I made some serious blog progress this morning. I created three new pages that will be posted once I have drop down menus in place on the blog!
This may seem like nothin’, but I assure it’s no small feat when you’re making a page that requires finding a bazillion old posts on your blog. It’s a lot of sifting and searching. I wish I would’ve been more organized when I started blogging. If you’re a new blogger, please utilize tags on your pages. (You may see all of my tag categories in the right-hand column of my blog under “PBF by Category.”) Tags make it so much easier to find posts that belong together. I only wish I would’ve used them sooner!
Break for Errands
Eventually my eyes started to cross from staring at the computer screen for so long that I decided to take a breather and get out of the house to run some errands, including getting my bridesmaid dress altered for my friend Leah’s wedding next Saturday. Once I left the alterations shop, I headed to Whole Foods thinking I would buy all of the necessary ingredients to make the homemade pesto sauce Jenna posted earlier this week.
As I started gathering the ingredients, I began mentally calculating the total cost of making the pesto. Since I didn’t have any of the ingredients at home already, I was buying everything that the recipe called for and that made the price creep up to more than $15 ($8 fresh parmesan cheese, $6 white miso, $3 panko breadcrumbs, etc.). I abandoned my pesto plans and left with two $1 packs of seaweed snacks and some nutritional yeast from the bulk bins. (Seriously, what do you do with nutritional yeast? I remembered seeing it on blogs before and figured I would buy a little and figure it out later.)
After my Whole Foods adventures, I drove home and made a pit stop at Barnes & Nobel to pick up a book Ryan and I are planning to start reading together. (Yes, we read together. We’re funky.)
While there, I got sidetracked by some puppy books near the checkout counter.
Whenever I see dog books, I have a habit of flipping through them to see if they have a section dedicated to vizslas.
I’d say about 20 percent of dog books actually mention Sadie’s breed (usually only the dog encyclopedias or complete guide to dog breeds books do), so I wasn’t surprised when this particular book neglected vizslas as well.
At least they included another one of my loves:
Don’t you think Sadie and a little French bulldog would make the most adorable duo?
While in the check out line, I also saw this book that I think would make my mom cry:
Did anyone else read Pat the Bunny when they were little? Such a sweet and innocent book! Not sure how I feel about Pat the Zombie. (Not good.)
Lunch
When I arrived back at home, it was lunchtime, though I wasn’t particularly starving. My afternoon snack did a good job of fending off my hunger, I guess.
I worked for a little bit before eventually throwing together a yummy lunch using leftovers from earlier this week.
I used leftover pulled buffalo chicken to make chicken salad by combining the chicken, light Miracle Whip and sweet corn. I placed the chicken salad on top of a hot dog bun and served it with a side of the seaweed snacks I purchased at Whole Foods and some Babybel cheese.
Not a bad little lunch!
Off to wrap things up for the week on the work front. Hooray for Fourth of July weekend!!! And Happy Canada Day!
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So cute!
Hey I didn”t know you have babybel in America, they remind me of childhood^^
Thank you, from Canada 😀
And I used to love Pat the Bunny! That’s a little twisted. Although, there is a “children’s book” called All My Friends are Dead & it’s actually cute & funny, if a little depressing lol.
I have yet to try the seaweed snacks. Are they filling or just kind of like flavoured air chips? I have nothing against either haha
I do the same things with cat books – look to see if they have any adorable russian blues like my cat Ollie. In fact, in the cat counterpart of the dog book you were looking through, they did have a bunch of adorable russian blues – so I had to buy the book!
I know you need nutritional yeast to make Mama Pea’s Mmm Sauce. She uses the yeast all the time, so I’m sure she’d be one of the best people to ask on how to use it!
http://peasandthankyou.com/2011/04/12/wannabe-recipea-mmmm-sauce/
i’ve got a jack russell terrier and i have a habit of browsing through all stuff related to his breed too!
Hi Julie–
This comment doesn’t really relate to this post, but I thought of your blog this morning when I read this article in The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/02/your-money/02shortcuts.html?ref=todayspaper
It reminded me of your posts on The Comparison Trap as well as your recent post about compliments. I thought it was an interesting read!
Can’t wait to see the new blog additions!! I’ve seen so many bloggers try out that pesto. Maybe when I randomly have most of the ingredients I’ll make it.
I love nutritional yeast on popcorn – just use a little butter or spray butter and then toss with the yeast so it coats it – so good! I also use it on tofu – when it comes out of the pan hot, I coat in the yeast and makes a nice little crust on the tofu, which is great on salads or in stir frys. My husband was originally totally skeptical of the stuff, but after trying it these two ways he’s hooked!
I have a french bulldog named Ruby and she’s just the best! She is definitely a “velcro” dog too (I saw you use that to describe Sadie and thought it was perfect!) Ruby loves playing with big dogs so I bet they’d get along fabulously!
Birdman’s albums are never all that bad, 5 Star Stunna had some joints on it too
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