Monday’s are all about the Week In Review.
Or at least they should be. For my die-hard fans, you know what’s up. The rest of you, you’ll come around, I’m sure of it. “I’ll get you, my pretty,” she says in her best Wicked Witch of the West Siiiiiddddeee voice (gotta represent).
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Alright maybe going all witchy on you isn’t my best marketing ploy. It’s ok, I’ve got others. Do you remember a few weeks back I joked about making up a musical ditty for the Week In Review. No? I forgive you, although let it be known, I am marking your scorecard. In pen, no less.
I still don’t have a full musical number, but I was thinking about ripping off an old classic, and by classic, I mean a back in the day and highly inappropriate hip-hop song. Obviously.
This little gem should be rapped to the tune of Naughty by Nature’s “O.P.P.” Here’s what I’ve got so far.
♫ You down with O.C.D..
Hell yes, that’s me.
Who’s down with O.C.D.?
All the listies. ♫
And by listies, I mean list lovers, and it’s very apparent my new number needs more work. I’ll get on that.
Speaking of getting on things, let’s get this party started.
- I went on a road trip to see the Hubby. It was a quick overnight visit, but seeing my man is always worth it, even if we did eat less than stellar Italian. He could have fed me crappy boxed Bisquick pancakes, and I would have been happy. Oh wait, he did, and I was.
You look so pretty, but taste like cardboard. I’m pretty sure you’re still lodged in my small intestines too. Totally worth it to see the Hubby.
- I broke down and turned on the heat. I didn’t want to do it, but it was downright cold in my house; like 64 degrees cold, and since the weather forecast showed no signs of improvement, I caved. Now I can get by with only one pair of socks and a hoodie. I might even throw on some pants. Then again….
- I meal prepped like a mad woman on a Saturday, probably because I am quite mad, in a good way though. Especially when madness means Vegetable Curry, Parmesan Roasted Potatoes, and Meaty Balls. No picture of the last one; you’ll have to use your imagination.
- I got a pumpkin in my CSA share. I knew this was coming, and since I’m not ready to eat crow, I threw him down in my basement, along with the other assorted squash I’ve gotten in my CSA share in the past few weeks. I’m accumulating quite the collection.
He’s just a little baby pumpkin. He’d be perfect for a pie. Too bad I don’t like pumpkin pie.
- I added an officially Week In Review page to the blog, with all the deets on our link up party, so now everyone can realize what’s been missing in their lives. You know what I’m talking about. That odd little feeling you forgot to do something. Yep, it’s the Week In Review. We’re open for business all week, so it’s not too late to list all the things and then link up.
- I got into a fight with a can of Blackberry Jam and lost. Bastard. By got into a fight, I mean I physically couldn’t open the jar no matter how many rubber gripper thingies I used and no matter how many times I bashed the lid with a chef’s knife. To be completely honest, I’m still licking my wounds over this. “I’ll get you my pretty, and your little dog too!” assuming jams have dogs. Hmm; I think logic just left the building.
- Since we’re on the topic of logic, I edited my Pin In Instructions from last week because well….they were wrong. There’s no working my way around this one. So for anyone who tried to follow my easy-peasy picture directions and failed, you are not an idiot. It’s all me. My apologies. They have since been corrected, and not only that, they’re improved too. I added a step, which shows how to change where your auto-filled Pinterest caption pulls from (i.e. your blog name, your post title, or even your picture title). It’s worth taking a second look.
- I finally got my act together and joined Bloglovin’. I also made it easier for you to find me by adding the “Follow Me” button to my side bar. ♫ “Hip Hop hooray…Ho…Hey…Ho.“♫ And now we’re back to Naughty By Nature. ♫ “Not cause I hate cha.” ♫
It appears we’ve come full circle, and since circles appeal to my sense of uniformity and my self-diagnosed O.C.D., I’m going to wrap it up and hand the microphone over to you. Get ready to link up do some rapping of a different kind. ♫ You down with O.C.D. Hell yes, that’s me. ♫
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Have you broken down and turned on the heat yet? Are you down with Nature by Nature? Have you got on the Week In Review train yet (because you know you totally should)?!
I wrote a post. Yes, I know, we’re bloggers, it’s what we do. But this post is a massive beast of a post. You know how you get 1 measly pound of ground beef each week for your spouse? Well, a while back I got 110 of them things. At once. Mere days after I’d donated the last of the previous cow, all 55 pounds of ground beef, to the Foodbank to make room for the new guy.
So I turned to my fellow food bloggers for help, solicited ground beef recipes, and spent the past week/weekend turning that pile of links into 106 Recipe Ideas Using Ground Beef, complete with photo collages of each category (there were times that I did not share my own photo, such as when I had 17 recipes for Mexican type dishes and Picmonkey has a 16 photo collage) but everybody else’s stuff is up there.
