Hello! I’m back! We got home late yesterday afternoon from rainy Cleveland, Ohio where I had the awesome experience of running 3:49:12 for my second marathon! This time is 18 minutes faster than my first marathon, back in 2008. I’m so excited and still pretty exhausted and sore, but I plan to share more about our trip and my race in the coming days. Until now… here’s a look at our eats for the week, sparse as they are. For now, real life awaits. 🙂 Hope you had a good weekend!
Week of May 16
Monday: [belated] leftovers… I had cake and ice cream and an apple, Ben had pizza.
Tuesday: Ben fends for himself, I have class.
Wednesday: lemony kale pasta
Thursday: chicken tenders
Friday-Sunday: out of town [again :(] for a wedding 🙂
Courtney recently tagged me in the ever-popular Stylish Blogger award! Woohoo!
There are 4 duties to perform to accept this award:
1. Make a post + Link back to the person who awarded you this award. 2. Share 7 things about yourself. 3. Award 15 recently discovered great bloggers 4. Contact these bloggers and tell them they’ve won!
So, here we go! 🙂
In college I was involved in a million and a half [that’s an exact count] honor societies, clubs, teams, and organizations. I rarely had any free time but had a blast. I don’t want to go back to college per se but I do miss my college friends and wish we could get together more often. Next weekend I’m going to visit my roommate of 3 years and I can’t wait!
see the obnoxiousness that was my involvement in a million & a half things?
My favorite movie of all time is My Best Friend’s Wedding. I think it’s the perfect combination of comedy, drama, and romance. I practically have the whole thing memorized. When the big VHS to DVD switcharoo happened, MBFW [as I call it in my head] was one of the few movies that I bought right away on DVD as a VHS replacement.
I have only had one part time job in my life and that’s the job I currently hold right now, working in the office of the African Studies Collection at my university library. Some aspects are more tedious than others, but it definitely isn’t the typical office filing/typing job. I love it! My only other jobs have been working on staff with Campus Crusade for Christ (CRU) for two years post-graduation and working for two summers at Camp Tecumseh, a local YMCA camp. All have been great!! Oh, and I also babysat alot in high school!
I spent the better part of May 2005-August 2006 abroad. May-June 2005 were spent in Lesotho doing service work/taking classes, September-December 2005 were spent studying abroad in Cameroon, and June-August 2006 were spent on summer project with CRU in Nice, France. I love traveling and can’t wait to do more!
in Cameroon… like the braids?
Growing up I had 3 cats [at different times] and a dog. Now, I have one cat and want another… but we’ll see on that!
I miss Heidi! When we have a house, I want to get a weimerainer again!
My wedding day was one of the best days of my life. I loved my dress and loved the ceremony! While there are some things about the day I wish I could change [how long the photos took for example], it was a great day and I wouldn’t have it any different if I could do it again! Our photographer was great, by the way!
I loved taking photos on a golf course!
I love having weird combination of ice cream. Right now, we have mango sherbet and chocolate pretzel ice cream in the freezer and I love having a bowl with a scoop of each! Everyone else thinks it’s weird but I think it is delish!!
rose gelato in Nice!
Now to pass on the award to bloggers whose responses I’d like to read…
[in no particular order, not exactly 15, and I’m sorry if you already did this!]
And finally… be sure to check out my guest post on meal planning tips at Today’s Housewife! I recently joined their food team and will be posting there once a month. 🙂
Even though this is a food blog, I just have to share another one of my passions: good deals. I am on a constant quest for good deals, be it rolling ECB’s at CVS or using coupons at the grocery store to get boxes of cereal for pennies.
Fun fact: at one point late last summer, we had 19 boxes of cereal in our possession at once. It was stacked in our cabinets and on top of our cabinets in a very haphazard fashion. And we ate it ALL! Well, and donated some too.
I digress.
Last night, I spent 88 cents. And it was a very happy 88 cents from my wallet, because it went towards the purchase of these beauties.
Deals & steals that make this girl happy happy happy!
What all is there, you ask?
A serving plate
A serving bowl
2 placemats
2 napkins
2 napkin rings
And how did I get such a wonderful deal? By using Kohl’s cash, of course.
I have never used Kohl’s cash before. It’s basically a marketing ploy to get you to spend more money at their store, and I am sure prices are marked up to compensate for this ‘cash.’ During certain promotional periods, if you spend $50, you receive $10 in Kohl’s cash, which then can be used at Kohl’s like cash [hence the name] during specified dates.
A few weeks ago, my husband mentioned he needed some new work clothes. Being the fabulous wife I am, and seizing every opportunity my husband willingly will go to a store for something besides beef jerky or Mountain Dew [I exaggerate… kind of…], I suggested we go shopping the very next night. And so we did, buying him two pairs of pants, one long sleeve button-down, two polos, and one short sleeve button-down, and earning me $20 in fun money, which I went to spend last night. Bliss.
I spent some time perusing my options and ended up with a total of $20.82 prior to tax. After applying my Kohl’s cash, my total was the aforementioned wonderful 88 cents. It doesn’t get any better than that, folks.
A savings of $56.10! Oh yes please!
Just look at that receipt. Fun fun fun fun fun. A free $20 and a huge savings? I’ll take that any day!
Thumbs up for a good deal!
Oh I am such a dork.
Happy Saturday.
Question of the Day: What good deals have you gotten lately?
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Disclosure: Kohl’s did not pay me for this publicity, to shop in their store, to exploit their Kohl’s cash deal and spend a mere 88 cents when they want customers to get that $20 and return and spend another $20 at their store. Ha ha, the thought is funny. However, should Kohl’s or any other business so desire to compensate me for a review or like experience I would be more than willing to oblige! 🙂 Any takers?
Hello! I’m back! We got home late yesterday afternoon from rainy Cleveland, Ohio where I had the awesome experience of running 3:49:12 for my second marathon! This time is 18 minutes faster than my first marathon, back in 2008. I’m so excited and still pretty exhausted and sore, but I plan to share more about our trip and my race in the coming days. Until now… here’s a look at our eats for the week, sparse as they are. For now, real life awaits. 🙂 Hope you had a good weekend!
The Pajama Chef 