Showing posts with label Woodruff Road. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Woodruff Road. Show all posts

Saturday, December 15, 2012

Pleasant Saturday



Okay as the day progressed I got a little more serene. To say that I was peeved off in my last blog would be an understatement and rather than embark back on that train of thought I will leave it to another day.

So after being awake until 5am or so my body clock today is a complete mess today obviously.

In support of my manager's daughter's school I made the trek down to the Barnes & Noble on Woodruff Rd. to watch her perform in the kid's holiday pageant at the store and to get add some fresh new books to my library. B&N was kicking back some money to the school. No idea what the slice was and nor did the ladies at the register. I sure hope that it's 10% or something like that. I ended up getting 5 new books that will carry me through the holiday season as I will have quite a bit of free time off work then. I rarely go down to Woodruff anymore because of the ridiculous amount of stop and go or not go anywhere traffic. Noonish on Saturday afternoon is not a good place to be near the stores on that road. As I was in the car I kept of George Costanza's father's line "serenity now." That's all I felt like saying over and over. LOL.

After getting back from there I ended up making that homemade chicken noodle soup that I started on yesterday evening with my adventures in making a chicken broth from scratch. The broth turned out okay but I had to improvise to skim the fat off that was generated from the leftover rotisserie chicken I used to make the broth. I'm thinking that a cheesecloth would be more effective to use as a strainer than what I used. I will to try that out. The base could have been a bit more chicken-y. LOL. Probably not a word but you get my point. So I added some leftover chicken meat, parsley, carrots and celery and added some sea salt and cracked black pepper and I think that my first attempt at made from scratch chicken soup came out pretty well. I had several bowls for supper earlier tonight and it sure helped unclog me from that annoying cold that I have had for close to ten days. The soup got my sweat glands going that's for sure.

I ended up watching a pretty cool movie on InDemand called "The Human Resources Manager". It is an Israeli film that was released in August of 2010 and the film is mostly in Hebrew with some English and Romanian thrown in. That's a first for me watching a film that had more Hebrew and Romanian than my two mother tongues. LOL. This film won the Israeli equivalent of the Academy Awards for Best Film, Best Screenplay, Best Director, Best Supporting Actress and Best Soundtrack. It's weird I don't remember much music in the film. Perhaps it's because I had to keep track of the sub-titles so much as the film was going. It was a good movie. Not typically the light-hearted romantic comedy that I usually watch. It made for a nice change of pace. Time to grab a snack and beverage. I'll be back....

Friday, November 25, 2011

Friday Friday


Darn it is hard to believe that we're already at the 25th of November. Time does indeed fly by. Only a month to go to Christmas. Streets to avoid today are Woodruff, Fairview and Haywood. I can just imagine the traffic on these shopping roads.

Last night I had my first deep-fried turkey. I think I have joined the choir. It was pretty effin good. I stayed away from the skin which others were raving about and just had white meat but man it was juicy and fork tender.

I woke up at 6am for a moment and it clicked on me that people had already been shopping for hours at that point. Yikes one must be determined I guess. You won't find me anywhere near these roads. Only shopping I am doing is if I need anything to go with the greek-style chicken tonight. I may need potatoes. I have lots of tomatoes, onions and tzatziki.

Going to be another relatively inactive day for me. A little bit of work-work and some college football this afternoon. LSU and Arkansas. Hopefully it won't be a blowout. Be interesting to see the polls afterwards if Arkansas wins.

I should probably start raking the front of the house. My bradford pears out front gave up all their leaves this past week. You can't see any of the grass for all the leaves of the ground. On the left side of the house I may actually have to mow the lawn. It is that long. Weird have green grass year-round like I do here.

Tomorrow morning is my monthly appointment at Massage Envy. I sure hope that she can loosen up the right side where my sciatic nerve has been acting up. I am not aging gracefully. LOL.

Okay I think I need to start folding clothes. I have lots of laundry to do today!