My Years Reflection 1993

It's my 30th birthday year.  As part of my celebrations, I thought I would take my birthday month to reflect on my life.  To help, I am using some of my scrapbooked pages to illustrate my life.  For each year, I've chosen a few pages to highlight that year.  I hope you enjoy my look back as much as I do.

1993:  This was a life-changing year.  I entered middle school and moved states away.

Page 1:  My father's job transferred him to Florida.  We moved at the end of my fifth grade year to St. Petersburg, Florida.  Such an adventure.

Page 2:  Scenes from my life in Florida.  Notice the tans and the pelicans.  The St. Petersburg pier was full of pelicans.

Page 3:  One of favorite places to visit in Florida was Busch Gardens.  I loved the rides and the animals, especially the Clydesdale horses.  Such beautiful creatures.

My Years Reflection 1992

It's my 30th birthday year.  As part of my celebrations, I thought I would take my birthday month to reflect on my life.  To help, I am using some of my scrapbooked pages to illustrate my life.  For each year, I've chosen a few pages to highlight that year.  I hope you enjoy my look back as much as I do.

1992: 10 Years Old!  Finally I did double digits.  This was a big year for me.  I started branching out of my little family life and into the big world.

Page 1: In the summer, I attended my first sleep-away camp: Camp Potawotamie.  It wasn't the best experience in my life, but I mostly enjoyed my stay there.  I took gymnastics, arts and crafts, and archery.  I stayed in the Shawnee cabin with four other girls and high school aged counselor.  I braved the leech filled lake and dirty communal bathrooms.  I enjoyed the bug juice at breakfast each morning.  I even lived through two tornado scares that damaged buildings in the town closest to camp.  It was an interesting week.

Page 2:  Halloween has always been one of my favorite holidays.  Throughout elementary school, my family would host a big weenie roast the night of.  One of the adults (usually my dad) would take the kids around the neighborhood.  Then we would all come back for hot cider, hot dogs, and candy.  For this year, my great grandma made me an awesome poodle skirt that I accessorized with a pink cat sweatshirp, saddle shoes, and a pink ribbon.Loved it!

Page 3: Somehow I never mentioned that I have a half-brother and half-sister.  I found these pics of these and love how they coordinate with the paper and embellishements.  Cole and Mallory are 5 and 8 years younger than me.  I don't see much of them as I live 10 hours away, but we get together when I'm in town.

My Years Reflection 1991

It's my 30th birthday year.  As part of my celebrations, I thought I would take my birthday month to reflect on my life.  To help, I am using some of my scrapbooked pages to illustrate my life.  For each year, I've chosen a few pages to highlight that year.  I hope you enjoy my look back as much as I do.

1991:  Nine years old... I'm almost to preteen status.  I got into more extracurriculars this year and even picked the ones I wanted.  My twin boys will be nine this year.  I hope they have as great of a year as I did.

Page 1: Every year my great-grandma's neighbor Iola would let my cousin Nelson and I decorate her tree with Easter eggs.  It was our little ritual.  After decorating, we usually got candy and pop for troubles.  It was a great trade for a nine year old.

Page 2:  I did poms and baton with one of the local schools.  I loved learning the routines.  These are pictures from one of our recitals.  My favorite song to perform was Rock Around the Clock.  So much fun!  The trophies were for participation and a solo I performed to New Kids on the Block.  That's right I liked 1980s boys bands!

My Years Reflection 1990

It's my 30th birthday year.  As part of my celebrations, I thought I would take my birthday month to reflect on my life.  To help, I am using some of my scrapbooked pages to illustrate my life.  For each year, I've chosen a few pages to highlight that year.  I hope you enjoy my look back as much as I do.

1990:  Eight years old... and my life is spent going to school and hanging out with friends.  I lived on a coul-de-sac at the very end.  My great grandma Helen lived right next door.  Her garage became a meeting place for neighborhood children.  It was the perfect hangout for elementary students.

Page 1:  My best friend in third grade Alice Tung.  She lived with her mother, father, grandma, and sister Nina two streets over.  I was finally given permission to travel to and from her house by myself.  Such freedom!    On a side out, check out those pink glasses.  Awesome!

