Exceedingly Mundane

{a day late because of the holiday – sorry about that!}

Laura over at OrgJunkie sponsors this great meme each week. I love planning menus or meal ideas for the week – it really helps with the grocery shopping (cuts down on impulse buying) and saves that frustration every afternoon of staring into the fridge or freezer thinking “what can I cook?” 🙂

Here we go:

Sunday – turkey burgers

Monday – Labor Day; we ate at my in-laws (chicken, potato salad, coleslaw, etc)

Tuesday – Black Bean & Cheese Enchiladas, pinto beans, Spanish Rice

Wednesday – our “light night” – either eggs, oatmeal and toast or else tomato soup and a sandwich (Yes, I’ve had tomato soup on the menu for the last couple of weeks, but we have yet to have any!)

Thursday – spaghetti with meatballs, steamed broccoli, homemade bread

Friday – Crockpot Chicken Santa Fe

Saturday – Pizza

Sunday – TBD

Happy, Happy, Happy Birthday to our nephew Zack!

Zack was born on Labor Day, eleven years ago today. Tim and I were at the hospital all afternoon, waiting for him to make his big arrival into the world. He’s a great kid, and we love him to pieces. Happy Birthday Zack – hope you have a terrific birthday!

As busy we’ve been the last two days, I was hoping for a more “quiet” day today. 🙂 So far, my wish has been granted!

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This is going to be a very busy weekend for us, this Labor Day weekend. Friday was very busy, and today is shaping up to be even more so.

Tim took the day off Friday, and we got a bunch of things done around the house. Then, Don and Gail came down, and the guys went to play golf late Friday afternoon. Gail and I hung out and watched TV. The guys played till dark, then we all went to eat a late supper at our favorite Mexican place.

We’ve got a really busy day ahead, and I’ll try to catch up here on the details tomorrow or Monday. I also need to blog about my month-long jury summons that started for federal court. So far, I haven’t had to report. More later!

I stayed up late last night and finished a book I had borrowed from my sister Gail, “Montana Sky” by Nora Roberts. I really enjoyed it! Gail’s review is already posted here on Hambones.org, so I will try to add my comments later this weekend.

I had only read one trilogy by Nora Roberts before this book, which I also enjoyed, but this one was a bit different. This book had a bit of murder mystery to it, and I really enjoyed that aspect of it, mixed in with the romance. I didn’t like the references to the gore and other murderous aspects, but they weren’t that bad and I was able to pass over them without it bothering me. Unlike a lot of other, more “hard-core” murder mystery or forensics type thrillers.

For the record, that makes #53 so far this year, with a total of 18,781 pages read. Up next is a paperback I picked up in Borders a few weeks ago called “16 Lighthouse Road”. I’ve checked out several Debbie Macomber books from my library before, and noticed that she has a series of books set in a small town in Washington state, called the “Cedar Cove” series. I wanted to start with the first one, and after searching and searching with the librarian, we discovered that the library’s one copy of the first book in the series had been lost or misplaced. So, I bought the first one in paperback, and plan to check the rest of the series out of my local library. I think I will really enjoy these books; I always like Macomber’s characters and her style of writing. Good “women’s fiction”, as I like to call it! 😀

Feast One Hundred & Nine
Friday, September 01, 2006

Appetizer
What are some lyrics you have misheard (such as, instead of “Gettin’ Jiggy With It” you heard “Kick a chicken with it”)? I do this a lot, and I always try to “cover” for it and sing along with whatever lyrics I think fit. I can’t think of a single thing right now, but maybe something will click later 😆

Soup
What is the worst movie you have ever seen? Let’s see, recently we rented “The Matador” which was horrible. Probably in my lifetime, the two worst movies I have ever watched were “Reds” and especially “Any Given Sunday”. We thought it was going to be a good football movie and it was just horrible. Debase, excessively bad language, etc. I wish I could get that time back from watching those movies 🙁

Salad
Using the letters from your favorite number, write a sentence. Example: Tomorrow has really easy experiences. Well, my favorite number is eighteen, so let’s give it a whirl: Excellent Invited Guests Have Time Every Evening Night. OK, that was bad, I know it

Main Course
What was the most interesting news story you have heard this week? Maybe not most interesting, but I was glad to read about gas prices,they think they are going to come down more before the end of the year. The article I read in the paper said they would be closer to $2 a gallon rather than $3 a gallon by Thanksgiving. Yippee!

Dessert
Which word(s) would you choose to describe your wardrobe? Um, boring? Plain, tomboyish. I wear shorts, tshirts, capris, sleeveless tanks in the summer, jeans and sweatshirts in the winter.