I updated my Project365 blog last night, and it seems that I’m doing more blogging over there than here. Go figure. I assume that once this project is over, I’ll go back to more “normal” blogging here, whatever that means. I’ll go back to posting photos here, and talking about what we are doing or did. I just don’t seem to have an interesting enough life to maintain entries on two blogs 🙄
Let’s see… I blogged here and here about what all we did over the weekend. This past weekend had a lot of golf! I went with Tim on Friday afternoon to the golf course, to hang out with him. It’s Tim’s most ardent desire in life that I learn to love golf, want to play, and that we can go together to play golf 5 or 6 days a week. Sadly, this is not my goal in life! I really don’t like golf that much. The idea of taking that piece of metal and swinging at that little ball holds absolutely no appeal to me at the moment 🙂 Saturday was also a day of golf – for Tim. He went to the PGA tournament that took place near our house. Sunday, my dad drove up and we all went to the German Fest near our house.
We’re back into a decent slate of watching TV most every night. We’re trying a couple of new shows – Chuck on Mondays, Bionic Woman on Wednesdays and Tim started watching and liked “Life” on NBC on Wednesday night (right after Bionic Woman). We’ve cut way down on our movie watching from Netflix, now that all of the fall shows have started. We have, however, picked up a new TV show, via Netflix. Tim watched several episodes of “Heroes” last year and was always trying to get me to watch. This year, as last year, I felt like I had enough shows that I watched and hated to start anymore, so I resisted. Now, we are renting Season 1 of Heroes via Netflix and I’m already hooked. He was right – this is my kind of show. Sigh. We’re also still watching, slowly, the Gilmore Girls on DVD. We’ve made it through 3 seasons and have ordered the next two on DVD. And, of course, there’s LOTS of football on TV! 😀
I’ve still been reading a fair amount. I’ve recently finished “1st to Die” by James Patterson – the first in the Women’s Murder Club series books. I had wanted to read one of these to see how gory or descriptive of violence they were. Nothing I can’t handle, so I’ve got another new series to read. I wanted to read one of these before the new TV show started, based on these books. I think it starts in mid-October and stars Angie Harmon. I hope it will be a good show! Let’s see, I’ve read another couple of books that were just so-so for me. I read “The Tavern on Maple Street” by Sharon Owens. I’ve read one other by Owens before, she’s very similar to Maeve Binchy, a good Irish writer. It was good, just so-so for me. As was “Underdog” by Laurien Berenson. She apparently writes cozy type mysteries with dog titles, so I had hoped I would love these. This one I read was just okay for me too. The dog is a Standard Poodle and there was a lot in this book about dog shows, and grooming dogs for showing, which doesn’t interest me at all. I might give one more of her books a chance, someday. I also finished “The Redemption of Sarah Cain” by Beverly Lewis, another good Amish book. Up next, I have another cozy mystery by Laura Levine. I read one by her recently entitled “This Pen for Hire” and enjoyed it. Hopefully I will like this new one “The PMS Murder” also. Then, after that, I have the last book in the Firstborn series by Karen Kingsbury (“Forever“) and the most recent one by Janet Evanovich “Lean Mean Thirteen“. I have been on the wait list for a long time for the latest Stephanie Plum book. I started out as number 16 on the wait list at the library, and now my time has come! 🙂 Oh, and for the record, I’ve completed 87 books so far this year, with a total of 25,855 pages read. 🙂
I have also checked out a couple of cookbooks from the library, and have been busy going through those. I’ve gone through one completely – Taste of Home Everyday Light Meals. I’ve copied out over 20 recipes that interested me. It looks like a good cookbook, but since I’ve gone through and “got what I wanted”, I won’t be buying this one for my shelves. I’ll post a listing on the extended page of the recipes I copied out. If anyone would like to see a copy of the recipe, I can email it to you. I haven’t made any of these recipes yet, so I can’t vouch for how they taste!
I’ve still be in a bit of a fall cleaning mode around here. Heaven help me, but I’ve even started cleaning windows! Gasp. That doesn’t happen very often. I wonder if the earth stopped rotating on its axis for a bit 😀
Hope everyone has a great day!
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Recipes I copied out for me:
Basil Shrimp Fettucine
Breaded Flounder Fillets
Calico Cranberry Couscous Salad
Cheesy Biscuit Triangles
Cheesy Onion Quick Bread
Chocolate Chip Banana Muffins
Cinnamon Loaf
Creamy Buttermilk Dressing
Creamy Macaroni and Cheese
Creamy Noodles
Creamy Skillet Potatoes
Crinkle Top Chocolate Cookies
Granola Blondies
Hearty Oat Loaf
Italian Broccoli Cheese Bake
Italian Ranch Chicken Strips
Mexican Lasagna
Oven Barbecued Chicken
Rustic Round Herb Bread
Saucy Steak Strips
Slow Cooked Sweet N Sour Pork
Tasty Italian Chicken
Yogurt Breakfast Drink
Good luck on your Fall cleaning- don’t get too burnt out doing those windows!
