Semi Day Off

Posted on Tuesday, September 6, 2005 at 10:53 AM

I stretched my holiday weekend out by another day, luxuriating in not having to work today. However, there were two things hanging over my head from Friday, so I stopped by the office this morning to attend to them. As always happens, neither one of them got taken care of, one person wasn't home and the other person needed to think and talk over my proposal. BUT, two other people called for me while I was there-so sucker me took the calls and attended to business. I did make it out of there after 2 1/2 hours though..

Came home full of DIY plans-scooted husband off the computer and we went to Home Depot to buy paint. We had decided that the kitchen cabinets were in dire need of refurbishment. I can't afford new ones so we are going to sand and paint the old ones.The kitchen faces north and has a small window so it is on the dark side and having dark wood cabinets doesn't help. The color we picked was Peach Organza, which should go well with the dark green granite.countertops and the darkish terra cotta tiles.We left there and went to a strip mall so husband could go to Media Play and Staples. I stayed in the car and used the time to call my mother and best friend. Mother not around so left a message and Kathleen (best friend) not home either. I decided to call her cell but no deal. She did call back shortly, seems she had her pants down around her ankles when I called before. I was glad to know it was because she was as the doctor's. So we had a good chat since it had been a month since we last spoke.

  Came home and fixed the lamb shanks and those are simmering in the oven. I had found the recipe that had been partially destroyed, online (hurray) so was able to do them that way after all, instead of hunting up a different recipe.Forgot to buy shallots so improvised with onion, no small cans of crushed tomatos so used tomato paste and was 2 oz short on the beef stock so used water and Worcestershire sauce to make up the difference. I know this doesn't sound quite right, but it is good really. Well it is good when you used the right stuff....    I'll find out in about 2 hours if it was okay with the substitutes.

 Wed starts husband's work week, so up at 5, sigh, means bed at 10 tonight. I always have trouble getting back into the groove on Tuesday nights. Especially tough on holiday weekend because my body says no, it's Monday. It's a struggle.