My Longaberger Purpose, I Mean addiction, I mean Purpose

Tomorrow night is my first Longaberger Open House. I'm busy trying to clean up, organize and set up stuff. Then I need to bake, cut up veggies and that sort of thing. I think it'll be fun. I'm nervous already though. That "in the spotlight" it's all on me type of nervous that I just love! Well, this is Longaberger's purpose for me. Practice in the spotlight! So wish me luck and send good vibes. And hope for lots of sales too. That surely wouldn't hurt.

Oh, and that cross stitch I picture below. I started working on it! I'll post a picture of my progress another time.

My Apologies

I apologize to my one faithful follower (you know who you are) about the lack of post today. Harry "worked from home" today and therefore we went to get tickets to see "A Christmas Carol" and I wasn't home for very long before heading 40 minutes away to the vet for Shooter's check up and I didn't get home until about 5:00. So hopefully I can come up with something exciting for tomorrow to make up for today. If I had more time I was going to translate my post to German but alas, it has escaped me.

Recipe of the Day

It seems to be crazy busy today. I started the day by making sausage, peppers and onions for Harry to share at work. That was at 7:30 this morning. I've been busy cleaning, organizing and so on ever since.

So today I'm leaving a recipe that I tried last night. It was so simple and so tasty. I found it in Martha Stewart's everday food magazine.

HOMINY SAUTE

1 Tblsp vegetable oil

2 cans (14 oz. each) hominy, rinsed and drained

4 to 5 scallions, thinly sliced

1 pint grape tomatoes, halved

1 Tblsp cider vinegar

In a large saucepan, heat oil over medium. Add hominy and scallions, season with salt and pepper. Cook, stirring occasionally, until scallions are softened. 2 to 3 minutes. Add tomatoes, cook until warmed through, 2 to 3 minutes. Remove from heat, and add vinegar; season with salt and pepper.

The changes I made were: I didn't have grape tomatoes so I cut up regular tomatoes but removed the seeds and I didn't have cider vinegar, so I used red wine vinegar. It was like a warm salad. Yummy and light.

Thanks Martha!!

Der verwendungszweck Deutsch

OK, it's supposed to say "The German Purpose". Sorry, it's not supposed to sound like something straight out of the Furor's mouth. One of my purposes to add to the list is to relearn what I learned in German I. And fast! So should I start blogging in German and make all of you download German/English dictionaries, or is someone going to step up to the plate and maybe leave some comments in German? Or maybe you have another idea? Any advice would help. And if someone could make any corrections to "mein" title it would be greatly appreciated. Danke!

By the way, Harry jarred a huge bunch of peppers last night, he brought a whole bunch for people at work, I've been chopping some up for sausage peppers and onions and then there's just a bunch to freeze. The table is mostly usable now. Hurray!

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The Daily Grind

My purpose today is not so interesting. Cleaning! Yup, cleaning, laundry, freezing peppers. Try not to get too excited. The laundry pile is getting so high that soon they'll be forming parties to climb It instead of Everest.

Speaking of parties, we had 2 this weekend. "Bananas" went to a bowling party for a friend from school. Her very first time bowling and her very first time rolling that ball down the lane she knocked down every pin but one. She was quite excited and enjoyed all the kids saying "Way to go!" Even so, I think she had more fun running in circles, slipping with those bowling shoes, and falling down with her "BFF" that you met at our Halloween party.

Saturday night we picked the last of the peppers from the garden. TONS OF PEPPERS! Hot, sweet, bell. Now they need freezing or we won't be able to use the kitchen table for a while.

Now, off I go to my tasks for the day. See why the painting never gets started?

NOT!

It looks like today is turning out to be a non-painting day. I guess that gives everyone more time to post some tips. Yea right. I will leave you with some more angles of the hallway to help with the tip giving.

Today I'm sending out a great big HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Jeanette.

Have a great day.

And lastly, Here's a couple more great ideas for those wonderful baskets. Have a new baby or a shower gift to buy? A basket is great to fill with a few diapers wipes, rash cream, q-tips, etc. for the changing table. If your bathroom is like mine (no drawers or real closet space) use a basket to hold all your beauty supplies or extra shampoo and soap. Why not just sit a beautiful flower or house plant in the protector and sit by a window or on the counter? Sit a basket by the door to hold keys, wallets, mail to be delivered, etc. then you can just grab and go.

Happy Un-Halloween

It's the day after and I believe it went really well. The kids had a grand ole time and it looked like the adults did too. And after eating snacks, and pizza, and trick or treating they all sat quite still for Uncle Rick's scary story. Which I'm still waiting to hear last years. So Jeanette, if you're listening, send them both over. The treats came out great and thanks to Grandma Judy for her creative skills on the Witch cupcakes. They were quite elaborate!

Tomorrow will hopefully be my first day of painting. So any last minute tips like "wax on, wax off" for me, now would be the time to post them.

And most of all a great big

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

to Mom, Grandma Judy, Jude . . . .