It’s amazing to me how quickly this summer is going, but that’s always the way with summer. It flies by in a blur of activities, family events, vacations, barbecues, picnics, and lord knows what else, but it happens.
I, of course, am still searching for the ever elusive extra hour (or three) in a day. If I find it, without sacrificing sleep or “me” time, since “me” time is of paramount importance, I’ll let you know. I’d also wind up being a millionaire with an invention like that. So far, no dice, but I’m going to keep on rolling.
Since I’m significantly more social in the summer (very much akin to a butterfly), I get behind on my normal day-to-day stuff: blog reading, cleaning, mail sorting, bill paying (oops, at least the power is still on), laundering, recipe sorting, recipe publishing, emailing and any other verb you can think of which ends in ‘ing.’ That’s where the Week In Review comes into play.
It’s a reminder of all the things I did accomplish, a virtual pat on the back. It allows me to realize I’m still pretty impressive; as if I would have forgotten that. Plus, I get to write in list form, and that always makes me feel better or more in control, which is kind of the same thing for a control freak.
Let’s get listing.
- I did a few hours of yard work and even mowed the lawn while rocking out, or should I say rapping out. Nothing like a little old school Rappers Delight to get you going. ♫”Hip hop, Hippie to the hippie, The hip, hip a hop, and you don’t stop, a rock it. To the bang bang boogie, say, up jump the boogie, To the rhythm of the boogie, the beat.” ♫ I’m pretty sure I just aged myself; shockingly, I’m good with that.
- I wrote and published three blog posts and had a photo shoot with my CSA veggies. My produce is dead sexy.
- I got jiggy with my peaches, and I do mean jiggy. I made smoothies, muffins, peach crisp and even froze a few pounds. Blanching and peeling peaches is no joke, and if anyone tells you its easy, they’re full of “it” or else I did it really wrong. Since it was my first go around, there’s a very small, miniscule even, chance the fault lies with me….nah, scratch that.
- I worked another forty plus hours on the jobby-job, although I did take a break on Friday to hit up the farmers market. I love these guys, although I think the cheese guy is starting to hit on me. I’m pretty sure we’re one visit away from him asking me on a date. This is a big problem. He’s my cheese guy; I can’t sever ties with him for obvious reasons (you’d understand if you tried his Feta). Still I need to gently break to him I’m a kept woman and mad monkey love is reserved for only one man.
I so badly wanted to buy some of these potatoes for their looks alone, but I had oodles of potatoes at home already, so I showed amazing restraint and held back. Watch, this will be my one big regret in life.
- I made yet another batch of Tomato Pesto and a coma-inducing Hot Pepper and Onion Tomato Sauce. Both got added to my deep freezer. Yes, yes my supplies are growing, and why this makes me feel all crafty, in a wicked witch type way, I have no idea.
- I ate fried eggs and Parmesan Roasted Red Skinned Potatoes for dinner twice last week. Cereal was also on the menu. #noshameinmygame
- I took three cats to the vet on Saturday morning and managed to escape the entire ordeal with only one flesh wound. Quite frankly, I’m lucky to be alive although if I suddenly stop blogging, its because the felines hatched a plan and took me down in the middle of the night. It could happen, I’m a heavy sleeper.
- I plundered my pot garden. As you can see, it’s exploding with produce right now, and if by exploding, I mean two baby blush tomatoes and one five Chinese pepper, then yes it’s full-fledged Armageddon here.
- I had friends over for dinner on Friday night, and it involved eggplant chips, stuffed hot peppers, green beans and a veggie burger for me; cow burgers for them. More to come on that meal in a future CSA post.
When I look back on my weekly shenanigans, it’s no wonder I’m behind in the rest of my regular life. I’ve been busy, and despite the length of my ongoing lists, I am getting stuff knocked out. Speaking of knockouts, I want to hear from all of you.
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Interested in participating in the Week In Review…good, you should be.
Here’s how it works:
- Your post should be about all the things you accomplished in the last seven days or so.
- Your post can be about food, social outings, workouts, home improvement projects, fun excursions, none of the above, or all of the above. The idea is to recognize all the things you accomplished in the past seven days. It’s an ode to yourself, a celebration of sorts, and a virtual pat on the back. Plus you get to write in list form, which rocks my socks. Although if you want to stick to prose go ahead; it’s your world.
- Add the Week in Review button to your post, link back to Clean Eats, Fast Feets and get your list on.
- Or you can be like me and make up own your rules. If you can justify it, I’ll accept it. How’s that for lenient
What did you accomplish last week? How are you more social in the summer?
Meghan, I think like with most things, the first attempt seems daunting and we’re never sure we’ve done it correctly. I bet the next time you work with the peaches, you’ll be more comfortable and it’ll be a breeze. You always seem So busy to me. I am truly amazed. Have a great day, My Dear!!