 

Page 2:  Christmas was always spent in three different places.  Eve night we would travel to Great Aunt Alys' house for dinner, presents, and celebration of Great Grandma Helen's birthday.  Obviously, Christmas Morning was spent at my own house opening presents.  And Christmas Day we traveled to my dad's family for dinner and more presents.  Always so much fun!

My Years Reflection 1989

It's my 30th birthday year.  As part of my celebrations, I thought I would take my birthday month to reflect on my life.  To help, I am using some of my scrapbooked pages to illustrate my life.  For each year, I've chosen a few pages to highlight that year.  I hope you enjoy my look back as much as I do.

1989:  Seven years old.  Making some great school friends.  Tackling the first grade.  I got it all under control.  But for some reason I can't find many pictures at all.

 

Page 1: Those glasses are just atrocious and that collar is huge.  But it's still the 80s so I forgive it.  I had to include these great pictures of my dog.  He was adorable when just a puppy.  If only he had stayed that way.

My Years Reflection 1988

It's my 30th birthday year.  As part of my celebrations, I thought I would take my birthday month to reflect on my life.  To help, I am using some of my scrapbooked pages to illustrate my life.  For each year, I've chosen a few pages to highlight that year.  I hope you enjoy my look back as much as I do.

1988: I'm six years old.  Microsoft released Windows 2.1. The Iran-Iraq War ends.  The Summer Olympics are held in Seoul, South Korea.  NASA resumes space shuttle flights with Discovery.  George H.W. Bush defeats Michael Dukakis in the Presidential Election.  --  I only remember the space shuttle flight, we watched all of the lift-offs at school.  To be fair, I was six!

Page 1:  I started school!  Look at me, in my popped collar (not on purpose) and teddy bear sweater vest.  I am ready for the big world of kindergarten.  As part of our first homework assignment, we had to fill out our autobiography.  Most of us couldn't really write yet, so I dictated the information to my dad.  Of special note is the future career plans: "a checkout girl at Scotts (local grocery store chain)."  I always thought it would be fun to scan the food and take money.  High aspirations I know, but hey I was six.  The funny part is that in high school I was a checkout girl at Scotts!  Too funny! 

 

Page 2: Check out my birthday crown!  I loved  that little thing made of paper.  It made me feel so special.  The other picture I love is of my cat.  Yup I had a cat, for about 3 days.  She was found as a stray by my mom's workplace.  She took the cat home.  Unfortunately the cat had many things wrong including parasites.  It died three days later.  We buried the cat out back in what become our creepy little pet semetary complete with the cat, hamsters, and many many angel fish (too big to flush).

My Years Reflection 1987

It's my 30th birthday year.  As part of my celebrations, I thought I would take my birthday month to reflect on my life.  To help, I am using some of my scrapbooked pages to illustrate my life.  For each year, I've chosen a few pages to highlight that year.  I hope you enjoy my look back as much as I do.

1987: I was five!  This is where my life really started (at least according to my memories).  We moved, I got a dog, I started kindergarten.  It was a great year!

 

Page 1:  My first trip to Disney World!  I loved every minute of it.  I especially liked meeting Cinderella. Let's face it, little girls love meeting the princesses.  We even had dinner in the castle.  For some reason the only pics I could find were of me and Cinderella and me on Dumbo.  Odd, I am sure there were more.  Oh well, you still get the idea.

Page 2: We built a house!  Of course it is decorated in 1980s chic.  Note the frilly red and white strawberry curtains in the kitchen.  Ugly!  But I loved that house.  It is the first one where I can recall the entire layout and decor.  I especially loved watching it being built as evidenced by my twirling in the frame.

 

Page 3: Excuse the blurry photography.  But notice the wondrous pink and white bedroom!  I loved that bedroom.  Later on, I even got my own desk to go to the right of the window.  I still have that quilt hanging on the wall.  If I'm not mistaken, my late great-grandma Helen (in pic above) made it for me.  The other highlight of the year was getting a dog: Milkdud.  Isn't he adorable?  In reality, he loved to bite and raise holy hell all over the house.

My Years Reflection 1986

It's my 30th birthday year.  As part of my celebrations, I thought I would take my birthday month to reflect on my life.  To help, I am using some of my scrapbooked pages to illustrate my life.  For each year, I've chosen a few pages to highlight that year.  I hope you enjoy my look back as much as I do.

1986:

 So I was four, but I do have some memories from that year.  I remember living in the trailer with my best friend Kristina just down the street. I remember my babysitter was Kristina's mom.  I didn't go to preschool, but just child care.