I even share a bit of info about the beef in my freezer–where he came from, that sort of thing. But it’s not right out in front because I don’t wish to offend anyone’s tender sensibilities about that sort of thing.
Why am I sharing all this with a vegetarian? Well, because you are my friend, and you are an excellent cheerleader of accomplishments, and this post was a ton of work and I accomplished it this past week. Hell, I may even link it up. Yes, I think I will. So perhaps you don’t need to read all this, you can just see that up there.
Oh, and yes, I did turn on the heat. And apparently that’s not enough for the elderly wiener dogs, as they were huddled on the floor behind me in my cold breakfast nook, shivering, as I worked on the post. I may need to learn to read a pattern and knit them some wiener dog sweaters. We keep it cold in this house, and I tell the complaining (shorts and t-shirt wearing) kids to “go put a sweater on”.
I may be a vegetarian but at the end of the day, I’m a lover of good quality food, especially the kind made by hand using local and well sourced ingredients. Plus I might need some of these ideas for the small quantities of ground beef I do get for the Hubby. I can only make so many meatballs.
By the way, this is one Mother of Post, and I can only imagine the sheer amount of time and work which went into it. Good Job my friend; you deserve at least an entire box of triscuits. Matter of fact, go get some cookies or perhaps a bottle of wine and celebrate yourself because this one is in the bag.
I saw the directions on last week’s post and started getting sweaty palms. I don’t understand so much of this stuff. Funny how tasty those pancakes look but yet they weren’t good. It is the thought that counts! Hoping to do some real cooking myself this week. Crock pot of beans is crocking as I type this. Have a great day, Meghan! Ok, I don’t know the song but I guess with rap you don’t need a melody…just chant along…right?!?! 😉
Great idea Fran. I need to get another crockpot of beans going. It’s been far too long. Welcome back to the Week In Review; it’s good to have you.
I never thought about the Wizard of Oz in that context before. Shoes. How ridiculous.
You’ve been just the blogging master these past few weeks. How do you like Bloglovin? I know some people use other blog readers and I wonder if they are any better.
We turned our heat on too. In my dorm room on Thursday night I was so cold that I got down on the floor to do my homework so that I was directly underneath our heating vent on the ceiling. At home my dad has decided to use our wood burning stove to heat the first floor… however that heat doesn’t make it into the second floor when my door is closed. Cold cold toes.
I’m glad you noticed. I have been trying to make some small changes. I changed my short About Me blurb on my sidebar and my big About Me page is next. Holy mother, is that one way too wordy.
I’ve only been on Bloglovin for a couple of days and it’s the first blog manager program I’ve used so I have nothing to compare it too. It seems alright and I do like how I can see all the unread posts by actual blog. They’ll group them together so that’s cool, although I have heard if you don’t get to them in time, they’ll just disappear. I’m not sure it’s true but since I’m way behind this week, it concerns me a bit. I guess I’ll find out.
Try two pairs of socks; it helps me stay warm. I’m with you dad on using the word burning stove. In fact, I’m sure my mom is doing the same thing at her place. She’s out in the country too and swears by hers.
Always worth it to see the man, even if it means cardboard lodged in your intestines.
Agreed.
For the longest time I thought the lyrics to that song really were OCD.
That would have been my jam then.
Yeah you got me…I surrender!! I’m so happy there’s a term besides OCD for my compulsive list writing. Listies…I’ll get working on establishing that as a formal DSM diagnosis.
Yes please. I’d very much appreciate that.
I’d eat bisquick pancakes any day (lodged intestines and all) to see my hubby if he were gone- is your hubby gone on a business trip??
He’s a full time student….in a different state! I see him on weekends so that’s something.
I still refuse to turn on the heat. It’s been windy, gloomy, and all around miserable around these parts, but I’m not ready to admit that our 2 weeks of fall are over and that we’re well on our way to winter. Luckily, I live a little higher up in a condo, so the building does a good job at keeping my place warm and I can usually get away with a hoodie and some fuzzy socks. Oh, and tea… lots and lots of tea.
I have to say I’m impressed especially since you’re in Canada. It’s usually colder up there. I can picture you very stoic like, drinking your tea in fuzzy socks and a hoodie, whilst eating a bowl of cereal or oats.
Glad to hear about bloglovin- although they have a tendency to remove blogs/not update your reader without telling you- Fail whale.
I lost a fight with a jar of jalepenos…spend a good half an hour wrestling it only to have my mum come and open in it 2 seconds…
Roast potatoes…amazing.
