Well finally

Ok I have leftovers for the next week or month if I really wanted to after yesterday. That is fine by me. Today is one of them days that I will get out of the can for about 35 min for the bank unless the pet store is open today. I seen a battered Quaker Parrot there on Saturday and will take the bird in. I will have to have 2 cages for awhile to keep the kids apart untill they get use to eachother and a few other tricks up my sleeve to make both happy in the same cage when the time comes. Anyway today is an off beat day somewhat and will keep the T.V. on untill about 10 am today since I have some running to do this morning. Normally when I am home most things are off at 7 am except the monster on my desk. Then even that goes off by 830-9 am also. Ok folks have fun and play hard.

Now to start in on cleaning

Last night I was exsausted after going all day.  I left the dishes where they all sat lastnight to get them all today of course.  So the kitchen is torn up majorly.  I will also start cooking the leftovers today once again.  Pluss there are turkey sandwiches also thru the week.  I will get the sandwich maker cleaned up today for Monday of course.  The funny part is that I can reheat some things with that also along to make the sandwiches of course.  Now to be very cheap for the day to get thru all of what I have to do.  Normally I start the laundery on Fridays anyway and since yesterday was a major holiday I diden't bother to touch what I had.  Yesterday nobody complained about squat that I cooked at all.  Even the pies flew off the table.  So now in what I have left will last me untill at least Thursday.  And no soup during the week niether once again.  I also went thru a pile of hand towles in 2 days and the basket for the dirty ones will tell on me as always.  Some times I am a huge slob in the kitchen while I am cooking.  Alot of what I will be doing today is to get most of the house work done on the cheap here anyway.  And it takes time to do everything here.  With everything going here I may not even bother to get out of the can today.  I am safer that way.  So now to get alot of it started around here and to get a few other things done also and I should be good by noon except with the laundery of course.  That is the bad part of the whole thing here.  Anyway I better get the move on here to get started.  Have fun and play hard.

Looks like a bomb still went off

Now I realize my kitchen is still small here in the can.  When I can start tripping over things in the kitchen becuase I havent moved anything hardly at all.  And was waiting on the Hippy to help just enough to get the boxes of stuff out of the kitchen and put someplace else diden't happen niether for this morning.  So I guess I am stuck doing it all for this week once again.  Between the cooking and the cleaning for this week I do not know where to start at all around the can.  Part of my problem is that I need a clean kitchen to start dinner for the weekend and big huge meals.  What is it with men sometimes on when they see you start in on something and say well I was about ready to do that.  Well I have been trying to get really cheap in the kitchen anyway and some folks do not help me on that part at all.  I just don't like it when someone else starts cleaning anyway in the kitchen for me.  So I do alot on my own anyway but, to have some help would be nice every so often.  Pluss I caught the one of the cooking shows on planet green.  How to utilize a small kitchen and save water and power.  I always have some kind of stock in the kitchen anyway and it helps to cook more than you can even think about.  I can say that I have done the double duty in my kitchen for so long that it doesen't even bother me anymore on how I cook.  This is why I still like my rice cooker and a few other appliances for my kitchen.  The poor rice cooker has done tripple duty since I have got it.  Between the rice and heating leftovers also and both combined it works great.  Now since I am alone for 5 days a week I eat alot of soups and rice in the winter time.  And now with the sandwich maker I can have soup and sandwiches without a problem also.  With the sandwich maker I can cook chicken chop it up and a few other stuff with it and I have a hot sandwich in no time flat.  That is the fun part going after the left overs in my place.  You never know what combination that you can come up with for anything.  Well I grew up on leftovers anyway and some folks haven't.  With the leftovers in my house it saves me from cooking all week while I am at it.  That is why some folks hollar at me is becuase I do think ahead most times.  Like I care of what they think of me not pulling form both freezers during the week anyway.  As long as I cook for the Hippy who cares what I eat during the week.  Now alot of times all I do is cook enough rice for a meal and reheat the leftovers in the rice cooker.  And 20 min later I have a full meal without a problem.  Not alot of folks like leftovers and shame on them at this point in time.  With groceries being high as they are may as well eat leftovers if there is any left from dinner.  Now I know sauce is better the next day instead of the first day that it was on the table.  In my place I will cook the sauce and freeze alot of it for the coming weeks and months.  Just like chili also it works for my place.  There are alot of leftover ideas.  And new ways to make the leftovers the next night that the other have wont have a clue unless they all look in the fridge.  Now the Hippy that is here with me he just dosen't care what I do with the leftovers at all.  There are times when we both say geez not chicken again.  Ok folks have fun and play hard today housework is calling me again.

