Meal planning

 I figured out something I dislike more than cooking! Meal planning! I do it every Friday so we can grocery shop on Saturday but I dispise it! The shopping doesn't bother me, I can shop all day long but meal planning and cooking suck! 

Isaac has me watching the Transformer movies with him. I never liked transformers so I was against it but I am actually enjoying them. The annoying part is he doesn't usually watch a whole movie in one sitting. Like we've been watching Dark Side of Moon for like 3 days now! I'm ready to watch it without him lol.

I want to buy a new couch before Mike comes to visit. Our current couch is leather and has a few rips in it. I'd like to get a fabric one that's bigger than our current one is. I will never get another leather couch again. 

We are saving up for Halloween horror tickets so we can go again this year. They've announced 2 houses so far, Strangers Things and Last of us. I'm kind of excited to go. We also want to get universal season passes. I've been watching a couple on YouTube who does all things universal and has tips, tricks and money saving ideas.

Any good meal ideas out there?

I hate cooking

Confession time. I hate cooking.

Seriously I do not like it. I find it boring and tedious and because I'm such a picky eater food just sucks. I wish I didn't have to cook. I wish I could hire someone to do it for me. I wish my husband didn't work so late so he could cook. He's better at it than I am. I suck. Food I make just doesn't always turn out right, unless it's lasagna, but even that's not perfect.  I try to follow recipes but if somethings in it I don't like then I won't use it which changes the whole dish and it ends up sucking. I wish I could afford to eat out every night.

Scott calls my cooking "set it and forget it". I don't like being alone in the kitchen so I tend to make things I can put on and leave in the oven. I need an open floor plan so I don't feel so alone all the time. The first time we lived in Florida I had that and was able to interact with Scott while I cooked. When we move next year I need to find something similar to that. 

Speaking of moving. I can't wait to move to the Orlando area. Then we can get passes to Disney and go every weekend if we wanted. See my brothers and their kids in the park if we wanted to, instead of at their hotels. Right now it would be a waste of money because it takes a full tank of gas to get there and back. More than that actually. I also want a different layout to my apartment. While this one is big and nice the layout sucks. It would be cool if it came with a washer and dryer as well hehe.

Mike's coming to visit at the end of August for 4 days! I'm so excited to see him, it's gonna be so fun. I don't know what we'll do yet but it's going to be fun. 

Well that's all I've got for now. If you know any good recipes for picky eaters I'd love to hear them. 

Holy hell! Its been a long time!!

 Ok so I've unpublished all the old stuff. Time to start fresh after a few years off. At least that's what I'm thinking for now. 

So good things are happening in my house lately. Isaac, (Grace for those that don't know, is trans and goes by Isaac now), was struggling with school since the pandemic, then moving to Florida brought out his anxieties in an extreme way. He went to a charter school but starting staying home everyday because it was overwhelming to him. He did 7th grade, but then took a year off for mental health. We weren't sure the charter school would take him back, but after some back and forth they've accepted him for 8th grade. So he's a year behind where we were but his mental health is stronger now, and he's going into 8th with a couple friends he's made. 

Scott just got a big raise at work. Which means more money for fun things. Something we haven't been able to do much of since we moved. We'll also be able to pay off our debt faster now. 

As for me, I'm doing good. Without the winter cold of the north I'm not in as much pain all the time. The sun still affects the Lupus but if I'm careful with sunscreen and stay in the shade as much as i can, I do okay. No signs of cancer returning, but the neuralgia is hell lately. I might just purchase stock in Tylenol with how bad the pain in my head has been lately. I take that stuff like candy! It's insane!

And for the cats! We moved with Romeo and sadly we lost him in November of 2022. We adopted Frida and Picasso from the shelter in December 2022, sadly Picasso got sick and died 6 months later. A month after that we went back to the shelter and adopted Matilda (we call her Tilly). The girls took some time to get used to each other but it's been good.

All in all, things are looking up for us. Tell me about you.