2 lottery tickets won last night, I am doomed!

8-13-14

Matched the mega ball and won four bucks in Mega Millions and the NC Pick 5 matched two numbers again so that's another buck won. Figure I'm in for a rough week! 

Must find silver lining. My new motto is to be proactive as opposed to reactive...

Tapas peppers are a welcome addition to ham salad (at least that is what Joe said) however, using your fingers to strip the seeds is a very bad idea! Not only did I burn the tips of both thumbs but without thinking I wiped a piece of hair out of my eye. Enough said.

After my lack of getting any work done yesterday, figured I should buckle down and try and accomplish a few things today. I have found out that junk mail multiplies while you are out of town. 

I also found out that drawers that you keep shoving stuff into to go through later now have:

1. two years of receipts that are so faded you can't read them
2. mini rubber bands
3. a few toothpicks
4. some business cards from NH (we moved about 3 years ago to NC)
5. a couple of hospital wrist bands
6. expired coupons and old grocery lists
7. those yellow forms about privacy that you have to sign at every doctor/hospital appointment
8. several teeth in a baggie (don't ask)

Junk drawer motivated me! I started sorting junk mail which led to tearing off labels to shred (before placing in recycling), this of course led to the envelope by the computer that the shredding goes into which in turn led to looking up recipes for a marinade for dinner! I think we can all see where this is going.

Good news is dinner was tasty! Made a yummy sesame ginger chicken along with fingerling potatoes slow fried in olive oil, kosher salt and ground black pepper! Did the chicken marinade in a saucepan with a touch of Shedd Spread added. I then basted chicken every 10 minutes in a 350 degree oven. Chopped up some salad for on the side which used up most of the veggies so I am ready for my Backyard Produce delivery tomorrow!

Decided to kick back and watch a bit of tv with Joe and then tackle kitchen clean up. All that sorting today really wore me out. Not to mention fighting the mighty Adam Ant, sweeping some floors, giving the porch plants their daily dose of TLC & H2O and of course washing B's bedding and our favorite sitting outside blanket! 

Squished, tossed, he reappeared so I splatted, re-tossed and spent the next hour checking to be sure he was still dead in the garbage. Hoping he was a stray...

Final thought: I liberated a couple of Reader's Digest magazines from Utah for the plane ride home. Found an October 2013 little blurb about weird words so I now have a new favorite word:

Cataglottism

My gift to you, go ahead look it up. 

Now that you've been to the dictionary, I'm sure you understand why I have no final picture here...