A night in the kitchen!

The Martha Stewart/Suzy Homemaker bug bit me last night (don't ask me what that is but it works....I think?)  I decided I was going to make a wonderful dinner for us, so I went to the store after work and purchased some goods.  I have been drooling thinking about this recipe I found on Pinterest, and I found a recipe for Panko Balsamic Crusted Chicken in a magazine.  So this was obvi the Suzy Homemaker part of the bug....

click here to find the recipe and here to follow me on Pinterest (I pin some legit stuff you will be happy you followed  me)  BTW: the theme of this post is my ADD ...

Warning: I am not the Pioneer Woman so my food photos suck, but I get an A for effort k?

 Totally impressed with my ability to balance the spaghetti on the garlic jar...mad skills!

The second part of dinner was the chicken, and it turned out amazing!!  The recipe ended up being toO fancy-shamcy for me so I took the basics and made it my own....

So I just mixed mustard (I thought we had Dijon but we didn't so whatev, next time I will use the Dijon) and balsamic vinegar with some salt, pepper, garlic powder (cuz no recipe is complete without it) and then coated it in the Panko.  Because the Panko cooks faster than the chicken I sliced the chicken breasts in half so they were thinner. And baked them at 375 for about 20 minutes.

NOW all the while being Suzy I was also being Martha....don't judge me for the next photo cuz it's bad.

Honey I think we need some more kitchen utensils.....NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!  This is what happens when you get married and do not use your wedding gifts until almost 2 years later.  You end up with all this crap!

This drawer is the "frequent flier" drawer so we use this stuff often, and it is smaller so it doesn't totally look like disheveled mess....this is what I am telling myself and I am sticking to it...this drawer is normal :)

OK back to the chaos....I bought some organization thing at Home Goods last weekend, and I decided that while I was trying NOT one BUT two new recipes I needed to organize that hideous drawer!  Luckily     Mr. Mac came home and to the rescue and finished they drawer....it look a billion times better!!

Now almost everything has it's own special home, including my wine corks :)  Mr. Mac even said he would sleep a little better knowing the drawer is organized.  Yes we are both type A...don't ask what will happen when we have kids....you will want to read this blog just to find out one day!

Here is a little side-note....so since my dog is an only child she has to be right.in.the.middle.of.EVERYTHING!!!  Case in point while all this is going on I am also trying to empty the dishwasher, and where does she lay???

BOOM on the rug...and note homegirl is COMFY!!!  Also how awesome are my flip-flop tan lines...jealous huh?!?  I was literally stepping over and on her tail sometimes and she was not going to move!  

Also just to show you how OC I really am.....

Yes everything has to alternate colors, and you see the middle shelf and how the bottom bowl in the back is white and so is the one on the right....that is a problem...the two bowls in the front should be brown.  You catch me?  I digress....

Here is the end result of the evening....

A bomb dinner!!  

I apologize for the tumultuous rambling that just happened and I am sure y'all would love to take the time back in your lives, but you can't....you know what you CAN do is make those noodles up there!!  They will change your life...I PROMISE!!!!

OK HAPPY WEEKEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  

About that.....

First off HAPPY FRIDAY!!!!  It has been a rough couple of weeks at work, and everyone is beyond happy that the weekend is here!!!  WOOT WOOT!!!

Also my BFF and her family comes today :)  I am like a child on Christmas morning!  Can't wait to see them!

So far I have had a busy morning....

It was totally necessary to paint my nails....and I work in a man's world so it really makes my day when I tell them I can't do something because my nails are wet :)  They look at me like I am from another planet...HA!

Turned out alright!

Last night while Mr.Mac was watching the football game I was catching up on my pile of magazines, and came across this nail polish color.  I will be on the hunt at Target purchasing soon :)

BTW...whose responsible for naming nail polishes, and how do I get that job????

