GoOoOod mail day, so good that it led to a trip to the walk-in clinic...

I'm a Fiskateer!! #3715

Every Fiskateer is sent a pair of scissors with their number etched on the blade, very exciting, I know!! And the scissors are green and orange, one of my fave color combos! There was orange paper confetti in the box to make it extra fun and a green canvas bag just for storing my special scissors - will I ever use them? That is the BIG question, I think I might just want to save them for looks - any Fiskateers reading my lil blog? Do you use yours or just leave them for eye candy???

The box had a cute mailing label with my name/address/ Fiskateer # and I wanted to make sure to keep it, even though to get the box open, I had to cut the label right in half. Well, that would just NOT do. I grab my searated tomato knife that's drying on the towel and proceed to slice through the box to claim my prize and keep the label all in one piece. And wouldn't you know, me being SO (NOT) graceful, I sliced my left pointy finger in the process. Good news, it wasn't that long of a cut. Bad news, it was deep enough that I thought I should go have a professional look at it. Good news, while having my throbbing, bleeding finger wrapped tight in a paper towel, I made sure to take pictures of my Fiskateer delights for you to see (and for me to scrapbook one day!):

So went to a brand new walk-in clinic, I filled out a few papers (they were very thoughtful to my predicament) and the whisked me back to a doctor. He gave me two choices, two stitches with lots of pain to get the finger numb or some steri-strips to close it up without pain. DUH, give me option number 2! What he failed to mention was that he was going to thoroughly clean out the wound which hurt like a son-of-a-gun, yeeeeeoooow, but I was tough (didn't want to cry or scream since Alex was sitting there in the room and it would have scared him off of doctor's offices for good!). Oh and they gave me a tetnis (sp?) shot since there was a metal object involved and I have no idea how long it's been since I've had one, that shot was a breeze, barely felt it at all, until the next day and the day after that and probably the next day too - it is sore around the shot sight. Man, I'm tough!

Okay, three blogs for one night is making my eyes cross and probably more than you wanted to learn about me anyhow!

Nighty-night!

New adventure for Alex...

We went to a children's fair here in Lakeville and Alex actually let them paint his face!

This is huge for Alex, just sitting long enough to let them do it is big, but him sitting down, asking for Spiderman and letting the guy paint on his face, HUGE ! He was very proud of his spider and enjoyed showing everyone!

While we were there, he toured a fire truck and loved trying on the fireman's hat, even though it weighed a ton!

Thanks for letting this mommy brag~

My life right now...

Well, we've become dandilioin farmers! This is our yard:

Yikes, I know, but TruGreen is coming out this week to spray, so we'll see!

Here is the flower bed that only contains three hostas, so on my mind is what to put here?

I'd love a rose bush, but it doesn't get enough sun. So for now, it'll just stay bare.

I'm such a sucker for flip flops, Loooooove them and here is my newest addition to my collection:

I got them at a little specialty store and they fly like hotcakes there, but I've been on the wait list for this style and just adore them!

I've been shopping around town this last week to decorate our office since we now have all of our furniture in there. I'm not having much luck finding anything to put in the shelves of the hutch, so I'll maybe just stick some pictures in there (everything I've brought home has been too tall). I did get some candles for the sconces, but not sure if I like them - what do you think (I'm thinking it needs something taller, so that's why the price tags are still on the candles)?

I got that long throw pillow for $7 at Marshalls!!! Love the lil bit of color that it adds.

Speaking of color, here's our dining room and on the table, that's the swatch of color we chose - Ralph Lauren's Tapestry Green. I wanted a long centerpiece, but not sure if I'm loving this, it reminds me of something that you'd see at the front alter of the church - am I just being too picky??

Other news in my life right now is that I am back on South Beach Diet, started it Monday and doing great (I've even walked a couple of days when it hasn't been too cold!):

We're eating tons of veggies and I just love using lots of fresh herbs, lime juice, EVOO and different vinegars on everything!

So this is my new fave snack - I actually started eating it before I started SB, but remembered that I could still eat it on the diet, so that helped push me along to getting back into action. It's marinated Edamame:

1 bag of frozen, still in the shell edamame (soy beans)

2 T low sodium soy sauce

1 T sesame seed oil

1 t sea salt

1 t minced garlic

Mix sauce together, toss frozen edamame in sauce, stirring to coat, cover with lid, set on counter to defrost, shaking the bowl periodically!

So yummy and delish, got the recipe from my Japanese/Hawaiin friend here in MN - we've nicknamed them the Japanese boiled peanut cause all of the yummy seasoning is on the shell, but you only eat the insides!

Thanks for peeking at my life right now~