Ho-Hum
We went out of town last weekend, to my parent’s house to pick up the kids. We had Babygirl’s birthday party with the family and otherwise just melted in the heat and humidity. It was some serious suckage. I know I grew up there and everything and I should be used to it, but… no. Not so much. I was never so happy to get home in my life. It’s not hot here. Like.. at all. I called my mom the day after we got home and told her I had all the windows closed and I was sitting on the couch with a blanket. She called me a bitch. *beams*
Actually, we took them a window AC unit that we just don’t need or use. It was new and has been sitting in a closet for the last two years. Naturally they waited until we left to put it in (bitches) but when she called, she was marveling at how much it cooled down the house (Gee. Ya think?).
As a trade off for crappy gardening conditions I’ll take these mild summers over the Hell they live in.
We also had a chance to visit with Moose and Jenfrog, they treated us to breakfast on Saturday. We met them at Spank last year and hope to see them at Spank in August. (Well, not Spank. Twisted Tryst is the name now. I hate change.) I’m not holding my breath that we’ll make it there in August because the odds sure seem stacked against it, but I hope we can get there. Anyway, it was great to see them again.
Other than the heat, which just kind of sucked the energy and vitality out of everyone, it was a mostly enjoyable visit. It was short so that helped a lot, I’m sure. But everyone was delighted to see Babygirl. Of course, she’s the most adorable baby in the history of ever.
Anywho, we got home late in the evening on Sunday and I had just enough time to empty the suitcase so I could turn around and fill it back up so Master could fly out early Monday morning. He’s down in the Phoenix area right now. Poor guy. No break from the heat for him. Though down there it’s one of them there DRY heats, dontchaknow. He’s coming home tomorrow night already though. Good thing. I miss him. 
It’s otherwise been a pretty low-key week for me. Yesterday, me and Babygirl went blueberry picking in the back yonder. She was eating them damn near as fast as I could pick them, walking down the trail and going “num num num” with purple fingers and a purple face.
I could probably pick a bowlful of berries every day for a month and not even find one tenth of what’s out there. They’re just everywhere. I won’t gather too many of them though. Nobody likes them but me (and Baby, apparently) and I’m cutting out sugary things so I won’t make blueberry muffins or pancakes or anything. A small handful to toss on cereal or something is all I use them for. Babygirl and I had blueberries in our oatmeal this morning. 
Speaking of dieting, I reactivated my gym membership and went back yesterday. Today I can hardly walk. My biceps, my butt and my thighs hurt even when I’m NOT moving. Right now, Babygirl can walk faster than I can. I hate this process of working through the pain. I’m so not a masochist! Honest!
I also couldn’t do more than 5 min. on the elliptical when I was doing an hour before I quit. Incredibly disappointed in myself. I only gained back 5 pounds though, I’d thought I’d gained back a whole lot more than that so that was one bright spot. I really went on a sugar/carb binge the last two weeks. I have no willpower.
I made pizza last night: whole wheat crust, very little cheese, mushrooms and black olives and zucchini for toppings. I ended up picking the zucchini off because it was kind of gross combined with the other stuff. But I was pleasantly surprised that the whole wheat crust didn’t taste too bad.
Last week I made whole wheat banana bread with honey and no sugar. That wasn’t too awful bad either. But the banana-peanut butter- no flour- no sugar cookie things were absolutely disgusting. They’d make good dog treats though so if you’re looking to please your puppy, hit me up for the recipe. *nods*
There’s just nothing going on. Nothing to blog about. With Master out of town, I just kind of mosey through the days.
So, um, yeah. That’s all I got. I so would not blame any of you for dumping me off your kinky blogroll.
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Thursday July 22nd, 2010 8:50am
I was just getting ready to email you and ask where the hell you were!
Blueberries freeze really well, btw!
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And apparently I’m very excited to see you back, what with all the exclamation points and all.
!!!
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Dump you off my kinky blogroll? Are you insane? No way, never, ain’t gonna happen.
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I second that!and I’ll use extra exclaimation points too!!!!
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Nah, we won’t kick you off. I mostly haven’t been blogging lately because my gluten-free adventures are pretty boring.
“day oh god I want bread: Came to terms with the necessity of tapioca flour. aaaaaaaugh.”
The boys have been complaining that it’s hot here (about 6 hours south of you), and I’ve just been rolling my eyes at them. I mean, bitch, I’m -FROM- a place where it regularly reaches 114º in the shade, and I was fully covered in goth clothes the whole time, AND the air conditioner breaks every year from having to cool you down for a month. /oldpeoplerant
We should get together soon and share delicious tasty recipes. And let me dump off a buttload of flour tortillas I need to make onto you.
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About the same here. Hot, cranky kids, boredom, nothing kinky. Blah.
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i will never stop reading you kaya, i love anything you write…and just so you know, since monday, i am still Hisflower…hugs to you for your kind thoughts towards me..
It was great seeing you two again – and I really hope we get to spend some time together in August. Fair warning, the chance for leg-humpings is about 85%.
