March 25th, 2010
Loving the elevator rugs

Loving the elevator rugs

October 28th, 2009

called shipper to expedite my package but both ups and shipper say no dice :( darn ups ground is getting it here 1 bus day later than i want

October 26th, 2009
Love this!! allthingsalishan: heylaney: I die. nadiathinks: Valentino satin bow-front clutch $895 yeah. what Alena said.  

Love this!!

allthingsalishan:

heylaney:

I die.

nadiathinks:

Valentino satin bow-front clutch $895

yeah. what Alena said.  

jaclynday: I’m taking a cue from my amazing friend Tanya’s blog and showing you some great recipe books you’ll be glad you bought when you taste how yummy the food is. Top Chef: The Cookbook - $21 - This cookbook is an absolute must-have if you’re a fan of the show. Even if you’ve never seen the show, though, it’s got delicious recipes on every page with a glossy photo to match. The recipes are a bit harder than some (with some hard-to-find ingredients), but it’s worth it when you cook something that won a Quickfire challenge on the show! Great Food Fast: 250 Recipes for Easy, Delicious Meals All Year Long - $17 - This is one of my favorite Martha Stewart cookbooks. I gave it such good reviews that Ellie bought it as well and has had great results with the recipes too! Keeping with my decision to never buy a cookbook unless it has a photo for each recipe, this has great photos accompanying each dish and separates out meals and sides for each season, if you decide to buy ingredients from a farmer’s market or CO-OP. Some of my favorite dishes are the Risotto with Peas & Zucchini, the Greek-Style Lamb Burgers, and the Pesto-Goat Cheese Pasta. America’s Test Kitchen Family Cookbook - $25 - My mother-in-law saw me spying her copy and bought me my own and it is truly fantastic. First, it’s published three-ring-binder style so you can easily flip through or remove the recipe you are cooking from the book for easy access. Second, it has more tips and tricks than one cook could ever possibly need. Want to poach the perfect egg? Covered. How long do you cook meat? That’s there too. This is the ultimate cooking handbook. Nigella Express: Good Food Fast - $25 - I don’t have a lot of time to devote to cooking by the time I get home from work (no four hour roasts for me!), so any cookbook with “fast” in the title is a winner. Nigella’s delicious, decadent recipes are shockingly easy to put together and this book-with a photo per page and tons of personal ancedotes-is my favorite of her’s. The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Recipes from an Accidental Country Girl - $15 - THIS BOOK IS RELEASED TOMORROW. I am so excited about this book, I can’t even tell you. Ree has saved my butt so many times with her quick and easy and OMG-DELICIOUS recipes. She uses a stick of butter in everything and salt galore, but it’s all worth it in the end when you sink your teeth into her fabulous food. To tie you over until you get your hands on a copy of this cookbook, check our her personal cooking blog and her MSN recipe website Tasty Kitchen. Here are some of my additional cooking tips: Wear an apron. Oil spatters, messy hands—an apron solves all these problems. And you know how impossible it is to get oil stains out of clothing! Check the time. One of the hardest aspects of cooking multiple dishes is timing them to serve. Check all the estimated times of your recipes before starting and if you happen to finish one dish long before another is ready, keep it covered, on a low burner or slightly warm oven. Don’t be intimidated! If a recipe calls for a prepared ingredient that you aren’t sure how to “prepare,” just do a quick Google search. A good example of this is leek preparation. They are hard suckers to clean, but a quick web search will help you get them ready. Print off recipes you find online. It’s annoying to run back and forth from a laptop to the oven—and it’s even more annoying if you spill something on the computer. Use paper! It’s cheaper! Get a sous-chef. It’s much easier when preparing difficult recipes to have a helper cut and prepare veggies or sauces. That’s when my husband Brandon comes in handy! He may not be great at grilling a steak, but he’s fantastic when it comes to peeling potatoes for a side dish!  Paula- Pioneer Woman has a cook book coming out. I’ve heard great things about the America’s Test Kitchen series too.

jaclynday:

I’m taking a cue from my amazing friend Tanya’s blog and showing you some great recipe books you’ll be glad you bought when you taste how yummy the food is.