I see one salad made the list:) You’ll have to let us know how the chocolat chip
banana muffins go- interesting taste blend.
Have a good day
Can’t wait to hear your reviews once you’ve tried out some of your new recipes!
We’ve cut down on our movie watching lately too. With football on so much, there’s not much time for too many new shows! LOL! Between college and pro football, our weekends are taken up, along with Monday Night Football baby! I do watch House on Tuesdays and when The Closer starts a new season, I’ll be watching it on Mondays. That’s about it for me though. Well, I forgot about LOST. Who could forget that one!!!
I have never watched Heroes. Maybe we’ll check it out as well! You have a lot of good books coming up. I look forward to hearing about them!
My husband really likes “Heroes” — I’ve never seen it. It is so nice that you and your dh watch movies and tv together. My dh and I are on totally different floors of the house watching our own shows! Of course he is a huge fan of Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica — and I think that is what caused the division to start with. LOL!
I’m so disappointed to say that I will probably only make it to 40 books this year. *sigh* I so wanted to make 52! That will be my goal for next year.
I seem to totally stop reading during the summer due to all three kids being off school. But I’m back now, thanks to the Fall Reading Challenge!
Hope you are having a great week,
Sherry
Glad you enjoyed First to Die. I love that series (though not as much as his Alex Cross series). I think that is the only new show I’ll be checking out this year. And I’m almost hoping that I don’t like it, because there’s just too many other things I “should” be doing.
By the way, I know you’ve mentioned thinking about joining PaperbackSwap. Just wanted to let you know that starting Friday they’re changing their “start-up incentive”. If you sign up before then, you get 3 free book credits for listing your first 9 books. Sign up after that, and you’ll only get 2 free credits for listing your first 10 books.
Ok girl since you’re in fall cleaning mood want to go out to my place. It really needs some attention..hehe
The recipes look really good! I may get you to email me some of them if you don’t mind! You know I love to cook 🙂
Have a great day and enjoy the nice sunshine!
You want to come do my windows? I’ll let ya! ;v)
I know what you mean about tv shows. It’s so easy to just be watching almost everything out there. I sort of have to draw the line with myself too.
I started watching Heroes last year but just seemed to lose interest in it. Same thing happened to me and Lost, and I know they are big shows on TV right now. Now that I think about it, it might just be that I’ve never really been a fan of shows with a continuous arc. Miss one and you’re kind of out of the loop.
All those recipes names sound yummy. Now I’m hungry. Can’t wait to hear about your results with them.
I’m glad you have a new series to read! Love JP!!
I just started The Kite Runner. I know, I’m a little behind. Everyone else in the world already read it. I put down Janet E’s first one because my mom has to return Kite Runner soon.
The recipes sound interesting. I might be asking for some of them.
I still don’t watch much TV. I will watch college football on Saturdays (Go Penn State!) and usually watch the Pro’s on Sunday with Dom. We will be watching the baseball play-offs (Go Phillies – that’s for Dom), and the World Series if the Phils get that far. As for me, I’d rather read.
Wow, you’ve been busy! Interesting about the TV shows. I watch so little TV and have NO idea what is new or even old. However, I am stuck on DWTS! And the baseball playoffs will have me in front of the set, at least through this week. I admire your ambition in getting the windows cleaned. I’m so bad about that.
Enjoy your day!
Glad to see another adult watching Gilmore Girls! I have been watching them on tv the past couple seasons however I myself just finished the first 3 seasons on DVD via Netflix!
If I remember correctly, I saw on one of our rentals (one of the Fox faith ones) that they are making The Redemption of Sarah Cain into a movie. They had Beverly Lewis in part of an interview.
I guess I just haven’t ever thought of taking a cookbook out of the library, but it’s a good idea.
I might try it now that I’m back on a library kick.
I do the same thing with library cookbooks LOL I actually have 4 Slow Cooker cookbooks at home right now, just waiting for me to go through and see what I like.
My husband and daughter LOVE Heroes, I just never got into it and with all the other shows I watch, I doubt I will…….
Yeah, Jono really likes Heroes. I got out of watching it last year as I just felt burned out over too many shows. But I still see some of it when he’s watching it. It’s a good show.
I’ve read the Women’s Murder Club series up through book 5. Haven’t read the 6th one yet as it’s fairly new and I didn’t feel like putting it on hold at the library. They are good quick reads.
If I decide to continue with Project 365 next year, don’t abandon me from your reading list!
Mmm, those dishes are very intriguing! Tell you what — you post your recipes and I’ll post mine. 😉
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