For lunch Adam surprised me with Annie..well, Annie’s organic mac and cheese.

What’s a classic partnership with mac and cheese? Well, hotdogs..duh!

I managed to make this a colorful meal by munching on carrots and half a bag of cooked spinach. Mmmm..

I cooked the spinach with a very small amount of EVOO, onion powder, garlic powder, and S&P.

We used the all-natural hotdogs I had scrounged for at the grocery store. I never read labels before but I got chills, hotdog is the notorious “stuff what you can into a meat product” item. The organic meat hotdogs were three times the price of regular and well, Adam is harder to convince on that subject and I couldn’t blame him. For a dollar more I found an all-natural hotdog that, while not organic, did not use hormones in their meat and had some pretty good stats. Lesson learned: READ LABELS!!! You can find decent alternatives to notoriously “bad” foods. Plus these hotdogs were DELICIOUS! Sooo good.

I was going to meet Adam at a coffee shop down the street but given the torrential downpour, I stayed home and rested. I did not sleep well last night AT ALL. I had read once that alcohol may keep you awake, I researched and found this on Women’s Health magazine’s website which told me that while alcohol makes you drowsy, it keeps you from falling into deeper levels of sleep. Hence, why I was tossing and turning all night! I only had a couple glasses of wine and a glass of prosecco but that’s more then I usually have at once and I think it was definitely a factor.

For dinner, we headed to Adam’s parents house. I spent time with my mother-in-law Kay, while Adam headed out to do some work.

I had a sweet potato with a little butter and S&P, green beans with slivered almonds, mushrooms, and steak. Steak isn’t my favorite, I ate about half of this. I love filet, but most steak is too fatty for me. I just had the texture. This was delicious, but I still only need a few bites of it.

When the boys headed out, Kay and I set out to conquer this:

My mom made this for them, it’s a cookie mix. She then hand wrote the recipe out.

She found this on Food Network’s website. There were a whole bunch of recipes, cute huh?

Problem is, they sort of described the directions wrong. Or they didn’t explain them enough. See, there is cocoa powder in the mix. Well, they called for Dutch-process cocoa powder which has baking powder included. Most people just use regular and I’m not sure if my mom did this but the first batch didn’t spread or rise AT ALL. They ended up being “Super Chunk Balls” which sound fun, but they were too crumbly. I googled(TGFG..thank goodness for Google) and found the reviews which told me that lots of people had the same issue. The dough was SO dry and dame out crumbly.

I added another egg and a splash of milk, if you’re a baker you know that you mix the wet first and the dry first and then usually combine in some order. So this was risky, but it was that or stick with what we had which were yummy, but missing something.

The second batch was SUPER tasty, even if they didn’t look too appetizing.

Kay and I then watched (500) Days Of Summer:

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I LOVED this movie! The music, first of all, LOVE! I need this soundtrack. It’s also very different, which I really like but not done in a cheesy way at all. It reminded me of one of my favorite movies, Garden State. Although they were nothing alike, if that makes sense. Just very creative and funny. I love Zooey Deschanel too. I highly recommend this movie!

I am now typing from the dining room table. Aka the “office/dining room/flower holder” Adam bought me flowers, he apologized that they were carnations but there are some daisies in there. Either way, he bought me flowers and no matter what kind they are I am so thankful.

One of my goals is to do blog work here so that I am not always on the computer, which can happen when I blog from the couch, which I usually do. This will help me focus. So yay.

Oh and tomorrow is my Dad’s birthday!

{Happy Birthday DAD!! <33 Love you!}

Goodnight!

Katy