Random brain swirlies

I can't gather one topic to post about so this is gonna be a wee sporadic.

Yesterday was goodie experimentation day.  I made 2 recipes to post later on in the season that the Mr's co-workers are enjoying today.  We fit some of each into our calories.  I can't wait to share them with you guys!

The Mr has a big birthday coming up next month and we're doing a little family picnic.  Usually we drag my family to a non-chain restaurant because if I go to Red Lobster or Outback one more time we're going to implode.  They aren't much for expanding their culinary horizons unless forced but they seemed to have liked all of the places we've gone.  There's this food truck the Mr. just fell in love with and he wants that to be where we eat with the family but they only have 2 picnic tables so we can't guarantee seating there.  Knowing it would be more aggravation than it's worth to have my family meet there, grimace at the thought of eating at a food truck (they're all from the era of food truck = roach coach) it's just better we pick up the orders and bring it to a park.  Well I want it to be nice for him so I'm of course going batchit on details now.  We're going to be busy the week before the get together so I need to take care of a lot of the details now and I've got some cool stuff coming!  That means there will be some fun tutorials coming too along with pics of it all together.  He thinks I'm going overboard but you know how it is in a Pinterest world, expectations are a little more than streamers and tissue paper centerpieces these days.  I'm still trying to decide if that's a good thing or a bad thing.  I suppose I'll say it keeps me on my creative game so we'll lean toward good thing.

For those of you who saw my chicken and waffles pic on Facebook, it should come as no surprise I bought a cheap waffle iron with birthday money.

I already have recipes swirling in my head.  I think the Mr is going to mention cravings more often now since as soon as he says he craves something I immediately see if I can make it.  "I'm craving beef wellington with brown butter escargots and an apple caramel crumble.  Get to it woman!"

We did Powerstrike for our "recovery" workout.  If you'd told me 2 years ago we would consider that a light workout, I would have said you were a nut job.  I remember when we could barely get through it.  It does help you remember how far you've come endurance wise.

It's Thursday!  In case you weren't aware.

You ever think you've found this awesome new song that you absolutely fell in love with and you want to tell everyone you know what you've found only to find out it's like 7 years old?  This is the case with Jem's song "Wish I."  We heard this song incessantly in various stores and every time I heard it, I loved the way it was all floaty and upbeat and I scoured the internet because it sounded like she was saying "wishing...oh wishing" but I couldn't make out what else she was saying.  We even went to this website that supplies stores with their soundtracks because one of the cashiers told us when the song was on they could see the name and artist but they couldn't go back a few songs.  It never came on when we were listening, of course.  I was obsessed with finding it for a good month or so then gave up.  Then last month whilst publicly kissing my husband for finding thai lime rice at World Market, I heard it.  I screamed to run up to the cashier and ask what the song was.  The girl said she didn't have access to it (I think she was just lazy) so amidst screaming kids and the end of the song approaching I asked the Mr to try to hear what she was saying after "wishing."  The last time she said it, I heard it..."wish I was going too."  I repeated it to him and he said "is she saying "wish I" instead of wishing?"  It all came together, he looked it up online and we watched the video and danced in World Market.  Then we got home and saw it was released in like 2004 or 2005.  Wah waaah.  Tragically unhip.

Okay, I think I'm done now.

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