A Good Dose of B-12 and Crashing Hard Drives

The past few weeks have been something else! We have been traveling up to Michigan to my parent's place in order to help fix up the house. It has been amazing finding a number of childhood trinkets and tons of pictures from the past 60 years! Seeing my father in lederhosen as a boy and blue polyester hounds tooth pants when he came over here in 66, my mother in some of the most amazing and stunning fashions, my sister and I doing all sorts of crazy poses for the camera. I had to take a double look at some of my baby and toddler pictures thinking that it was my daughter. We had such a wonderful hardworking time.
The Posh Event is starting to take off again with more business which is a blessing although also quite hard to keep up with. My daughter has been quite demanding lately and school keeps adding more assignments. Figuring out an officiant workflow has been quite challenging. So, my mother being the guru of vitamins told me that I must take B-12 to help with energy and stress. I could write a blog on just the different vitamins and supplements my mother has found and used over the past few decades. She is like the father in "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" with Windex. Anything goes wrong in your life, there is a vitamin for that, anything goes right in your life, it was due to a vitamin...ok, maybe not that dramatic, but you get the point. My mother was prepared and had these B-12 drops that you put under your tongue and hold there for 30 seconds. I am sorry, but those drops looked just like that horrible medicine we were forced to take back in the day that would leave that bitter taste in your mouth for as long as your ailment. I very nicely declined. She then went on to show how it wasn't bad by giving it to my sister. My sister of course had to look like someone just poisoned her. So, once again, I said ever so nicely...
no way! My mother decided that she was going to show me how she takes it just fine. She put it under her tongue and had to keep it there for 30 seconds. My sister did the count down...1...2...3...I had to add my own spin on the count down by throwing other numbers and saying holding up a bag of my Dad's ever so precious walnuts..."would you like some of papa's nuts mom??" "They may be a little salty"..."oops, I just drop papa's nuts, they may be cracked now" by time 30 seconds came around mom was just about gagging on the drops and I was getting ready to run. So at that point, all niceties went out of the door and my mother and sister were just going to hold me down to give me the drops. I learned a few things from my daughter. Stand tall, face the ceiling, shut your mouth and duck and weave! That worked great especially since I am taller than both of them. I escaped with not having to take it, but the bottles did go home with me still.
Tuesday I returned home with a few hundred emails waiting for me and a bunch of work on my desk. My husband who was just offered a promotion at work had a meeting with his boss to discuss the offer. Poor Dave was really stressed about that and I was stressed about it for him. Our daughter's schedule was way off so I was desperately trying to get her to take her nap and to eat for the day. But she just wanted to hang out on my lap and play on the computer with me. By time Wednesday came I decided to break down and take the B-12. Amazingly, it didn't taste as bad as I thought. I figured that it couldn't hurt. After taking the vitamin and doing breakfast with my daughter I sat at my desk to start on work. The computer had just finished an HP update and needed to restart. Only that, it didn't start back up. I tried a few more times, I then ran a diagnostics test on the system rather annoyed. This computer is under a year old and has had more problems on this one system than I have had on my 10 past systems of other brands over the past 15 years! I started to think about a number of things I didn't have backed up as yet and really started to panic. As the test ran I figured as long as the hard drive was ok, then I would be fine. The test started to work on the hard drive...10%...30%...60%...80%....FAIL! WHAT!? I mean, this thing didn't just fail, it FAILED with a giant red X and the word in capital letters below. It was as if the computer was going to blow up. I started to hyperventilate! I put my daughter in her playpen with my water bottle and a few toys as I went to sit down to try to calm down. I called my husband, as he answered I couldn't even talk, the situation really sunk in. All I could do on the phone was "Gasp...Gasp...Gasp!" Dave told me he would be here in 20 mins. I was able to calm down who knows, maybe the B-12 actually helped! So, I sit her patiently with my laptop waiting to hear the fate of my hard drive and the information on it. Wish me Luck!

I don't know what I made for dinner, but it was darn good!!

Tonight I made dinner with no plan in mind. I have a ton of vegetables from the garden and farmers market, so I decided to just "go with the wind" on this one. This is what I did...

1 med candy onion chopped
1 large green pepper chopped
3 small zucchini chopped
2 small finger eggplant chopped
2 med carrots sliced
1 green chili pepper minced
1 large garlic clove minced
4 roma tomatos diced
1/2 cup corn fresh off the cob
1 lb chicken kind of chopped up
2 tablespoons olive oil
3 tbs ground ginger (freshly grated I think would be better)
1/4 cup garlic sesame sauce
3 tbs soy sauce
1/4 cup splenda/sugar (either or)

I put all of the veggies in a large pan with the olive oil and sauteed until onions were glossy. I then added the chicken with ground ginger. After the chicken was cooked I added the sauce and soy sauce. Then I added the splenda.

I made a side of white rice since I was out of brown rice.

It was really delicious! Sweet and Spicy. I have no idea what to call it, but it was great!
Feel free to leave a comment and name it or if it sounds like something that is already out there I would love to know!