Seriously.....why is Chipotle so good?
I ponder this daily...and look forward to every Wednesday night! That's our Chipotle night.
If you haven't had Chipotle yet - STOP READING THIS AND GO GET CHIPOTLE. SERIOUSLY
Anyways....
Chipotle is some frickin fantastic food. It can't be duplicated or replicated (sorry Qdoba). It's a easy to order, no frills attached hunk of goodness all wrapped up in a buritto for those on the go or in a bowl for us slow pokes.
Either way you make out HUGE at Chiptole.
First of all - Freshness! You can't be it.
Secondly - Portion size! Are you kidding me with the bowl's and burritos?
Lastly - Price! It's between 6-7 bucks....and you get a huge portion!
The only bad thing I can say about Chipotle....now shush...cause this is Top Secret!
They add a secret ingredient that makes you ...
Have to go back EVERY WEDNESDAY to get your fix! It's like CRACK! Not that I have ever tried Crack...but....to me it's like CRACK!
I Heart your FACE Chipotle-Creator-Dude-Who's-Now-A-Millioinaire-For-Putting-Yummy-Edible-Crack-In-My-Chipotle-Bowl-Every-Wednesday-Guy!
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Recipe winner!
I am so excited! We had a contest at work today for best "tailgating" food and I won second place! It was $50 bucks that I didn't have yesterday so I am pretty stoked!
Stoked....Stoked....
Wow - haven't used that word in ages!
I made a dessert that's not even a tailgating food! I made Pumpkin Gooey's. I followed a recipe from Paula Dean but I made some minor changes to the recipe.
I used a little more pumpkin then what the recipe calls for...it's hard to find a 15oz can of pumpkin! I used more like 21-22 oz instead. The recipe link is on my side bar.
For this Thanksgiving if you want to try something similar to pumpkin pie...then try this recipe! You will never want to eat regular pumpkin pie again.
And don't be afraid to experiment with recipes!
I make an artichoke dip that is out of this world....and I have totally adapted it as my own!
TTFN!
Stoked....Stoked....
Wow - haven't used that word in ages!
I made a dessert that's not even a tailgating food! I made Pumpkin Gooey's. I followed a recipe from Paula Dean but I made some minor changes to the recipe.
I used a little more pumpkin then what the recipe calls for...it's hard to find a 15oz can of pumpkin! I used more like 21-22 oz instead. The recipe link is on my side bar.
For this Thanksgiving if you want to try something similar to pumpkin pie...then try this recipe! You will never want to eat regular pumpkin pie again.
And don't be afraid to experiment with recipes!
I make an artichoke dip that is out of this world....and I have totally adapted it as my own!
TTFN!
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Awesome Get away
Just got back from the most amazing vaca we've had in a while. Got to spend about 4 days up in the Mountains of Beautiful UTAH! Dang Morman's got one of the best pieces of land on this great earth! We were in a Cabin in the mountains in Duck Creek outside of Cedar City.
If was awesome!
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Things are a Changin'
So last week sucked...really bad.
My "Hidden Cervix, Crouching Uterus" is really starting to Urck me!
Last Wednesday was horrible for me. I can't say my wonderful Fertility Doctor didn't try his hardest, but still can't get ahold of my cervix.
Here I am again....10 feet up in the air, praying to God that my cervix will gently relax, and float down so the Doc can see it, but NO...not my Cervix....
After about 10 minutes Doc lowers the table, has me sit up, looks me in the eye and says "I need to see you in my office".
Yikes! The whole group leave the room and I quickly get dressed....have a brief moment of nausea as I see the trash next to me with all these long over sized q-tips with blood on them....I re-focus and quickly leave the room.
I start walking down the hallway and I immediately start tearing up....I get into the Doc's office and he tells me he's tried everything he can. My cervix is too far up and he can't reach it. I ask if surgery will correct it...he says no...I am praying so hard right now....
