Oh hey

If anyone still reads this...Um no updating, just living, lol. But, I do have a new blog. IT IS HERE

Work out

So yesterday I started my workout outlined for me by the guy at the gym. I did 15 minutes on the elliptical, 5 minutes on the treadmill, and 5 minutes on the arc trainer. I'm supposed to do 30 minutes of cardio, but 25 was fiiiine for the first day. Then I worked on weight machines for my back and biceps. I'll write out the whole workout he outlined for me later. And yes, periodically I will post pictures, just not everyday.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Okay...so I am back and the picture a day thing is pretty much done with. BUT...I've gone back to the gym and have a whole workout to follow, so I am going to blog about that and my feelings on that, etc. So I am back to writing!

Starting again...P*AD* 1- Erin Go Braugh

Ok, so I have been convinced to start doing my Picture A Day thing. So I will. Yesterday was good ol St. Patrick's Day. I may not look it, with the red hair and all, but I'm Irish. My grandma's maiden name was Kennedy and NOW my last name is Murray. Hahahahahaha I'm so Irish. For years and years, every St. Patrick's Day my mom has cooked corn beef & cabbage. In the past few years I have discovered a liking to cabbage and I have always liked corn beef.I just knew I had to attempt my own corn beef & cabbage meal yesterday. The corn beef cooked all day in the crock pot and it was SO VERY GOOD! I was very impressed with myself. The cabbage was quite tasty too. My St. Patrick's Day was just like it used to be at home (except way better corn beef...hahahahahaha)

PictureMail

I finally got my new phone!! <*Kara*>

Oh No

Okay...so by I'm going to post tomorrow I meant I'll post as soon as I find my camera...oops.........

I'm Baaaack

Ok...I'm back. I've been back for a while, but I've been getting used to being back home from St. Louis. It was a wayyy fun time and I have a ton of pictures. I suck. I took one or more pictures a day while in St. Louis, but as soon as I got back home, I stopped. I'm a horrible quitter! Ack. Well, tomorrow, I'll update with fun pictures and updates on me and the husband! See y tomorrow.

clear up

I'm still taking pictures each day of my vacation/trip home, so my 365 days of pictures will not be interrupted.

I'm still snapping

I am still doing the picture a day blogging but will not post 2 weeks of pictures until I get back to New York - it will be much easier! But I will update the blog till I get back with the pictures

p*A*D*-Day 21-Vanilla Bean Goodness

This is the very rare vanilla bean scone from Starbucks. If I see it in their baked goods case, I must get them because supposedly they stopped making these early last year. Rarely, some do still have them in the case. These are so very delicious with a latte or coffee. I don't really need Starbucks since I have learned to make my own coffee very well, but I do still enjoy their lattes very much.

P*A*D*-Day 20-No preggo!

And so, I am not pregnant. This is good, but I'm a teeny bit sad. I do want kids and I don't want to be an old lady having babies, haha. No plus sign, so no baby. I'm just relieved. I'm leaving Friday for St. Louis!

p*A*D*-Day 19-Valentine's early

This was the early Valentine's day dinner I made for Kevin. The steak was a bit over cooked, but still pretty good. Almost everything at this dinner is from Angelfood. I hid his present in his chair and he was surprised when he went to sit down for dinner. He opened his Spongebob heart filled with gummy crabby patties and the stuffed dog I gave him. I told him it was for him to hug while I was gone when he missed me.



Then I made some yummy V-Day funfetti cupcakes which were so good. All in all it was a great Valentine's Day.

P*A*D*-Day 18-Romantical Dinner

Kevin was hiding from me so I took a picture of him hiding. I found it funny. Tonight I am making him a Valentine's Day dinner since I will be in St. Louis for Valentines Day. I even got him some cute lil gifts. He has no idea that it's for V-Day, so I hope he will be surprised. I even made some fun-fetti V-Day cupcakes. I also got Parker & Gabby some V-Day presents and My sizzle's soon to be born Emalynn some cute baby shower clothes. I wrapped them in the cutest cupcake wrapping paper I got from Gabby's school fundraiser. It is the BEST wrapping paper ever - and it is reversable so Parker's present has more manly stripes on it instead of cupcakes hahaha.

P*A*D*-Day 17-AngelFood is the ish

This is our freezer after AngelFood. AngelFood is a great great church run program. You do not have to be a church goer or whatever yourself to take advantage of this wonderful stuff.
Okay, they have restaurant grade food and the regular box is $30 and you honestly get a lot of food. Now, with each regular box you can purchase 1 special package for various prices. The meat you get is always good. The veggies and fruit you get is always good. The shelf-stable milk is usually an automatic throw-away. The breaded chicken is usually funny tasting unless you lightly fry it. That's usually the only bad stuff.
We got a regular box and a special meat box for $52 all together and got all this frozen meat. And a bunch of other food items for the pantry.

