I'm sucking at blogging...

Not really, but its been a while since I've posted anything and here's a quick why and recap of what's been up.

My beloved Mazda Tribute has died... RIP Truck Truck as she was named.  After 192 thousand miles the timing chain broke and she's dead.  For the last 2 weeks or so I've been car shopping.  As much as I'd love another truck truck, they don't make the tribute anymore :(  I found that the Kia Soul gets better gas mileage and has comparable cargo space for all the barn junk I haul around time to time.  I'm actually going out tonight to hopefully bring home a used 2012 with low miles and fully loaded with an eco button, UVO sound system (think having a siri to yell at I mean do things by voice command for you in the car like change radio stations), and a sunroof that works!  (Truck truck's died 2 years ago and boy did I miss the sunroof after the air conditioning quit too.

Last weekend, I was stuck on the wrong side of the bay bridge because of a fire under the bridge for hours on end.  Luckily, I was with some friends.  Since we were basically locked down in traffic by a Kmart and a Cracker Barrel, we jumped out of line, ate dinner, did a little shopping to avoid just sitting in the car, then got back in line and sat for another hour before the reopened the bridge.  Cracker Barrel has one vegetarian option and its basically a vegetable medley of whatever veggies are in season.  I was not feeling that so I got the chicken and dumplings instead.  Man do I love their chicken and dumplings.  I treated it as a farewell chicken and dumplings meal since I really feel a hundred times better not eating meat.

Food wise, I've done okay.  I found a recipe for vegan pumpkin spice muffins on pinterest and they are AWESOME!  I just made my second batch last night because the first batch disappeared within 24 hours of making them.  No dairy, no eggs and you really can't tell.  They are moist and delicious.  I will post a link later to the recipe.

Tomorrow is grocery shopping day so this afternoon will be make a list and menu plan for the week.  I'll share what we're having tomorrow after I figure out just what that is.