I will try that one next time. We liked the stone. It's funny - my husband wanted one years ago and got one. Then it sat for years because we didn't know how to use it - we got it before the internet was a place you could look for help and then I never thought to look it up. Seemed weird to me anyway plus we didn't make homemade pizza so I didn't see a need to put frozen pizza on it. Anyway I think I FINALLY got rid of it just this year! LOL One of those decluttering-bites-you-in-the-butt things. I bought one from Walmart for $10 yesterday. I'd like a pizza peel too but of course Walmart didn't have one because it's not really an everyday item. I'll look in a cooking store for one next time I go to a real mall. Or ask for one for Christmas since my MIL shops all over the place. We used a wooden cutting board last night for a peel and that was okay but bulky. The recipe I used was the same ingredients but different proportions. I totally burnt the first pizza - blackened the cheese - but the crust wasn't black so I scraped off the cheese, put new sauce and cheese on and broiled it to melt the cheese. The funny part was I liked that one better than the second one we made. So now what do I need to do - go thru a 2-step process of blackening and removing the first set of toppings on each one? :-)
Dh and kids and extra kids (Scottie and Jesse) all just left for Halloween Days at Camp Tuckahoe. Annual Scout event. Our new pack doesn't participate in it but you can go as an individual too so Scott and my sister are going. He said he's actually looking forward to going with no leadership responsibilities. He said "yay we're going alone" and I was like, uh what about my sister? I mean, she's difficult to deal with in her flakiness and non-parenting methods but he said I don't care, that's family so I don't have to worry as much about them. So that is nice he wasn't rolling his eyes about dealing with my sister. Altho I would be. I emailed my other sister to see if she wanted to do something just the two of us tonight but her husband's recovering from knee surgery and she doesn't think he can handle the girls alone. Which he probably could since one is almost 7 and one almost 5 so they don't need "chasing" anymore and are old enough to bring him stuff and are well-behaved. But I didn't push it because firstly I'm not like that and secondly I'm not sure if I really want to go out anyway. I'm not exactly in a peppy mood lately. I also would probably get annoyed with her - we get along very well but she has this awful habit of talking over me. My other sister does it too. So do both my parents - notice a trend! I used to do it a lot more but my MIL broke me of it by being very in-my-face about it years ago. I still do it to her sometimes because her stories drone on and on and so do Scott's brother's - if you don't interrupt them you are a captive audience for 20 minutes of nonstop talking with no break. But with my sisters and parents, it feels awful to try to say something and have someone just trample right over it so even though it was hurful at the time when my MIL told me to cut it out, I'm glad she did. My sisters don't realize they do it, I can tell, but I don't want to be hurtful the same way and make them feel bad the way I did so I just talk right back over them and it's a terrible way to have a conversation! Both of us talking over each other, getting louder and louder. I enjoy being with Mary but I'm not sure I'm in the mood to hear about all these people I don't know and be talked over tonight. She's the social butterfly of the family and tells me about all these people involved in her life - unlike us she has people coming over to her house and she's visiting constantly and her husband's family are all involved in their lives so it's a lot of people and I'm not in the mood to hear about people's problems or things going on in their lives when I barely know the people! Boy am I losing it today, huh? I'm in the kind of mood where it's not bad but I can't imagine enjoying myself out with someone - however that's probably the kind of mood where it would do me good to go out. I'd be a big party pooper though, I bet. It would be nice to be with Mary without Sarah along since Mary gets along really well with both of us but Sarah and I are like oil and water so I end up saying something bitchy that I shouldn't. I am so unlikeable! At least I know it - argh.
I definitely need to clean up the house. I've been doing dishes all morning between getting the kids ready to go and feeding them. I wrecked the kitchen last night making pizza dough and then pie crust to make little chocolate chip pies that didn't turn out so well. The kids liked then and Scott liked his but I thought they were bland. And way too much trouble to make again - I'm just really bad at rolling out dough properly. I was hoping to make them at the church one night with my Scouts but I'm just not adept enough at that kind of baking to be able to handle 11 little boys all trying to cut out dough and make little chocolate chip pocket pies! I can't believe how many big dishes I went through last night but I'm nearing the end of the pile.
