Back again,
The only trouble with starting a new thread is remembering what was on the last one.
Annie - I hope the temp crown holds up - I hate that - don't like the rough texture of the temporaries and they ALWAYS fall out on me within a day or two. Once they glued it in with so much cement that I thought they were going to dislocate my jaw getting it out again! I hope yours holds up. Sounds like you had a nice Easter with the kids. Hopefully work will be quiet.
Susie - every night I include Genny in my prayers. I have a lot of people with medical problems on the prayer list lately. You are a good friend to go with her to chemo. How exciting to go to the TOPS state thing. The lady who was trying to set up a group here (we STILL don't have enough people
) talked about how motivating and fun the once a year convention was. It is close to you driving wise?
Shad I hope you had good weather for your annual Easter brunch. Care to share the menu? I always like to hear about food.
Hello Ceejay, Laura and Dee - hope you had a good Easter too.
Thank you all for the advice on the volunteering. I am getting burned out I have to admit. We will have more people returning over the summer to the thrift shop and Humane Society so I am going to practice saying no and not stepping up to volunteer - at least for the summer. It's harder with the Senior Center because they just don't have the people to help out. And they get busier over the summer. But still I can control things.
I have the Thrift Shop this afternoon - hope it's quiet as I have to enter the month of March's sales into the spreadsheet. Hoping to do it there. Not sure if I am working alone. Thursday I go to the foot doctor - 6 months later and my foot is no better than last September when it first flared. I hope this does not mean surgery but nothing is working and I am tired of being off my feet so much.
The Easter Bunny brought us eleven and a half inches of heavy wet snow on Saturday. We never seem to get a break with nice weather for Easter. DH spent Saturday clearing, shovelling and plowing. We went to the Italian restaurant for brunch yesterday. My only complaint was that the restaurant was chilly - they have had issues with the building from the day they bought it. So the little quiche bites they had on a tray were actually cold as was the pizza on plates in the bar area. They did have warming servers and had veal scallopini, buttered spaghetti, pasta primavera, meatballs and sauce, panzenella salad and an assorted tray of antipasti - olives, cheeses, Italian cured meats and those cold quiche bites. For dessert they made fried dough bites with Nutella in them, fresh strawberries, they amazing lemon torte and for a change they added some orange flavoring and extra chocolate to their delicious tiramisu. It was a nice early lunch. I had a bit of everything but not too much. We were both tired when we came home and plopped down for a nap. I actually was shocked I slept for 3 hours. I have been feeling like round 2 of this viral cold is trying to come back and I sleep alot when I'm sick. I woke up, checked out some recipes and made a honey butter glaze for the ham I got for free from the store - we aren't big ham eaters but I had enough grocery points for a free one so DH picked one out. I popped the ham in the oven, made potato salad from the potatoes I baked the day before and then found out that the hard cooked eggs I made also the day before were not cooked enough.
I always simmer my eggs when I cook them and I saw a recipe that said bring the pot to a boil, then cover and remove from the heat for 20 minutes. Did that and the yolk was just hard but the whites were runny - like a slightly overcooked 3 minute egg. I ruined a whole dozen eggs from the farm!
I had chilled them after I cooked them so was not sure I could cook them again without issues. So no eggs in the potato salad but DH liked it anyway. He said his favorite Easter dish is potato salad
Because we were eating later I lightened it up and served homemade apple sauce I made from orchard apples last fall and froze in batches and also cut up some fresh pineapple. It was a nice, light meal. The ham was juicy and not that salty tasting but the scale this morning said there was plenty of salt there.
Did you see that MyFitnessPal got hacked? I didn't realize they were a part of Under Armor.
It's about time for me to hop in the shower and get ready to head out so I'll post this for now. Happy Monday, Happy April chicks.