Page 1: Notice the beautiful Strawberry Shortcake cake.  I loved watching that cartoon.  So much fun.  I wanted to be Strawberry Shortcake.  And the cake came from Scott Bakery.  We bought all of our birthday cakes from that same bakery all the way until I went to college.  Unfortunately, they are no longer in business. Their cake will be missed.

30 Years Ago Today...

  30 Years ago today.... 

I was pulled into this world by forceps screaming my little red face off.  It's my birthday day today!  How am I going to celebrate??  By going to work.  Yep that's right.  I get to work on my birthday.  But that's okay.  I plan on eating crap all day and not cooking or planning dinner tonight.  Later I must watch Logan's Run in all its beautiful cheesy glory.  Gotta go... my palm is flashing.

 Run, Runner, Run!

My Years Reflection 1985

It's my 30th birthday year.  As part of my celebrations, I thought I would take my birthday month to reflect on my life.  To help, I am using some of my scrapbooked pages to illustrate my life.  For each year, I've chosen a few pages to highlight that year.  I hope you enjoy my look back as much as I do.

1985:  Starting to remember bits and pieces of my life.  In general  I remember where I lived and who some of my friends were.  At 3 years old, we lived in a trailer park.  We lived there until I started Kindergarten.

Page 1:  I had my 3rd friend birthday party at Shobiz...  a precursor to Chucky Cheese.  It was awesome! Games, pizza, cake, and good friends.  And check out that birthday cake.  I was a Strawberry Shortcake fan.  I remember watching the cartoon on Saturday mornings.  I wanted to be Strawberry Shortcake.

Page 2:  That baby doll you see is Rachel Michelle.  I must have gotten her when I was one or two years old.  And I still have her.  Currently, she packed in a trunk with some other early years memorabilia.  As you can see, I took her everywhere, even sledding down hills bundled up.  Through the years, Rachel Michelle has endure a new wig and a new cloth body.  For the most part she's intact and still kicking it.

Page 3:  My maternal grandparents, Frances and Jerry moved to Jupiter, Florida.  After moving, we visited once a year until we moved to Florida (albeit the other side) when I was in fifth grade.  I have some great memories of visiting and soaking in the sun.  Everyone looks so young!

My Years Reflection 1984

It's my 30th birthday year.  As part of my celebrations, I thought I would take my birthday month to reflect on my life.  To help, I am using some of my scrapbooked pages to illustrate my life.  For each year, I've chosen a few pages to highlight that year.  I hope you enjoy my look back as much as I do.

1984:  Another year of no memories.  But I still love all these old pictures.  I was so adorable back then...

Page 1:  I think this is my favorite collection of pictures from my early life.  That bathing suit is a bit small, but it looks so cute of me.  And notice that I had blond slightly curly hair until I was about 3 years old.

 

Page 2:  I'm wearing a dress...  therefore it's Easter or Christmas.  And obviously it's Easter in these pictures.  Those are my great-grandparents celebrating with me.

My Years Reflection 1983

It's my 30th birthday year.  As part of my celebrations, I thought I would take my birthday month to reflect on my life.  To help, I am using some of my scrapbooked pages to illustrate my life.  For each year, I've chosen a few pages to highlight that year.  I hope you enjoy my look back as much as I do.

1983: I was 1.  Obviously I still don't remember anything.

Page 1:  All these pictures were taken right around my first birthday.  I love my official 1st year portrait.  I just look really tired and confused.  What's really amazing is that I'm wearing a dress...  Throughout most of my early years I was dressed as a boy.  The only times I ever wore a dress were for Easter and Christmas.  But look!  They put me in a dress for my birthday portrait.

My Years Reflection 1982

It's my 30th birthday year.  As part of my celebrations, I thought I would take my birthday month to reflect on my life.  To help, I am using some of my scrapbooked pages to illustrate my life.  For each year, I've chosen a few pages to highlight that year.  I hope you enjoy my look back as much as I do.

1982: I was born.  I don't remember that first year, obviously, but I've chosen a few pages that highlight my life.

Page 1: The cover for my scrapbooks.  I had to go with purple as my background paper; it's my favorite color of all time.  I found these cute die cuts to add to my name and birthdate.

