Walk A Mile In My Shoes

Five Question Friday

Stacey — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:50:41 +0000

Happy Friday! Here’s the latest installment of 5QF brought to you by FiveCrookedHalos.

1. What’s your favorite way to spend down time (alone or with a significant other)? I love to cuddle up on the couch or in bed, watching a movie.

2. Are you the kind of person that wants things more as soon as you know you can’t have it? YES…and I think about it all the time and try to see if there is a way I can get it.

3. If you were given $1000 to spend on yourself, what would you buy? I’m sure I would find some things I have wanted at the Coach store and of course, some SHOES! I do want to go on vacation, so I might spend it on a little get-away with my man.

4. Do you ever go out to eat by yourself? Yes, but I prefer to go with someone.

5. What company would you want to do a blog review for? Canon, Nikon, Apple, Coach, kitchen products, anywhere that has awesome products, that gives you the product to keep…hint, hint to those companies

Stuffed Zucchini Boats

Stacey — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 14:30:33 +0000

Ingredients:

2-3 zucchinis
3 roma tomatoes (2 to add to food processor, 1 sliced thinly)
1/2 cup minced garlic
1-2 tbsp Ms. Dash Italian seasoning
1 cup chopped onion
1 tbsp black pepper
1 cup shredded parmesan cheese

Directions:

preheat oven to 350
slice zucchini in half lengthwise
scoop out center, add to food processor
add pepper, garlic, seasoning, onions and 2 tomatoes to food processor to mix with the zucchini
fill the zucchini boats with the mixture
bake for 20 minutes
top zucchini boats with the shredded cheese and slices of tomato and bake for additional 10 minutes until cheese is melted and about to brown

Fish Tacos with Mango Salsa

Stacey — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 03:18:13 +0000

I found this recipe in Cooking Light magazine, so not only did it sound good, but it’s good for you.

Salsa:

1/2 cup chopped peeled mango
1/2 cup chopped green tomato
2 tablespoons finely chopped red onion
4 teaspoons chopped fresh cilantro
1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
1/4 teaspoon chili powder
1 finely chopped jalepeno

Tacos:

2 (6-ounce) tilapia fillets
Cooking spray
1/2 teaspoon (reduced sodium) Old Bay seasoning
4 (8-inch) whole-wheat flour tortillas
1 cup mixed salad greens or shredded cabbage

1. To prepare salsa, combine the first 7 ingredients in a small bowl; toss well.

2. To prepare tacos, preheat broiler.
3. Place fish on a broiler pan coated with cooking spray; sprinkle fish evenly with seasoning. Broil 6 minutes or until desired degree of doneness.

4. Heat a medium nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Lightly coat tortillas with cooking spray. Add the tortillas to pan, 1 at a time; cook 1 minute on each side or until lightly toasted. Divide fish evenly among tortillas; top each taco with 1/4 cup greens and 1/4 cup salsa. Serve immediately.

Five Question Friday

Stacey — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:55:56 +0000

It’s time for the next installment of 5QF, as hosted by FiveCrookedHalos. Feel free to comment with your answers or do your own blog post.
1. What do you do when you are really upset to calm yourself down? I think it depends on the situation and the how upset I am. If it’s nothing super serious, just talking it out with someone helps. But if it’s something more serious, or that I’m really upset about, I will cry, take a bath or go for a drive. Usually, some retail therapy involving a purchase of some new shoes, makeup or clothes does the trick.

2. Do you go all out for V-day or is it just another day? This year was the BEST V-day EVER! My man and I went out for a fancy date. We got all dressed up; he actually wore a tie, with his dress shirt, dress pants and sweater, while I donned my new shimmery gold, one shoulder dress and my awesome sparkly gold shoes (see the pic of the shoes here). But earlier in the day, he sent me a beautiful bouquet of red tulips to my work. Our dinner was amazing! The food was delicious and it was foods that I rarely ever get to have (I had the rack of lamb). When we got back to my place, he surprised me yet again with a red Coach cell phone holder/mini wristlet. He understands my love of Coach and also red being my favorite color. But all that aside, it was just great to be able to spend time with him, enjoying his company and knowing how thoughtful and caring he is. I got him gifts too, and tried to be as thoughtful and creative with them as he was.