I don’t like the sound of that at all!! I’ll have to keep an eye out for it, especially since I’m way behind in blog reading this week. Like I haven’t really done any. Eek.
I’m so glad to know I’m not the only who lost a fight with a jar of food. Thank you Arman.
It’s definitely the thought that counts (even if the pancakes are cardboard-ish) and it’s a sweet thought 🙂 I’m sorry the jam jar got the better of you (for now) and I’m sad to hear you stuck such a cute little pumpkin guy in the basement!!
I’ve got a whole squash family living in my basement so they’re not lonely. The pumpkin is just the newest member. 🙂
My mom turned the heat on and I about bit her head off. Not really, I’m not mean I swear…but I did secretly turn it down. She likes it around 70 in the house..aND I JUST DIE! So..down it goes. I also still keep my window open a bit, I am just too warm blooded I guess! HA! I hope your pancakes pass soon…how funny would that be if they came out looking like..well..pancakes. HA!
Heat on and windows open…..Ahhhh, I take it you aren’t paying the bill. Maybe you should talk to your mom and strike a compromise. Tell her I said two pairs of socks go a long way.
That’s so weird! I just noticed that when I click on your post (like off your main page), I don’t see your sidebar stuff anymore! Am I that oblivious or has as it always been like that?
Duh duh duuuuuuuuuh! The pumpkin…we all knew it was coming!! But it’s so cute! Surely you can’t hate on the lil’ thing! I think it’s sweet that the hubby made you pancakes…but I’m thinking I need to come up with a pancake mix of some sort that I can start mailing out to all my closest blogger friends…Bisquick ain’t got nothing on the Pancake Queen! 😉 And um, looks like the hubby will have something to do when he comes home this weekend, huh? “Hey baby! I’ve missed you so much! Now open this jar!” Haha! Have you tried wedging a knife or the tip of a spoon under the lid and twisting? Usually works for me!
Oh and fyi, the heat is going ON as soon as I get home in the morning! I seriously put myself in a bad mood today with all my shivering, but by the time I was about to cave and switch it on, I realized it was just about time to leave for work! I really thought it would warm up at some point this week which is why I was holding out…serves me right not checking the damn weather report! Now watch as soon as I turn it on, we’ll get a frickin’ heat wave!
And so as not to end on a sour note…YAY for cheesy potatoes and pots full of veggies!!! Did you use your berbere spice?
I didn’t use the berbere spice, but I absolutely should have. Smacks head. Next time.
I’m glad you turned on the heat; it was time, although I absolutely get your reluctance to do so.
Yes, yes please. I will take some of this pancake mix. In fact, I even thought about doing something similar for the Hubby. Just get the dry mix ready, so all he need to do is add liquid and an egg. It’s a great idea and I’ll probably never get to it so since you’re offering… 😉
I looked into the sidebar stuff (thanks for letting me know!), and based on my limited sluething, I think it’s related to the theme I’m using, so I’m going to have to change mine. Wish me luck with that and the jam jar since I totally forgot to ask the Hubby to open it. D’oh. Good thing he’s home this whole week. Wink, wink.
Well, I hope you got your jar opened…and I of course mean that in a very double entendre sort of way! 😉
I’ve been thinking about doing up a pancake mix for a while now…I’ll get to work since now I have more incentive! The bebere spice…omg, I was telling Melissa and Sarah all about how good that stuff smells when we were at the Ethiopian restaurant last weekend. And now I want to make like a million dishes with it…so we may just have to work out some sort of pancake mix/spice-throw-in-some-granola trade! What do you think? 😀
I’m down with a little remix Broccoli style. I say we do it.
Sweet! Mmm, I can almost taste the granolaaaaa! 😉
Hahahahaha! I often listened to a hip hop Pandora station while at work and sometimes OPP would come on and, yeah, had to skip that one 😛
I’m SO glad that you were able to visit your husband recently! I know that long distance is so hard (like, really fucking hard), but it’s nice being able to break it up. Especially when “delicious” pancakes are involved 😉
The weather isn’t really changing here in Saipan, but my brain is still totally craving pumpkin. Old habits die hard 😛
Your body is still wired for the seasons so pumpkin cravings are bound to happen. I wish I could send you mine. 😉
It’s never the wrong time for Bisquick pancakes. I realize there’s kinda no food value or anything else there, but, oh, a fluffy pile of those covered in maple syrup? Not-from-scratch heaven. Maybe because I really only eat pancakes as an excuse for syrup–who wants any of that “flavor” business getting in the way of sugary goodness?
The maple syrup was the main reason they were actually edible, although they do look good. Gotta give Bisquick credit for that. They make a super fluffy pile of chemicals. 🙂