Eating Nutritiously A Struggle When Money Is Scarce : NPR

Have you all read this article yet? I bet you have. It’s had me in a snit all morning. I feed a family of eight (and that is not two adults and six kids – that is five over 18 and three under) for 100 – 150$ per person per month. I don’t do it by buying blue ice pops and orange soda either. [Read more...]

Nina Flowers

I saw Nina Flowers bitches! She was fierce!

Michael and I went down to Ft Laudy to see her. Dragged our old asses out at 11 and got home at like 1:30 LOL

I was going to go in this [Read more...]

On death and dying…

Isn’t that a book? Regardless… I know I talk a lot about death. The whole concept freaks me out as much as I am at home with it. I know it’s inevitable. I know as soon as we are born we are living on borrowed time. We don’t win this great race, not really. Our reward at the end is death. [Read more...]

I was feeling a bit peckish…

So I came downstairs to make tortillas and then turn the tortillas into quesadillas. My husband asked me if I realized how bat-shit crazy that seemed from his perspective.

I said I came down and there were no tortillas, so I made some.

He said, see?

Hm, he might be onto something. Then again, I am not the one standing over the stove cooking the tortillas, so who’s the crazy one now?

Might be me. My tortillas are more like a mix between mazto and pita. O_o

Smoothies

I have a love/hate relationship with smoothies. Having a Jamba Juice nearby fueled it. So very easy to pop in there in the morning, drop 10$ or so bucks a day on two smoothies and be on my way. Drop more on days the kids are with me/us. [Read more...]