Page 2: I continued with my purple theme throughout the early years scrapbook.  I had to include my just after being born picture.  Look at my all wrapped up in blankets, looking all cute.  When I was born, I was the fifth generation alive on my mom's side.  The newspaper came to the family's home to document the five generations.  There's me, my mother Rebecca, her father Jerry, his mother Helen, and her mother.  I never knew my great-great grandmother as she died when I was just a few months old.  I knew my great-grandmother Helen.  She eventually developed Alzheimer's and did when I was in middle school.

Page 3: Scenes from my first year of life.  One of my favorite pictures from my entire life is the one with the Cheerios box.  My grandma Joan was trying to enter me into a cutest baby contest sponsored by Cheerios.  I obviously didn't win, but I do so love that picture.  Unfortunately, I seem to have a really long head in the picture on the bottom left. Thankfully I grew into it.

30th Birthday Extravaganza!!! (Giveaway)

This month, I am turning 30....  There I said it.  I'm getting old.  I feel like I'm getting old.  But I am determined to make the most of my month.  And you, my dear readers, get to participate in my celebrations.  I am doing my first ever (yep that's right, FIRST EVER) giveaway.  I'm sure you're all wondering how do I enter and what do I win.  Here's all the details:

• Contest runs March 1st through April 1st, 2012
• US/Canada only please (can't afford the postage overseas, sorry!)
• I will pick 8 winners using a random number generator
• As each winner responds to my emails...
• Each winner will get their pick of one of 10 prize packs
• If no response within 48 hours, I will pick a new number
• You don't have to be a follower to enter
• Share the love with other readers you know
• To enter, please fill out the form below (emails will be used only to contact the winners)

Prize Packs -- Each pack comes with books listed plus a few extra goodies.  Please be advised that all books are used.  I have notated the condition of the books if necessary.

Prize Pack #1 Reimagined Classics -- Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters; Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

Prize Pack #2 Hatter M series -- Volumes 1, 2, 3

Prize Pack #3 Willomere series by Candace Camp -- A Lady Never Tells; A Gentleman Always Remembers; An Affair without End (all three books are well used copies with creased spines)

Prize Pack #4 Immortals series by Alyson Noel -- Evermore; Blue Moon; Shadowland

Prize Pack #5 Romance-ish Pack -- Lost in Austen by Emma Campbell Webster; The Untamed Bride by Stephanie Laurens; The Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever by Julia Quinn

Prize Pack #6 Zombies Pack -- Zombie Blondes by Brian James; Night of the Necromancer by Kyle West and Jelani Sims

Prize Pack #7 Vampires Pack -- American Vampire by Jennifer Armintrout; Sunshine by Robin McKinley

Prize Pack #8 Fantasy Pack -- Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs; The Magicians by Lev Grossman

Prize Pack #9-10 Your Choice Pack: Pick two books from the following list

• The Constant Princess by Philippa Gregory
• The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
• Triangles by Ellen Hopkins
• The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffennegger
• The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott
• Palace Circle by Rebecca Dean
• This Book Will Change Your Life
• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
• The Long Weekened by Savita Kalhan
• Cotillion by Georgette Heyer
• The Mammoth Book of Regency Romance
• Heartless by Gail Carriger
• Flirting with Forever by Gwyn Cready
• Aching for Always by Gwyn Cready
• The Aeneid by Virgil
• Paradise Lost by John Milton
• East of the Eden by John Steinbeck
• Max by James Patterson
• The Dangerous Days of Daniel X by James Patterson

 If you are not reading this on my site, please click through to enter the giveaway.

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2012 Blog Resolutions

I've thinking a lot lately about what I want my blog to be, look like, feel like. etc.  I've come up with some blogging resolutions for myself...

