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Long weekend, great ending
Feb. 3rd, 2003 09:56 amFriday ended oddly, to say the least. I was giving one of our toddlers his nebulizer treatment. Usually, this is really kind of fun. The kid is absolutely wonderful, and is an absolute sweetie during his treatments. This time though, he had a new medicince. He was sitting on my lap, and I was singing to him, and I inhaled a good dose of his medicine. Within a minute or two, I was having a really nasty allergic reaction including no breathing, pounding heart, incoherence, whole nine yards. It was like eating a brick of tofu (I'm allergic to soy too. *grumble*) Anyhow, I stopped the treatment and asked the director to finish, which she gratefully did, and let me go home a little early. Anyway, it was probably an omen for the weekend. ;)
Dinner on Saturday night rocked though, and I was pleased that my mostly pre-bought stuff came out right. I cooked up some chicken tenderloins in olive oil, butter, and garlic, then served it with spinach and ricotta tortellini with alfredo sauce. Bertolli's creamy alfredo? Good stuff, -very- good stuff. I plan on putting cayenne pepper in it next time as it was a touch bland for me, but then I also like tobasco sauce on chips, so my taste in spices is suspect. Anyhow, the end result was a rather tasty dinner that took all of 20 minutes to toss together. Definitely a keeper.
So I'm hoping I'm not the only person who's done this: You type exactly what you're thinking, hit enter, and the instant you hit enter, you know you not only shouldn't have, you said exactly the wrong thing, phrased it badly, and it's going to hurt someone, and you wish you could un-hit the enter key and make it never have happened. It's that moment of dismay and the sinking feeling in the stomach when things start to spiral afterwards. To say that I was brainless and having a fit of immaturity would be an understatement. Granted, it lead to a lot of soul searching and introspection as to some of my less than stellar personality attributes, so hopefully some small amount of good will come out of it. Doesn't change that I want an instant rewind key on my keyboard. ;)
Anyway, lots of fidgeting, self-examination, and remorse yesterday. Oh, yes, and Warcraft III. There's something very therapeutic about hacking things to pieces, be it humans or orcs. I did a lot of both, actually. I really like the story line involved too. I'd been playing Civ III, as I've said in earlier posts, but there just wasn't enough bloodshed and gore. I mean, what's the point of taking over countries if I can't see the suffering and lamentation? Honestly, what is this world coming to!
Later in the evening was the leadership flight, and oh, man it was snazzy! I wasn't really up to going out and participating in the pre-flight chaos, but I did watch and cheer people on. The Survivor theme was incredible (I've loved that theme since I saw it the first time!) And the poses were absolutely stellar. I loved the challenge that people got thrown, and if there hadn't been a gazillion participants, I'd probably have wanted to NPC. Still, I couldn't be more thrilled with the winner, and of course I'm delighted by the near miss, who rocks regardless of what he does. The flight really started a great end to the weekend, and I ended up in some amusing RP getting a lost bronzer soused up and out cold. Always a good thing, there. So all around, the weekend had a really happy ending in all respects, and I'm really looking forward to see what's next. There's some stuff that I need to pester people about at an administrative level, even if I don't really want to, but that's the least of my worries right now.
So despite that I'm kind of waffly mood-wise right now, the weekend ended beautifully, and I got to work 20 minutes early today, and it's been quiet so far. If I'm going for the omen thing, it looks like this week may go very well indeed. Here's to a week of happiness for everyone! Virtual hugs for all!
Dinner on Saturday night rocked though, and I was pleased that my mostly pre-bought stuff came out right. I cooked up some chicken tenderloins in olive oil, butter, and garlic, then served it with spinach and ricotta tortellini with alfredo sauce. Bertolli's creamy alfredo? Good stuff, -very- good stuff. I plan on putting cayenne pepper in it next time as it was a touch bland for me, but then I also like tobasco sauce on chips, so my taste in spices is suspect. Anyhow, the end result was a rather tasty dinner that took all of 20 minutes to toss together. Definitely a keeper.
So I'm hoping I'm not the only person who's done this: You type exactly what you're thinking, hit enter, and the instant you hit enter, you know you not only shouldn't have, you said exactly the wrong thing, phrased it badly, and it's going to hurt someone, and you wish you could un-hit the enter key and make it never have happened. It's that moment of dismay and the sinking feeling in the stomach when things start to spiral afterwards. To say that I was brainless and having a fit of immaturity would be an understatement. Granted, it lead to a lot of soul searching and introspection as to some of my less than stellar personality attributes, so hopefully some small amount of good will come out of it. Doesn't change that I want an instant rewind key on my keyboard. ;)
Anyway, lots of fidgeting, self-examination, and remorse yesterday. Oh, yes, and Warcraft III. There's something very therapeutic about hacking things to pieces, be it humans or orcs. I did a lot of both, actually. I really like the story line involved too. I'd been playing Civ III, as I've said in earlier posts, but there just wasn't enough bloodshed and gore. I mean, what's the point of taking over countries if I can't see the suffering and lamentation? Honestly, what is this world coming to!
Later in the evening was the leadership flight, and oh, man it was snazzy! I wasn't really up to going out and participating in the pre-flight chaos, but I did watch and cheer people on. The Survivor theme was incredible (I've loved that theme since I saw it the first time!) And the poses were absolutely stellar. I loved the challenge that people got thrown, and if there hadn't been a gazillion participants, I'd probably have wanted to NPC. Still, I couldn't be more thrilled with the winner, and of course I'm delighted by the near miss, who rocks regardless of what he does. The flight really started a great end to the weekend, and I ended up in some amusing RP getting a lost bronzer soused up and out cold. Always a good thing, there. So all around, the weekend had a really happy ending in all respects, and I'm really looking forward to see what's next. There's some stuff that I need to pester people about at an administrative level, even if I don't really want to, but that's the least of my worries right now.
So despite that I'm kind of waffly mood-wise right now, the weekend ended beautifully, and I got to work 20 minutes early today, and it's been quiet so far. If I'm going for the omen thing, it looks like this week may go very well indeed. Here's to a week of happiness for everyone! Virtual hugs for all!
