Tuesday, and now its winter...

A cold front moved through our state Monday afternoon, bringing high winds, cold temps and rain. By this morning, when I was taking the garbage out to the road, it was a light snow! Snow in the first week of November is never a good sign in Michigan.

I got all the way to work before I realized that, in concentrating on the garbage, I completely forgot to go vote this morning as I'd planned. Damn!

At lunch, we went to the mall. Bombay (my favorite store) is going out of business and B___ wanted to see if they had a floor lamp. This is depressing to me as most of my pictures, my hall table and a variety of smaller items all came from this store. I will miss it. After he couldn't find one, we left and went to Williams-Sonoma and picked up the cake pan I need for making Thanksgiving dessert.

After work, I went down the expressway past my normal turn (Inkster) and got off on Beech Daly to go to the polling station. Now I always vote at 7:00 AM and there is usually four or five cars in the lot. This time of the day, there's like 20. But, with only one issue on the ballot, its going quicker than normal and I'm more mad at myself for forgetting this morning than as I am having to wait tonight.

My ex-lawn lady rang the bell around 6:30 PM. Her daughter's in Girl Scouts (the one who gave me the celery way back when) so I bought $7 worth of cashews (they aren't selling cookies yet). Oh well, I can use them over the holiday's, I'm sure.

More small, but important projects tonight. First I cleaned the coffee maker. I washed it all down and ran a mix of half water and half white vinegar through it twice. Then I put the pot and its top in the dishwasher. Next I switched the existing door handle on the office door with a new glass one (slowly but surely, these will all get done).

The phone rang. It was a girl from my cable provider, Brighthouse, offering me 10 movie channels for a low six-month price. I told her I tape more shows than I can watch now, why would I want more channels? She said if I change my mind, just call 1-800-Comcast. After a pause, I said, "Don't you mean 1-800-Brighthouse?" She said, "Oh, I'm sorry! I'm pregnant and my baby just kicked me in the right spot at the wrong time!" I hung up laughing...

For dinner I cut 5 thin slices off the smoked turkey breast and warmed them in the microwave. Then I cooked some wide egg noodles and warmed a jar of store-bought turkey gravy. I added fresh parsley and butter to the egg noodles after draining them. I arranged the turkey in a crescent moon pattern on the plate, piled the egg noodles in the middle and splashed the gravy in a line down the middle of the turkey slices. Most excellent leftovers and, surprising to me anyway, the smoked turkey flavor came through loud and clear even with the gravy.

I watched TV until 10:00 PM, then went to bed.