Tuesday's Tale

It was cold (9 degrees F.) when I woke up for good at 4:30 AM on Tuesday. I posted the Blog entry and then got to work. I deboned the last two pieces of chicken after discarding the skin. I put the meat into a baggie for dinner and the bones and skin went into the trash.

After watching the weather, I shaved and showered for work. Before leaving, I took two bags of garbage out to the road.

The good news is that I didn't bottom the car out!

I ate a sandwich and an apple for lunch, bemoaning not having hot mustard (see previous post). I did remember to take in a book and read some of it for the rest of my lunchtime (Jeremy be damned! Of course, that may be why he has an office and I have a cubicle now, lol).

I got a lot done today and left work at 4:00 PM, content. I stopped by Westborn Market and picked up a container of Brussels sprouts, a handful of pea pods and some button mushrooms. I got a plan (well, okay, the Brussels sprouts were an impulse buy, but they looked so damn tasty!)

I watched the evening news until 7:00 PM and then started dinner. After brushing them off, I cut up about half the mushrooms into quarters and then started to saute them in olive oil and butter.

While they were sauteing, I made four serving of rice. When the mushrooms had given up most of their moisture (about 15 minutes) I put in two small cans of drained Chop Suey vegetables (Meijer’s didn’t have any big cans left when I was there).

I added the chicken and, finally the pea pods. When everything was heated, I put some of the rice in a bowl, topped it with the chicken chop suey and splashed it with good soy sauce.

I wandered into the bedroom and watched a taped movie, eating my dinner. It was excellent! I put the leftovers in the fridge for lunches.

I fell asleep about 10:30 PM.

I woke up (wide awake at 1:00 AM). So, I don’t know if this belongs to my Tuesday’s post or should be Wednesday’s, but I think I will continue until I go back to bed…

I should have done this months ago, but I had already decided to re-seal the grout on the counter top on Wednesday. So, I put down a tablecloth (so I didn’t scratch the kitchen table any more than Caley has) and then moved everything off the counters to the table (see photos).

Then I washed the counter (and stove) twice with a Scotch-brite non-scratch sponge and Pine-sol. I rinsed it repeatedly with hot water and a sponge.

I left it to dry and went back to bed a little after 4:30 AM.