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Category: Food

  • Yesterday I didn’t want supper, I wanted shredded wheat with raisins.  And that’s what I had!  Tonight I was grown up and made stir-fry from a recipe.  I even had to buy meat.

    This weekend I plan to do nothing, or close to it.  Unless I find something to do.

    I have to ice my knees.

    Last year at around this time I got laid off from my job and *tippity-doo* started a new one.  That was a good happening.

    It’s summer now and I have plans.  These plans no longer include going to see Simon and Garfunkel in Vancouver.  Rrrg.  But I am going to go over and see the Lion King in stage musical form.  I’ve also got tickets for several more plays in Victoria.  Em.  Also dance classes. But these things are later.  For now: nothing.

  • Today I thought it would be good to write a story.  Then I remembered I am yet to download OpenOffice on my new thing, so I am in the process of that now.  The new thing came with Microsoft Works (??) installed, and I didn’t even know they still made that.  I didn’t want it to come with Microsoft works (??) installed, but I didn’t have a choice.  It was Microsoft Works (??) for free or pay extra to get Microsoft Office, which I didn’t want either.  I have nothing against Microsoft Office, I use it at work and it is quite jolly.  But Open Office is free, and I quite love it. Although I guess I have to set it all up again so it’s as I like it.  Shoot.  I’ll do that some other time.

    I ate at the Reef twice this week, once on Monday with Susan, and again today with the cooworkers.  “We should have lunch,” said supervisor.  “We’ll go to the Reef,” I replied.  “When? Today?”  And so it was.

  • End of dance year.  I had something poignant to say about this but I’ve forgotten it now.  Instead:  my knees hurt and I strained a muscle on the inside part of my thigh.  Ow.  But I can rest these things now, to the exent that I’m not in another dance class for just about a month.  I have three weeks of summer classes lined up and paid for, so I’ll get a mid-summer workout instead of being lazy for two months.

    I actually should be moving my files from my old computer to my new computer, but I don’t want to do that right now.

    I had the sorest of throats this morning when I woke up (at ten-to six for some reason?)  I think it may have been caused by the excess of sugary things I ate last night (cake!) but annoying since it wasn’t very much and why should I get sick whenever I have a little bit of cake?  No more cake for now (I have one other piece in the freezer I will save for another time.  I was celebrating the survival of dance recital with the first piece.  Nothing more to celebrate!)

    My apartment is hot except for where I am sitting, as I have the fan directed right at me.  Last night I lay with my knees in the sun– trying to “heat” them, right?  After icing them, to heal them up.  Also useful in the healing process is not taking the stairs at work.  Up or down, as they hurt either way.  Stupid knees.  (Not really stupid.  Get well soon, knees.)

    I got a new credit card.  It’s pretty!  I know what’s what when it comes to financial decisions.  Did I need a new credit card?  No.  But is it pretty?  Yes!  Financial decision made.  Don’t worry, however, as both of my other credit cards (both tasteful in design but in no way pretty) are both sitting at zero dollars owing on them.  Lindsie wins.

  • As you can see, I am yet to make my lunches for the week.  Rather, I have yet to finish making them, as I already have chicken sandwiches in the fridge and freezer, and a pot of rice cooling for salad.  “Nice printing,” I now realize, should also have a tick.  Please also note my pretty post-its.

  • I’m trying to decide what to have for supper. My mind keeps saying “get Subway!” only to be defeated by my mind, which says “No! You have lots of food at home!” Last night after dance I made rice, turkey and veggie stir-fry. Mm. There were leftovers that I packaged with the intention of having for lunch tomorrow, but I don’t know if it’ll last that long. It’s turkey week, since I was in Duncan on Saturday and Mum and Dad made turkey dinner and then I took leftovers. Turkey week! I’ve had sandwiches for lunch, on fresh bread. Fresh on Sunday bread, anyway. It was still soft on today’s sandwich. I’ve finally decided on my favourite preparation of turkey sandwich. These have altered over the years, from Mayo and cranberry sauce that my mum used to make, to mayo, cranberry sauce and pickle (and stuffing if available) that I used to make when Mum stopped making me sandwiches for the most part. Then pickle and mayo because I never had cranberry sauce when I lived alone (cranberry sauce is expensive!). But I’ve decided that my favourite way to have turkey on a sandwich is with mayo and pepper. Lots of mayo, and butter on the bread. And preferably on fresh bread.

    The fresh bread I made this week had almost a cup of rye flour in it. It tastes ok but isn’t really usable as bread. For example, it doesn’t cut very well, and it’s a bit crumbly for sandwiches. I’m trying to figure out how to make rye bread through the guess-and-test method with my bread machine. Unfortunately, the manual for said machine recommends not using more than a quarter cup to prevent the machine from breaking. Well, i’ve used almost a cup but it wasn’t the greatest of breads, so lesson learned. I may have to make my rye bread By Hand. I’ve made bread by hand before (back when I had no money, but did have a sack of flour) and this is why I don’t make bread by hand any more. I only “make my own” bread now because I have the bread machine. Funny story: a couple of weeks ago I bought my first loaf of bread after not buying any for almost a year—it just wasn’t as delicious as my own, even though it was the fancy Ancient Grains bread that I always liked.

    “Maybe McDonalds!” my mind suggests for dinner!

    “No!” my mind replies. “We have food at home and McDonalds always makes you feel yucky!”

    “But Sooooooooooo salty and good! And sweet, sweet ketchup.”