1. Be better at planning for my reading -- This past year, I felt very rushed and out of sorts when it came to my reading.  Sometimes I had a list that I followed and other times I just grabbed things off shelves.  Because of the latter tactic, I didn't finish the reading challenges I signed up for and read a ton of books that didn't count for any challenge.  This year, I have made a monthly spreadsheet.  I am trying to space out my genres over the course of the year.  I decided to list ~20 books a month for the first six months.  I might read those 20 and I might not.  If not, the books will get pushed to the next month.  I imagine I will have to tinker with the list over the course of the year, but I hope it goes better than 2011.
2. Participate in at least one readathon per quarter -- I did well with these in 2011, so I want to continue the trend.  I'm already committing myself to two readathons in January (Bout of Books and A Winter's Respite from The True Book Addict).  Plus, I will probably do the Dewey 24-Hour Readathon in April with some better planning.
3. Be better at chronicling my crafting -- I'm really getting into scrapbooking and card making.  Hopefully, I will have some fun creations up this year.
4. Put more family updates -- Do you even know that I have a family?  It's really hard to tell from the blog.  I need to put more family activities, pictures, etc up on here.
5. Reinstitute Quote Wednesdays -- Somehow, I just stopped doing these, but I want to get back to them.  One of my Day Zero tasks is a list of inspirational quotes.  Quote Wednesday would be a great place to showcase those.
6. Branch out into some new music for Music Mondays -- Another Day Zero task is 26 new bands.  I want to showcase these and revisit some favorites.
7. Not commit myself to every meme I find interesting -- I don't have to do them all.  And some I can just do sporadically.  Nothing bad will happen if I don't do them all.
8. Share more interesting links, blogs posts, articles, etc.  -- I won't be reposting everything I find interesting, but every once in a while I run across something really fun and/or thought provoking.
9. Clean out my Goggle Reader -- It's getting a bit ridiculous...  I have a ton of sites in here that aren't updated very often.  Plus the list keeps growing.  I really need to do an overhaul.
10. Post at least once a week on another blogger's site -- I am horrible about commenting.  I read tons of others' blogs and love what they have to say.  But then I just move on.  I need to set myself a committment of commenting and letting those bloggers know that I like their stuff.
11. Get moving on my Day Zero Project -- I'm doing pretty good, but I need to get moving on some of the bigger tasks...
12. Possibly include movie reviews? -- I posted movie reviews for my Sept. A to Z, but those are the only ones I really reviewed.  Maybe I should include more.  Or at least the new movies (new to me or new in general) that I love.  Possibly...

Twelve resolutions.  I think these are doable.  Any more and I think I would drown in resolutions.  I'm going to put reminders throughout the year to keep me on track.  Do you have any blogging resolutions for this new year?

Goodbye 2011, Hello 2012

As part of my holidays, I am taking a bit of a blogging break.  I want to spend time with all three of my boys and relax.  So, I will not be actively blogging.  I have scheduled my reading challenge posts to appear on a daily basis until I return.  I have some great ideas for the upcoming year.  See you in 2012!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Pondering Reflections

I am at a crossroads... with this blog I mean.  My blog is basically a year old.  I started it sometime in November, but didn't really get the hang of it until the first of the year.  I signed up for a ton of reading challenges.  I jioned a few memes.  I created a few regular features.  And now it's time to decide where to go from here.  I've already began to organiaze my TBR piles and reading challenges for next year.  The basement theater is lookiong a bit ridiculous and I'm sure J is about done with my mess.  But I love being organized.  And usually that means making a crazy mess for a bit before everything looks all pretty again.  There are so many great books sitting in the garage.  I want to read them all.  But I know that's a crazy goal.  So I need to try and organize and scale back.

I'm also trying to figure out the overall shape of my blog.  I know that I'll still do book reviews and reading challenges.  But what about all those other little feature things (meal plan, music monday, top ten tuesday, etc)?  I have to think about what I want to commit myself to, especially since taking on a full time job and wanting to plan things for when I have the boys (and possibly a vacation with or without the boys).

All this leads to a pondering Tobe.  What to do?  What to do?  In some ways I love these times of decisions.  And then I panic and think "Am I doing the right thing?"  I guess it's all about the decisions the time.  I can't get caught up in "What Ifs."  So I'll ponder and make decisions.  And make a big year end wrap-up post.  Also, I think I'll be taking a bit of blog vacation for the second half of December.  A bit of a break to energize sounds like a great idea.

Holiday Card Exchange

From BirdBrain(ed) Book Blog:

It’s that time of the year! I’m hosting the Book Bloggers Holiday Card Exchange once more (see the 2010 post here) and I’m hoping this year will go much more smoothly. Last year was fun but it took me forever to come up with partners; this year I’ve simplified things so hopefully I won’t have people getting more cards than they send out again.

