Monday was Connie’s last day in Nebraska and she had an
appointment in Ashland at 3:00 to get a tattoo. Now there’s a fabulous BBQ
restaurant in Ashland, which is a miracle for such a small town, but Rachele is
a vegetarian who doesn’t eat vegetables and Parker’s doesn’t have mac and
cheese. Since it’s literally the only thing I’ve ever seen Rachele eat (the 6
boxes Connie took out of a grocery bag on Rachele’s kitchen table when she
needed the bag didn’t surprise me at all!), we couldn’t eat there so Connie
suggested Cheesecake Factory in Omaha, which worked for me. I met them there
and we had a lovely lunch. Connie and I shared 2 apps so we’d have room for
lemoncello torte (no sharing there) and Rachele had deep fried mac & cheese
balls and a tomato flatbread that she took most of the tomatoes off of.
Whatever. It was a nice lunch and Connie and I lingered over coffee while
Rachele ran to the mall to buy sunglasses. From there we went to an antique
mall to kill the time until her appointment, which I did not go to so we said
our goodbyes in the parking lot. It had been a fun long weekend.
Since it was Labor Day, the library was closed so Heidi
hosted knitting at her house, complete with warm chocolate chip cookies. Yum!
My intention was to start reading as soon as I got home because I had an
overdrive book checked out – Sunlight Pilgrims – that was expiring on Tuesday
but I wasn’t sure what time. But I made the mistake of turning on the TV and
got sucked into the final episode of Downton Abbey so didn’t get to bed early.
That left me reading until late to finish it, which I did, so I lost some
sleep. What the hell, I just had to work on Tuesday. I’d survive.
The short work week was pretty brutal though. We had
consultants in for some software training, which started at 3:30 on Wednesday.
That wasn’t so bad and I had a nice drive to Seward after work to pick up
Andrea’s fair entries (I do the pickup every year and then hit their farmers
market.) All day Thursday and Friday was another matter. We worked through lunch
both days (so neither of my friend lunches – Dodie on Thursday and Layton on
Friday – happened) and only took potty breaks. I was toasty fried by the end of
the day Friday and all that for something I’ll only be backup on. Whatever.
They keep paying me, I’ll keep showing up. I hit the pool on Friday, thrilled
to have the work week over and a free weekend ahead of me.
What’s not to love about a free weekend? Nothing! I started
with a long chat with Carolyn and then got dressed to run errands - the library,
supermarket, Dollar General and then BK for a treat lunch. Once I was home with
groceries put away and double cheeseburger consumed, it was time to get busy.
My desk was piled so high with paper and crap that Andrea had remarked on it
when she stopped by so that was step one. I went through everything on the desk
and by the time I was done, the top was mostly clear and my recycling bin was
half full. I even took the time to test all the AA batteries that were too low
for my old camera but still test good so would work in non-electronic items
like clocks and flashlights. I have a ton so if anyone needs AA’s, let me know.
That felt good to have done and then I used my newly purchased red sauce to put
together the rest of the eggplant I’d fried last weekend, which I then enjoyed
for dinner. I finished by cleaning up the entire kitchen so I’d be ready to
cook up a storm on Sunday.
After the laundry was done and hanging on the line, I
started Sunday with a big clear out of the fridge and prepping fruit, after
which I drove a big bag of scraps out to Lori’s chickens. Then I started
cooking – blackberry peach pie for knitting, 3 bags of peaches for the freezer
(for summer pies in the dead of winter – yum!), a quiche (since I was making
pie crust and had half and half) and cupcakes for lunch with Kate on Monday.
And then I was an adult and cleaned up the kitchen again, recognizing that with
the busy Monday and Tuesday nights that I had coming, I wouldn’t have time to
prep for the cleaning lady then. I also picked up the entire house so between
the clean desk and house, plus the fridge full of food, I was good to go for
the next week. That counts as a great weekend in my world. Oh how priorities
change, am I right? All good though. : )
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