of mail i got(even the ones from sallie mae, the bank, and insurance companies), smiling the entire time.

so remember the excitement of getting mail as a child, and try to find that same joy once again in your life!

snow packed

one of my favorite things ever is getting in my car with all the windows covered by snow. it's almost magical. it's so peaceful.

also i discovered the greatness of hot wing pizza. it is delish.

and last but not least i found out that snow on leather shoes makes for really cold toes, in fact they were nearly blue.

thank you God for warmth. i am blessed.

a word of advice

ever wonder what your finger would feel like the morning after you accidentally touch the hot glass your candle is burning in? well let me tell you from experience it was hot. so don't do it. all day my finger has felt like it has super glue on it. super glue that you can't get off. also it's slightly swollen and the skin is kinda cracked.

so my advice to you: don't touch hot glass.

3,000 lbs of Confetti

3,000 lbs of confetti would be wonderful, wouldn't it? NYC sure thought so. And I think they were right!

On another note, if I wait til March to take down my Christmas tree I may as well not take it down. So therefore I think February is the best time to take down the tree.

Also if you've never been to a little kid wrestling tournament, you should go, it's an experience.