Crying over spilled marsala sauce!

If I didn't have ants before, I surely will now! While I was preparing my potatoes for boiling, making them into German potato salad later, I reheated my leftovers from dinner at Carrabba's last Friday night. It appalls my friends that I use the actual container to re-heat and I guess I can understand their dismay---it melts! When I got to my desk with the foam container, I realized there was a small hole in the bottom. Wisely, I flipped the box end for end, so the food would be in the cover portion of the container. WHAT A MESS! The juice from the meat as well as the marsala sauce splashed all over my desk, on my papers and in between them. Ugh! Such a good smelling desk, though......I transferred, more carefully this time, the whole works to a glass plate which allowed me to cut the steak with a knife and not make more mess! Got floss???

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It is just pouring out there, I cannot view Mandarin from this post. This a.m. should have been water aerobics but when I looked out the door, I did not spot anyone bobbing in the pool. Whether or not it was officially cancelled or if no one showed up, I do not know, but the weather was sooo iffy, I vote "no"! If the sun is not out there first, I am not out there, and with the rain showers coming and going most of the day, I opted to get showered and dressed instead. Joanne called me to report she walked a mile on the beach, as she stayed at her new digs last night. She asked if I was jealous and I said I was not jealous about walking but would not mind sitting on the beach watching her walk! She will be here tonight for the dinner and I am going to put her beans into the oven so they are ready when people come.

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Justin and I had lunch yesterday, as I noted earlier, and he is such a character! He can do an imitation of the famous interview of Michael Jackson a few years ago, where the singer tells of sitting on the bed with little boys, eating milk and cookies in front of the fire, "it's so sweet...". Justin did his imitation before the chef came to the table and I was just laughing my head off! The others at the table wanted a sip of whatever I was drinking....only soda, I promise!

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Then, out of the blue, Justin brought up the subject of the book I am writing. He asked me if I was willing to change the book. I asked, cautiously, just how I could change it, as he has not read it. (Only one other person on this earth has done so....) His suggestion is that I write a book about myself, and when I looked questioning, he added, "because you have done so much." He went on to say I could incorporate Timmy's story into mine, which, of course, would happen anyway. Justin thought I could write about what happened before and after in our family. Really? Well, I did not totally discount what he suggested but I think I will continue with the book the way it is for now. He thinks I should be a writer like Francis Mayes, that is what he told me yesterday, anyway. Maybe HE should be a writer and tell my story from his perspective---wait, NOOOO!!!!!!!

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Tuesday after Kathy's mother's funeral service, I came home and was pondering a few things, naturally. A couple ladies I want to hear/see the video tape of Timmy's funeral service have refused, saying they could not bear it, but I so want them to hear the wonderful message delivered that day in the sermon. The music and singing were one part, the sermon the other. So, I sat down and sent a request to my friend, Pete Prange, to see if he still had the text in his computer files, and if so, would he mind sharing it with me. Within the hour, it was in my computer! As soon as I opened it, the tears began and I was an emotional mess, but a good mess. Not like the one on my desk at the moment.

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p.s. Friday now, and what smelled so good yesterday when splattered on my papers and desk does NOT smell as good the second day-----guess I will need to take care of some paperwork soon!