Maybe you’re right Fran. The peeling part was a real son of a gun thought. It tookl forever….alright, that might be an exaggeration, but it felt like forever.
Welcome back. It’s good to have you.
I love Week in Review posts! Your peaches look gorgeous, though I bet you hear that all the time. Seriously, the blanching must have worked because they all look well peeled. I’m a bit jealous of your deep freeze stock. Hoarding homemade food is a secret pleasure of mine 🙂
This week I hung drapes and valances on all but two windows in my house. This required multiple trips to the stores, hand tools, and some sewing- I loved every minute of it. I also attended two children’s birthday parties and gave myself a raging navy blue/glitter manicure.
You’ll have to come visit in the winter and we’ll plunder the freezer. For now though, I’m going to keep on hoarding.
Hanging drapes and valences is no joke, and it always takes double the amount of time you thought it would. Plus, you did sewing, kid’s parties and a manicure. You are a machine!
LOVE “keep calm and make a list”. And ohh nooo bad cheese guy, bad!
Right, what’s he thinking?! He’s going to ruin everything.
I’m impressed with the cats to the vet stunt. Only 1 flesh wound?! Are they declawed?
Can I come to dinner next Friday? Eggplant chips sound tasty.
They are all front declawed. It broke my heart to do it (really the vet did it), but it was the Hubby’s one rule about owning cats.
You can come to dinner anytime.
WHOO loving your garden loot! Those potatoes also look awesome. I would have made mashed taters and had gorgeous purple skins! YUM! I’m impressed that you took THREE cats to the vet…I always go one at a time. I am a wuss. HAHA!
I take all three cats at once because otherwards they are mean to the cat who comes home from the vet because he smells funny. This way they all smell funny and don’t pick on one other.
I am very glad I opted to walk 7+ miles on Saturday, as without it my mileage would have been most pathetic. My stats, such as they are:
7 workouts
5 routes
15.8 total dist. (miles)
7.5 hours
I got my bib number for next month, and my son would make a “$%*@ got real” comment that would cause me to tell him to watch his language, but secretly I’d be agreeing with him. Gulp.
On the non-half-marathon-walking front, my daughter and I picked and put up 4 pies worth of peach pie filling, 2 bags of chopped peaches, and today canned 5 qts of tomatoes.
I didn’t kill the sourdough starter and made a successful loaf of bread.
The kids will head to school in the morning with clean clothes and short hair. And liver in their bellies. Eh, I do what I can.
Well at least their clothes were clean. Now about that liver…
I’m excited for your half-marathon. Shit got real, but you’re going to do great!
Keep Calm and Make a List is SOO ME! Love it!
I know, right!
Sounds like a rather productive, not to mention delicious, week Meghan! Kudos for all that peach work- I’ve never peeled one but just the thought of doing so seems all kinds of tedious. Hilarious about the cheese guy- getting jiggy witht the guy who handles your food is worse than getting it on with your boss….it’s all about priorities, people ;)! As for me last week, I spent it throwing myself back into routine and getting my life in order- the joys of coming home post-holiday!
It was the peeling of the peaches that was so tedious. Sometimes they came off easy, and sometimes it was in small ribbon like batches.
Coming home from holiday is always rough. A part of you is glad to be home, but maybe not necessarily ready to get back to the grind.
I don’t own cats but a single flesh wound from that ordeal sounds highly impressive, go you! Side note if seem to be lacking some peaches in the upcoming weeks think nothing of it (I may or may not be considering hunting you down, stalking you, and then raiding your freezer…) 🙂
No need to hunt me down for peaches; I would gladly share….well, on second thought. Those peaches were a lot of work so no, I won’t share. Let the hunting begin. 😉
We have a lot of peaches at home too. I’ve been planning on making some peach crisp with them but just haven’t gotten around to it yet… That needs to happen soon!
You need to get busy on using up those potatoes so you can go back and buy some 🙂 Now that I’ve said this, I wouldn’t be surprised if every single meal for your WIAW contains potatoes… Or none of them because I’m just a great jinxer like that.
I only used a fraction of the potatoes and I got even more in my CSA this week. But ya know what, I went back and bought those purple potatoes yesterday because they were too cute not to. Now, I’m swimming in spuds. Eh, they last forever.
”Hip hop, Hippie to the hippie, The hip, hip a hop, and you don’t stop, a rock it. To the bang bang boogie, say, up jump the boogie, To the rhythm of the boogie, the beat.” Oh yeah, uh huh!! Love it! And I want you to know that thanks to Adam Sandler, I will NEVER be able to hear/sing that song without thinking of the little old lady from The Wedding Singer! Lol
Take coverrrrrrrr! The Pepper Pot Armageddon is among us!! 😯
PS, and don’t think that gorgeous yolkporn went unnoticed! 😉
Ah man, I forgot about Sandler’s version. You may have just ruined that song for me. Then again, the old lady was pretty sweet.