Only 8 more to Go! And 8 Soup Recipes!

You guys, by Friday at 5:00 PM. I'll be 80% done with radiation and I will have a literal handful of treatments left!

Today being only Wednesday, I have 8 left and completely coincidentally an e-mail from Williams-Sonoma popped into my inbox sharing 8 awesome soup recipes.  If I was a food blogger who made money from blogging about soup, I might try to make a recipe a day for the next 8 days.  However, I am not and also--who would eat that much soup.  Additionally, not having a giant freezer prevents me from making a soup a day and freezing it.  Finally, that's too much of a cooking commitment!

These are the super comfy and soft Aldi Christmas leggings. They are the best, they are like velour.

One of the soups does look amazing and I have everything except white wine and Gruyere cheese on hand to make that soup.  The name says it all, Onion Soup with Bacon, Winter Herbs and Guyere Cheese!  Again, coincidentally, the two needed ingredients are available for a low cost at Aldi, where I want to go today anyway and get those $7.99 Valentine's Day-themed fleece leggings.

Here are the super comfy and soft Aldi Christmas leggings. They are the best; they are like velour.

The stars are aligning for me to make this soup.  I'm sure it is rich in fat and calories, but also it's cold outside and life is too short not to try a decadent meal once in a while!

I feel at this point I have done a great job talking myself into making the soup.  While I don't have time today. I will have time  tomorrow.  I already have another freezer meal defrosting to whip up tonight. It's a stir fry like the picture below except for variety I'm adding rice instead of noodles tonight.

Keep your fingers crossed that Aldi has some leggings left by the time I get there tonight! Yes this is the highlight of my week, as you can tell. 

Happy Wednesday! - the last Wednesday of January 2020!  Do something nice for yourself!

Committing to writing weekly and a new adventure

I have goals for this year. One of which is to blog twice a week.  I have not managed to achieve this goal as of yet, but the time is now!  I'm naming it and claiming it and all that jazz.  Here is the first of many 2018 post from me to you.

So to begin, how have you been?  Well I hope.  Over at my house we have been continuing to duck and weave against that flu going around. May we continue to avoid it and may it be gone and Spring arrive ASAP.

In the big news to start the year category, I retired from Tastefully Simple  after 15 years.  I am very excited to enjoy only having one job (in addition to the raising of the teens and so on and so forth). One of the ways, I am enjoying my free time is to work on writing more.  Clearly not here on my blog thus far, as I've been quite lax in posting.  Anyway I'm proud to say I am now a contributor for Project Fandom !  It's a great website and podcast devoted to all things entertainment.  My first assignment was a book review for the book The Beauty by Aliya Whiteley. You can read my review here. 

Next month I start my first TV series review for the website, and yes I'm nervous about that, a reoccurring six episode assignment. This is as close to my childhood dream of being a newspaper reporter coming true.  I'm reporting weekly on a TV show, you see a parallel right?  Close enough to call it a dream come true?  I say yes!  Make sure to follow, like and share Project Fandom on your social media,. As I  said it's a great place to keep up on all your favorite movies, comics, TV shows and book--and find new favorites as well.

That's what is new with me. Next week I will have more new with me news.  So stay tuned! In the meantime, Williams-Sonoma  sent me an email recipe, as they do daily, and I was pleasantly surprised to find I have everything on hand to make it for dinner. It's a sheet pan recipe and it looks delicious.  You can see it here: Mexican Stuffed Peppers with Chipotle Sweet Potatoes.  Looks good, right?  If you are a Pinterest user, you can find it on my "Sheet Pan Recipes" board and my name is Victoria7401 if you want to follow me.

Thanks for reading!  Have a great day!