TGIF (and I really mean it!)

It was 50 degrees outside this morning when I was putting the grille away at 6:00 AM, but I was not fooled. Temperature will be dropping all day and we are going back to winter for the weekend. So, I still wore my heavy jacket.

I noticed I forgot to mention I made rice last night. I want to make chicken fried rice sometime this weekend and the rice has to be refrigerated 24 hours at least (I don't know why). Oh, and before you make the rice, you have to rinse it first (I don't know why that is, either). I also took out that deboned rotisserie chicken meat I froze after NOT making the Gumbo Ya-Ya.

My friend Michelle (she works in Facilities) stopped by to drop off the hard-copies of the quotes from the IT vendors for the new building. What I may have not written is that we had talked at length about soups when we were at the Polish restaurant (she had cabbage and I had dill pickle, if you remember). Anyway, she said that I had inspired her with my description of my leek and potato soup. So she brought me a container of her "Farmer's Leek soup" that she had added few small potatoes, diced. She also had another container of "Zuppa Toscana" (an Olive Garden recipe that's apparently available online) with potato, Italian sausage, bacon and kale that her husband, Ken made. So, lunches for the coming weekend are secured!

At lunch I stopped at Westborn (I needed some oyster sauce for the fried rice). Since I was there anyway, I got next week's apples, some meat for more meatballs, some cheese and some veggies. As I was checking out, the store manager asked if I would like a bouquet of daffodils (there were buckets of them at each checkout). I said, "Sure, why not! It's got to be spring sometime!" She said, "That's just it! We are going to force it to be spring!"

I got home and put the flowers in a vase (well, an old glass milk bottle I use as a vase). I put everything else away and I noticed I never picked up the oyster sauce! So, I gave up making some lunch and went back to get it. From there I drove straight to work. My afternoon snack of apple and cheese will have to do double-duty as lunch, too!

Don, one of my coworkers, had dropped his car off to get electrical problems checked out and walked to work this morning (From Beech Daly and Plymouth road - about a mile and a half). I reminded him in the afternoon that it might have been 50 degrees this morning, but it was less than freezing now and suggested I drop him off at five. He reluctantly agreed (he didn't want to "bother" me) and I drove him to the auto repair shop and then went home.

I stopped at the mailbox and found two new magazines and NO bills! Cool!! I went through the nightly ritual, posted an entry about Catholic Lenten Fish Frys and then sat on the couch, with a glass of wine, checking out the magazines.

The next thing I knew, it was 7:00 PM! I took a picture of my daffodils and when I downloaded it to the computer found other pictures I had taken. So, I posted them all. I moved the daffodils onto my nightstand, so I would dream of spring.

I decided the last of the meatball and pasta leftovers would be dinner tonight. I warmed it up in the microwave and wandered in to see what's on TV. I ended up watched some taped shows waiting for the Friday Night Fights. I fell asleep in the middle of the main event, BTW. When I woke up to use the bathroom, I turned everything off and turned in.