I love blue berries in green salad. They taste better than tomatoes.
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I twitched when I read he is in phoenix
its 100 today, we have quite the cool weather front LOL
Wow I wish we could pick wild blueberries I really really love them. They are also really really good for you, they are actually listed as a super food! They do freeze really really well in zip top bags.
Hey K, have you used Splenda as a sugar sub? Was declared a type II about 5 years ago and have had to cut all sugar out. It is the best I’ve found as far as tasting like real sugar and no (^(*^&* after-taste.
like w_professor, am a type II diabetic – and have a recipe for sugar free pancakes made with almond flour that is pretty good. Obviously the sugar free part removes that source of calories, but the almond flour is good for you too – all that stuff about good fats that you get with nuts also applies to the flours of the nuts, and they’re a good source of protein. They’re pretty good with blueberries. lemme know if you want the recipe. (or you, w_professor, for that matter).
Since Honey asked for it…
http://lowcarbdudecom.blogspot.com/2008/01/recipe-low-carb-almond-meal-pancakes.html – its not specifically a recipe for blueberry pancakes, but just throw in as many blueberries as you think is right!!!
Honey – enjoy!
Kaya,
Blueberry muffins and pancakes? Yum, yum. I feel the loss with you, though.
Dave
Hi Kaya – Try agape as a sweetner. It’s all natural – learned about it at a spa that I went to……yum.
I’m guessing Amaryllis meant “agave” not “agape” but let’s just be clear on one thing here: agave syrup has more fructose than any other sweetner on the market, high fructose corn syrup included. Ain’t nothing healthy about that. Natural, sure, and so is tequila, the other agave product! Poison ivy is also natural, but I’m sure not putting THAT in my sweet tea
I for one, would love that almond flour recipe!
I won’t tell you about the great recipe i have for blueberry cake. It’s got whole wheat flour but it doesn’t help when you wanna eat the entire thing, right?
It’s gone in one sitting (there ARE 6 of us, but still…..those are some purty big slices, kids! Save some for mommmmmyyyy…)
I discovered, quite by accident, that blueberries taste really good with pineapple. I have yogurt with pineapple chunks, and a toasted pita with a dash of peanut butter for lunch. I had some leftover blueberries, and threw them in…omg. Nirvana in a bowl. I use peach yogurt or vanilla, and it was …gawd so amazingly good.
and pretty low cal.
and filling.
(i’m down 12 pounds in ..um…7 weeks)
nilla
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I am so loving the way you described you and BabyGirl picking blueberries and her little face and hands all purple/blue and going NUM NUM NUM as she toddled. Our little one goes “num num num” too when she’s eating. Adorable.
She LOVES corn on the cob! She’ll sit there in her high chair and gnaw on it forever, lol. Making “num nom yum” sounds. So cute! The cob is huge and her hands are so little.
We have pics of her captioned “I HAZ A KORM!”
We will never stop reading you. We adore you. We are kaya-groupies. Really.
And I like the idea of blueberries in salad. I’m going to try that. And blueberries and vanilla yogurt are good together. You can have them with crunchy cereal to feel like you are having a treat. Maybe Special K? How deprived of sweets am I that fruit, yogurt and Special K seems like a treat? Sad.
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Yay!! I’m so glad you’re back.. or whatever.
*smirk*
I’ll take my awesome gardening conditions over snow any day. I may blow a lot of things around here, but snow is not one of them.
Actually I only blow one thing around here, but I seem to blow it an awful lot.
Smooch!
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Feel free to drop some of those extra blueberries by my place. i love the things, but i absolutely, positively HATE picking those damn…err…darn things.
[rq=563445,0,blog][/rq]i love You too- Sir
Oh right, like I’m going to dump you off my blogroll. PFFFFTTTT. Whatever.
I think there’s just something about the past two weeks that has made everyone carb binge; I can’t remember the last time I ate fresh fruit or veg. I think I need to fix that. There should be a farmer’s market on Sunday, right?
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Hey.. does babygirl still need wipes? I have this recipe for home made wipes because I know you are all about the saving of the money!
1 1/2 cups water
2 tbs baby shampoo
1 tbs baby oil
no name papertowel (cheap generic sound)
Take the roll of paper towel and cut in half.
Put half of the paper towel in a deep container with a lid. (We use old tobacco containers that have been donated)
mix the water, baby oil and baby shampoo together and pour over the paper towel. If the paper towel still seems dry in a few minutes feel free to add water until it takes on a wipe consistency.
there you have the wipes! nice and cheap! (Walmart has paper towel that is 95cents for 2 rolls
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cheap generic type of paper towel.. should so not watch tv and try and write at the same time.
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I’m kind of jealous you can just go blueberry picking like that. I adore blueberries, but they don’t grow well here. I’m going huckleberry picking in a couple weeks though…so I guess that makes up for it.
I’ll also add my vote for Splenda for cooking. I haven’t bought regular sugar in I don’t know how long.
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