Dinner with Judy

Steve and I went to Viet house at 11216 lee Hwy in Fairfax Va 22030 for dinner. It's an authentic Vietnamese restaurant Wow, I was a wonderful meal.It was Delicious. and fresh. The price was more than reasonable. Judy walked us through all the food prep and spices. It was so cool. The orentation proved to be quite valuable. The chop sticks only lasted 10min before I went for a fork. We found a new favorite place to eat. We had summer rolls and some of Judy's meatball soup(she shared).and the main course was very large Vermicelli bowl. Check out the menu at www.phoviethouse.com . To make it even more enticing there's a Christian store next door and a yarn shop 2 doors down. Heavens be praised!!!!!! The plaza of my dreams.

cabin fever

We still have snow on the ground from Dec.21 snow storm It's just been unusually cold this year for Virginia. I think my blood has thinned, not sure. Anyway,We made plans to go to the Library of Congress the Eastern Market and also see the Terra cotta warriors @ the National Geographic museum. The warrior exhibit was sold out, so we went to plan "B" wing it.
Adrienne and Pat came with us. We made a stew and put it over in the crock pot left around 10 by the time we got off the metro we we're all ready for lunch. Adrienne and Pat have never gone with us to this area on capital hill so we took them to our favorite hole- in -the -wall restaurant Tortilla Cafe at Eastern Market I had a Salvadoran chicken sandwich with yucca and platiano and a nice drink called Horchaca. On to the Library of Congress awesome place a national treasure for sure. Pat has never seen the new Capital visitors center before. It was right across the street. very convenient especially around 2pm when you've walked enough.
Back home around 5:30 or so for a yummy beef stew. I'll need Sunday to recover.

It's been a long time

I haven't written sence Dec. 6th when we bought a vita mix blender, at a costco demonstration. I've been blending all kinds of food making peanutbutter, Icecream,soups, sauces, and the life changing greensmothie. I've been doing alot of reading and reserch about vitamix and weightloss,healthy eating. There's no excuse now for not eating healthy. I blend all kinds of whole foods into drinkable yummy smoothies that are nutrious.
After a month and a half i've lost weight, gained energy, my nails are stronger and I sleep better at night.I feel great. I drink a quart or more a day of green smoothie varieing the greens ,fruits and vegggies 1 quart =15 servings of greens, fruits, veggies. By 10AM I've gotten all my serving in for the day, no worries.

Vitamix 5200

Today we needed to go to Costco to get groceries. In an interesting twist of fate we came upon a demo of the Vitamix 5200 Where you been all my life? I just love this machine.OMG Steve was so impressed very hard to do. We decided to give it to each other for Christmas. check it out at www.vitamix.com Oh, we got groceries too.

First Snow

Saturday was a perfect day for putting up the Christmas Tree. The snow was coming down in big flakes I made mulled cider and we played Christmas carols. It was just like when the kids were little. \We got 6 inches of snow. The half dollar size.
I worked all day on the purple sweater. I think I'll be able to finish it Sunday, I don't know if I want to. It's been a fun project.

payroll blues

I really hate feeling stupid,I feel so frustrated. Today, I tried to get my pay check on line so I can be more informed. I swear it took most of the day. By 3:30 I was in and registered. and able to look over my payroll info. Sweet relief. It's all about the small victories!

Not a happy return to Richmond

Steve and I drove Dan back to VCU it took 4hrs. to get there for a usual 2hr. trip. (One way) after a quick grocery trip Dan got a call from room mates that their house was broken into over the Thanksgiving weekend, several things were stolen. Dan's X-box and games.Others got a camera, laptop and food from the fridge and freezer stolen. Dan was really upset. Not a happy return. I'm really glad we took him back by car.