it only gets lighter from here.

 

dinner - crunch wraps

 get some big flour tortillas and some little flour tortillas.  cook up some ground beef or chicken and season with taco seasoning.  in the center of your big tortilla add your toppings in an area about the same size as your small tortilla - meat, cheese, salsa, sour cream, lettuce, onions, tomatos etc.  cover with the small tortilla and fold the rest of the big tortilla up to secure the package.  fry until crisp on both sides.

book club 73 - Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

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book club 72 - The American Roommate Experiment by Elena Armas

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book club 71 - Fangirl Down by Tessa Bailey

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book club 70 - Go West Young Man by WIlliam Johnstone

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grocery shop - costco november 26

 

 

ginger ale (for the grandpa), cheerios (for the grandpa) cookies (for the grandpa's christmas, shhh), fruit and yogurt gummies, compost bags, peelable gummies, guacamole, pico, crackers, antipasto, chicken, bagel chips, pizza, tuxedo cake (for the boys birthday)

$208

dinner - burger bowls

 roast up some diced potatos, or cook some fries or tots.  cook some ground beef with whatever seasonings you like.  make a burger sauce from mayo, ketchup, mustard, relish and season it up.  layer your bowl with potatos, meat, lettuce, cheese, sauteed onions, tomato, the sauce, or whatever you like on your burgers.

book club 69 - Between Two Fires by Christopher Buchlman

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book club 68 - Bride by Ali Hazelwood

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grocery shop - fresh co dec 2

 

carrots, creamer, coconut milk, yogurt, hummus and crackers x 2, chicken broth, kale, greens, raspberries, blue cheese dressing, tape 

$41

i finally used my latest 2 unnecessary (?) kitchen gadgets

 last year i convinced myself that i absolutely must have a mini muffin maker.  i bought it and promptly pushed it to the back of the cupboard, embarrassed that i spent money on it when i have perfectly good muffin tins and an oven.

THIS year i decided that i could not live without a mini waffle maker, mostly because of those aesthetic videos online of people packing their food for the day.  i want to be cute and aesthetic too! 

last month i finally used both of them for the first time.  

 

book club 67 - Grave Surprise by Charlaine Harris

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book club 66 - Outcast by Lexi Ray

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dinner - butter cauliflower, rice and naan

 steam or roast some cut up cauliflower.  season.  mix with butter chicken sauce and simmer for a bit.

a beautiful fall day in riverside park, early november

 

tech tidy - in which we start decluttering ideas, recipes and more saved from the internet

 continuing my bad habit of trying to do too much all at once I'm now determined to get rid of some of the hundreds, if not thousands of favorited, saved, open tabs, photos and screenshots, bookmarks, paper, frankly everything and anything to get rid of some clutter.

i have dozens of tabs open on my computer, nearly 100 on my phone, not to mention things saved or favorited on social media platforms and my bookmark list on my laptop is a kilometer long.

the one that frustrated me the most, for no reason, is tick tok, so i thought i'd start there.

i currently have 802 videos favorited.  eeeek.  so, i went down to the very bottom and chose the last video, which was recomendations from a book store.

at one time, a bunch of years ago, i had a long list of books that i wanted to read in the back of a journal.  since i abandoned that journal, i either screenshot photos of books that i want to read, add them to another list, or just shrug and hope i'll remember them.  i searched for my old journal with the list but couldn't find it, and just as i was about to start a new list on paper i thought, what about an app?

i picked the Reading List app as all i am looking for is a basic app to keep a, well, reading list.

so far i've added 81 books to it, and been able to clear out oh, about 81 screenshots out of my photos.

yay!

my next journey into my favorites began with unfavoriting about 10 videos that had been deleted, as well as removing a smash taco recipe, and the terrible marshmallow in the chocolate chip cookie video.  i also watched and screenshotted from 2 book recommendation videos and removed 3 candy recipes that i should not make. i also decided to delete some halloween crafts that i haven't made and let's be honest, won't ever make.

that has me down to 760!

grocery shop - fresh co october 14

 

margarine, parsley, pasta, beans, raspberries,  crackers, cheese, tuna, yogurt, cup a soup, clamato, oj, bagels x 2, lemons, flour, sugar, ham, salad, tortillas, halloween candy, broccoli, kd, pepsi zero, milk

$129

book club 65 - meet me on the bridge by Sarah J Harris

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book club 64 - Spare by Prince Harry - Audiobook

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book club 63 - The Anti-Heros by Jen Lancaster

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book club 62 - Heartstopper by Alice Oseman

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book club 61 - The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley

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book club 60 - Beach Read by Emily Henry (audiobook)

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grocery shop - fresh street october 11

 ginger ale, chicken bouillon, beef bouillon, popcorn, coffee creamer, milk, eggs, kefir x 2, ground beef, pork tenderloin, crab cakes, ham, hummus, butter chicken, bananas, lettuce

$104

book club 59 - The Tourist Attraction by Sarah Morgenthaler

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book club 58 - That Kind of Guy by Stephanie Archer

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grocery shop - costco october 11

 

halloween candy, coffee, chips, lemonade, oranges, apples, tortilla chips, tomatos, brussel sprouts, ginger cookes for The Grandpa, socks for the kids, buns, cheese, cereal, pico, butter, pineapple, potatos

$204

recent meals

 I made Amish Onion Fritters for The Mister and I as part of Thanksgiving, and those bad boys did not last long at all.  We toasted the leftovers and brushed them with butter and oh dang, they were so good.

I've been craving curry lately, so I made a curry chicken noodle soup that The Girl refused to try, but the rest of us enjoyed it.

                 This was a deeeeelicious Chicken Leek and Bacon pie that we all enjoyed and the leftovers                                                                 were gone within a day.

                                Another smash taco recipe, this time chicken caesar,  Darn delicious.

No photo! but we made Dorie Greenspans coffee muffins, with chocolate chips added for extra deliciousness.

We bought some peppadew peppers and stuffed them with feta for some snacks one day.

wednesday farmers market

 took a trip to the Wednesday Farmers Market on Victoria Street - got 2 sauces, some naan, spinach, tomatos, and beets!

Pretty sure tomorrow is the last Wednesday market of the year - I'll be there!

book club 57 - Yellowface by RF Kuang (audiobook)

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and another Kamloops mural

 

Beautiful BC - Desert Hills Ranch and Taco Stand, Ashcroft and Cache Creek BC