Tagged for a Meme (Sure it was almost two months ago, but it still counts!)

Back in August, Teresa from I’m Running to Eat tagged me for two different memes. Strangely enough, I have been thinking about the song one every single time I listen to the car radio. I should have been thinking about the other one, because it’s harder.

For the first one, I’m supposed to: List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they’re not any good, but they must be songs you’re really enjoying now, shaping your summer (or whatever season). Post these instructions in your blog along with your 7 songs.

Here are the first ones that come to mind:
1. “Radio Ga Ga” by Queen. I heard it the other day and it’s been stuck in my head ever since!
2. “Fill Her Up” by Sting. Last month, I watched a DVD that Sting recorded on 9/11, and that song is on there. (Also stuck in my head.)
3. The theme from “Heroes”. We bought the second season of Heroes a few weeks ago, and when we all got sick we decided to watch it all, starting with the first season. I don’t know if it counts, but I’ve heard it a lot lately.
4. “Small Enough” by Nichole Nordeman. I’ve been threatening to sing this one in church for a while, but haven’t done it yet. I love it and sing it a lot in the car.
5. “Into Temptation” by Crowded House. I still love their whole “Temple of Low Men” album, but this one is a favorite.
6. “Never Tear Us Apart” by INXS. I saw the video on Pop Up Video the other day, and remembered how much I loved that song.
7. “Wishful Thinking” by The Ditty Bops. That song is just so much fun that you can’t help but be happy when you hear it.
The second tag is to post some random things about myself.

Tag Rules:Link to the person who tagged you.Post the rules on the blog.Write six random things about yourself.Tag six people at the end of your post.Let each person know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.Let the tagger know when your entry is up….and here are 6 random things about myself:

1. I’m left handed.
2. When I was a kid, my dad made me wooden stilts and I spent hours teaching myself how to walk on them–but I can’t walk in heels without looking like a toddler.
3. I never learned to walk in heels because I’m 5′ 9 1/2″, and was frequently taller than my boyfriends.
4. For years I’ve been thinking about going back to school to get my masters in dietetics.
5. I was born in Muncie, Indiana.
6. Throughout my life, I’ve had somewhere around 15 cats; but Linus is my first dog.

Ok, so now it’s my turn to tag other people-

Elle’s New England Kitchen
Canarygirl
Noble Pig
Velvet Lava
Renae du Jour

And there you have it!

Fall is my Favorite

Fall is my favorite, not having internet access on my laptop is NOT.  I had hoped that we’d get our wireless modem fixed or replaced by now, but we’ve been so busy that it hasn’t been a priority.   Since my Living Cookbook is on my laptop, it makes posting much harder–which is part of the reason I haven’t been posting as often as I should.

I have to be honest with you, I’ve also been horrible about cooking lately.   I started volunteering at my son’s school, and I swear I’ve caught every freaking bug those precious little tykes have had to offer.  I got some sort of stomach virus, then I got strep.  As soon as I was finally feeling better from the strep, I caught a cold.  I’m finally trying to start building my immune system back up; and I’m realizing that eating out so much lately hasn’t helped my immune system at all!  Besides that, we’re going broke and my dryer is suddenly shrinking all of my clothes! (I refuse to admit that I’m gaining weight.  I don’t even want to step on the scales.)

For all of those reasons, I’m going to try to get back into cooking mode.  As a matter of fact, I’m going to get back into cooking mode with a vengeance!  I am going to try my hand at an abbreviated form of once-a-month-cooking.  I’m not going to fool myself into thinking that we’re going to exclusively eat from our freezer, but I am going to spend some time over the weekend making some freezer friendly meals that I can just take out of the freezer in the morning and reheat when I get home from school.  I hope that if I have a few easy options like that, I’ll stop saying, “Let’s just run out and grab something.”  (Because the somethings we’ve been grabbing have been spendy and FAR from healthy.)

I went out yesterday and picked up two whole chickens.  I’m going to make my friend Nikki’s Chicken Verde with one, and make Chicken and Apple Curry with the other.  (If I have any left, I’m thinking about making chicken and dumplings, but I don’t think they’ll freeze as well as the other two.)   I’m going to just go ahead and start with meat based dishes, because they’re so easy, and then I’m going to work my way back to making more meatless meals.  (Meatless meals seem to take so much more work, so I’m just going to ease back into it.)

Today I’m giving my kitchen a good cleaning, and I’m at the school again tomorrow; but Saturday I hope to get a lot of cooking done!  Look for some actual food posts by early next week!