Back to the Grind

Not that dashing is really a grind. It has some good points and some bad. Like everything. Today was a decent dashing day. Not great. Not terrible. Two dashes. Ok money for the time spent and distance traveled. Woo hoo! I got that elusive double dash – two dashes, not received by me at the same time, so door dash couldn’t gyp me out of more money – from the same place to Waterloo! Neither of them alone were really good rides. But together, just fine. All in all, it was a pleasant day where dashing was concerned.

In between dashes, I ate a little lunch, did some dishes and napped a little. I stayed up a little too late last night. And goodness knows I need my beauty rest!

While dashing, I came across my erstwhile cleaner. She has moved back to Geneva again. I wonder why Phelps didn’t work out for her. She suggested to me that she clean. So I will take her up on that. And I will ask my boarder if she wants either of her spaces (her bedroom (hahahaha – no she won’t want that touched) and her bathroom) cleaned. My guess is neither, but you never know. She could want both cleaned. Anyway, I will offer her, SS, any day of the weekend and see what happens. Since she is in Geneva again, I am guessing she is footloose and fancy free. And could use some cash.

They had six or so of these sorts of things

My new reading book series is also about fairies. Not at all like the Court books that SS said she was reading. (I wonder how far she got in them – she says she likes to read). I actually like this person’s style better. I look forward to seeing what happens in this book. I doubt there will be a lot of explicit sex, which also makes me happy.

The library says that two of my books are ready for pickup. I will get them on Friday – gives me more time to read the current book. I am guessing that both of the books, being the end books of their series (a five book series and a three book series) will be fairly long. Which doesn’t bother me in the least.

I have a lot of taco meat in the fridge. I plan to have some of it for dinner tonight – as nachos – though I don’t really have a lot of cheese. And I also thought I might have a taco salad one night. It looks like Wegman’s might be able to help me with that. I guess I am going food shopping tomorrow. or Wednesday. I might get Chinese food Tuesday night.

I just read a bit about Seigfried and Roy. I was surprised to see that they both within a year or so of each other.

One more quick thing about dashing. I just checked my stats again and either the 1 rating wasn’t removed, or I have gotten a subsequent one rating. Grr and sigh. I will check this weekend and see what the poop with that is. So irksome.

Time to eat! So excited! Yay food!

No Comfort Food Today!

Not Comfort Food

I had a grilled cheese sandwich for lunch today. And some soup. Someone I told thought that it was comfort food. Nope, not in this case. It was “getting rid of stuff” food. I saw that I still had a slice of monterey jack cheese left over from when I made patty melts all those weeks ago. I wanted to use it up – if it hadn’t become more moldy than cheesy. Turns out, it was more moldy than cheesy, so it got toassed. I also had some extra sharp cheddar, so that formed the basis of the cheese. I toyed with the idea of adding cream cheese to the sandwich, but found the container still sealed. So I left it that way. I did add some pickles to the sandwich – almost done with that jar. And I used two slices of white bread that has been around for a while. Only a few more pieces left. Yay freezers!

It has been a day filled with getting things done. Well, once I got out of bed that is. I had the above mentioned lunch, made my bed with fresh flannel space sheets, did two loads of laundry (one load of which was just a quilt), a shower, a call to my lovely sister (who I caught napping!) and sent off my tax documents to my brother since he has been silly enough to agree to do my taxes once again. And I bugged him about helping my fellow dasher with her taxes as he said he was willing to do them as well. And I have spent way too much time chatting with people online who probably aren’t really the people in their pictures. And some who might be, but are only interested in chatting with me if I send them money or things. Sigh. Someday I will be in a healthy relationship with a real person again. Anything is possible.

Well, that was anticlimactic. I was going to see if I could salvage anything from the avocado and the pomegranate from SM. And, the answers were: no and no. The avocado was mostly bad. I could have gotten maybe two spoonfuls (spoonsful) out of it. And the pomegranate might have been salvageable if I was up for a lot of work. Which I wasn’t. Maybe they will both sprout. Hahaha. So it is back to thinking deep thoughts until taco time. Yes, I am making tacos tonight. I am going to try deep frying a flour tortilla again. Last time I didn’t fry it nearly enough and it was still almost completely floppy.

I have decided that I am going to cook my own duck at some point soon. The duck I have been getting from the Asia Market up in Rochester just didn’t taste as good to me this last time. I don’t know why. Maybe they changed their recipe. Or maybe my taste buds changed. Or both? Or something else entirely. Who knows. All I know is that I am going to give that a break and just make one myself at home. Not sure if I am going to go for Chinese or French style…

Ok, taco time! I am aiming for two corn tortillas and one flour tortilla. Wish me luck!