  • Top Chef: The Cookbook - $21 - This cookbook is an absolute must-have if you’re a fan of the show. Even if you’ve never seen the show, though, it’s got delicious recipes on every page with a glossy photo to match. The recipes are a bit harder than some (with some hard-to-find ingredients), but it’s worth it when you cook something that won a Quickfire challenge on the show!
  • Great Food Fast: 250 Recipes for Easy, Delicious Meals All Year Long - $17 - This is one of my favorite Martha Stewart cookbooks. I gave it such good reviews that Ellie bought it as well and has had great results with the recipes too! Keeping with my decision to never buy a cookbook unless it has a photo for each recipe, this has great photos accompanying each dish and separates out meals and sides for each season, if you decide to buy ingredients from a farmer’s market or CO-OP. Some of my favorite dishes are the Risotto with Peas & Zucchini, the Greek-Style Lamb Burgers, and the Pesto-Goat Cheese Pasta.
  • America’s Test Kitchen Family Cookbook - $25 - My mother-in-law saw me spying her copy and bought me my own and it is truly fantastic. First, it’s published three-ring-binder style so you can easily flip through or remove the recipe you are cooking from the book for easy access. Second, it has more tips and tricks than one cook could ever possibly need. Want to poach the perfect egg? Covered. How long do you cook meat? That’s there too. This is the ultimate cooking handbook.
  • Nigella Express: Good Food Fast - $25 - I don’t have a lot of time to devote to cooking by the time I get home from work (no four hour roasts for me!), so any cookbook with “fast” in the title is a winner. Nigella’s delicious, decadent recipes are shockingly easy to put together and this book-with a photo per page and tons of personal ancedotes-is my favorite of her’s.
  • The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Recipes from an Accidental Country Girl - $15 - THIS BOOK IS RELEASED TOMORROW. I am so excited about this book, I can’t even tell you. Ree has saved my butt so many times with her quick and easy and OMG-DELICIOUS recipes. She uses a stick of butter in everything and salt galore, but it’s all worth it in the end when you sink your teeth into her fabulous food. To tie you over until you get your hands on a copy of this cookbook, check our her personal cooking blog and her MSN recipe website Tasty Kitchen.

Here are some of my additional cooking tips:

  • Wear an apron. Oil spatters, messy hands—an apron solves all these problems. And you know how impossible it is to get oil stains out of clothing!
  • Check the time. One of the hardest aspects of cooking multiple dishes is timing them to serve. Check all the estimated times of your recipes before starting and if you happen to finish one dish long before another is ready, keep it covered, on a low burner or slightly warm oven.
  • Don’t be intimidated! If a recipe calls for a prepared ingredient that you aren’t sure how to “prepare,” just do a quick Google search. A good example of this is leek preparation. They are hard suckers to clean, but a quick web search will help you get them ready.
  • Print off recipes you find online. It’s annoying to run back and forth from a laptop to the oven—and it’s even more annoying if you spill something on the computer. Use paper! It’s cheaper!
  • Get a sous-chef. It’s much easier when preparing difficult recipes to have a helper cut and prepare veggies or sauces. That’s when my husband Brandon comes in handy! He may not be great at grilling a steak, but he’s fantastic when it comes to peeling potatoes for a side dish!

 Paula- Pioneer Woman has a cook book coming out.

I’ve heard great things about the America’s Test Kitchen series too.

allthingsalishan: phillyfilly: All night, I would crouch down and put my XXL whit teeshirt over my knees.  “Mario” would leap frog over me and yell “power up!”  We thought we were THE funniest people on the planet. Also, please excuse the shit-eating grimace on my face.  I think that was bourbon and coke #5.  Oops. I LOVE this. Might have to convince Mike we need to do it.  Seriously contemplating this. Who will be princess, Tab or me? We can include WaLuigi and the other Mario Kart favs. May be too late to pull it together for this year but next year, for sure!

allthingsalishan:

phillyfilly:

All night, I would crouch down and put my XXL whit teeshirt over my knees.  “Mario” would leap frog over me and yell “power up!”  We thought we were THE funniest people on the planet.

Also, please excuse the shit-eating grimace on my face.  I think that was bourbon and coke #5.  Oops.

