Poached Salmon Teaser

I have a cooking post coming soon....

~ photo courtesy of Clean Eating magazine ~

The healthy green tea/ginger poached salmon meal I made last night.

Recipe coming next week! It was sooo good!

I know I was supposed to post my "after" pics of the kitchen lighting remodel today.....

But Josh and I spent 2 hours at the Army recruiting office and then went grocery shopping so I'll have to do that tomorrow. Sorry!

~ Ooooga-booooooga, just wanted to scare you! ~

Josh completed mountains of paperwork, initialed about 400 line items & had a face to face interview with the Sgt 1st Class. Now all we need to do is wait for all of J's test scores to be transfered from the Marine Corps then he can go swear in ---- "IF" they have an open slot for the type of job Josh wants to do.

~ Do you see what we got? ~

That's going to be the tricky part. Availability. If it's not available, then Josh said he'd wait. He knows what he wants. Josh has a firm and unwavering adherance to his purpose. That's the best way I know how to describe his sheer will.

~ We got FREE ARMY BRACELETS!! Ok, so we are easily pleased ~

I, on the other hand, will be a complete bag of mess when he finally goes off to boot camp. FOURTEEN WEEKS ~ AAAAaaahhhhhhh!!! {{{Sheer torture}}} God save my soul and give me strength and don't let me gain 60 pounds.

But I do look nice in my new bracelet. I'll do anything for jewelry   ;o)

I'm going to start saving AAAAlllllll of my pennies.

I want to go here ~ Please. Someone take me here:



Heart be still. Is this not the cutest thing you've ever seen?

BEFORE...........

 Oh my! The difference that a small thing like "lighting" can do to a home!  

I wasn't convinced of this fact, despite everyone I know telling me, until last night when the kitchen lighting job was complete....but you'll see those pics tomorrow after I process all of the images. About 452 of them.

First, a good look at BEFORE:

Now, I'm sorry. This fluorescent light box was probably the "IT" light of 1984.

The problem: We are not IN 1984 anymore and it needs to go meet Jesus.


And my cute ceiling fan was probably the "IT" fan of 1984.... Imagine, the IT couple right in my kitchen! Time to go meet Jesus.


Sorry to all of my fake wood grain fan loving friends, but this is the ugliest fixture I've ever seen.


The only thing cute about the fan is this.

No. You're eyes are not tricking you. The room is green. I adjusted my camera's ISO several times, messed with shutter speed & white balance, did everything I could, but....still green.

Everyone who stepped into my kitchen turned green, too. Thanks to my gas station fluorescent light box and my 1984 incandescent disco globe.

Hello Mr. & Mrs. Shreck, welcome to our kitchen! Would you like a glass of green water?

If we lived in a black and white world, my kitchen would've looked nice! Maybe next life.

Green cabinets.

Green dreams. Green eggs and ham. Sam I am.



And that? Well, ha! Glad you asked. It's a hook.


Just a random hook that's been there for 6 years. Just hanging out. Watching me.  Tormenting me.  6 looooong years. Why didn't you just pull it out of the wall? Glad you asked! Because Johnny said that if we removed it, it would leave a hole. And a hole would look ugly. ???????????????????????????????????????????? Sorry. This one is worth repeating: ????????????????????????????????????????????
Soooo.....LOGICALLY he left it there.....For 6 years. You understand, don't you? You do? Then would you please explain it to me? Stay tuned tomorrow for the results episode. Hint: I LOVE MY LIGHTING MAN! Mr. Bill....you're gonna love him too.