Mother has been off in balmy Key West for three days now. I can’t believe how much sound EM contributes to this house when she is here!
I was out running errands today, and stopped at one of my favorite stores, Trader Joe’s. I usually limit my shopping there to special occasions because the temptation is to purchase things that don’t fit into a diet.
I was trying to come up with something for a simple but classy meal for DH and myself. I picked up the roasted red pepper tomato soup, a wedge of Gouda, a small package of spinach hors de oeuvres, a chicken and veggie stir fry, a package of cashews, and two bottles of Two Buck Chuck.
Dear Husband expected to be late this evening, so I held off starting dinner. Thirty minutes before I expected him, I heated the appetizers, put the soup on low, tossed a salad, and opened the wine to let it breathe.
Of course, he called, and said he was going to be about 45 minutes later than he had expected. I had my soup while I waited for him, and then reheated everything when he was ready for dinner. We ended up skipping the stir fry, and just had soup and salad.
We’re getting easy in our old age….

Last March we bought a new computer. It sits in the living room, and there’s no printer connected to it. My office is across the house, and we wanted to network the computers so that I would have access to the printers. My stepsons are very computer literate, and they offered to help set up the network. Things move very slowly in this household, so the wire to connect the two computers was not strung until right after Christmas. Dear Husband made the connections, and nothing happened.

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