She says she has been looking at furniture from the eroomservice.com website and has found several different platform beds that she likes a lot.  She hasn’t yet made up her mind which one she wants, but has narrowed it down to four favorites.  She said that the website sells some really nice bedroom sets and that she is trying to decide whether to buy the complete set, or just the bed and then try to do some mix and match with the rest of the bedroom furniture. 

She found a couple of modern lamps in my basement that she liked that I wasn’t using - my house isn’t decorated in the modern style, and these lamps were given to me by a friend.  I told her she was welcome to take them, and she was thrilled.

I was very glad that I have AAA insurance for just this kind of thing, I used my cell phone to call them and they sent a truck out with a guy to change my tire.  I’m really glad my spare was good!  So tomorrow I have to take my old tire to the tire shop and see if it can be repaired, or if I will need a new one.  The guy who changed my tire seemed to think I was going to need a new one, and I suspect he’s right.  If it isn’t one thing, it’s another!  Money doesn’t seem to sit in my bank account very long!

I’m very excited about the event because it is featuring local, fresh food instead of something foreign, frozen or canned.  I think that promoting local seafood is important.   I’d love to be able to enter my Aunt Johnnie’s baked seafood recipe in a seafood cooking contest!

This is her recipe:

Aunt Johnnie’s baked seafood casserole

1 pound of fish (suggests scallops, shrimp, or crab)

2 T butter (or oleo)

2 T flour

1 c chicken broth

1/8 t nutmeg

salt & pepper

Parmesan cheese

Bread crumbs

To make veloute sauce:  In a saucepan, melt butter, stir in flour, slowly add broth.  Return to heat, stirring constantly until thick & smooth.  Blend in salt & pepper & nutmeg.  In a separate frying pan saute fish in butter for approximately five minutes.  Combine the fish with the veloute sauce and put all in a shallow baking dish.  Sprinkle top with bread crumbs and Parmesan cheese and brown it quickly under the broiler.

This recipe does not specify what KIND of bread crumbs to use, whether to buy the canned seasoned bread crumbs, or crumbs made from fresh bread.  So I’ve tried it both ways and I think I like the the fresh bread crumbs version the best.

If you’d like to share your favorite recipe with me, I’d love to hear from you!  Feel free to leave a comment with your recipe in it!

I guess my entire family is not a big fan of heavily seasoned items, we found this to be way too spicy hot with black pepper and way too heavy on the garlic.  We would have liked it much better if the seasoning was cut in half.  I might buy it again and then wipe off half of the seasoning before cooking it!

But my hubby was asleep when I got home, and he stayed asleep so I had to fend for myself.  I don’t like cooking on the grill outside.  I don’t know why the propane grill makes me nervous, I guess it’s because I have to make sure to turn the propane on and off again and I’m afraid I’ll forget.  Or maybe it’s the open flame, but I rather doubt that because I cook with propane inside!  I think I’d really like to buy one of the Outdoor Electric Grills for me to cook on, I would not be as nervous about that.  I’d probably keep it in the garage, though, and leave the garage door open.

The Curtain Shop website accepts competitor’s coupons and has a price matching guarantee - they will match their competitor’s online prices for the same product. They have a wide assortment of high quality window treatments, from tab top curtain panel, valance treatments, drapery ensembles, sheers and door panels to name just a few.  They also sell bedding ensembles and rocking chair cushions to complete the ”feel” of the room being decorated.  This is a good website to check out when redecorating a room!

There is a new brand of shoes called Blowfish Shoes that I’ve been hearing about. I was checking them out on the Internet, and they have some really cute Blowfish Women’s Shoes that I’d like to try on. According to their store locator, there is a store about a thirty minute drive from where I live that sells Blowfish shoes, so I think maybe this weekend I’ll try to go to the store and find some to try on.

I hope I don’t end up having to buy Blowfish Men’s shoes just to get some shoes to fit me!

They camp out in the parking lot the night before so they can be one of the first 100 customers. Chik-Fil-A gives out “free Chik-Fil-A for a year” coupons to their first 100 customers. This couple has gone to eighteen of these grand openings in the past year, and have decided that they can’t use all the coupons, so now they just go for the fun of it and give the coupons away.

I don’t understand what is so much fun about camping out in a parking lot to be one of the first 100 customers to get free food if you then give away the free food! I’m udderly confused.

So I decided to cook it in the crock-pot in our garage, where the stink wouldn’t bother us. It worked out just fine, I kept the big garage door open to help the stink escape the garage, and a fan blowing to circulate the air out as much as possible. So I plan to do that in the future, too, when cooking something stinky in the crock-pot!

When I opened the door, we exchange hugs and kisses and I led her into my living room.  She asked “do you notice anything different about me?”  I looked at her really hard and noticed that she seemed prettier than usual.  I said “you have new glasses!”  She said, no, that’s not it, look closer.  I could NOT figure out for the life of me what was different, but I KNEW she was prettier than I remembered.  She laughed and said “I had my nose fixed!”  I said “WHAT!”  She laughed and said “I had a nose job; you know, a rhinoplasty, nose surgery, nose job!”  I was so shocked to hear that!  When we were kids she always told me how much she hated her nose, but we were such close friends that I never even paid it any attention.  Well, it seems that a while ago she slipped and fell in her kitchen and broke her nose!  Her doctor suggested that she take the opportunity to have a nose job!  So she did, and she looks so much prettier than before and is delighted with her “new look.”

Well, the shoes ARE ugly, but they are comfortable.  So I bought a pair of them for myself.  I NEED a comfortable pair of shoes, I am going to be working in a job where I stand up all day long, and I’m not used to doing that.  So I want the most comfortable pair of shoes I can find!  They cost me over $200, so I sure hope they are worth it and make my feet “happy” when I’m working in them!  If they do, then they will be worth their weight in gold!

If a house has one of those mail-slots in the door for the mail to be slid through, then I think that really nice decorative items to have outside the house are birdfeeders and address plaques.

Mailbox and Beyond Company has a very nice assortment of the types of items that dress up the exterior of a house. They sell birdfeeders, sundials, custom painted mailboxes, door knockers, door bell decorations, and some really cute water faucet knobs too.