Happenings on this Friday

Happy Friday!

This morning I'm having my girlfriend over to play with my kitchen stuff.  She wants to see the Instant Pot in action (hello hard-boiled eggs), Food Saver and sample my matcha tea blender drink.  Fun morning, but I need to get myself in gear earlier than normal (at least 'normal' lately).  For whatever reason, walking dogs seems to add a lot of time to my morning routine.  It shouldn't in theory, but the pre-walk prep, walk and post-walk seem to take FOREVER!

Little Chip had some anxiety over the last day or so and continued it with his meet & greet yesterday. The family loves him and we are still in adoption talks.  He can't leave for another week anyway, so I'm going to monitor the situation and they'll probably meet him again before the decision is final.  He was also throwing up yesterday afternoon and evening.  I had to stay home from my GNI group since the little guy needed me.  This sweet boy had a hard day.

So much cleaner after his bath!

I got a call last night from Releash Atlanta.  Emergency foster needed for an adorable little girl.  She was adopted over a year ago and the family doesn't want her anymore.  They actually said they have never bonded with her and need her gone because they had another baby.  OMG people.  On so many levels this pisses me off.  At least they are returning her and not taking her to a shelter.  I pick up little Chloe this afternoon.

This is Chloe at her foster home originally.  Look at that joy!!

My COFFEE is here!  Yum and double yum.  Their flavored decafs only come ground so I ordered two flavors to use as coffee (Festive Christmas Blend and Carmel).

I had a cup of the Christmas blend last night with my bar "treat."  Larabar has a gingerbread holiday flavor that I really, really, really like!  I also recently discovered RXBAR (thanks free sample at Costco).  I bought a box of the peanut butter.  I like the coconut chocolate or mint chip better, but they weren't available.  Online reviews say they come stale so for now I'll keep searching the stores.  I figure a bar and coffee are better than what I've been doing lately.  I can't seem to completely say NO to snacking at night, but this is a good compromise for now.

Some say the RXBARS have a strange texture from the dates.
I love the chew of them  - it's actually my favorite part.

Speaking of all things holiday.  I'm super into ginger-flavored everything to eat and I LOVE the Christmas tree scent.  I got a new candle at Trader Joe's and found room spray at Target.  Yes!  I started using both already.

It has a pump spray for a little puff of scent.
Much nicer than the stream of spray. $1 - totally getting more!

I also ordered a couple new 1/2 sheet pans with racks for holiday cooking and baking.  (It was a big shopping week ... so it seems.)  I have a bunch of small sheet pans from when I had the mini-ovens.  It's time to add to the collection to speed up cookie baking.

That's my Friday in a nutshell.  I had to move some of my to-do list to this weekend since I have a new foster coming.  Well worth it.

Last weekend before Thanksgiving - bring on the prep!  Let's make it a good one folks.  Later gators.