Last week

According to the boss at work, this will be my last week at Anagram.  Its been a really good job for me over the winter.  I wonder what will be next?

My Steak Dinner

Today I made a yummy steak dinner for the family.  We had some reduced price steak which had sat in the freezer for about 6 months and decided last night that today would be the day to use it.  So I cooked it up with steamed cabbage, mashed potato and olive oil fried tomatoes, red peppers and onions.  It was lightly seasoned with black pepper, garlic and salt.  The gravy was homemade from scratch, using the drippings from the meat as well as the water the vegetables were cooked in - it was delicious.

My family agreed with me on this, except for one crucial, American detail.  This pure, undefiled, totally homemade and delicious meal needed one final ingredient to form a more perfect dining experience.  Actually it needed two - according to my sweetheart and her offspring.  Tomato Ketchup and Sweet Baby Rays barbecue sauce. YEAH, cause this is AMERICA baby, and without High Fructose Corn Syrup, it ain't happening!

So I sat and ate my steak the English way, with gravy.

The week flu by

This week I was sick with some kind of a cold.  It wasn't flu according to the definition I heard from a nurse one time.  She told me that the way to tell the difference between a cold and flu is one hundred pounds.  (Money, not weight; I heard this in England).  If you are laying sick in bed, and there is one hundred pounds on the other side of the room ($150 aprox) if you have a cold, you will go and get it.  If you have the flu you cannot leave the comfort of your bed as you have not energy left.  As I had energy to leave my bed each morning, I am diagnosing it as a heavy cold.  I am feeling better today but still a little bunged up.  I shall rest this weekend.

The Snow Came

So the snow came, cancelling church because of the freezing rain that was forecast.  This actually fell as ice pellets, rather than liquid rain that froze to whatever it came into contact first - not as dangerous or slick, but still a nuisance.

Speaking of nuisance, we visited a friends yesterday and we left all their winter clothing there.  Rachel, who went to a baby shower, was not at all impressed with me!  Anyhow while we were there the following conversation came up between Emma and Natalie.

Emma:  How does it feel to be the only girl in your family?

Natalie (who has three brothers): What do you mean?

E: You are the only sister and you have three brothers!

Natalies mother: But Emma, you are the only sister too.

E: Yes, but Natalie has Boys, I only have Boy (pointing to Elisha)

Cue general discussion between the girls on Boy and Boys in family.

Cute.

Snow Coming

The news is full of the big snowfall that will cover the northeast of the USA.  Here in Minnesota we are expecting to catch another storm that will most likely put 4 to 6 inches of snow on the ground over the next few days.  So, I am glad that I don't work in the snow removal industry at the moment!

Slush Hour

Last night it snowed.  For the second night in a row.  So this morning at about 6:30 I was shovelling snow off the car and the driveway in order to get to work on time. Which I didn't.  Because when it snows in Minnesota, we don't have rush hour, we have slush hour.  Which extends what would be rush hour about an hour in each direction, sends cars sliding into ditches and lowers the speed limit by about 45 mph.  Which all adds up to being 15 minutes late for work for the second day in a row.

Back from Vegas, Forward to a job.

So last week I came back from Las Vegas to snowy Minnesota.  One big difference I noticed was that the airport in Vegas had all these video screens advertising casinos.  The Airport here in Twin Cities has video screens with the weather on them.  I guess that shows something.  It rained for three days in Vegas while I was there - I guess it was the wet season.  We didn't get the showroom finished by the time that we left, but most of the work was done.

We were at the World Market Center.  An impressive building, reminding you at the same time of a prison, a communist headquarters, and something I couldn't quite put my finger on until the last couple of days we were there.  And so, shamelessly ripped from various websites, I present to you:

The World Market Center, Las Vegas.

 The Inspiration for the world market center, Las Vegas.