He says he can't go through with my IVF cycle right now. (this is where the tears start flowing pretty hard - I am not a crier so this is strange for me)....and he continues....
We would have to go through the Cervix to get the eggs out, if he can't monitor my cervix then it wouldn't be healthy or safe to continue. Then he suggests something....."lose some weight". Well DUH. I have PCOS I can't just lose weight like normally people...I have to work 10 times harder at everything...ARGH....I am over-whelmed....I just want to get out of the office.
He tries to schedule another appointment with the nutritionist.....and I am trying my darndest to hold back these tears....he gives me a big hug....and hurries off to his next patient.....the scheduling girl is taking her sweet old time.....
"Can I call back"...."I really need to get out of here"....she nods at me and I bolt out the door. I get to the truck....start crying hysterically and call hubbie. I call into work and hubbie meets me at home.
Needless to say...Dear Hubbie is super supportive. He's been with me since I was 16. He knows how hard it is for me to be a cry baby. He just holds me and loves on me...and I start feeling a little better.
Now I know what you are probably thinking....."it's okay.....just work really hard and you can lose a few pounds and it will be good for you anyway"...YOU ARE RIGHT. It will be good for me...that is not my problem. I am a planner....and in my mind my plan was going 100% according to what I planned. So this little kink in the road...yeah....not so good with kinks.
But I am trying.....got my appointment with the nutritionist on Friday....I really liked her last time and she's an amazing expert with PCOS and what you should and shouldn't eat. So I am totally excited to meet with her again.
I just feel my clock ticking away.....and I am praying my insurance doesn't change this year...cause my work is paying 100% of all my treatments.....so keep me and hubbie in your prayers!
Thanks for letting me share and vent!
My "Hidden Cervix, Crouching Uterus" is really starting to Urck me!
Last Wednesday was horrible for me. I can't say my wonderful Fertility Doctor didn't try his hardest, but still can't get ahold of my cervix.
Here I am again....10 feet up in the air, praying to God that my cervix will gently relax, and float down so the Doc can see it, but NO...not my Cervix....
After about 10 minutes Doc lowers the table, has me sit up, looks me in the eye and says "I need to see you in my office".
Yikes! The whole group leave the room and I quickly get dressed....have a brief moment of nausea as I see the trash next to me with all these long over sized q-tips with blood on them....I re-focus and quickly leave the room.
I start walking down the hallway and I immediately start tearing up....I get into the Doc's office and he tells me he's tried everything he can. My cervix is too far up and he can't reach it. I ask if surgery will correct it...he says no...I am praying so hard right now....
He says he can't go through with my IVF cycle right now. (this is where the tears start flowing pretty hard - I am not a crier so this is strange for me)....and he continues....
We would have to go through the Cervix to get the eggs out, if he can't monitor my cervix then it wouldn't be healthy or safe to continue. Then he suggests something....."lose some weight". Well DUH. I have PCOS I can't just lose weight like normally people...I have to work 10 times harder at everything...ARGH....I am over-whelmed....I just want to get out of the office.
He tries to schedule another appointment with the nutritionist.....and I am trying my darndest to hold back these tears....he gives me a big hug....and hurries off to his next patient.....the scheduling girl is taking her sweet old time.....
"Can I call back"...."I really need to get out of here"....she nods at me and I bolt out the door. I get to the truck....start crying hysterically and call hubbie. I call into work and hubbie meets me at home.
Needless to say...Dear Hubbie is super supportive. He's been with me since I was 16. He knows how hard it is for me to be a cry baby. He just holds me and loves on me...and I start feeling a little better.
Now I know what you are probably thinking....."it's okay.....just work really hard and you can lose a few pounds and it will be good for you anyway"...YOU ARE RIGHT. It will be good for me...that is not my problem. I am a planner....and in my mind my plan was going 100% according to what I planned. So this little kink in the road...yeah....not so good with kinks.
