Bullets…not just for guns.
Posted on May 1, 2008 by cass
I’ve had the kind of day that would be begging for a very cold very delicious vodka cosmo with fresh lime. So lets do this the old fashioned way, with bullets. These are ranked in order of importance and people, desperate times are a cause for delurking so delurk and give me some brain trust here:
- I want goulash. I do not know how to make goulash. Please, for the love of god, SOMEONE that is reading this please enlighten me with how to make this pockluck wonder. I need it. I looked for a recipe online and they all seemed to have “stuff” in it - you know the over fancy variety and I just want a good old fashioned elbow macaroni goulash.
- I’m finding the need to go on an outing everyday to break up my life a little. I need to find outings that don’t have an exchange of my American Express at the end of it. Any suggestions?
- I passed my glucose test.
- I ordered a mattress today for the futon in the basement so it will act more like an actual bed - I think that’s nice of me given the number of people that will be coming to see Little Lexi and also babysit me in July while the FH takes cross country journey’s to sell his goods. That made him sound like a Chip N Dale dancer. He isn’t.
- Speaking of the FH….without the confines of me whining and stomping my feet about going home at the end of the day he tends to not be here before 8pm. I’m starting to take this personally. Doesn’t he want to spend time with me? I’m a fun person…but I’m not good for much after 9pm and by the time he eats dinner that’s what time we’re looking at. What does it mean when your husband isn’t all that motivated to come home? Please don’t say anything too awful.
- And just a plea to heartburn. GO THE HELL AWAY. NO ONE LIKES YOU.
Filed under: It's not Everything | Tagged: goulash, shopping, mattress, glucose
Oh. My. Dog. The heartburn is kiling me! I fear you and I may never get to eat out together because I am going to DIE from this heartburn before I have this baby.
Sorry you’re day(s) haven’t been going well. I hear it’s been going around..
Are you talking about the tomatoey spaghetti sauce type of goulash or the hungarian variety?
If it’s the tomato kind, brown a pound of ground beef, drain the fat, if you want throw some diced green pepper in there, but you don’t have to go to that extreme if you don’t want to, and then add some spaghetti sauce, some salt, pepper and a healthy squirt of ketchup, maybe a little red wine. Stir it all together and let is cook down a little. Then just cook your elbow macaroni and add it. Voila! Goulash.
If you mean the hungarian kind with pork, let me know, I have a recipe for that too, but it;s more complicated.
I have the heartburn issue as well! I take a pepcid AC as well as chew tums by the handful it seems! As for the goulash- can’t help you there but will look into it. It will all be okay and over before you know it! At least you have accomplished things everyday where all I can say is that my hair and teeth are brushed! Okay, well not all the time!
I’m a big believer in bullets, well not the Barney Fife kind, but the kind that let you air out your thoughts.
When I need to get out of the office, I walk up the street to the store for a diet soda. It’s not a full outing, but it gets me out and about and I find when I return I am much less prone to violent tendencies.
I have nothing to offer other than:
a) now *I* want goulash.
b) daily outings are my sanity saver. Thursday? My outing consisted of going to the carwash. My Jeep wasn’t dirty enough to warrant an $18 car wash and it’s raining today. But, I had to get out. To avoid the exchange of the AmEx card at the end of it, why not take your camera and go wander around a park?
c) glucose test SUCKED. But, horray for passing!!
d) My futon in the family room? Needs to be kicked out. We paid over $600 for it adn after two years? The frame is bent, the mattress SUCKS. I’m trying to convince the man of the house to let me buy a new couch for the family room. So far? Not happening.
e) tell the FH if he doesn’t start coming home sooner, you will tie him up and do not so nice things to him. Seriously? That’d be bothering me. Wish I had something good to tell you.
f) heartburn can lump it. Never had it until I was pregnant. It was HORRIBLE!! For me, it went away right after Morgan was born. Let’s hope it does for you, too!!
Sorry for the long comment. I, clearly, have too much time on my hands.
I say go to a park and watch the little kids play while you can still sit in one place and soak up some sun.
And for my heartburn I take the Rolaids soft chews, they are yummy, like candy! I only just bought them yesterday and it seemed to work well last night.
Hurray! For passing the glucose test!! They suck.
I understand the need for an outing. I don’t normally get out except to drive the 1300 feet to the end of our road for the bus twice a day. But this week I’ve had volunteering at school, a field trip, a softball game in the freezing cold last night, and picked my son up from preschool. I am all for staying in!
I hated the glucose test each time I took it, but it was the worst with the twins. Just thinking of it makes me shudder, even now.
Hope your Friday is good!
I’m diabetic so I didn’t have to take the glucose test which I hear is nasty…and I’ve been spared the heartburn so far - but trust me, being 35 and pregnant brings plenty of complaints.
As for outings, when I worked at home, I really needed to leave the house and see real people sometimes. I would either take my laptop somewhere with WiFi and work out in the world for an hour or 2 or I would do daily small grocery trips. I wouldn’t plan ahead for dinner but would go to the store to pick up items needed for dinner each day just as an excuse to get out (warning this can be dangerous financially if pregnancy cravings dictate a lot of impulse buys). I also made weekly trips to the library. Sometimes I would just sit and read trashy magazines in the periodicals section for 30 minutes but it got me out of the house.
Ok, so the heartburn is kicking your butt and you’re thinking about goulash? Are you krazee woman?! I had heartburn with #2. I preferred it to the carpal tunnel with #1. I just kept the Tums handy.
As for outings, how about a walk around the neighborhood? It counts as exercise!
When Lexi is about 8 or so you’ll be begging to not have to go out AGAIN! Girls scouts, dance, gymnastics, softball, soccer, PTA meetings. Enough already!
I WILL send my goulash recipe soon…problem is, I just have to recreate how I made it the first time and write things down…it was sweet…I hope I can do it.
Congrats on the glucose…I didn’t mind the orange pop or whatever the H it is, but some people think it’s nast. Regardless, noone wants gestational diabetes, so yay for you!