Rants, Recipes, and Running

1. What is your cleaning style like? Before I was working this job...I vacuumed 2 times/week. Dusted weekly. Scrubbed floors weekly. Scrubbed kitchen floor 2 times/week. Now? Hah. I feel really pathetic. In fact...I've actually shed tears in fear that I'm a bad wife. That was when I realized that I was sleep deprived and acting like a crazy-woman. So now? I sweep and vacuum 1/week. I do chlorox wiping down of the bathrooms weekly. And then I do one GOOD cleaning (meaning rubber gloves & bucket) every 2 weeks. It's not like we're ever home anyways! (Can you tell I still feel guilty about my decrease in cleaning?) 2. What is your favorite thing to add to an outfit to take it from casual to classy? Some heels & a necklace.  3. Do you like stormy weather? Love love love love love love LOVE it! It NEVER STORMS OR RAINS HERE. We go MONTHS without rain sometimes. I start acting like those crazy people stranding in the desert when I see rain falling out o...

Happy St. Patrick's Day, everyone! I'm not Irish, but my husband does have Irish heritage. I plan on making Sheppherd's Pie this weekend...b/c I love him. My ultimate goal is to find a way to make this recipe healthy! (Shhhh don't tell him.....) What have we been up to lately? Well, let's just say from Friday - Wednesday .....23 hours have been spent getting our back yard set up! In addition to the 23 hours of gardening, I sneaked in 48 hours worth of work in that time, too! Yep, we've been busy! But now I have Wednesday-Sunday night OFF. Free! So life is good. So remember when we moved , and our back yard looked dram like this?...... Well, Friday morning -- we woke up and I decided to don my garden gear and we were going to get to work! We headed to the green house & Home Depot and got flowers, vegetables, soil, mulch, the works. Our flower beds hadn't been TOUCHED in about 2 years (our previous home owners gave up on the back yard when they h...