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Is it Friday yet?

Had a very nice weekend. Hubby surprised me with a matinee showing of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows pt 2 on Friday. We were in such a movie mood we grabbed tickets for Captain America: the First Avenger. Both movies were great. I did cry during Harry Potter and did a lot of cheering during Captain America. Saturday we seriously slept in and went to Shari's for lunch. Had their Spinach Cobb salad for lunch, very yummy. Puttered about the house and baked cookies. Friday night I'd whipped up a batch of snickerdoodles and on Saturday adapted a molasses crinkle cookie recipe for gluten free. Came out very yummy. Sunday we drove up to Spokane for a bit of shopping. Had lunch at Dick's, then stopped off at my favorite Asian market and scored two big bottles of white soy sauce, made with rice flour instead of wheat. $2.49 a bottle, so came out WAY cheaper then tamari. I love tamari, but my budget has got to stretch somehow. Hubby was surprised I only bought the 2 bottles

Oh ye Ghodz!

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H/T LawDog NSFW due to language: For LawDog's take on the situation, read here . UPDATE: The officer involved is currently relieved of duty pending invesitgation accordign tot he Canton OH PD.

Lunch today

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Brought in some fish fillets, rice, butter and Penzeys Mural of Flavor: Yum!

MMMMMMM!

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Picked up some baby bok choi last week and made a stir fry for dinner one night: Pork loin, crimini mushrooms, 5 spice, tamari, onion, garlic, roasted sesame oil and rice vinegar. Served over white rice. Yum!

SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!

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I made basic level ProSeller at Zazzle !!! This means I have been doing pretty good. Now I need to work on going up a level and getting Bronze! WEEEEEHHHAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!

New blog

As if I don't have enough of them already LOL! I decided to do a review blog and figured, what the hey! I signed up for Google ads and set them up on that blog. May not make much money from them, but every penny counts and we will see (and that is the last I will say regarding ads on that blog). Not much on it currently, I posted the two latest restaurant reviews there to start and have several product reviews in the works that will post over the next few days. I'm not going to limit myself on what I will review so the subjects (with any luck) will be far ranging. My new blog is JeanC Reviews... and hopefully will be fun.

A good weekend

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Had a good weekend, including the aforementioned restaurant in the previous post. Friday we went shopping down in Lewiston/Clarkston and met up with some friends for a couple hours for drinks and visiting. Earlier on Friday I opened up the shed, hauled out some old computer cases hubby had stored in there so he can get rid of them. Also got out the platform for the AC unit for the bedroom window and got in in place. Then I organized the shed better, now there is room to get some stuff stored on the porch out to the shed. Later on I had the neighbor come help get the AC unit out of the shed and onto the platform. Saturday we headed up to Spokane/CDA for more shopping. Avoided spending more money then we usually do by avoiding several shops where we know we go nuts. Those will be stops on future trips (like when Trader Joe's finally opens in Spokane). Sunday was a sleep in and putter day. Light lunch and then I decided to tackle a project I have been wanting to do for a bit, wh

Grille from Ipanema

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I have just one thing to say...OH...MY...GODDESS!!!! This restaurant opened in Coeur d'Alene recently and we simply had to try it. We got our opportunity on Saturday when we had to drive up to do some shopping. We got there a bit before 3 for a late lunch and there were still a few patrons there, most out on the patio. We opted for sitting inside. Our waiter arrived and asked if we had eaten there before, so he explained how the full Churrasco (pronounced shoo-RAS-koo) experience worked and of course we said yes (why go to a Brazillian steakhouse and not experience it properly). He then took our drink orders (iced tea) and left the red/green discs we would be needing: Green means we wanted more meat and red meant we were not ready for more or we were done. I tended to keep mine very close at hand to flip back to green if I saw a skewer coming with something I wanted LOL! First up tho was a visit to the buffet for salad and side dishes: There were so many choices, b

Had a very good 4th of July weekend

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and a 4 day weekend at that. Puttered about on Friday, worked on getting my pantry cleaned out and in order. Boxed up all the things with gluten in them that I couldn't have and took them to the neighbors. Some stuff is still there since hubby likes it and I don't. Labeled everything I could, put spices and such in baggies into bottles. Found 3 containers of turmeric, so they went into a big bottle and labeled. Had to go out and buy refills for the label maker I was labeling so much LOL!!! At least I know what is in containers now. Next will be the freezers! Did laundry, dishes, cleaned up the living room some and took all the inserts out of the windows. Those need to go out to the shed soon. It is so nice to have light coming in the windows now. Baked chocolate chip coconut gluten free cookies on Saturday. Used a recipe for chocolate chip cookies out of my old Betty Crocker cookbook, added coconut and swapped flours: Came out quite yummy, but I need to tweak the r

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