A couple of nights ago I decided that I’d be nice and pick up a couple of Pizza Hut pizzas on my way home from work for my family to eat. I knew that everyone had a busy day and figured that no one would have the energy to cook, so I called Pizza Hut about thirty minutes before I had to come home and ordered two pizzas. Their $10 special that I was hoping to use had expired, so I ended up buying differently than I had planned on. One of the pizzas that I ordered was a thin crust pizza. I ordered that for my sister. Well, I tried a pice of that myself, and I have to say it was really nasty! Give me my pan pizza any day of the week!
Archive for July, 2010
Have you ever dreamed of having the perfect fantasy kitchen? I do, all of the time! I’d love to have custom made cabinets with customized kitchen spice racks in it. I love the spice racks that hide inside cabinets that swing out to give up the goodies that are hiding deep inside. I think that they are just about the most clever spice rack ever designed!
In my current kitchen, there are cabinets on all of the walls so there is no way that I could have a wall spice rack in my kitchen; I’d have to go with the kind that mount on pantry doors or hide inside drawers. Right now I have a lazy susan inside my pantry that holds most of my spices. I hate to admit that it is overflowing a little bit.
In my fantasy kitchen, I’d have at least three times the room size, and two food prep areas. I’d have hanging pot racks and a double oven in a wall. I’d have two kitchen sinks, and one of those microwave ovens that keep your food refrigerated until it is time to cook it, and then automatically cooks it. If I had one of those, I’d think I’d died and gone to heaven!
No one at work follows the dress code. No one. So I was quite annoyed when my boss told me that I could not continue to wear cargo shorts to work. He said that shorts are against the dress code. He said that they are too short. The other ladies wear capris (which are technically shorts) and that is OK, but cargo shorts are not. I was annoyed because the customer only sees me from the waist up most of the time!
I don’t like capris on me. I think I look stupid in them. But I’ve bought a few to wear to work; it is just too hot for me to wear slacks in the pharmacy. But you know what? I’m going to start wearing dresses and skirts too – they are allowed at work, and they are not as warm as slacks. Too bad that they are shorter than my shorts! The dress codes does not limit the lenght of a skirt or dress! I wonder what my boss will say when he sees the new dress that I just bought on my last day off!
All of my life I’ve been adamant about keeping my doors locked. Both at home and in my car. I used to keep my bedroom door locked when I was growing up to keep my siblings from going in there to steal things from me. Fortunately my parents gave me a locking door knob after I caught several of my siblings stealing from my piggy bank!
My concern for my own safety increased when I became a young adult and was attacked and almost raped in my own apartment! I started taking karate classes and tried to get my apartment’s management to look into the installation of a REAL security system; not just a chain lock on the apartment doors! Back in those days, however, security systems were unheard of for individual apartments! So I ended up persuading the manager to give me an exception to the “no pets” rule and buy a dog for protection.
Ever since then I’ve been a strong advocate for having a dog or two in the house for security. I think a barking dog will scare off a burglar faster than any alarm system will! But then again, you don’t have to walk and feed and groom and scoop up after an alarm system, do you?
Recently I’ve been reading a lot of articles that give tips on how to stay safer at home. I like the one about using motion detection lights around the perimeter of the house. I also like the one about using timers to turn lights on and off at various times through the house.
I have been drinking Lipton Tea since I can remember. A cup of hot tea in the morning, iced tea all day long and a second cup of it hot after dinner. I’ve tried other brands but none of them even come close. I don’t care that Lipton is a few more cents more, it’s worth every penny.