Staycation: Can I stand the "excitement"?
Day 1, Friday: Early AM run for groceries at a nearby No Frills. Huge order, taxi home. Unload, stow away, out to Costco, Best Buy (dropping off small electronics for recycling), PetSmart, Dollarama, PetValu, then home early afternoon. Food prep. Collapse for an hour, get up and wait on the cats, do chores.
While waiting for the bus.
How good could either a hair salon or tattoo parlour combo be? I'd be scared to have my body inked here. Or my hair cut, for that matter!
Nicki has full possession of the remote. The eye is a bit freaky. :-D
Derry's typical outdoor pose.
Day 2, Saturday: Walmart run. Where does $100+ go? Muffins and brownies--from mixes this time. I have to cut my grocery costs, am trying to make myself some treats to stop buying a cookie every day from Tim Horton's, or going to Starbucks. Honey garlic chicken in the crock pot, for supper. Plus my own lemon iced tea, cooling.
Tiny, cluttered "kitchen," doesn't take long to make a mess.
Caramel sea salt brownie mix.
Chicken ready to cook in the crock pot: 1/2 cup soy sauce, 1/2 cup ketchup, 1/3 cup honey, 3 cloves minced garlic, 1 tsp dried basil. Plus whatever chicken (or other meat) you want. Hopefully it tastes better than it looks, raw, in this quick snapshot.
Yesterday's home made easy bean salad, with a can of rinsed/drained mixed beans, fresh parsley, green onions, cherry tomatoes and feta cheese, tossed with a bit of garlic, 2 TBSP lemon juice, 1 TBSP of olive oil, some salt and pepper. Yum. It does taste better than the snapshot looks. LOL.
Home made chocolate chip cookies another day. It's too hot to do more now, even though I used only the toaster oven for the muffins and brownies.
Now it's on to laundry, with tomorrow slated for the house cleaning, because I don't have the energy to do it today. Monday I have the Canadian Diabetes Association coming to pick up more stuff for donation (clothing and some bedding, pillows, etc.)
After that, I hope to have the rest of the staycation for more enjoyable things!
Peace.
Comments
The photos of the boys are great. Too hot to do much else but flake out.
Hope you have a wonderful staycation!
Enjoy the rest of the weekend!
Those brownies look so good!
Nicki and Derry look so chill....maybe they are trying to give you hint!
Both the chicken and salad look terrific. In fact, I've got unexpected company coming for supper and overnight tomorrow, and I think I'm going to use your chicken recipe. I made a pasta salad today, with pasta, eggs, and lots of veg - the chicken will be a nice complement and cooking in the crockpot won't heat up the house.
Enjoy your staycation! I'm sure Nicki and Derry will be so happy to have you home.
Derry and Nicki are so cute! I like both these pictures.
I know what you mean about where does $100 go at Walmart (or other similar store)!
All the things you're cooking look and sound delicious. I think we'll be giving that bean salad a try soon.
Hugs to you and the boys (great pictures of them, by the way)!
As for Nicki, that eye was a laugh - but then it wasn't staring at me... Sometimes when one of mine - such as Tucker - tried to snoose while leaning against something, one eye will be shut tight and the other pulled wide open. And yet they appear to rest and even sleep like that.
Enjoy your staycation.
Julie
I used mint green tea for the iced tea, quite like it. I'm looking forward to trying other types of tea too!
I like the easy salads that you can make with anything. The recipe called for a pepper (any colour), but I'm not as fond of peppers. It's the easy lemon juice, olive oil and garlic that makes it all taste good. :-)