Dinner Bargains

So the plan was to make the Asian flavored marinated flank steak for dinner but that made me remember the whole someone doesn't cook on Sunday thing.  So the flank steak is still marinating and we pan seared some other steaks and sliced up some potatoes and put them in the oven to cook with some roasted garlic, onion powder, seasoned salt, cayenne pepper, and Tony Checheres (spelling on that not sure, and I'm being lazy so I'm not going to look it up).  Well both the steak and potatoes got the same seasoning, the potatoes just got some Italian seasoning and parsley too.  Both came out pretty good, potatoes had more of a kick.  I would imagine that was because my mother doesn't totally get the concept of rubbing spices heavily into the steak but no matter we ate good and will again tomorrow after I decide what to add to the steaks.  Any suggestions?

Oh and I forgot to add that I saw something on facebook that has me inspired.  It was a random photo but it encouraged everyone to find a jar and put a note inside of it every time something good happened throughout the year and at the end of the year you could look at what transpired--hopefully with a little less sadness and much more appreciation.  I have my Cupcake Provocateur jars I can use for now and if they all get filled up yeah for me.  Who's willing to give it a try?

And in other random news...

Okay so not sure where this is going to ramble off to so I apologize now.  The last two days it's been blistering cold and I was actually aware enough to tend to my hair.  I moisturized my hair and tucked them in to make a messy bun.  I got the idea from my blog roaming on Christmas about jingle bell hair.  I split the top and bottom into halves and pinned them up with bobby pins.  Today's was slightly less messy but required less pins too.  All in all I liked both looks even if it's more severe than I'm used to--I very rarely abandoned bangs of any kind pre hair journey.  Check out this POST if you want to see the inspiration even though my hair is still much shorter than all the bloggers featured on the post.  So of course it wasn't as big and pretty but my faux bun, messy bun, whatever got what I wanted accomplished the last few days.  Not that this will be the go to style all of winter but it's a step above from hoping the flexi rods stay off my sweater collars.

I got to talk to my sister in law and nieces a tiny bit tonight.  It was fun and I miss them all but I do enjoy talking to them.  And wonders of wonders, it all came about because mom actually did what I said for a change and called my nieces to talk to them about what the other set of grandparents got them for Christmas.  No home cooking tonight because someone got her cleaning days off but that's all good too.  The Chinese food was okay but when I wanted to grab it I started thinking about like some of the best Chinese food ever from when I was in undergrad.  Whenever me and my girls hook up in town one of our stops is there so we can reminisce and catch up and pig out.  They are the only people that get PLAIN fried rice that's delicious.

Wash day may move to Saturdays but I'm not sure yet.  Since I have the interview on the 7th I can't wash my hair on the 6th since I have to fly out.  Maybe it will just move that week, not sure yet.  Anyway I think that's it.  I'll do a longer more introspective post this weekend.  A lot has happened in the last few days.