Leftover madness

I had leftovers on Monday.  They are and were better than when I had cooked them on Saturday and Sunday.  Since there is only me myself and I here at least 5 days a week I do not cook as big as I would with the Hippy here.  I just do not like cooking for one anyway it is way hard to plan that unless it's finger food or soups and or leftovers from the weekend.  The Electrition that I know up here refuses to eat leftovers period.  Gee my Ex-Husband dident mind them at all when I would make enough for a couple of days.  Then again the Ex diden't try to act rich niether at all.  So yes in some ways I will stick up for him in others I just can not.  Some leftovers are just plain out better anyway the next day.  I know homemade chilli,sauces, and soups are always better.  Along with Crock Pot roasts.  It is one of them things that you just cant beat up on leftovers.  Pluss you can doctor up leftovers also.  So be creative and get a couple of meals out of one cooking or pull it back to the freezer for another meal down the road.  I have been known to pull back 2 days worth of meals off of one meal and when I would get one of them weeks of just pure crazyness I knew I had a couple of meals that I could pop out of a container and put it in a pan and into the oven and 20 min later there was a meal for 2.  Now what my Nieces Mom In Law does is what ever is left over she wraps up the food in singal servings and there's a ready meal for her or a guest in her house.  SO eather way you do the leftovers jazz them up or eat them like they are.  I have been known to make chicken salad from a whole bird that was cooked on Saturday or Sunday and eat it on tortella shells or homemade bread.  Then there is always other ways to do chicken also that is left over.  Ok folks have fun and play even harder.

Well the news then back off

The news is on and then back off with the T.V. again.  Dinner is done it was easy tonight reheated leftovers.  Gotta love casseroles and leftover homemade pizza.  So eather way it is food for part of the time this week at least.  I do cook for the third heard in my can.  The army or any other branch of service would be happy with me.  I haven't made it for the walk yet and that is for tomarrow becuase of laundery on the line still.  That and shock collars for the neighbors kids or the adults who raised them so far.  Any way at least it was quiet during the school hours again today.  First week of school and some still need the truant officer to make them go to school.  Oh well I foresee summer school of one child again this year.  Anyway it was another cheap day in my household and a quiet one again with just myself here as always on a Monday now.  So I got alot done in the house without everything going as normal.  Now to go fold some of the laundery That I havent got to this weekend and listen to the news.  Have fun and play harder.

Now to start for this up coming week.

I am already thinking for this up coming week on the list of to do's.  Well it will not be so bad when I get started on the house work for the week.  It is just getting motivated to do it all.  I will pick a spot and go from there I am good for something like that.  My first goal out of the week is to be as cheap as possible then think of ways to be cheap while cleaning also.  As my Mom use to say think of ways to do it easier and as long as the end result was what she wanted.  Well my moto is think of ways of doing it cheaper and as long as the end results are good who cares.  I am always thinking of ways to streach the dollar as much as possible around here in the can anyway that some pople would start laughing at me in the ways I have done it all.  Like hanging laundery out side on the lines.  That saves me at least 30 dollars a month from the dryer not running at all.  I cut the dryer sheets in half for when its crummy outside in the Winter months.  It works for my household and makes people wander what else I do around here that is cheap.  I always use less than called for in laundery deturgant, dish soap, and several other things.  As i say I like getting the best bang for the buck around here.  Now for the zipper bags I reuse some of them as normal.  When there is raw meat in them I do not like to reuse them at all.  Now I do like to use window fans as much as possible around here untill it gets to bad in the place.  The tin can absorbs heat like nothing in the summer time.  So alot of the times when the sun is on one side of the can I block it off in the summer time so the place doesent heat up as bad.  Then the shaded side gets the fan going to bring in the cool air.  Now in the winter it depends on what mood I am in.   I will keep the windows blocked for the most part.  Or I open the side that the sun is coming thru.  Now with some people I know here in the park they put up the flimsy curtins and wander why the place is way to cold or hot.  Well I have sheets and blankets up at the windows to keep the warm in or out.  I do know that we are in for it here in the northern end of the states this year.  So we will all see what happends for the winter months.  And dinner was early for today only becuase the Hippy will be out of here very early in the morning tomarrow.  An old amish recipie that was doctored up from the get go today.  I left out the cheddar cheese soup and added one cream of chicken then colby jack cheese instead.  It was good but way rich if you are not use to it.  And it went great with the homemade bread also.  Now I kind of spoil myself with the homemade bread with being alone during the week.  Now again this week I will be alone for dinner again so I have noodles and rice pluss the left overs from the past 2 days.  It will depend on what mood I am in to what is for dinner while I am alone for the week.  I will save money in the meat department also.  So it will save on the budget for the grocery store also.  So yes I am streaching the food dollars out as much as possible this time around.  With Walmart and the noodle soup it works for me for 3 dollars for 2 weeks in dinners pluss leftovers also.  Now I know alot of people do not like leftovers in the household.  With me I am totally fine with it all.  SOme leftovers are better the next day anyway.  And with football season starting up again leftovers are my best friends anyway while I watch.  Have fun everyone and play even harder.