When I went to church last Sunday I invited the youth minister over for a luncheon. I had pretty much decided that I was going to make a hot lunch as I didn't have sandwich meats and our youth minister has a lot going on in the evenings and doesn't always get a hot meal in the evening. So today I'm making pork chops, mashed potatoes and what ever vegetable I find in the cabinate or freezer. Now I've been thinking about seeing how this works out and if it does how I may want to start doing this on a daily basis because by the time it's dinner time (between 5 and 6 PM) I am so tired that I can't think straight or can't stand to make dinner. If I'm going to make it earlier in the day it will also mean that I'm actually getting a meal. I don't always get anything good to eat because at dinner time I'm wiped out from my activities of the day. (yah, sitting on the couch on the computer and watching TV is very tiring) I have been having a bad case of Fibro Fog and of course the Fibromyalgia wipes me out a lot so by the time dinner is supposed to be made it's the last thing I really want to do.
So besides having the youth minister over for lunch I'm also doing laundry. It's not a matter of wanting to do it so much as I have NO choice today. I'm out of clean cloths and need to get stuff washed. I started out doing laundry with the sheets on my bed. I have the spread over at the laundry room to do but am thinking I'll bring over the cloths to do next. I made sure to set the timer when I got back here so I'd know when to go back over to switch the load into the dryer. It always takes longer for the washer to run than it says it does on the washer so I set the timer for 8 minutes longer than the time on the washer. When I get back after the sheets go in the dryer I'll set the timer again for how long the dryer is supposed to go for and when that's done I'll start another load of wash. I have the bed spread that needs to be washed and also a whole load of towels so I'll have washed 4 loads of laundry by the time the day is done. I want to catch the dryer before it goes off because some of the laundry is light and won't take the whole time that you get from putting $1.75 in and I'm hoping to save a little bit of money by drying things till they are dry but not scorching dry. I need to make sure I check the dryer setting to make sure I'm drying on the right cycle as well.
So all in all today will be a busy day. It's already 9:15 and I have a lot to do before my company gets here between 12:30 and 12:45. It won't take me long to cook the pork chops and vegetable. It's the mashed potatoes that take time but if I get everything prepped before hand things will go easier for me. As soon as I finish this I'm going to peel the potatoes and get them in water to soak.
Got interrupted here. As I was heading over to put the next load of laundry into the washer the fire alarm started going off again. I quickly gathered what I might need if there was a fire in the building besides the cats because they are a two person project to get out. Then because I knew that they were going to kick us out till the fire department cleared the building I went to sit outside. Forgetting of course about switching laundry over because what if there really was a fire? Well one of the maintence men came running to check out the building and said there wasn't any fire and went in to shut off the alarm. It took about 20 minutes for the alarms to go off so now I'm back to doing laundry and getting my luncheon going.
So bye for now. I'll write more at some other time.
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