Last minute trip to the mall...

My uncle was supposed to be home in time today to take my aunt to her doctor in Cape. Well, he ended up having to go to Kentucky for work and couldn't make it home, so LaVaughn and I took her instead. It worked out, her appointment wasn't until 3 and wee needed to go to Bath & Body Works to pick up a couple small gifts for people.

Of course, we ventured all around the mall before we left. I kept getting air pressure warnings in the rear left tire, so after we left the mall we had to run to the shop. Since we have nitrogen air on our tires, we can only put nitrogen air in our tires that can only be done at Plaza Tire. It sucks... We got the air, though, and it didn't take long.

We were off to the pet store after that to grab some of Zoe and Una's favorite foods. We stopped by the shoe store next door for a few minutes where I found some ADORABLE handbags. They were only $50 -- most were 30% off and I believe they were buy on get one, not sure. I left empty handed, though. I will be back, that you can count on.

We hopped over to the market for some last minute grocery shopping before it was time to go pick my aunt up from the store. All in all, not a bad day. Long, but not bad.

The drive there:

The mall:

I hear those sleigh bells jingling...

The holiday season is quickly approaching, leaving very little time to get anything done. Between the hustle and bustle of day to day life, work and so on, there's just not much time. My sister and I are SO far behind on Christmas shopping this year, it's not even funny. We bought 3 things back in October and left it at that up until LAST week! Last week!! This time last year we had a 1/6 of the bedroom full of wrapped gifts.

That's another thing, those 3 things we bought in October stayed in the trunk up until this weekend. Madness I tell you, complete madness.

We have purchased a fair amount of things online, but we're nowhere near done. Please tell me I'm not the only one that's this far behind this late in the season?

Gift wrapping fun from today and over the weekend:

One of the best "little helpers" there ever was.

Look at those beauties! And a lot of this wrapping paper was from last year and 50% of it is reversible!

5 Ingredient Macaroons

So, LaVaughn and I experimented with a super simple, super delicious macaroon recipe Monday night. She found the recipe over that weekend and I was blown away by how simple these things were! I'm serious, ANYONE could make these -- even if you don't bake!

Here's the list of the super simple ingredients:

• 5 1/2 Cups of Coconut

• 2/3 Cups of AP Flour

• 1/4 Teaspoon of Salt

• 14 Ounces (one whole can) of Sweetened Condensed Milk

• 2 Teaspoons of Vanilla Extract

See, how simple is that? I honestly never thought making something as delicious as macaroons would be that simple. We even added chopped pecans to half of the recipe for out own spin. They were good, but not as good as the original.

Here's the finished product: 

Yummy homemade macaroons!

Here's the rest of the directions for those interested in making their own. :O)

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Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line cookie sheets with parchment paper or aluminum foil.

In a large bowl, stir together the flour, coconut and salt. Stir in the sweetened condensed milk and vanilla using your hands until well blended. Use an ice cream scoop to drop dough onto the prepared cookie sheets. Cookies should be about golf ball size.

Bake for 12 to 15 minutes in the preheated oven, until coconut is toasted.

Indoor joey pics (laterblog)...

I completely forgot that I took pictures of the joeys Monday. I was going to post them later Monday night, but I forgot. I would have posted them yesterday, but I had to drive my aunt to Cape for her injection -- plus LaVaughn and I had to do lots of shopping, so it was super later when we got home and I was super tired.

We also rented Tarzan... No comment.

Anyways, I took a quick few pictures of each of the joeys Monday evening, inside... in the bathroom. They're nothing special, but they are pretty cute. Hope you enjoy! :O)

Douglas

Roman

Regina

Zelena

Arya

Sansa

Hi, I'm Negan...

Since there was a recent price spike of Negan (POP! Funko version) on eBay, I took it upon myself to purchase one before they went up even further. There's literally nothing under $20 on eBay except one thing, which is nuts! I looked a the PPG and he's only at $15, so I don't understand the sudden increase in price.

I know this isn't necessarily blog worthy, but in a way it is, so I'm sharing. :O) Now, take a look at my badass new POP! addition...

Snagged him from Barnes & Noble for a little over $13 shipped!