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Monday – Chicken Soup with noodles and peas/Biscuits

(Carma’s book club/Brian to JM)

Tuesday – Salmon/Risotto with asparagus

Wednesday – Grilled Pork Chops with Basil-Garlic Rub/ Polenta/ Veggie

Thursday – Meatballs with quick and spicy sauce and whole wheat spaghetti/Salad/Naan bread

Friday –Breakfast - Greek yogurt with fresh berries and sliced almonds

Lunch - Fast and Easy Tuna Salad Sandwich/Salad

Afternoon Snack - Homemade hummus with raw vegetables

Dinner - Beef, snap pea, asparagus and mushroom stir-fry over Brown Rice
(Well, won't be doing the baby corn, but the rest probably.)

Another week of panic at the last minute.

Saturday - Breakfast at Chef's Kitchen
    - skipped lunch since were were at Grandma's 90th birthday party
    - Stuffed pork chops, baked potato, corn

Sunday - French Toast and bacon
    - Guiltless Nachos
    - Supper with Mom at Chips.

Monday - Vegetable Frittata

Tuesday - Hamburger Pie
Brian's last class

Wednesday - Grilled Irish Bangers/Potato Salad

Thursday -Trader Joe's Pasta dish?


Friday -  Something quick since we are going to see a play

Will work on my menu this weekend.  So busy with some work stuff (including the quiz for the staff retreat......hooray!) and getting ready for the women's retreat for church.  So will be punting until Sunday I think. 

*The quiz is one of those personality assestment.  but it only gave 20 seconds to read and decide on each set of questions.  So you would have this set up.  Strongly me |Sort of Me| Neutral | Sort of Me| Strongly Me. 
On one side would be one comment and on the other side would be another comment.  Which isn't bad when it was say "I like fluffy puppies and rainbows" vs "Toxic slug is great!" 

But the problem was when it was things that were not easily compared (or even different subjects.)  So I neutraled quite a bit. 

Here is the rub. When we got to the hardware store, they didn’t have simple transistor radios. A weather radio or 3-4 clock radios, but nothing that Brian was looking for. So we then walked down to the grocery store but didn’t see anything, then walked down to the Walgreens. Which thankfully did have a little radio that took 2-AA batteries. When we finally got home, I told Brian that was a bit more of a trek than I had planned. And while I do want to start getting conditioned so we can hike during our summer trip to Colorado, this was not how I planned on starting it. (When I looked online the next day at work, the round trip was 6 miles. While not a lot for several of my friends, it took its toll on me since I really had not been walking much the past year.)

By the time we were on the return trip to the house, I had a call from my girl Amy asking where I was for working at the church. (I didn’t have her number to let her know that we were basically trapped so I tried to leave a message with a mutual friend, but that didn’t work.) Thankfully several people know that I don’t flake off normally and she called to see what was up. Weirdly my phone disconnected before I finished my call.

When we got back our street around 4 or so, the tree trimmers were gone and the tree – while not gone – was at least cut up and moved to the side of the road. Still without electricity. Getting ready for church was not going to happen. We ended up going over Brian’s mom’s house to spend some time basking in electric light. Basically went home and was early to bed.

Which was a good thing since the power company came at 5AM to fix the electricity. How do I know? Beepbeepbeep…Sadie’s barking… Man with bullhorn or loud two-way radio talking (Since he was restoring power, said walkie-talkie did not get put somewhere uncomfortable.)
By 7AM we had power and were able to get to work. I still had to contact the power to fix the lightpole on our property. The one of the stability cables snapped off. And the whole street of power lines are very loose and sagging. Ah well, we have power. (And the cable was fixed by Wednesday.)

And that was my exciting and dull weekend.  Some lessons learned.

Have a small radio with new batteries nearby. 
Have flashlights (that wasn't a problem)
Get more batteries than you think you will need.  (We need to get some D and C cell batteries)
Have phone numbers of several contacts in your cell phone.  Even if normally you would just look them up online.
That contact list? - Also write it down and have in a safe spot like near the door.
Always charge cell phones (and ereaders)  - though we did pretty good.