  • The previous post neglects to mention that I am scared of fish and therefore will not go scuba diving.  A woman down the cubicle-row from me at work just got a fish at her desk.  It’s purply-blue and I’m not scared of just one fish in a, well, tubey glass thing as it is.  Just as fish lurking in the darks of the ocean.  So there!

    “So there!” is my new saying.  I used it several times while at lunch on Wednesday with Susan.  I’m pretty sure Susan wanted to kick me I was so clever in the usage of my new saying.  I’m sure there are lots of times that Susan just wants to kick me in rage, but she doesn’t because she’s nice.  So there!

    I’ve eaten far too many vanilla sandwich cookies.  I bought them yesterday at the James Bay Thrify Foods.  I went for a loooong walk last night after work.  I went from work, into James Bay, then along to Dallas Road, past Beacon Hill Park to Cook Street.  And then I live on Cook Street so I ended the walk at my home.  I was masterfully pooped at the end of the walk, but it was a pretty nice commute.

    I need more tomatoes as I’ve finished those I had in the course of eating tomato, hummus and mayonnaise sandwiches.   Mm.

  • I’ve been trying to get to work on time in the mornings. This week I’m 2 for 2. This morning on my walk in, my legs were moving but my brain was off. My legs were moving fast, though, so that’s good. The trick to getting to work on time is not to dawdle. This includes the time on the walk in, and any time before: e.g. standing in my pajamas and staring out the window for a while.

    I’m only slightly less tired today than I was yesterday. Of course I had tea in the afternoon yesterday to prevent me from nodding off, but then I had some chocolatey ice cream in the evening. I was craving it, of course because I was tired. I had to walk all the way to M-on-Y to get it, which I thought would tucker me out completely, but afterwards I just sortof sat stunned, staring at the TV. I’ll try to do better today but I’m probably going to have some ice cream again. It’s called Cherry Nirvana, filled with chunks of choco, and huge sour cherries. This is an ice cream that works best melted down in a bowl so that I can a) mush up the sour cherries so I don’t get a big mouthful of sour and b)chew the bits of cherry that result because they are melted a bit as they would hurt my teeth if I chewed them when they were cold. Whoo-whoo.

  • Better today!  The cure was a Subway sandwich I had for lunch last night.   I went to get a Subway sandwich tonight after work (for indeed I was returned to work today) only to find that the Subway at Fort & Blanshard was papered up and closed for some reason.  Shoot.

    This is not the first time that Subway has thwarted my dinner (or evening lunch) plans.  The last time I tried to have Subway after work, this time at the Quadra/Pandora location, they had no non-cheezy bread.  The guy was reeeealy sorry but not sorry enough to offer me, I don’t know, their flat bread?  Or the whole sandwich-as-a-salad deal they have?  Whatever.  I went in the next day and had my sandwich for lunch-at-breaktime instead.  And it was the same guy there.  “We have bread for you today” he said.

    Subway woes.  By Lindsie.  The end.

    I’m addicted to Facebook.  It got real bad while I was sick and didn’t have strength to do anything else, like get up and leave the computer chair.  I have to lessen my habits.  Today I only let myself check it at breaks and and lunch.  And then after 4.  And I have it on now, but it’s in a different tab while I type here.  I don’t even do anything while on Facebook, just stare at the screen.  That must stop.  I must have better things to do.

  • Amusing anecdote about Lindsie # 1: I occasionally am baffled by the element guides on my stove. As in, I look at them and can’t tell which knob is going to turn on a particular element. I usually take the few seconds needed to decipher whether I am about to turn on the front or back element, but once or twice I have put on the wrong one, resulting in a sad pot of non-boiled water and me having to wait longer for my pasta.

    Amusing acecdote about Lindsie # 2: My mum makes good pickles. I usually keep these in good stock, but I have lately run out and needed to go buy some store-bought pickles for my hamburgers. I feel a little guilty when I do this, and also a little annoyed at having to pay for pickles. Added to this is the fact that I don’t entirely trust store-bought pickles. Not about the taste, which is fine if not as good as my mum’s, or the cost or anything. They just seem suspicious and smug to me. Also, at the store they have the jars labled “GARLIC” and “NO GARLIC” adding to my stress since I didn’t know that garlic was even an issue when it comes to pickles. Also, why would they say “NO GARLIC” if there is no garlic? Why not just leave that label off? Vexing. No peanuts, maybe, no dairy would be cool. “THESE CRACKERS HAVE NO DAIRY IN THEM WHATSOEVER.” Yes.

  • I was feeling crazy, restless and weird this morning. Well, from about 10:20 to 2. Then I ate hamburgers and now I feel better. I hoped that this was the case. However, in my craziness I forgot that two hamburgers is too many. One is enough! And then I suppose I could compliment it with some salad or vegetables.

    I’m not sharing my NanoWrimo efforts publicly this year. I think I have in the past… I can’t remember. But I’m trying to be more real about what I’m writing (opposed to my usual fantasies) and don’t want the pressure/judgement of others reading it to cramp my style. It’ll be shared at a later point, no doubt.

    I have plans to visit Julie B in Vancouver next week when I am there. Yaw! I have her link somewhere… Haw: here it is. It doesn’t actually show her if you look, but her essence is definately present.

    I used the extra hour of the time change this morning to write… And check my face book and email and everything needed in preparation for writing. I have about zero discipline. I’m still trying to edit through my Nano from 2007, and have just forgotten/denied everything from my 05 and 06 attempts.