Weekend Wrap Up: Productive

Hey friends hey!

Let's get right to the weekend!
We were home this weekend with absolutely 0 plans.

0 places to be, 0 obligations, 0 stress.

We sat down Thursday night and jotted down a few items we wanted to accomplish this weekend and I am happy to say we did pretty well crossing those off.

Friday night we cleaned up the house and watched Ted.

Oh my, you guys, I hadn't seen it yet and died just about the whole way through it.

We also got ding dong dashed...TWICE on Friday night.

Who stills does that?!

Saturday we were up and at 'em pretty early (thank you to Floyd's internal clock) and were very productive all day!

We ran some errands and finished cleaning the house.

Then I spent about 2 hours organizing, getting rid of things and cleaning out all over the house.

It felt so good to get everything nice and orderly.

I organized my drawers and closet and was able to take a couple loads to Goodwill and the consignment shop.

Do you guys take stuff to the consignment shop?

I have been taking a lot lately!

I don't make a ton of money but it's some and definitely more than if I take it to Goodwill!

Although, I do (every single time) get slightly offended if they don't take a few of my items.

I'm not sure why but it crawls all over me!
Oh well, those items I just drop off at Goodwill.

In the end, it just feels good to get things out of the house that we aren't wearing or using. 

Saturday afternoon I cut Mister's hair.

 For the first time ever.

And, I have to say, it turned out pretty well.

And by that I mean it looks pretty even and he didn't have to go get it fixed.

Saturday night we had an impromptu wine and pizza party with Katie and Derek.

 We introduced them to our favorite pizza, Jets.

Best delivery pizza and hands down the best ranch in town.

Sunday Floyd let us sleep in a little more and we spent the day doing Sunday stuff. 

For some reason I thought it was a good idea to venture to Costco on a Sunday...terrible idea.

I think everyone in Cincinnati was there.

We rounded the day out with afternoon naps and watching the Golden Globes!

Per Friday's post, I sent out a tweet Friday night that I think Floyd and I need to do a vlog...eeek!

Send us your questions (for me and/or him) and I'll see if I can wiggle some answers out of him. 

Linking up with Sami and Leeann

Recipe Binder Organization

I have a problem.

 I like recipes.

I really like cooking.

And I love eating.

It has been on my list to organize my recipe binder for a long time.

For at least 2 years.

#procrastinator

I began this binder about 4 years ago and have been adding to it ever since.

At point I did organize it into sections.

And then I got lazy and just started shoving print outs, magazine tear outs, and recipe cards in there.

And, as you could imagine, it was a HUGE mess.

This past Saturday I decided to finally sit down and organize it all.

The good, the bad and the ugly.

 I divided all of the my recipes into categories:

-appetizers

-sides

-pasta

-chicken

-beef 

-soup

-treats

-drinks

-party foods/ideas

-floyd

 Once I had the recipes divided out into sections I

3 hole punched them all. I attached the smaller recipes to pieces of paper and 3 hole punched those.

To make the section dividers I used cream colored card stock.

I used silver card stock for the tabs and labeled them with labels from my, beloved, label maker.

I love that pretty lady of a label maker.

 I then started cramming filling up the binder.

 Who spots my helper?

This was Phase I of the Recipe Binder Organization.

I am already planning Phase II of this project.

Phase II will be:

-dividing the recipes into at least 2 binders

-organizing the sections into more detail

i.e. types of desserts and genres of food

But for now, I am happy with the way it is.

And I can't wait to start cooking more recipes from my organized binder!

One day we will talk about my cookbook collection...