My Saturday

Today has been a pretty good day. First, I slept really well with no Klonopin until 8 am. I slept well enough that I didn’t hear Fred get up during the night.

After I got up, I put the ingredients for a loaf in the bread machine and then decided that I really wanted something curried. So, I found some chicken breasts, cut them up. put them in the small Crock Pot, and made a mild curry sauce to put over them. If I had been making it for myself, I would have used more curry but I know Fred doesn’t like really hot stuff. I plugged this into the wall and started on tuna salad which was another thing he had asked for. I quite like making two or three different things while I am in a cooking mood so this wasn’t a chore. I plugged in a very nifty little chopper we have and chopped up green onions and celery and then pulled the plug from the wall. At that time, the plug of the Crock Pot came with it and I didn’t notice! Oooops! Once all this was done, I went out for a walk.

it was snowing when I left– the light grainy snow that looks a bit like ice falling. I was wearing my orange vest on top of my yellow coat and walking on the road so I was avoiding the worst of the ice and slush although there were still a couple of places that I had to walk carefully over. I was enjoying my walk so much that when I was heading home, I took the long way down Main Street. Since I had a $20 bill in my pocket {I do carry ID but I don’t usually carry money when I walk} I crossed Main St. to a service station/store to get some milk. It was easy to see what sold. There was a section, a big section, of beer and wine, and another big section of junk food. Almost as big was the candy section and the milk was tucked into a little cooler at the back.When I got home, I noticed there was no delicious curry smell coming from the Kitchen and that was when I discovered I had unplugged the Crock Pot. It was an annoyance, nothing more, since there was plently of time left to cook it.

I spent the afternoon working on layouts for Fred’s letter to all the people who had written to him. The final form was made in Printshop as a pamphlet. It had a picture of our back yard in the snow that I took last year. The inside of the pamphlet is blank so he can write on it, and the two other sections are decorated with light blue snow flakes. it looks pretty snazzy though I say it myself so on the third section, tucked neatly into a corner, it says “Designed by Patricia.” The really good thing about it is that when it is folded, it can tuck neatly into a standard-size envelope… I printed out a dozen copies for him although he has only nine letters to write. I pointed out to him that he could type the same letter for everyone and then I could print it for him on this paper, but he decided he would prefer to do it by hand.

After that, I walked on the tread mill for 20 minutes while I was watching “Batman.” It is so much easier to do when I have a DVD. I am not going fast but I am pleased that about 13 minutes of this 20 minutes was consecutive. {Then I had to stop to get my breath back and to drink water.} Now I am working on stamina. Speed can come later. After that, I put some Basmati rice on to cook and when it was done, I turned off the heat and let it sit to absorb the water. It was delicious with the curried chicken.

So, all in all a good day for me.

Until later…