My life in 30 Days

My life in 30 days, day 22

My life in 30 days, day 22 = a picture of  something you wish you were better at.

I wish I was better at cycling.

I really try to like it and I try to do my best but it just doesn’t work out so well. I was recently in a triathlon and I would have done much better if I had better biking skills! My neighbor let me use his legit bike after the triathlon. You know, the kind where you clip your shoes in. Yeah… I toppled. A lot. It made me mad. But I eventually got used to it. I still wish I was better!!

If I knew more I would be more confident about becoming a cycling instructor. I am seriosuly considering it because I love spin class, so why not teach it? Then I remember… I know nothing about bikes!

Eventually I will take the risk and get certified though 🙂 Either that or become an aerobics instructor, yoga teacher, aqua aerobics instructor, or personal trainer. Very exciting!! Until then, I will dream about being better at biking 😉

After my triathlon in July 2010! You know, after everyone passed me on their bikes ..!)

Okay time for a lil food post!

What have I been up to in the kitchen?

I made a cheese a veggie wrap with tomato soup just the other day 🙂

Here are some of the contents of the wrap:

Eggplant, mushrooms, tomatoes, onion, peas, green beans, green peppers, and zucchini, spinach, and finally my favorite: CHEESE! (mozzarella to be precise)

All grilled up. Then in my belly in like 5 seconds flat. ❤ It was nice and chewy with half cooked veggies but crispy at the same time because it was grilled. My favorite part is when a big string of cheese hangs from my mouth to the wrap. (Can you tell I ❤ cheese?!)

Friday night I decided to be classic and wake up early to make my grandmothers meatball recipe! With chunky tomato sauce and lots of italian spices. (Such as oregano and basil… also crushed red pepper flakes for some zing!)

Because the tomato sauce cooked ALL day long, the natural sweetness of the tomatoes came out and made it very yummy. The spices balanced out the sweetness so that it wasn’t TOO sweet. It was nice to have chunks of mushroom, tomato, and onion in with the sauce for texture.

Here are the meatballs:

A very plain recipe. 1lb or ground meat (your choice-pork, veal, chicken, beef, turkey, or a combo) with 1/4 cup of bread crumbs, 1Tbs of flour, 1tsp of garlic salt, an one small onion chopped finely. Bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes! (Makes about 12-15 meat balls depending on the size you prefer).

The dinner was paired with spaghetti and of course a salad. Like I said, classic! Classic food is typically simple and simple is always good. (Mostly?!) The meat balls were so simple that I could actually taste meat and a hint of garlic, very soft as well.

It was a nice Friday night dinner. Tonight I am going to a RV show with my boy and his dad, should be interesting!!

Have a nice Saturday!

What do you wish you were better at?

 

My life in 30 days, day 21

My life in 30 days, day 21 = A picture of something you wish you could forget

Something I wish I could forget: In late July 2010 my sister and I headed to church camp for one week. By the second morning (think 4 a.m.), Hannah woke me up and said the right side of her tummy hurt.

This worried me.

She always sleeps through the night, like a rock. The whole day she was crying that her stomach hurt and would hardly eat. This also worried me because he has a voracious appetite. I will admit, I love medical stuff–I watch surgery videos on YouTube and look at diagrams of how the body works. I thought it was her appendix or her first menstrual cycle.

My parents decided to pick us up from camp to take Hannah to the doctor and she wanted me by her side (sisterly love!). The doctor sent us straight to the emergency room.

She was admitted to the emergency room at midnight, and by 4:00 a.m. she was in the recovery room.

Her appendix almost burst so it had to be removed ASAP.

Recovery–I hated seeing her like this.

She hated the liquid diet. Except the ice cream.

She still has scars to this day. They are bright purple. I thought Hannah would be self-conscious of them but she was quite excited to show them off at her birthday pool party two weeks later, though she wasn’t allowed to swim because of her stitches.

But she gradually got better as she stayed in the hospital a few days.

Ice cream! I may or may not have ate half of her food while in the hospital.

She walked a little bit but it really wore her out and hurt her sore belly.

So she rested her hospital socked feet, haha. She loved those socks!

Jimmy came to visit a few times as well.

A few days in the hospital = perfect opportunity to color.

Hannah’s favorite stuffed bear, Blueberry, was able to go into surgery with her! They even put a hospital label and bandaid on his belly.

Hannah is very loved. She received lots of gifts and cards and they really helped!

It felt like forever until she was allowed to go home and our whole family couldn’t wait! I started to get to know the cafeteria ladies too, ha.

First thing we did when we got home? We took a shower. Together. Poor thing needed help.

We played board games and even went shopping!

I wish I could forget being so afraid for my sister. What if her appendix had burst and she had died? What would my life be like without her? I wish I could forget those thoughts.

At the same time I am almost glad this happened. I became even closer with one of my best friends, my sister 🙂

What do you wish you could forget?