I LOVE this. Might have to convince Mike we need to do it. 

Seriously contemplating this. Who will be princess, Tab or me? We can include WaLuigi and the other Mario Kart favs. May be too late to pull it together for this year but next year, for sure!

October 25th, 2009
jeralyndwile: tikayiyay: saveandclose:classics:sweethomestyle:justbesplendid I want this so bad! Every time my Pottery Barn catalog comes, I just turn to this page and drool. Swoon, I love this. I want this.

jeralyndwile:

tikayiyay:

saveandclose:classics:sweethomestyle:justbesplendid

I want this so bad! Every time my Pottery Barn catalog comes, I just turn to this page and drool.

Swoon, I love this. I want this.

Running music

tresladies:

PROMISED myself today I would go running, realized I really don’t like my running mixes anymore. So I began researching new songs…thought I would share my new playlist =)

  • David Guetta- sexy “chick”
  • Charles Hamilton- Brooklyn Girls
  • LMFAO- La La La
  • Kanye West- Stronger
  • Journey- Eye of the Tiger
  • Pink- So What
  • Katy Perry- Hot N’ Cold
  • Owl City - Fireflies
  • Pussycat Dolls- When I Grow Up

Please add to the list!!!!!

Umm hello. Mixes from J- 270 Southbound is a must. Ask him to help you download it.

Songs at at least 175 bpm (like that one) or even 130 bpm (on the slower side) are a must for races. My power song at one point was Brooke Valentine’s Girlfight (haha). 80s stuff is usually pretty helpful. Old Britney songs? I’ll look at my playlist and add.

P has a solution! Welcome to the P Wants to Shop system!

tresladies:

Jillian Michaels, I heart you.  But man having somebody yell at me doesn’t work.  So let’s hope this does!

Since I love to shop, I have made it my reward for healthy habits.. The only way to give myself shopping money (like how my parents gave me toy money when I got straight A’s), is to earn points by healthy habits.  But there’s a catch, I get points taken away when I slip up.  Yes, that’s right.  I’m going to punish MYSELF.  On a side note, mom and dad you really should have implemented this, for example when I cut C’s hair and hid it in a lego box so you wouldn’t know, you should’ve taken away my toy money…muahaha.  Glad you didn’t think of that!
If I do this things, I earn or lose this many points.  Everytime I hit 10 points, I get 50 bucks to spend on either going out or shopping.  When I get halfway down my debt, or lose  20 lbs, I’m giving myself 75 per 10 points.  And when I have 25% debt and lose 30, 100 bucks! Yea that’s right.  I’m motivated to hit those goals. Here’s the point system (is able to be revised):

Yoga Class, Running 4 Miles, Crossfit, P90x Video, Hiking 2 hours (as examples), …+1 Each        
Not eating out for a whole week (7 days)…+3
8 glasses of water in a day…+0.5        
Lose 5 lbs…5        
Punishments: Eating out dinner (unless it’s super light/healthy salad or low cal dish)…-1
Eating out lunch…-0.5
Night out of drinking…-1
Eating 1 piece of candy at work…-0.5

There you go!  I’ll update more on my progress as time goes on!  Keep me accountable! I have a commitment!  Thanks dear readers!

Good luck, and I will call you out on concerts and dinners/hh out :P

October 23rd, 2009
Pretty fall leaves out front + new issue of US Weekly + sitting at home with doggie on a Friday at 4pm (instead of at work) = big smile

Pretty fall leaves out front + new issue of US Weekly + sitting at home with doggie on a Friday at 4pm (instead of at work) = big smile

October 22nd, 2009
tresladies: Holy awesomeness. Can’t wait to run this and be at the expo as well! Awww yeah…Paula, Camila, mom, Cheyenne, Nicole—-all you runners, we so have to do this. Sign-ups start Nov 16. Let’s dooooooo eeeeeeeeeeet. 

tresladies:

Holy awesomeness.

Can’t wait to run this and be at the expo as well!

Awww yeah…Paula, Camila, mom, Cheyenne, Nicole—-all you runners, we so have to do this. Sign-ups start Nov 16. Let’s dooooooo eeeeeeeeeeet.