Today was a work day for me and it’s not always easy to get up from being at my desk all day and then start on supper.  Sigh.  What to fix!  The easy days are the days I use the crockpot.  Today was not an easy day, but it ended up okay.

These are potatoes cut into pretty thin wedges and then tossed with a liberal amount of olive oil.  I stand them neatly in the pan, skin side down, because it seems the skins don’t stick so much.  I sprinkle them — again liberally, with sea salt, freshly ground pepper and paprika.  Then I bake at 400 degrees for probably 20-30 minutes or until done and crunchy and I don’t turn them or anything. They are the best fries ever.

You don’t need to know how many of these I can eat with ketchup.  Or not.

We also had salmon patties, slaw and homemade apple sauce.  Yum.

On another note, I called to renew a magazine subscription today and was totally blown away by the fact that this magazine — my favorite magazine ever…

is NO LONGER GOING TO BE PUBLISHED.

Why?  The man answering the phone could not tell me.  Just that the last issue I bought, Dec 2008/Jan 2009, will be the last one.  I am sad. 

Was it your favorite magazine too?

Lynn

I am trying to wrap my brain (and my planners) around the fact that the holiday is over! 

Yes, it’s time to get back to it!  What’s on tap for this week? 

For one thing, finishing up Snowflake Bentley (Caldecott Medal Book).

Also, we will be reading Hamlet aloud this week.  Can we do it in a week?  I don’t know, but I do have a funny comment from my son Joseph.  He says if he has to write about Shakespeare that at the end of the report he’s going to put a PS that says “I did not want to do this.”  I hope actually studying Shakespeare will change his mind a bit.

One thing I try to do regularly is jot down tricky words when they come to mind.  In my medical transcription work I used to do a lot of proofing for the company.  There are many words that are commonly misspelled or misused.  One is using “site” when “cite” should be used.  This week we will be talking about sight versus site versus cite. 

We are also copying some favorite quotations this week.  I will have Princess of the Universe doing more creative writing from Story Starters: Helping Children Write Like They’ve Never Written Before.  Joseph must get back into his Japanese.  We also must study our Karate every day (me included) as we test in February for our next belt.

I want to study the night sky this week. 

Of course we will be playing dolls. 

On a life note, these gray dreary days have had me feeling a bit blue.  (January and February tend to do this to me.)  I took some time this morning to just look at and appreciate a bit of summer in a vase.  For Christmas, my mother bought me a ton of dried flowers from the farmer’s market.  She knows her girl!

They brighten up the mood, eh?

Have a lovely Monday!

Remember to enjoy this day. 

Lynn