The Wildly Eclectic Me

So this story bears a little bit of introduction. We have a turkey.  Having a turkey was not a plan of ours.  She just sort of happened. I was driving home from Dollar Tree one day and on the side of the road is a big white turkey. I assumed at first that she belonged to someone nearby so I took her home and put a message in our Local Lost and Found Pets page.  Apparently, she had shown up a couple of weeks earlier and had been wandering the neighborhood. After I got a better look at her it seemed likely that she came from a big commercial farm because she had only half of a top beak and the last joint of her toes were clipped off.  That's apparently how they know the difference between the girls and boys on the big farms. Our theory is that she somehow jumped off of one of the giant turkey trucks that drive through town to the processing plant. We had planned on giving her to my friend who has lots of chickens and a turkey, but the kids (yeah, just...

So in an effort to make cooking low carb easier and faster, ( See Plan #2 ) I've been simplifying and deep cleaning my kitchen. That effort is going well.  I'm nearly complete.  Have you ever looked at something and realized it was so dirty that throwing it out and buying a new one would be way easier.  Yeah, that's where me and my ventahood are.  I cleaned it for half an hour last night, and it's STILL filthy!  I realllly wanted to just disconnect it and toss that sucker out of the backdoor.  Sadly I had to think about Plan #1 . As I was cleaning my canisters, I noticed all the nicks and chips in them.  It didn't make me love them any less, mind you.  It actually just made me worry a bit what might happen if they broke. I flipped over the cookie jar and there was a URL. I got these from my mom and dad about 20 years ago before I got married.  In terms of the internet that's a LONG time ago.  That's almost pre-Google for heaven's sak...

2019 (Not) Resolutions: These are not resolutions because resolutions almost always fail. Let's call them plans instead. 2019 Plans: Spend Less Money Last year my resolution was to write down every single transaction in my budget. I succeeded in that, but I still spent way more money than I should have on food and random stuff. Action Plan: a.  Weekly Grocery List: Yesterday, I made a weekly purchase list for groceries. b.  Monthly Toiletries and House Supplies List: Yesterday, I made a VERY detailed supply list and did price comparisons between Grocery.Walmart.com (I HATE going into the store) and Amazon/Amazon Subscribe and Save. I discovered that a very large number of our household supplies and things are much cheaper when bought in large packs on Amazon Subscribe and Save. So I now have like 26 subscriptions. I had about 7 before. c. Stick to it   That's the hardest part!    Eat Healthie...