A REGULAR BOX:
Balanced nutrition and variety with enough food to feed a family of four for a week.

They have host site all over the country, so there is probably one by you! Take advantage of this great offer!

Click HERE for more information and host locations

And if you have ANY other questions, you can please ask me. My dad was doing this for about 5 months before I moved here to NYC and that's how I know about it.

P*A*D*-Day 16-Chicken Fajita Tortilla

I made the chicken fajita tortilla soup last night. It was so so so so so so so delicious. It was filling and full of flavor! And it was quite easy to make. Anyone looking for something different, make the recipe below! I accidentally bought crushed tomatoes instead of diced and it still turned out great. I always knew that even though I find Rachel Ray extremely annoying, her food would taste good. Looka at that picture, I even got the garnishes and everything. I'm so cool.

Here I cook again

I want to make this recipie sooo badly. It looks very yummy and 0 bad reviews out of 50!!

Chicken Fajita Tortilla Soup


Ingredients

* 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
* 2 packages chicken tenders, 1 1/2 to 2 pounds
* 1 tablespoon coriander, a palm full
* 2 tablespoons chopped fresh thyme leaves, 5 to 6 sprigs
* Salt and freshly ground black pepper
* 1 large onion, quartered and thinly sliced
* 1 large bell pepper, quartered and thinly sliced
* 1 jalapeno, seeded and thinly sliced
* 1 (28-ounce) can fire roasted diced tomatoes
* 1 quart chicken stock
* 1 bag white corn tortilla chips
* 1 cup shredded pepper Jack or sharp white Cheddar
* 1 ripe avocado, diced
* 1 lime, juiced
* 4 scallions, chopped
* Handful fresh cilantro leaves or fresh flat-leaf parsley, chopped

Directions

Heat a large skillet with extra-virgin olive oil, 2 turns of the pan, over medium-high heat. Add chicken, begin to brown 4 minutes, add coriander, thyme, salt and pepper, to taste, onions, bell pepper and jalapeno, season with salt and pepper, to taste. Cook 8 to 10 minutes, stirring frequently. Add tomatoes and stock, heat through.

While the soup is working, lightly crush some tortilla chips and divide among 4 bowls. You need a couple of handfuls per bowl. Top the chips with a little cheese. Toss the avocado with lime juice. Top the chips with ladles of soup. Garnish soup with avocado, scallions and cilantro or parsley.


*****UPDATE*****
I'm going to get the ingredients I need to make the soup tonight! Yay! I am very excited. Pictures shall be posted.

P*A*D*-Day 15-clean sheets

I did ALL this laundry yesterday. It was ok to get it to the laundry mat but was extremely difficult getting it back home. I washed all my jeans and every sheet, blanket, and comforter that we own. So sleeping in soft clean sheets was wonderful. Kevin has this habit of eating in the bed. Eating EVERYTHING in the bed. I dislike it SO much cause he always seems to get crumbs and junk in the bed and leave the dirty dishes in our room for ME to clean up. It is very frustrating. I need some 2000 thread count sheets. That would be great . We also need a new bed frame, ours is busted badly. I step on the broken pieces of our bed all the time and that is not cool.

P*A*D*-Day 14- Baby shower for sizzle...and me?

This is the baby shower invite to my sizzle's baby shower. Isn't it so cute? Now, the reason this is so picture worthy is because I GET TO BE IN TOWN FOR THE SHOWER!!!! That's right, I leave the 30th for St. Louis and come back the 17th of February. Yes, yes, I know that's a long trip, but Kevin and I discussed it and we're both okay with that. I'm very very excited to see my sister, her pregnant belly, the kids, my mom & dad, my whole family really. I have the job of thinking up games for the baby shower and I think I've come up with 3 good ones. Now on to more pressing information...


This is my cup of coffee. I wasn't sure how else to show how crazy tired I have been recently. I sleep till about 11 or 12 when I would usually wake up at 8ish. I go to bed really early too. Kevin keeps asking if I fell okay, and I do. So now Kevin, my mother, and a few others are convinced that I am pregnant. I really don't think I am. Aren't you supposed to get like morning sickness or something? With how I usually am I have always had a feeling I would get the worst morning sickness. Kevin doesn't want me to take a pregnancy test till after the St. Louis trip so it is "looming" over my head the whole trip. I'm going to be going nuts with curiosity the entire trip. I just think he doesn't want it to be looming over HIS head the entire time I'm gone. Oh well, results of that will come soon enough I guess...

P*A*D*-Day 13- Messy table

This is my kitchen table. It used to be bare and clear and cleaned off. Now? It is a mess. Groceries go there, mail, sodas, just everything we can't find a place for. I originally took the picture to talk about going to the grocery store like two or three times a week instead of about once a week. But, as I looked at the picture, I noticed that table is a mess! Ugh. I need to clean that up. So I will leave you to go clear it off.