3. Are you more or less productive when Hubs is away? I don’t have a Hubs. I think I am pretty productive most of the time.

4. What is your favorite time of day and why? Does bed-time count? I would say I’m at my best around lunchtime until about 3:00pm. I am NOT a morning person, and then around 3:00 I tend to hit my wall, and would love to just nap or relax to get a second wind.

5. What is your go to karaoke song? I don’t sing karaoke…ever…unless I’ve been drinking and I’m singing with multiple people..so then it would be whatever the group is singing. I think the last time I sang Karaoke was to the song Love Shack by the B52′s.

How to Love

Stacey — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 02:00:54 +0000

As Valentine’s Day is celebrated today, we really should show love each and every day. For some people, showing love comes easy, and for others, we need a little reminder. I came across this and thought it is a great reminder for all of us:

Also, people have different ways of giving and receiving love. It is referred to as your Love Language. I did a post last year about it, which you can read HERE.

Happy Valentine’s Day to you all, and may you experience love every day.

Burn, baby burn

Stacey — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:10:18 +0000

I think I have mentioned before that I am semi-accident prone. I am always running into things, tripping over something, waking up with an occasional bruise, walking into a door, etc. But just in the last 2 weeks, I think I have exceeded my accident-prone limits with the number of times I have burned myself, yes, BURNED myself. It all started 2 weeks ago..I was taking a shower, and still had my contact lenses in. I was doing what us girls do, multitasking in the shower by shampooing my hair, then leaving it in while cleaning myself with body wash, when somehow, the shampoo ran into my eye and settled so nicely under my contact. I couldn’t just get out of the shower, so I finished washing all the soap off my body, the shampoo out of my hair, and then even conditioned it, all while my eyeball is on fire! After I got out, I then decided it still hurt, but not as much, so I might as well go blow dry my hair, which takes me 30 minutes, still with my contacts in. Then I made a phone call. During my phone call, I was kindly instructed to go take my contacts out….which I did (because the person telling me to do so was just so darn cute, how could I say no?). The next day I just so happened to have an eye appointment because I needed new contacts and I wanted a consult for LASIK. The eye doctor came in, started looking at my eye and began telling me how much I screwed it up, that he couldn’t even examine it, because I had burnt the cornea. He gave me eye drops which I have been using non-stop. This is also one of the reasons I haven’t posted much, because it hurt to see for awhile. But I went for my follow up yesterday, and he said it looks much better and is healing nicely….yay!

The second burn came Sunday. I was using my flat iron to straighten my hair, which I do most every day. I’m not sure if it was lack of sleep, me rushing, or just not paying attention, but I ended up grabbing my ear with the flat iron, and not the section of hair right next to it that I was trying to straighten. My ear got all red, and apparently blistered up, and as of Monday night, began bleeding. I can’t touch it or even have my hair touch it because it hurts like hell.

The third burn came Tuesday morning. I was running very late for work and was rushing to make breakfast before leaving for work. I made some hash browns and eggs, and as I was transferring them from the pan into the container to take to work, I dropped them on my foot, well my big toe actually, where it proceeded to burn my toe for at least a minute before I could get everything set down and grab something to remove the hot food with.

I think that for the rest of the week, I’m going to try to avoid cooking, hot appliances/hair tools, and any kind of chemicals. Maybe I’ll wrap myself in bubble wrap and surround myself in a plastic bubble, all to avoid any further burns or accidents. And, if you want to read about how a bbq grill blew up in my face, yet another incident of me accidentally burning myself, then read this post.