Info

1. Sign up for the exchange by November 30, 2011. 2. Partners go out December 3, 2011. 3. You have until December 13, 2011 to send your card(s). 4. Since it’s a book-lovers card exchange you have to include something book-related in your card. Some ideas:

a. Write about a book you’ve read recently

b. Give a few book recommendations to your partner

c. Tell a book-related story

d. Something else book-related that you think up yourself.

5. Since this is a book blogger holiday card exchange, you need to be a blogger who blogs at least sometimes about books to participate. 6. The swap is open internationally. Since last year I got a big headache trying to pair up people who did/did not want to send internationally, this year everyone must be willing to send internationally. Okay? Okay. 7. You can exchange up to five cards. You won’t always get a card from the same people you send your cards to. It will nevertheless be an awesome thing.

Some Things to Remember

1. You HAVE to send a card. A card is something like this. You can make it yourself or buy it at the store. Everything you write must be contained in the card itself. Letters are not cards. The card doesn’t have to be book-themed OR holiday themed (but it might be nice if it was). I would personally refrain from sending specifically religious-themed cards, because that sort of thing tends to offend people, even if you didn’t mean to offend them. 2. You HAVE to write something book-related in your card (see above). You can’t just say “happy holidays.” You COULD just write a list of books and that’s all, but I don’t think that’d be a lot of fun, do you? 3. You DON’T have to send anything else but the card, but if you want to stick in something else that’d be fine. A bookmark, for instance, would be really nice. Whatever you send: it has to be flat enough to fit in the envelope– no upgrading into package territory, here. 4. The most you should spend is $5. The point of the exchange is that it’s cheap enough for us money-less people to participate in, so everything should cost $5 and under. I don’t know if you can even buy a card that costs more than $5. Can you?

I love this Idea!!!!  I'm going to be making homemade Christmas cards this year and it would be amazing to spread the joy to fellow book bloggers!  Follow the link, sign up, and join me in the fun!

Meals a la Tobe! #10

Sunday

-- Pulled Pork Sandwiches

-- Potato Chips

Always a classic choice.  I especially love them with dill pickles.

Monday

-- Orange Dill Mahi Mahi

Basically cook the fish over med-high heat with a sauce of orange juice, red onion, and dill.

-- Peas

-- Rice

-- French bread

Light, but refreshing.  A definite addition to my recipe list.

Tuesday

-- Mini meatloafs

-- Baked potato

-- Green beans

-- French bread

J has professed that he doesn't like meat loaf, but he liked mine.  I mixed cracker crumbs, an egg, oregano, garlic, onion, and red pepper.  I like a bit of kick to my meat loaf.

Wednesday

-- Eat out: Ruby Tuesday!

Thursday

-- Eat out: Valentino's for a baby shower!

Friday

-- Eat out: Taco John's...  I had a headache, so no cooking on my agenda.

Saturday

-- BBQ Chicken

-- Corn

-- Pumpernickel bread

Week summary/comments: A couple of classic favorites, a kicked up old favorite, and a new recipe.  I am excited about the fish recipe.  Looking forward to couple new recipes and some old favorites.

Meals a la Tobe! #9

Sunday

-- Chicken Cordon Bleu Pizza from Sam and Louies: I love their pizza!

Monday

-- Steak with mango, peach, jalapeno salsa

-- Rice

-- Green Beans

Very yummy!  J completely approved of the salsa and even requested that the dish be added to regular rotation.  Only one little mishap: jalapeno juice to the eyes which left me blinded and in incredible pain sitting in the shower for 20 minutes.  Next time I will be more careful.  I definitely don't want to feel that again!

Tuesday

-- Gouda BBQ Chicken

-- Rice

-- Green Beans

-- Crescent Rolls

Definitely a keeper.  The chicken was great!  It was even great the day after for leftovers.  I even got  a few interested inquiries from my new coworkers.

Wednesday

-- Lasagna

A classic.   I used spicy Italian sausage this time.  A great addition.

Thursday

-- Eat out:  Yummy Chinese food!

Friday

-- Eat out: Chicken Fingers and Beer at Old Chicago!

Saturday

-- Rotisserie Chicken

-- Cheesy Broccoli Pasta Bake

A massive list of errands made me not want to cook.  So I picked up a rotisserie chicken from the deli.  I did make the cheesy broccoli pasta, but that was quick and easy.

Week summary/comments: Some good dinners this week.  I'm looking forward to trying a few new recipes next week and planning on having some old favorites.