BRING IT ON. (I'm ready)

Today was freakin' fantastic. First day of staycation. Tim ran to Horton's for bagels and we watched the first episode of Holiday Baking Championship. What a nice way to start staycation AND we don't go back to work until next Tuesday. How about them apples? 

Speaking of apples, I'm on a hot oatmeal apple bake, kick. Which tastes amazing the next day. With the oatmeal bake we've tried a couple dairy-free whipped toppings. For the money, they should taste better. 

Now I'm on the hunt for a quality stainless steel, aluminum-free whipped cream dispenser. Got my eye on a few. Haven't pulled the trigger yet. 

In other news, right after Halloween, Christmas goes up. The tree looks pretty with all the lights. We also moved the couch and TV around, which is something we do twice a year. Winter-mode and summer-mode for the holiday snug. That's one room done. 

Delightful.

In other, other news, we're moving the kitchen around as well. Got a box of donates headed out the door. Pans and bake dishes I loved for awhile and now don't use. They can go. I recently bought carbon steel cavity baking pans, mini muffin and regular sized for a killer good price. 

I love these pans. Love them. 

Lastly, we went to see Beetlejuice today, using our gift card during the early bird special pricing. Even better, we were the only two at the movie. LOOOOOVE THAT. 

Today was an excellent way to kick off staycation. I loved coming home from Beetlejuice to see the Christmas lights and the snug in winter-mode. To Christmas I say, bring it on, I'm ready. 

Cheers and Boogie Boogie! 

BOOOOOOOOO! (with a dash of boogie boogie)

NOW WITH MORE SPIDERS

Big weekend plans. Eat pizza, make cinnamon sugar doughnuts, watch more Harry Potter and get out and about with the good camera. If time, break out the original Annie Sloan chalk paint and paint something orange.

Life is good.

LOVE ME A FRESH START

Whelp. I cried today at work. Had a pretty good cry-free run, I did. I'm good with that. And I'm soooo happy the puzzle got solved. Started with tears and then turned into a very good day. Huge thanks and shout-out to my co-workers who helped solve a difficult problem.  With that issue complete, it feels like a fresh start.

Love me a fresh start. 

In other news, do you guys change your blog? I do. This time I changed settings not to allow annoymous comments and also removed almost everything from the side of the blog. Not sure if I'll add recipes with food photos on the side, post cartoons or move the blog posts to the middle and ditch the side bar stuff.

I'll give a play. 

In other, other news, after work we did something we haven't done in years, go out to eat. After that we stopped at Home Depot to walk through the Halloween display. Then ended the night under the covers, on the couch, in the dark, re-watching Harry Potter. 

Not too shabby.

With that, I wish you a yummy weekend ahead as I close this post with a Halloween cartoon.

STICK A FORK IN ME (I'm done)

Stick a fork in me I'm done. Although, I gotta say, the last two days some problems bubbled up at work and the old me would have cried first. The new me went straight to problem solving mode, sans tears.

That feels WONDERFUL.

In other news, fries are in the air fryer. Going for simple, quick and easy tonight. For Tim, leftover pizza. 

In other, other news, this is the new area for shooting pictures. That's the baker's rack from the kitchen. Moved it back to the office corner. I'll fill the shelves with camera gear. Nice to have my old corner spot back. I love having a place to shoot stills. 

Check out the mummy below. Saw him and had to snap a shot at the store. I love his little elbows and the resting hand. So stinkin' cute.

And that my Boogerbutts is all that's fit to print. 

Huggs & Bugs, Me. 

DRUMROLL PLEASE ....

Soooo it's Friday morning before work and guess who has three days, count'em three days off in a row? 

In other news, this weekend the project is ... drum roll please ... break down the kitchen and go through every bake dish, spoon, plate, cup, mug, Mason jar and also, dry good ingredients as well as fridge and freezer. 

I haven't done a mass declutter like this since 2016 although, I did do something similar a couple of years ago when I gave away most of my aluminum baking things. Though that was just of that particular category. 

Because when I declutter it's always by category, not by room so any bakeware or cookie cutters hiding the in bedroom closet, those need to come out and boom, everything in one category swept through in three days.

That my folks, is happiness. With that, I wish you a wonderful weekend and leave you with today's cartoon.

Huggs & Bugs, Me.