Sunday

[susandennis]

I have so many negative feelings about Nancy Regan that hearing of her death only brought me thoughts of thankgod that era is over. After a 24 hour news cycle, we can forget about the Regans and all the damage they did. Some of those years were made so horrible by both those ridiculous people.

Whew. I'm not sure I realized how pissed I was about them. Ok. I'm done.

The pool doesn't open until 8 on Saturdays and Sundays. My swim buddy, Brody, and I have learned that if we get there early enough (usually quarter of), we can catch the front desk lady when she comes to work. She goes in and opens up and gets everything set before she unlocks the door at 8. But, if we're standing there, she'll let us in early.

Today I made a stop at Safeway first and that put me at the pool door WAY early but as I drove up, I saw Brody there. It was only 7:35. We had a nice chat and then the lady that runs the smoothy bar came along and tried one of the doors and it was open!! Someone had left the gym unlocked all night. The up side is that Brody and I got in the pool 15 minutes early which turned out to be excellent. We had the pool to ourselves for 45 minutes and then it got real crowded real fast. We got our good swim in and got out of the way.

Usually when Brody and I get there before it opens, we don't even try the doors. We sure will from now on!

The lane line isn't fixed yet BUT I just checked the tracking number for the felt eyes I ordered from Etsy that went to Anchorage. They are in Seattle!! They were in a Seattle suburb 2 weeks ago so I'm not that hopeful but at this point any change is good. It shows that maybe they aren't lost.

soon_lee posts the most delicious photos of meals that she he makes. I am too lazy and/or motivated to actually make the food she he does but I so love looking and dreaming about making it. However... her his latest entry started out with a tomato, cucumber, onion salad. My dinner last night needed 2 slices of onion so I already have one started. I'm going into the kitchen now to cut up the tomato and cucumber and let them all marinate so I can have a little Soon_Lee of my own today.

The rest of the day will be sewing and baseball and knitting and maybe watching the movie, Grandma.

Comments

[soon_lee]

Thanks, and you're welcome!

To the tomato, cucumber, onion, add olives & feta cheese & it's a Greek salad.


[BTW, boy person here]

[susandennis]

OMG! You are a boy person?! That's so funny. I used to get so stressed when I didn't know or couldn't figure out the gender of an LJ person and then, over the years, I just assumed everyone I didn't know for sure was a female. Lazy lazy me. Thanks for letting me know.

And I didn't see the feta. I'm not wild about feta and thought it was very clever of you just to leave it out.

Wrong on so many levels BUT, I'm still going to leave it out of my salad today. A little oil, a little vinegar, a very little sugar and some salt and pepper. That's what I'm going to try today.

[soon_lee]

No problem honestly. It was a conscious choice to leave out gender descriptions in my profile. With so many LJ people who use ambiguous-gender usernames, I just go with the flow.

There was no feta or olive in my salad. I was just trying to make the point that you could turn it into a Greek salad by adding a couple of ingredients; adding or removing an ingredient or two is a good way of playing around with variations of recipes. Sometimes it works better than other times; I follow recipes sometimes but mostly I take inspiration from classic recipes with a dollop of "make it up as I go" depending on what's in season.

[susandennis]

Ahhh i get it. I just cut up the veggies and decided to try it with balsamic vinegar. It tastes pretty good now but it will be fun to check after it has marinated a while.

[belleweather.livejournal.com]

My father in law was an air traffic controller. We hates the Reganses around here, my precious... I suspect that tomorrow we'll have cake to celebrate, even.

[kinderheldin.livejournal.com]

I had the same response to the news about Nancy Reagan. Yes, let's try to forget about the Reagans, though their damage lingers ...