But I am trying.....got my appointment with the nutritionist on Friday....I really liked her last time and she's an amazing expert with PCOS and what you should and shouldn't eat. So I am totally excited to meet with her again.
I just feel my clock ticking away.....and I am praying my insurance doesn't change this year...cause my work is paying 100% of all my treatments.....so keep me and hubbie in your prayers!
Thanks for letting me share and vent!
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Personal Confession
So I have decided to start blogging about something personal. It's very hard to talk about this with just anyone and even though I have a super supportive hubbie, sometimes I just got to get everything off my chest. This includes way too much TMI......but I've decided I don't really care.
Personally I consider my body to be a failure. I have PCOS (Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome) and can't conceive naturally. Not to mention the fact that losing weight is damn near impossible and let's not even get started on the extra facial hair......
Despite all of these "faults" my dear hubbie loves me unconditionally. He is the bestest.
We were married for 10 years before we had kids. And it wasn't isn't having them either. We ended up doing Invitro and were very blessed to have everything take the first time and had our 2 wonderful children.
A few of my friends already know my next adventure in life.....well I guess it's actually a repeat adventure.
We are going to try for kids again and I am going to start blogging about my experience with the entire process.
I have only had a handful of visits just for precautionary items. My most recent challenge during my workup has been my issues with my cervix.
Argh....it's just crazy.
After the birth of the twins at my 6 week check up, my Gyno conveniently tells me that he must have "put my uterus" back incorrectly and now it was tilted! As if I don't have enough problems conceiving!
Well the result of this faulty line up is that now my cervix is a little out of alignment (it's not like I can just go into the Gyno and get a re-alignment, Dammit Jim he's a Gyno not a Car mechanic).
So here I am last Monday morning...sitting in a freezing room...naked from the waist down. Doc finally comes in with his nurses and we are ready to start my Sonohystogram. So the pelvic assault begins and it feels like she's rubbing on my bladder back and forth and back and forth. All I am thinking about is how much I've got to pee.
Nurse says "her bladder's too full I can't see anything". We all agree I need to empty the bladder. So I get off the table wipe of the 10 gallons of lube they put down there and proceed to get re-dressed and march to the bathroom. I do the deed, come back to the room, get undressed again, hop on the table and await my punishment.
The troop comes back in and the procedure starts again. This time she locates my right ovary with no problems, takes the measurements and tells me I have a lovely string of 10 pearls on it. For you non-PCOSers, that's 10 egg follicles that have decided to grow on the outside of my ovary instead of proceeding down my tubes. I don't know if I should be proud of these pearls or worried? Oh well....now it's time to find the left one.
Okay - this one hurts even more. I remember this pain. This is the pain from last time I was here 6 years ago. After taking the wand and twisting it to a almost 90 degree angle, she finally finds it. Takes the measurements and I get to add another 9 pearls to my collection. Lucky me...
So next the Doc steps in to start my sonohystogram. He gets the speculum out and proceeds to insert it. The speculum is really hurting and he can't get it into the position he wants.
He backs up and tells the nurses we need to go into the ER because he needs to get my up higher to get a better view.
So yep - I get to clean the lube off AGAIN...get dressed AGAIN..and march into another cold ass room. I get undressed climb up on the table and the Doc starts hoisting me up in the air. I start to laugh to myself as I picture this literally looking like I am on a lift. I start to visualize hubbies face as I tell him how HI-Larious this is......until I feel the speculum. The thing still isn't working...the Doc asks for a longer one.... (ruh-roh, A longer one?)
Nurse comes in with another one, they try this one and same results. Doc tries to continue the testing but doesn't want to keep causing me any more discomfort. So he stops....HALLELUJAH! I can hear angels singing.....
Feels like I have been ripped a new one down there....the pain was intense.
So I get dressed.....sigh....Again....and the Doc tells me he can't complete this test because my cervix is very high and a little crooked. I ask if this is normal, he says it can happen, not to worry....and that they have to order a special speculum that's longer and narrower. Now I don't what that means.....long and narrow? hmmm...that's another subject.