Hope you get some things done on the house this weekend Sara. You are like me with having two personalities - I go back and forth between cutting off all spending but then wanting to get things done. I would hold back on the furniture but definitely spend the money on painting. You will never get another time to paint like this. I'd also spend the money on the outlet and switch covers - you don't have to buy nice special ones - the 88 cent ones are fine and you can replace them later if you want to. Are the switches and outlets nasty too? Those are harder to replace but still somewhat cheap - less than $2 each here.
Oh and I knew you weren't settled in. Here when we go to the office to sign all the paperwork on a house it's called "settling." Do they call it that there? I wasn't sure - that's why I said "closing" too. I must have missed where you went to settlement - unless you did it last weekend. I've never heard of a settlement on a weekend so I probably didn't realize that's what you meant when you did your walk-thru. I thought you walked thru and were doing the paperwork later during the week.
My stomach is wrecked lately. I was up in the middle of the night with stomach rebellion from eating mint ice cream right before bed. Too much of it. Mint messes with me so I can't lie down and try to sleep after eating a lot of it.
Oh that reminds me - I am thinking of trying a dairy free diet. I am thinking that when I went low carb and wheat free last year and felt so great that maybe it wasn't the wheat or carbs. I read something in a magazine where if you have a dairy allergy (not lactose intolerance - that's totally different - that's a digestion thing where you can't digest the sugars in milk) it means your immune system reacts to the proteins in milk and can cause sinus issues, migraines, puffiness, sagging jaw, fatigue, joint paint, arthritis, perimenopause symptoms and depression. I'm not a big milk drinker - if I'm dieting and milk is allowed I will drink it because I really do like milk but on a regular basis I don't think to drink it. And it has carbs so when I did low carb, I drank no milk and ate no yogurt. I also ate no baked goods and it turns out that most baked goods have dairy in them. Also most candy which I also didn't eat. But I also didn't eat the no-carb dairy products because I'm not a cheese or sour cream eater and I don't regularly butter anything but bread or potatoes which I couldn't have. So mayyybbeee I thought the lack of carbs was doing something - I suspected I had an allergy to a specific carb but not sure which one. But in reality maybe cutting out all that stuff inadvertently cut out the dairy and that's why I felt so much better?
It would be hard to cut out dairy as I'm looking around on the web and seeing that it's in so much (possibly even in diet pepsi as part of the caramel coloring process) but it would be much easier to cut out dairy than to cut out all carbs like I did before. I may still be allergic to sugar and wheat as I suspected but it's possible that my problem is dairy and I could still eat wheat. And I could definitely eat fruit, potatoes, and corn which I gave up. If I could feel as good as I did before but be able to eat potatoes and corn with my grilled chicken instead of just salad and be able to eat fruit when I want, that would be awesome! I don't know if I'd lose weight but at this point my joints are so bad and my headaches are so bad that it would be wonderful to fix that without going back to low carb. Low carb gave me so few options and I had this weak feeling, too, no matter how much I ate. I hated the weak feeling but figured the energy and lack of headaches outweighed the weakness.
Do you know of anyone who is dairy free? Not lactose free - that's different. Braeden doesn't eat lactose - I mean dairy free. I think it's called "casein" free. I'm a little overwhelmed at starting it. I could just cut out bread and stuff but I would really like to first try to keep the bread but without casein in it just to see if it's the dairy. Like an experiment. If I go back to eating in a similar way to the way I ate before I still wouldn't know if it's the dairy or not. Usually when you try to target a food allergy you give up everything and slowly add back in but I'd prefer to do it in reverse and just remove the one I suspect. If that gets rid of my headaches and joint pain and fatigue and helps my depression it would be amazing.
Sorry to ramble. I need to go shower and finish my kitchen. Did you clean that turkey pan yet?? :-) When you said you hadn't cleaned it my first thought was "wow she actually made the turkey" because I would have been too lazy to even do that. So forget about leaving the pan so long and focus on how you made a turkey dinner! :-)
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