Bota Box

Bota Box Chardonnay. A single girl's new best friend. Have one, or two, or three glasses or the whole box. It is totally up to me and keeps fresh for weeks. Plus you don't even need a corkscrew.

It truly is a great glass of wine. Clean, crisp, not full of oak or butter. Just a little bit of pineapple, with some citrus and a hint of vanilla.

In other words, a nice glass of white wine to enjoy while learning to live, laugh and love again.

Standing Dinner Reservations

So a key to being able to learn to live, laugh and love again is having something to look forward to. Even though I have great long term goals and dreams, it is the short term that matters the most right now.

I have these two wonderful friends who have set a standing dinner reservation with me. Every 1st Monday of the month, the three of us have dinner together.

For the most part that dinner has been at the same place and time each month, but not always. Now granted this is the first month we ate someplace new, but we did.

I look forward to these dinners together. The conversation is always great, the food good and usually the wine is splendid. But tonight it was burgers and beer. But it is all the same. It is all about the fellowship.

So cheers to my 2 great friends. I look forward to many more dinners on the 1st Monday.

Retail Therapy

A little bit of retail therapy is a great way to spend a cold and rainy Saturday afternoon. It is also a lot cheaper then one of my regular therapy sessions, thanks to some great sales that I found today at the outlets.

I scored some cute clogs at Clark's for 1/2 off and several articles of clothing at The Loft at deep discounts as well. One of my favs is a $40 sweater for $9.99.

But shhhhh.....don't tell my therapist that she was replaced today with a little road trip to Mebane.

However, I wasn't too impressed with the McDonald's smoothie I got for the drive home. Should have just gotten a milkshake, but I was trying to be healthy.

Not a bad day for little living.

Tonight I Laughed

I was fixing dinner tonight and something happened to make me laugh.

When I got home from work tonight, I took out some chicken breasts, made a marinade (Thanks Adele for the recipe - Lemon Basil Chicken), and then while the chicken soaked, I went for a walk. It was such a lovely evening tonight. Temps in the 60's, slight breeze, more fresh air.

When I got home from my walk, I turned the chicken, checked my email, prepared the side dish and then put the chicken in the oven.

However, when I opened the oven to check on the chicken, my smoke detector went off.

I promised I didn't burn the chicken. I have no idea why the smoke detector went off. There wasn't any smoke. However the oven was set on broil so maybe it was too hot. Who knows, but the chicken had to stay a little longer in the oven, so I put it back in. When I went to take it out of the oven again, the smoke detector went off again. All I could do now was laugh.

So I stood in my kitchen and laughed. The cats scattered and hid under the bed, but I just stood there and laughed. I then went and fanned the nearest detector and it stopped.

Dinner was good. Quite moist and juicy. And I laughed. Not bad for a Wednesday evening.

Tuesday Night In

Therapy session, pizza, big glass of red wine (maybe two), over-sized sweatshirt, and UNC basketball. Just another Tuesday night in learning to live, laugh and love again.