POTD

Ok, so I'm back to work.

: (

I know, I should be glad that I HAVE a job...but still.

Here's the first POTD (Picture of the Day). I tried to look happy....

Adventure!

Ok, so it wasn't a BIG adventure like PeeWee had, but an adventure it still was! Doug and I went to the Minneapolis Farmer's Market this morning. I've been wanting to go there for years and never made the time, and I knew this was possibly the last day I could go this year. I wanted to check it out to see about being a vendor next year with my soaps, and just to see/experience it all. It was fun! A pretty easy drive to and fro too. I was surprised how big and busy it was, and that there were a lot of things there that were not food, like clothing, jewelry (yay!) and other crafts.

So...now I can pretend to be just like Eggface (one of my favorite bloggers) - she's a gastric bypass woman who blogs about food a lot, she loves to cook and come up with new creations and seems to spend a LOT of time at her farmer's market. She posts a LOT of pictures of her creations too, and just today she's got a whole bit about her farmer's market. I love reading her blog and copying her recipes, though I have to admit I haven't tried many of them yet cause I am lame that way. : )

This is what we had for din-din tonight. Doesn't it look delish?

The chicken was grilled with a raspberry-chipotle sauce, I think from Cub. Very tasty. At first you tasted the raspberry, then the chipotle spiciness kicked in. The salad had a bunch of fresh stuff from the market -- cooked, cold beets, sweet onion, broccoli, kohlrabi and cucumber, with a raspberry vinaigrette dressing. Yummy for my tummy! : ) We also bought some squash, cauliflower, roasted almonds and I don't even remember what else (except of course a necklace and earrings, cause I'm SO deficient in them, LOL).

Of course the best part is eating it outside on the back deck with Doug (we've been doing that a lot this summer). I sometimes have a glass of wine with my meal (I KNOW, I KNOW...I'm not supposed to drink a THING for 1/2 hour after eating, but sometimes I can't help it!), but tonight I didn't have the wine (yet!).

Speaking of wine, I went down the road to the local liquor store today to get more wine, and when I was paying I remembered that they have a wine punch card now, and went to get mine out of my wallet. Well...I gave her the wrong wine punch card!! I said "Wow, now that's a bad sign, first of all that I HAVE a wine punch card, and secondly, that I have TWO!" The second one is from a local winery, Goose Lake Winery over by Nowthen. They have THE most delicious dessert wine, which is made with brandy in it too and kicks butt!

Now I'm gonna be sad the next two days cause it's the end of summer and I have to go back to work. Ugh. It's like an intrusion into my life. : ( I have so much other stuff I want to do other than work at a job...why can't I just win the lottery?

But that's life, right?! And it could be a lot worse. At least now I'll start posting my Picture of the Day again soon.