*Like It or Not...This Is Me*

Well, not much has happened in the last few days to make  me HAVE to write an entry.  I am bored right now and trying to figure out my Christmas menu.  We have ordered our prime rib and I have many different cookies and appetizers on the brain!  I want prime rib NOW DAMNIT!  Anybody out there have some good recipes that are new and different?  I am sick of the traditional cookies we have.  I found an excellent recipe for tomato/basil palmiers.  It is made with puffed pastry and oooh so good!

Bought more paint  stripper, cuz now we are taking ALL paint on the cupboards, off.  We decided to put just a clear acrylic over the bare wood.  I had started staining and didn't like the outcome, so I sanded it all off and left it!  Can it get worse?  Yep, I found the hole where our little mouse has been sneaking in and out of.  So I put poison in the hole and at the suggestion of Shelly, I also put brillo pads in to block the hole.  I sure hope it works.  Damn lazy ass cats can't take care of it.

My nephew is at pre-school today and it is nice and quiet!  At least until noonish!

Got another $10 gift card from KOHLS' last week and went and bought all new dish towels for the kitchen.  They were on sale for two dollars and ninety nine cents a pair and with the gift card I got, I ended up paying onlytwo dollars and eight cents for the 4 pkgs. I bought.  Not bad huh?  Normally they are five dollars a pair.  I get excited about a good deal, obviously!

I recieved my cypress tree seeds and am going to plant them today or tomorrow!  They will be so gorgeous when they GROW!

Went on evil EBAY and got a set of espresso cups, and a glass and copper pitcher.  Cannot wait for them!  They are so way going to fit into my new kitchen!  I also bought a majolica(?) italian christmas ornament.  I am going to permanently keep up in the kitchen.  Bid on, but haven't won,YET, a Russian Orthodox picture of Tzar Nicholas, it is very pretty, that is for my Auntie for Christmas.  She is into monks too, not the sicko way if you are thinking that(perves), so I may get her a statue for the garden.    I am still looking for a ring for my daughter, but haven't found any(not on EBAY...that would be weird to buy jewels on EBAY).  I have to see and feel before buying.

Haven't heard about the foremans' job yet, but we are still praying!

My friend in CA is sending me some sun-dried tomatos packed in oil and some not in oil.  I am so excited.  I have called around here and no one has them.  Not even the HEALTH FOOD STORE, if you can believe that!  I found some great web sites that do and have requested  many catalogs, but my friend can get them cheaper and fresher.  I want the roma tomatoes.  They are the best!  I also found a site that had truffles(not the chocolates).  They get pricey, but they are so way worth it.  If you have the cash try them!  I did see one on EBAY for nine dollars and ninety nine cents.  It is imported from Italy, but don't know the freshness of it.  I almost was considering it, but I have bought alot of things the last week or so. ooops...

Well, I have to get a few things done before I go get the nephew. 

 

Take Care Those Who Do and Those Who Don't...

 

J.