Top Ten Tidbits

Checking in on this fine Thursday evening!  I appreciate the kind messages about my bedroom and will be sure and take progress pictures of the the bathroom as we get underway! 

Let's do a Top Ten Tidbits of things that are rattling around in my head:

1. Last weekend, Harry sent me a picture of a meal he was having with his girlfriend at what appeared to a very nice restaurant.  I saw the dark noodles in his bowl and ask him what he had ordered. Do you know what he said?  He said "Squid Ink Pasta with Shrimp".  I damn near fell out of my chair.  This is a kid that tasted an Oreo for the first time last year!  The year 2021!  He is 25 years old and just tasted an Oreo for the first time. We frequently had Oreos at our home, but he would never taste one. Then someone brought them to work and he tried them and he loved them.  Now he orders squid ink pasta...a dish that I have never eaten. He said it was delicious. 
2. Chip is back at school and started classes yesterday. That boy waited so late to register for classes that he landed himself with an 8:00 a.m. class every day of the week.  Monday through Friday. Thankfully, he is a morning person, but 8:00 a.m. in college is going to be a tough road for the semester. I will be interested to see if he is first in line to register for next semester! 
3. I saw this today and cracked up "Was just invited to an event that doesn't start until EIGHT.  In the EVENING.  I'm sorry, but not all of us are on COCAINE."
4. Yesterday, I had to take "The Worst Dog in the World" to the vet for his vaccinations. I dreaded it all day and turns out that it was all I dreaded and even more. He was his normal obnoxious self when he saw me with his leash and unfortunately is getting smart about what the muzzle means when he sees it. I have to damn near use David Copperfield level magician skills to trick him into putting it on. Then he starts shaking his head and acting like it is killing him. Never mind that it is a basket muzzle and he can bark and eat and do all the things except bite people. Even doped up on three Trazodone and his regular Prozac, he barked and whined and acted like a lunatic the whole way there. He managed to wear everyone out, including me, and I didn't even go in the building with him. He had a good check-up but we are going to try an allergy shot for a change to see if it works better than Apoquel for his relentless itching. So far, so good, but I think the big question is how long will it last. I hope for a while so I don't have to take him back any time soon. 
5. I started a new puzzle. I love a puzzle. 
6. I texted with my friend Liz today (Hey Liz!) and it was so nice to catch up with her. We worked together many, many moons ago when we were just babies. Some how she remembered that she was with me when I bought the bedroom furniture in the picture I posted yesterday. We were at an auction of new furniture in Columbia Tennessee and I paid a whopping $750 for the headboard, footboard, two dressers, a mirror and a mattress. That was over thirty years ago!  How is it possible that I have had friends for 30 years! How can she possibly remember that?  Isn't that crazy? I told her I couldn't even remember what I had for breakfast yesterday! 
7. I could eat a box of Milk Duds every single day for the rest of my life. Why can't Milk Duds be made out of plants and have zero calories? I don't know when I last had a Milk Dud, but they are obviously on my mind! 
8. A wonderful colleague of mine officially retires tomorrow. She has been with our company for 36 years. They had a lovely tribute to over Zoom today and people said the nicest things about her. I got teared up several times. She has the most fun plans for retirement....she is going to learn to play the ukulele (her dad made a ukulele for her and all her siblings), do bike tours with her friends, she wants to go to bartender school and bartend once a week at a local bar near her, she already volunteers a bunch, but she wants to do more of that. What a great example.  I need to figure out what fun stuff I want to do when I retire. Got any ideas? 
9. I barely got my 40 plants in last week - but I ate some olives at the last hour to cross the finish line. Not sure that is the intention of the 40 plants in a week challenge to rummage through the fridge to find one more thing to eat that you haven't had...but here we are. 
10. I am already killing the plant challenge this week.  Look at these two beauts I made today. The top picture is polenta with soyrizo and a bunch of vegetables. The bottom is a tofu stirfry I made tonight with snow peas, broccoli, carrots, ginger, garlic, sesame seeds and this really yummy green onion oil. It was good. 

 

     

That is it for me tonight! It felt good to get all that out of my brain and onto this page. I feel lighter! 

Let's bring on Friday!