Ramblings of a Crazy Woman

Penny-ism #4234 - We are watching "Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs" and after seeing the main character eat a huge steak she asked me to make her a steak. I just so happened to have a large piece of carne asada I needed to cook so now Penny, Moses and I are eating steak watching a movie and it's only 11 am.

Blue Apron Dinner #2 was so stinkin' good! Spiced Meatballs with Garlic Toast and Summer Squash Salad. I usually see cooking as a chore but I have to say, they've made it easy and fun and I'm actually looking forward to dinner time! Love using a variety of ingredients. I feel like I'm actually learning how to cook! And the best thing is no waste.

So we drove back down to Anaheim this time with Miss P and we spent our second day at the Disney Expo exploring the first floor. With D23 becoming increasingly busy, like Comic Con in San Diego, we weren't going to kid ourselves and wait hours in line for the various panels. Instead we had fun visiting booths and taking pictures with displays. We got a bunch of freebies, had lunch at The Grilled Cheese Truck, and had fun with cosplayers. Here are a few pictures from day 2 of the convention. As I was leaving the convention on Saturday evening a man in a wheelchair stopped me. He said he had no use for his posters and asked if I would like them. That is when he revealed he had a Star Wars: The Force Awakens and The Jungle Book limited edition posters they had given out in the panel I really wanted to go to that morning. I love posters so his jester was so amazing and made my day! Another bit of Disney Magic!

Had a great first day at D23 yesterday. A lot has changed since we went to our last Disney Fan Convention in 2011. The two main things that changed were the attendance (it wasn't so popular a few years ago) and that baby in my belly has now come out (I was pregnant the last time I went). It was a fun day hanging out with Disney buddies we have meet over the last five years, grabbing lunch with them, buying Disney stuff (Run Disney Shoes, clothes and toys) and checking out all the cool booths. Yesterday was Mommy and Daddy day and today we are taking Penny. Looking forward to another great day!

So after the fun Father's Day tea some friends of ours wanted to check out the tea room too so Miss P and I returned to Lobby Lounge for a second afternoon tea. In a word, the two 3.5 year olds were...crazy! What I learned was when you have one 3.5 year they behave but when you have two it is impossible for them to sit because they like to talk and yell! And lots of running around like banches. It was still fun but I was stressed out with other people giving me the evil eye. Miss P asked where the chocolate was. Guess she has a good memory but unfortunately, the tower of chocolate is only on Sundays.

I'll admit it, I am not a very good cook. I am not a very bad one either. I just make the same stuff over and over and it bores me. A few friends have tried a new service where they send you the ingredients for meals and then you cook them. The service is called Blue Apron and I tried my first meal tonight. Not only did I enjoy cooking the meal and it was easy but it tasted pretty good too. Brian agreed. I am looking forward to cooking the other three meals that they sent!

Somehow, someway, I managed to wake up to my 40th birthday. I know, I know, many people say 40 is just a number but it means old. Only 10 more years until 50. 20 years to 60. I think I may be having a mid-life crisis which started when a high number of people at malls started offering me facial cremes for my...wait for it... wrinkles. With each offer, they were clearly insinuating that I had a ton of lines and that I was OLD. It wasn't just one person but several and if several people offer you facial creme for lines...you must be old! I couldn't go to any mall in Southern California without someone mentioning my wrinkles. WTH! Now I am obsessed with my face. I bought face cream but it made my face break out. I bought eye cream and after applying once my eyes blew up like the State Puff Marshmallow Man, apparently I am allergic to eye creme. What am I to do with my wrinkly face? Years of not caring about stupid eye creme have now backfired on me! Now I look at my face an...

On the actual day of my birth I woke up to find myself in San Diego. We hopped in the car and headed to Coronado Island for the day. I was in Maui last year so it is only fitting that I would be on another island for my birthday. We grabbed breakfast at Cafe 1134. Just had some breakfast sandwiches and ice tea. Afterward we walked up and down main street. Got some candy for Penny at the Candy shop and a little piece of Coronado Island Crunch. We checked out the local playground which was pretty cool. Miss P had fun playing on all the equipment and swinging. Then we walked back through town and made it to The Coronado Hotel. I would have liked to stay there but it is a large tourist trap and it was booked not to mention totally expensive. So we took up residence on their beach instead. Penny had fun going in the water and making sand castles with dad. I took her for a walk on the beach and we collected seashells. After several hours in the sun we walked around the property an...

About a week before my birthday hubby asks me if I want to go away for my birthday. We went back and forth on a few locations before San Diego was selected. I haven't been to San Diego in years but I sort of felt like i had done it before because I had been a few times. But I agreed and hubby booked a hotel in downtown San Diego at The Westgate Hotel. A few days before the trip I did some research because I did not want to go to the same places I had been before. After hubs got out of work on Friday night he came home to a packed car. I had already taken Moses to boarding for the weekend (tear, tear) and we were ready to go once he got home. We managed to evade the 5 and took other freeways down. We arrived a bit after 10pm and got checked in. Miss P immediately liked our room and began jumping on the king sized bed. The room was big and elegant and had a view of the city. Hubby left to grab some food and Miss P and I checked out our surroundings aka we found the remote and t...