I Cooked, Therefore I AM!

 Woohoo ... feeling a thousand percent better, or at least I can breathe through my nose again.  Kitters kept a close eye out for me ... mostly because that first open door in the morning results in a small pile of kitty food.

I took one of Cooper's old brushes out to see if she would mind getting rid of about 5 pounds of fur.  She went ballistic!!  I thought I was going to scrape her skin off.  She rubbed, purred, turned every direction and let me "scrub" her for about ten minutes.  I'm sure that was a mistake on my part because now she won't leave me alone!!

She follows me everywhere like a puppy dog.  We went down the yard to check on the tomatoes once again.  Good grief ... I guess it's going to be fried green tomatoes.  This one plant is covered with them.

Finally, at the very bottom, I found these two.  Enough for another two BLT sandwiches.  Oh darn, I guess I'll have to cook another package of bacon in order to use up the rest of that lettuce.

Back inside, I made up my shopping list.  We needed some cheap platters for the appetizers at the Shrimp Feed.  You can't beat the dollar store, even if everything is now $2.00.  There are fifteen in this stack, and when done, they will be used by our kitchen for things like Mothers Day.  

Then I was off to another friends house.  She got the bug to put transfers on T-shirts and sell them.  Honestly, these machines are CHEAP ... made in China to be exact.  But for a measly $150 investment, you can get one that does cups, baseball caps, mugs, shirts and four more things that escape me at the moment.  

The best part ... there were no directions.  NONE!  Not even "plug this in here".  I used up the last of my phone battery trying to find SOMETHING.  Of course it doesn't help when someone who shall remain nameless starts pushing all the buttons twenty times so now the MACHINE is as confused as I am.

I made her stop ... read the not-very-descriptive instructions and ..... nothing.  I finally figured out we had one more plug-in on the machine.  I turned it off ... turned it on and VOILA!!  It began to heat up.  YAY!!

That's when my day was made OH SO MUCH BETTER when I tried to sit on the couch.  I ran into a spider web of epic proportions.  I am once again proud of my house cleaning skills as I swiped it away.

This is a two piece design ... so it's in for 5 seconds, place the second one ... in for 15 seconds, remembering to place the silicone sheet over everything ... take the plastic off ... in for another 5 seconds.  How fun ... especially when you don't have a timer!!

Not bad, yes??  they actually turned out quite nicely, especially on cotton T-shirts.  Polyester isn't good.  We finished up four shirts while she went bananas with the results.  That's good, because I recommended this machine ... and I was getting worried.  No kidding ... this was really fun to do.  I may just have to somehow work this into my quilts.

She was happy and I was headed to the store.  I donated an old horseshoe wine rack to the auction and figured it might be better if it actually had a bottle of wine in it.  I bought three.  I've no idea if this is good or bad, but it wasn't exactly cheap, so hopefully that equates to good.

One more stop at a Bakery Restaurant in town for another dessert auction item.  I almost had a heart attack.  I know these guys have great stuff, but OH MY!!  A pan of lemon bars 8" x 11" cost a whopping $25.00.  Really?  I'm thinking there's not $4.00 worth of stuff to make those.  I get it, they are homemade, but GEE WHIZ!!  

Back home, resting on the laurels of BOY AM I GLAD THAT MACHINE WORKED, I decided to actually cook.  Mac n Cheese doesn't exactly count as cooking in my book.  I thawed out some chicken and cut up mushrooms.  This is going to be Chicken Marsala.  Don't ask my why I have Marsala wine in my fridge, or how long it's been there.  I've not a clue.

It took lots of time and lots of thyme.  No worries, that piece of garlic I dropped that skidded across the floor was finally found under the Chinese cabinet against the back wall.  Yes I washed it before giving it a slam dunk in the pan.  Take THAT!!

Truly, it looked much better in person, and tasted WONDERFUL!  I should do this more often.  

I had a coughless night .... YAY ..... and am off this morning to an eye appointment. I will have to bite my tongue.  There's no use going through all this nonsense every single year ... maybe every two.  The very expensive glasses I got last time were so bad I wore them for two months and went back to my old ones.  I could not read my phone except when held at the farthest distance away, and my arm wasn't long enough to read a book.  

After telling them all about it, I'm going to Costco.  My last pair from there lasted four years.  Maybe if I can see better, I won't stick myself with sewing needles quite so much.

On another note ... I guess I can still go to Cracker Barrel.  Public opinion wins again!