Monday's Murder?

I stopped at Home Depot at lunch on Monday. I needed to pick up some more ice-melter. I still have some rock salt left, but that doesn't work well with very low temperatures, and we are heading for the deep-freeze later this week; highs only in the single digits and lows of 0 degrees F. to -2 below (-17 to -19 degrees C.)!!

I went out and shoveled a little around the mail box and the garage apron after eating lunch. We are supposed to pick up another 2-4 inches of snow overnight, with high winds (so a lot of blowing and drifting, too). Another Alberta clipper, they say, with that Artic cold behind it... (Thanks, Tsu!)

After work, when I drove past the Coney Island across from my house, I noticed a Channel 4 news truck, with its camera extended and pointed at my street. Yikes! What happened? A murder? A drive-by shooting? Once home, I immediately turned on Channel 4 news and waited with bated breath to see what was going on. While I was waiting, I started sorting through paid receipts for the last month (I have been ignoring them) and putting them in the appropriate folders in my file box.

Finally, almost an hour later, they did a piece on a black woman who (after much opposition from the Redford Planning Commission), was finally granted approval to open a plus-size sexy lingerie store across the vacant lot from me... Hmmm... not as interesting as a drive-by, but much safer, I suppose. Damn, I miss my old gang-banger buddies!!!

For dinner, I decided to go with Jake's suggestion of tuna and peas. I used my Mom's old recipe (although I doubled it for more leftovers). So, I warmed up two cans of drained tuna fish, two cans of cream of mushroom soup and 1 3/4 cups of frozen peas (I don't stock many canned veggies or it would have been two cans of those too). I cooked half a pound of extra wide egg noodles, drained them and added a little butter and fresh chopped parsley. I put the tuna mixture over the noodles and went in to finish watching the Friday night Fights.

When the fights were over, I switched to reading until I was sleepy, then went to bed.