– even faster than usual. The government is shutdown; the debt ceiling is looming – and what’s that going to do to my stock portfolio!??; my #1 son that I sent off to grad school so proudly barely a month ago is not too happy there; they’re predicting huge thunderstorms, unusual for October, and I fear my basement’s going to leak … And yesterday the White House security cops freaked out and killed a freaked out woman who crashed her car into barricades and lead them on a high speed chase – with her 1-year-old daughter in the back. Yikes.
It’s been a funny week. My computer’s in the shop so I’ve been working at home. Monday I had class at 6:00, and I put all the weekend leftovers: tomato tart, rice, squash casserole, and 6 Costco crab rangoons that I bought for the cookie party and never used – into the oven on timer. Class went a little long, too many FRBR Qs, so stuff got a little dark on the bottom, but we ate it anyways.
Tuesday we went to Toni’s XC meet and came home and ate steak fajitas – thawed out a hunk of flatiron steak (*purchased in July), and made rajas with the poblano peppers from my CSA box that I roasted. And made pico di gallo from tomatoes & cilantro, also from the box, and a chile from Terese’s back yard. Good but frying the steak really messed up the stove and I still felt like the house was coated with beef grease for the next two days.
*Just learned how to trim that big slab of meat I got from Fountain Prairie this morning http://t.co/QIHEwHhUAW
— Debra Shapiro (@DebsLunch) July 7, 2013
Wednesday we had a bit of a mixup – I went to Miriam’s for the post food for thought meeting with snacks, and Mark was going to take Toni shopping and either find some kind of dinner OR come back home. I didn’t get home until after 7:00 and since they were still out, I thought they were eating out – so I had half a sandwich. While I was eating Mark texted that they were coming home to have dinner with me … but all worked out in the end; staggered sandwiches for all.
Thursday I made the kind of mac&cheese that has part cauliflower in place of noodles, and used whole wheat noodles and bread for the bread crumb topping. Surprisingly good, even for mac&cheese purists like what we got here, who are used to this.
Healthy Mac&cheese, adapted from this recipe
Friday I went to a morning meeting and came back home to work, so I could eat – a few greens left from last night’s night salad that went with the “healthy” mac&cheese, with a bit of feta & walnuts, topped with a boiled egg, edamame, pinto bean & corn salad, and roasted carrots, 3 little plums, and a hunk of the cimmy bread, toasted. Our Internet wasn’t working when I first turned on my computer – home network all fine, but not getting out to the big Internet – but I plugged and re-plugged everything, and it came back. Ha. Of course, hasn’t necessarily made me more productive – I am listening to the rain and envying the cat. Have to head back to campus at 2:30 to interview students, and maybe get my bike (stashed in my office to avoid yesterday’s rain, that did not materialize as much as today’s) and my computer (with updated windows emulator, Windows &, OSX update, and more RAM, all installed) back.
Rainy day work at home
