Sunday Hodgepodge….

So lemme tell yunz ’bout my morning (love my Pittsburgh accent?). It was one of those mornings where I should have just rolled over and ignored my bladder or my chores.

*sigh* someday I’ll listen….

Anyway, I sit up in bed and do my morning stretches for my foot before I can actually get out of bed.  Now at my age, the time from you first getting up to you waddling to the bathroom has to be nil.  Well I don’t have that luxury anymore thanks to the plantar fasciitis in my foot. After 5 minutes of doing my stretches and doing the “I gotta pee wiggle”, I step down  out of bed and BAM… instant mother-of-all-cramps in my thigh! I mean I actually yelped out loud.  However the pain in my thigh is now battling with my bladder as I have to tinkle beyond belief!

Do you people have any idea how hard it is to walk with a cramp AND having to pee??? Yeah… it’s pretty damn difficult!

That was the start to my morning!  I should have gone back to bed then; I really should have.

SOOOOO… I decide to make Banana Bread and Blueberry Sour Cream cake. The bread’s in the oven and I start on the cake only I can’t find the sour cream. Now I know I took it out. I searched high and low for 30 minutes.

Wanna know where I found it? On the pantry shelf behind the baking soda. Ding dong me put it away by mistake thinking it was the baking powder. Real smart genius!

So I get that all straightened up and go to do my dishes.  Before I get started I realize I need to stir the meat on the stove (making Mr. Fantabulous Sloppy Joes today). So I pick up my “spoon” to stir, hit the lever by mistake turning the water on only to realize that it wasn’t the spoon in my hand but rather the <insert non-ladylike trucker mouth language here> water sprayer from the faucet. I gave myself a wet t-shirt at 8am!  I did have to run to the market but in light of all that happened up to that point I decided to stay put!

I did manage, to thankfully, turn out some great stuff today. I kept lunch simple – Sloppy Joes from scratch and cucka sweet potato fries. I say cucka as I don’t like sweet potatoes at all, in any fashion however Mr. Fantabulous really likes baked sweet potatoes and since I had a coupon for a free bag of sweet potato fries I figured I’d make those for him.

Um yeah, you’ll notice that the sweet potato fries are not in the pictures.  Why?  Per Mr. Fantabulous they are a “HUGE FAIL!  Don’t ever buy these again.”  However he thoroughly loved the sloppy joes per the evidence on his chin, lips and hands:)  LOL  However the true test of these things are me.  Why?  Growing up my Mom would make them but with big ol fat hunks of onions in them added to a can of Manwich or she would buy that packet stuff where you add beef and tomato sauce. *Shudder from horrible flashbacks*  I LOOOOOOOOOOAATHE stuff like that.  But then to be fair, I rarely like anything out of a can or box mix.

So today I set out to try and make it from scratch.  How did I do it?  You’re gonna laugh but I googled Manwich pictures and studied the picture.  Okay chunks of peppers, onions, beef, some type of red sauce… I took it from there.  So I cook all the stuff and it ends up smelling really good but any good chef will tell you, “You have to taste your stuff before serving it” – God, I can hear Chef Ramsey now!  So I dipped my spoon in and closed my eyes as I put it to my lips.  Wha?  Yes, I still close my eyes when I have to try something that I “might not like”.  I’m 4 years old in that respect!  LOL So I taste it and was like “Oh wow, this is really good but it lacked something.”  It needed a ‘zing’.  So I added some ‘zing’ to it and I’ll tell you what, this stuff was killer!

For dessert Mr. Fantabulous will have this. I can attest to how scrumptious this as I had a piece. Wha???  All good chef’s are supposed to sample their food before serving it!  I mean I didn’t want Mr. Fantabulous to have some only to find out it’s poisonous!  LOL