I don't know about every other lady out there, but I HATE the whole process of toilet paper and changing it out......let me explain:  We have to use it EVERY.SINGLE.TIME!!!  Mr. Mac, not so much.  I hate it when it runs out on my time!  It almost puts me in a bad mood.  I will purposefully try to make it happen on Mr. Macs time in the bathroom, and guess what?  IT FREAKING BACKFIRES ON ME....every.single.time!  I leave 2-3 sheets on the roll thinking "ha now he will have to change the roll" and guess who is the next one to need it...ME!!!! I think Mr. Mac does this to me too....ie: leaking the roll with NOTHING on it and not changing it.  I  wish there was an automatic thing in the wall that just drops another roll down when needed.  And what really frosts my cookie is when the toilet paper runs out and there is not another roll in the cabinet.....Like what am I supposed to do...drip dry IN MY OWN HOUSE??????  Sorry if this is TMI, but it happened to me last night and I just was wondering if I am in my own boat here or not. I feel much better and now I digress :)

So I found this picture on Pinterest the other day, and it has now become my mission to wallpaper (I know it's weird) one of the walls in the dining room and re-create this look...and paint the  near by powder room a complimenting color.  I think this is a stencil but I would lose my salvation if I tried that, so wallpaper seems much smarter....then I will be on a mission to find a star burst mirror to go on the wall which means I will find one 10 years from now when I am not even looking for one, because that is just my luck people.

That's all she wrote today...hope y'all have a wonderful weekend!!

Monday mix up

Well here we are....another Monday....and another week!  Except for at the end of the week my BFF is coming to America!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  That number of exclamation points doesn't even begin to show my excitement for her visit!  Two weeks of her and her sweet kids is going to be the highlight of my summer and then some.  She and her husband moved to Switzerland right after Mr. Mac and I got married.  I have been fortunate enough that she has come back every year,  and we talk on the phone every morning....but nothing beats going for pedicures and shopping with your bestie!!  Needless to say my ability to maintain some what of an attention span at work will be a difficult task :)

This summer has flown by!  It is already football season and Mr. Mac has gone back to school.  Which means my oh-so-fun Sunday Funday has returned.  And by Funday I don't mean drinking all day with your friends and BBQing....I mean doing laundry for the week while watching football with the hubby :)

I would NEVER do this...more than twice :)

I had to clean our house this weekend (like the FOR REAL clean), and my mama came over to help me!  Cleaning is always much more fun (and quick) when you have someone to help you...and who knows how to clean a toilet the right way ;)  Thanks mama!!!!!  Oh and she went grocery shopping with me too!  She is pretty awesome like that :)

Mr. Mac got me hooked on Game of Thrones so any down time we have had we spent watching this show.  It is NOT my kind of interest, but I got sucked into it, and now I love it!  Here is the problem.....we finished season one and season two is not on DVD yet :(  So we are left hanging now :(  I think the next show we are going to try is Downton Abbey, very feminine VS. Game of Thrones very masculine....we like to balance each other out like that!

BAHAHAHA

We are dog-sitting another lab this week, except he is a min-horse compared to our little princess Lexi.  It is interesting....I will take pictures....it will make you laugh :)

And that is all I have for you today folks.....I know you wish you could take back the time you wasted reading this post....I wish I could take back the time I spent writing it, but then that would mean my Monday was TOTALLY unproductive.  This way I can at least say I at least blogged today.

I should be working, BUT.....

Seriously I should be working, but I have so much to do I have no idea where to start today....so I will just  blog to get my day started :)  A couple of things: how is it August already??????  My birthday in now in 3 months!!!!  For those of you who have jobs where the end of the month is like the worst time ever...that is me right now :(  At least blogging doesn't have an end of the month report that I have to do!  (silver lining here)

So last weekend Mr. Mac had his high school reunion.  I didn't take one single picture...shocking I know!  It was fun, and I can officially mark it off my bucket list.  You will not catch me at my reunion nor do I think we will go to another one of his again.  So there you have it!

We went to a wedding on Sunday and this little guy was a freaking crack up.  I cannot wait to have kids of my own just to experience life through their eyes will be an amazing blessing.  For example when we sat at the table there were the champagne glasses, and he is all about "cheersing" all the time like from the time he had a bottle to now, homeboy loves himself some cheers! Anywho we put water in the champagne glass and you would have thought it was Christmas morning to this kid!  If you look hard you can see the water dripping off his chin :)  PRESH!!!

And these glasses kill me! He sees a pair of glasses and will tell you "I need to wear these so I look like Hollywood"  Oh, OK!  Whatever you need...just go for it!!!  I hope he never loses that confidence.  He can be so sweet sometimes......

Oh and he can hold court like it is his job....age is just a number ladies :)

And that is what is going on with us.  We, like everyone else in the world, have been planning our nights around watching the Olympics!  I just love everything about them, I watch them even if I don't know ANYTHING about the event ie: kayaking....

Ok I have got to get to work, so have a great day :)