Temporary Switch-a-roo

For the time being, I am going to jump to my blogger blog.

flemingavenue.blogspot.com

So, till further notice, please update your rss!

 

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2011 to do list

Dear Readers,

That is if you are still catching in on this blog. The first few months of the year have been crazy! Celebrating weddings, mourning a pal, buying a new car, transition to a new off (same job), a putting together out life plans on paper. I’m a planner, and though I created a 30 B4 30 list, that’s still bring tweaked, I’ve put together a list of goals to be completed before we ring in 2012.

1. Get my prince a new car- his choice
2. Learn to make a simple sushi roll
3. Stop eating fast food
4. Give up red meat
5. Purchase food only organic, and farmers market
6. Grow a herb garden (I’ve started this one)
7. Paint BOTH my bar stool. I decided to rock out with red gloss paint, but never painted the 2nd chair.
8. Re-vamp the lamps we were given. They have potential…promise
9. Modern up our dining room table, we scored a sweet deal on a 6 piece set but more on that later.
10. Lose some excess poundage for our 5 year anniversary photo shoot.

If you are still with me, what goals do you have for the rest of the year?

xoxo
~amber

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Keep calm and carry on

It’s is no surprise that I love this saying, so while walking through target for a second pillow sham and coconut milk, we came across the sign! Best part about the sign is that it is the same color of our accent color for the apartment.

I apologize for the picture quality, but I was to excited to show everyone the photo, I didn’t have time to properly stage.

No idea

What to call this…

What to call todays lunch, but it is AMAZING!

It all started by boiling some wheel noodles, along with a few stragglers. After boiled, rinsed, and set aside, I then boiled up some caned artichokes hearts in a little bit of veggie broth. Then I added some sliced zucchini, and because I was feeling daring some green onion! Once completed it I tossed it around with the noodles and a few spices. Once I got to work I added about a teaspoon of parmesan roasted garlic salad dressing. I suppose I could have even served this cold, but I re heated it for 2 minutes. It is amazing, and so full of flavor. I saved on calories by using the veggie broth verses oil. I also used low sodium broth to keep the salt content low.

Cardboard Decor

I’d love to be doing this post with some finished projects, but one trip to ikea left, we are still in limbo at the Flemingavenue apartment. We have made a few purchases on some furniture, lights, rugs etc. Here is what the home looks like this morning.

So you see, my big pile of boxes ready to be taken to the recycling bins. A fun task for sure, have I mentioned I live on the third floor? Eric is thrilled…

La Caprese

My first attempt at a homemade La Caprese salad was splendid. Earlier in the week Eric and I went to a restaurant for salads. Feeling daring, I ordered a La Caprese salad, and let me tell you, it was fantastic. The fresh basil and ripe tomatoes, with a hint of red onion really had me dancing, as did the price of it to my debit card. So I decided I would start making my own! I hit up the local farmers market and bought all the fresh ingredients. Even the mozzarella was fresh from the cheese department. There are so many different ways to make this salad, so here is what I did!

Romaine lettuce
Red onion
Ripe tomato
Fresh mozzarella
Fresh basil
Balsamic Vinaigrette

A pal at work saw my yummy salad and offered up a hard boiled egg (pre shelled!), I couldn’t resist. I needed some more protein in my lunch anyways.

From hiatus, with love

For the past month and a half, it have been super busy here at the ave. The cool thing is I have been working on a lot of neat home projects. I’ll get to those another time, but even though I am on a hiatus, wanted to still give all the few faithful readers an update. Remember the super cool masquerade ball bridal shower I was co-hosting? Yeah I was super excited too, but low and behold the morning of the party, the bride-to-be officially canceled the ball. Good news on my end, I was able to return most of the items for the party. My co-host and I held off on the grocery shopping till the day of, and right around the time we got bundled up to hit the stores, we officially got word it was canceled. We were sad our first planned party was canceled at such a short notice. Good news is I still learned a lot about party planning! Since I was holding off posting things about the party, I will still publish the post on the invites soon.

Quickie

So the wedding this past weekend… Awesome and my forever friend was beautiful! Here is a quickie snap shot outside our room. Great view of the harbor BTW!

Hiatus

If you can’t already tell, I have been MIA for a long time now! It started with some work woes, to a work transfer (which I am super excited to be in a new offiice)! Then I was sick with food poisoning, only to find out that same day that a close friend from my first work passed away. The wedding I am in is this coming weekend, which means no day off till this friday! Of course you probably remember that I am also making the bouquets for all the bridesmaids, bride and to toss! Good news is I am almost done with them, and I just need to hit up a few more Michaels to clean out their purple rose stock! Oh and remember the dress for the wedding? It was 100% beautiful online, and 100% lame on my body, which in turn means my body is just 100% lame. That is till I found a different dress, the was 100% all around, and rather flattering to my lame body. They compliment each other well.

I’d like to say that I will be a stronger blogger the next few weeks, but the is lie. Till then, heres to beautiful people falling in love!  (Congrats Hannah & Jake!)