Tortilla Roll-ups

my own variation.

1kg tub cream cheese (got mine from costco)
1 can green chilies
1/2 bunch green onion
1T garlic seasoning mix
1/2 cup green olives
1/2 cup grated cheddar cheese

12 tortillas (I used 6 spinach, and 6 sundried tomato)

**after rolling all 12, I had 1cup and a bit of the filling left over.**

Throw all ingredients (except tortillas) in food processor.
Smear on tortillas - thick at the beginning and thin at the end side, when you roll it up it will squish out.
Refrigerate for a few hours so it will set a bit.

Slice and set on a pretty platter.

Enjoy!

Its Sunday.

Normally a day to hang out as a family.

Today though, the Mr is working. So we took all the grass and stuff from yesterday's lawn adventure out to the farm.

Ran the girls through the mud, oh the mud! Wow.

Then my brother showed up, with one of the dogs! She bowled over the girls as excited to see THEM as they were to see HER! She's a Bernese Mountain dog....the size of a small horse (or thereabouts...). All 4 romped for a couple of hours, then she decided to take a dip in the pond. EW. Wet dog!

But now we're home, all fed (I caved and got them McDonalds) and scrubbed down from a trip to the farm.

We've all got pink cheeks - I remembered the bug spray but not the sunscreen 'doh!!!

I saw so many bikes on the road out through Springbank! I want to be out there with them! ARGH! Maybe one day I can get out and ride. In the meantime I think I'm going to go do some work on my bike - the chain needs to be lubed and there's a funky clunking noise I noticed on my last ride.

Maybe I'll wipe the bugs off my helmet too...

Struck by a Smell

On my run last week I smelled a smell. It was one of those moments that threw me back in time to a visit to the Grandparents house. A happy smell, that made me smile. 

I like smells. 

Smells are memories for me. 

Some memories are happy and some are sad. Some make me remember people, and some events. 

Loneliness or Solitude

I cannot decide.

“Language... has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone.” Paul Tillich

I was running this morning thinking to myself about loneliness and solitude.

That quote says it all.

“True friends are like diamonds, precious and rare. False friends are like leaves, found everywhere.”

So far, I've found a few friends in this journey called 'life'

I've always craved a best friend, someone to call in the middle of the night, someone to just have that ...bond....with. I've never had that friend. I did have a socalled best friend once. She nearly destroyed me. So although I do want that again, I'm terrified it will happen again. 

So along I plod. Step by step, day by day, hour by hour. Biding my time until......I don't know. The end I suppose. Which end? I don't know.  

There's something out there, at least thats what I'm told. Do I believe it? maybe, maybe not. 

To the children of today

Stolen from my friend Erin...

I'm not over 40 but it works

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When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were. When they were growing up; what with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning.... Uphill... Barefoot... BOTH ways...yadda, yadda, yadda

And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on my kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it!

But now that I'm over the ripe old age of forty, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today. You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a damn Utopia! And I hate to say it, but you kids today, you don't know how good you've got it!

1) I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have the Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the damn library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalog!!

2) There was no email!! We had to actually write somebody a letter - with a pen! Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox, and it would take like a week to get there! Stamps were 10 cents!

3) Child Protective Services didn't care if our parents beat us. As a matter of fact, the parents of all my friends also had permission to kick our ass! Nowhere was safe!

4) There were no MP3's or Napsters or iTunes! If you wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the record store and shoplift it yourself!

5) Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio, and the DJ would usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up! There were no CD players! We had tape decks in our car. We'd play our favorite tape and "eject" it when finished, and then the tape would come undone rendering it useless. Cause, hey, that's how we rolled, Baby! Dig?

6) We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called, they got a busy signal, that's it!

7) There weren't any freakin' cell phones either. If you left the house, you just didn't make a damn call or receive one. You actually had to be out of touch with your "friends". OH MY GOSH !!! Think of the horror... not being in touch with someone 24/7!!! And then there's TEXTING. Yeah, right. Please! You kids have no idea how annoying you are.

8) And we didn't have fancy Caller ID either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your parents, your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, the collection agent... you just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!

9) We didn't have any fancy PlayStation or Xbox video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like 'Space Invaders' and 'Asteroids'. Your screen guy was a little square! You actually had to use your imagination!!! And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen.. Forever! And you could never win. The game just kept getting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died! Just like LIFE!

10) You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! You were screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off your ass and walk over to the TV to change the channel!!! NO REMOTES!!! Oh, no, what's the world coming to?!?!

11) There was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning. Do you hear what I'm saying? We had to wait ALL WEEK for cartoons.

12) And we didn't have microwaves. If we wanted to heat something up, we had to use the stove! Imagine that!

13) And our parents told us to stay outside and play... all day long. Oh, no, no electronics to soothe and comfort. And if you came back inside... you were doing chores!

And car seats - oh, please! Mom threw you in the back seat and you hung on. If you were lucky, you got the "safety arm" across the chest at the last moment if she had to stop suddenly, and if your head hit the dashboard, well that was your fault for calling "shot gun" in the first place!

See! That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You're spoiled rotten! You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1970 or any time before!

Regards,

The Over 40 Crowd

The Ideal Sunday

ok, not 100% ideal....its snowing again. 

But a family ideal. 

I'm baking...

Mmmm YUM! 

One kid is working on some beading.... 

One is working on her origami, making Easter baskets. 

 

and the third kid....feels icky, so is on the couch narrating Daddy's game

Yup, that is a Sunday in our house. 

The oldest is also working on her landfill project. 

The Menu (April4-10)

Monday - pancake bowls with cinnamon apples, bacon and perogies

Tuesday - Asian meatballs with rice and veggies. I do have some cool soba noodles, might blow caution to the wind and use those.

Wednesday - Baked/fried dijon chicken with pasta and salad

Thursday - Ham with scalloped potatoes

Friday - Fish, I haven't decided which variety yet though (bad me...)

Saturday - Homemade pizza

Sunday - pork roast with potatoes and veggies.


Yum!