Needless to say I leave the Clinic feeling sore, but it's not the good sore like when it's "business time". So I am a little disappointed...LOL
Point is - I get to repeat this test on Tuesday....wish me luck. I am going to need it!
Personally I consider my body to be a failure. I have PCOS (Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome) and can't conceive naturally. Not to mention the fact that losing weight is damn near impossible and let's not even get started on the extra facial hair......
Despite all of these "faults" my dear hubbie loves me unconditionally. He is the bestest.
We were married for 10 years before we had kids. And it wasn't isn't having them either. We ended up doing Invitro and were very blessed to have everything take the first time and had our 2 wonderful children.
A few of my friends already know my next adventure in life.....well I guess it's actually a repeat adventure.
We are going to try for kids again and I am going to start blogging about my experience with the entire process.
I have only had a handful of visits just for precautionary items. My most recent challenge during my workup has been my issues with my cervix.
Argh....it's just crazy.
After the birth of the twins at my 6 week check up, my Gyno conveniently tells me that he must have "put my uterus" back incorrectly and now it was tilted! As if I don't have enough problems conceiving!
Well the result of this faulty line up is that now my cervix is a little out of alignment (it's not like I can just go into the Gyno and get a re-alignment, Dammit Jim he's a Gyno not a Car mechanic).
So here I am last Monday morning...sitting in a freezing room...naked from the waist down. Doc finally comes in with his nurses and we are ready to start my Sonohystogram. So the pelvic assault begins and it feels like she's rubbing on my bladder back and forth and back and forth. All I am thinking about is how much I've got to pee.
Nurse says "her bladder's too full I can't see anything". We all agree I need to empty the bladder. So I get off the table wipe of the 10 gallons of lube they put down there and proceed to get re-dressed and march to the bathroom. I do the deed, come back to the room, get undressed again, hop on the table and await my punishment.
The troop comes back in and the procedure starts again. This time she locates my right ovary with no problems, takes the measurements and tells me I have a lovely string of 10 pearls on it. For you non-PCOSers, that's 10 egg follicles that have decided to grow on the outside of my ovary instead of proceeding down my tubes. I don't know if I should be proud of these pearls or worried? Oh well....now it's time to find the left one.
Okay - this one hurts even more. I remember this pain. This is the pain from last time I was here 6 years ago. After taking the wand and twisting it to a almost 90 degree angle, she finally finds it. Takes the measurements and I get to add another 9 pearls to my collection. Lucky me...
So next the Doc steps in to start my sonohystogram. He gets the speculum out and proceeds to insert it. The speculum is really hurting and he can't get it into the position he wants.
He backs up and tells the nurses we need to go into the ER because he needs to get my up higher to get a better view.
So yep - I get to clean the lube off AGAIN...get dressed AGAIN..and march into another cold ass room. I get undressed climb up on the table and the Doc starts hoisting me up in the air. I start to laugh to myself as I picture this literally looking like I am on a lift. I start to visualize hubbies face as I tell him how HI-Larious this is......until I feel the speculum. The thing still isn't working...the Doc asks for a longer one.... (ruh-roh, A longer one?)
Nurse comes in with another one, they try this one and same results. Doc tries to continue the testing but doesn't want to keep causing me any more discomfort. So he stops....HALLELUJAH! I can hear angels singing.....
Feels like I have been ripped a new one down there....the pain was intense.
So I get dressed.....sigh....Again....and the Doc tells me he can't complete this test because my cervix is very high and a little crooked. I ask if this is normal, he says it can happen, not to worry....and that they have to order a special speculum that's longer and narrower. Now I don't what that means.....long and narrow? hmmm...that's another subject.
Needless to say I leave the Clinic feeling sore, but it's not the good sore like when it's "business time". So I am a little disappointed...LOL
Point is - I get to repeat this test on Tuesday....wish me luck. I am going to need it!
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