Good Friday wasn't so Good!

I woke up at 7:00 AM and made coffee. I wrote and posted the blog entry for Friday and then made a short grocery list for items I need and/or want for the weekend. It is supposed to start snowing sometime after 1:00 PM and I want to be back at home before then.

I took a shower (no shave) and then dressed for my errand run. I stripped the bed and put the sheets in the washer before I left. I went to the Credit Union for some cash, then to Best Buy for a DVD/CD player cleaning kit. While I was there, I picked up the two movies I had taped, but now no longer will play. Then I came back and went to Meijer's for the groceries and a big (80 ounce) container of Liquid PlumR Gel (it's supposed to "destroy" the clog! I hope this isn't just hype!)

I got home just before noon and changed clothes. I put the bedding in the dryer and unpacked the few grocery bags. I measured how much volume is in the sink trap I had taken off (2/3 cup, BTW) and then re-installed it. Next I put in a double amount of gel, plus 2/3 cup for the trap and set the timer for twice as long as the instructions recommend. I might just eat through the pipes, but I damn sure will eat through this accursed clog!

I went out and refilled the suet cage. Still no visible snow, but you can smell it. So, now I've had lunch (roast beef sandwich with Swiss cheese and spicy mustard on sour dough bread) and made up the bed (I don't care about this stupid snow. The calendar says its spring, so the flannel sheets go back in the linen closet and the cotton sheets go back on the bed!).

Now it's time to try the sink. I fill half the bucket up with hot water, (so I am using pure hot water from the get-go) and dump that in the toilet. Then, I turn on the kitchen faucet. Still clogged! But, on the bright side, the water didn't go as high in the sinks as it did before and it went down a lot faster. I'll give it four hours to drain out (I have trouble believing that the drain stuff can go through standing water) and then try again. I still have over half a bottle left. I am disappointed, but not yet discouraged.

I move from that to using the DVD cleaner. Then, I put in my first new movie, Master and Commander and watched that. It's in "widescreen" format, but the salesgirl told me that they rarely make the other kind that fits my TV screen anymore. So, I will either have to learn to adjust to watching movies with the black bands on top and bottom, or get another TV that will play "widescreen" (which I don't see happening anytime soon, lol!)

The snow started just around 3:15 PM. It was light, then, but by 5:00 it was coming down hard. I watched the weather on the 5 o'clock news, and they have revised the forecast. They say the storm has shifted north and now are predicting 8-10 inches of snow in my area! Good God!

I turned off the news after the weather and decided to take a nap. I woke up at 7:00 PM and tried the sink again. I poured in the rest of the bottle of Draino and waited 45 minutes this time. Then I added hot water! Sh*t! It's worse this time!! Water backed up immediately. I'll give it overnight to see if the water slowly recedes as it had in the past.

Now, onto dinner. I am using the leftover corned beef to make a Rueben sandwich. I must tell you, I had a hell of a time finding rye bread in Meijer's. You can find any kind of cracked wheat, whole wheat, 7-grain, 9-grain, even potato bread, etc., but all I could find in rye was Beefsteak rye.

So, I cut the corned beef across the grain into thin slices. I put a spicy mustard on one slice of bread then the corned beef, some sauerkraut, and topped it all with two slices of Swiss cheese. Then I added Russian dressing to the other piece of rye bread. Here's where I get a bit mystified. Supposedly, the "real" Rueben recipe I found calls for Russian dressing (you're also supposed to use Russian rye bread, but I was just gratefully I found ANY rye at all!). But, I could swear that every Reuben I ever ate had Thousand Island dressing on it. Does anybody know what's right?

I buttered the bread on the outside and grilled it, with a domed lid to also heat the inside. When both sides were perfect, I cut it in half and plated it, adding some Salt and Vinegar chips and a pickle. I ate it watching the Friday Night Fights on ESPN. It was delicious!

The Friday Night Fights were good, and my guy won the main event (I normally always root for the Irish fighters, but I liked the other guy because he was the supposed underdog. Us underdogs have to stick together, lol!)

I caught a late night weather forecast and they said they had an official 7 inches of snow at Metro airport (about five miles south of me) which makes this the 5th worst snow totals in Detroit history. Yikes!

Only the occasional sauerkraut burp kept me from falling asleep immediately and that didn't work for long...