I’ve been in a bit of a funk today. There’s an issue at work that has been festering for a week which should have some resolution tomorrow but it has been bugging me. The issue has all the makings of good soap opera: manipulation, betrayal, back stabbing and amnesia. OK, maybe not the amnesia.
Also, the weather is a joke. I really am curious as to how we can send people to the moon and we can’t predict weather 24 hours in advance. I’m swearing on a fictitious stack of Bibles but the weather nimrod said there’d be sun today. HA! The weather just got more and more dismal as the day went by. Speaking of, it kind of sucks that while I have to be at work on time, those I work with who have children just show up once the kiddies are packed off to school. When school is on a two hour delay that means my co-workers get 2 1/2 hours to get to work. I know these latecomers have to take leave to cover the hours they weren’t at work today but it sticks in my craw that I beat the ice off my windshield this morning and got there right on time.
On a more positive note, I made lentil soup yesterday for dinner and it rocked. I used Alton Brown’s recipe* and instead of using the fanciful sounding grains of paradise I used black pepper mixed with a little ginger. I also used a mix of vegetable and chicken broth. We both had some for lunch today and I was sorry that I didn’t take a vat of it with me to the office. Drowning in a vat of lentil soup would have been so much more fun.
*Is it me or did FoodTV’s website just get a gazillion times more difficult to use? What is all that video hooha? Just let me get a recipe and be done with it already.