We have a customer that calls our pharmacy every day as soon as it opens. She talks to one of us for at least thirty minutes. She is a very nice lady, but her timing is really bad! When the pharmacy first opens it is slammed with customers wanting to pick up the prescriptions that they called in for refills overnight. No one worked overnight, so the opening crew needs to hustle and fill them all as soon as possible.
Well, today we received a huge gift basket full of fruit, crackers, cake and snack foods delivered to us. The card said it was from the lady who calls us every morning, thank us for our patience! Wasn’t that nice of her! I think accepting it is a violation of the company’s policies, but I’m not the one the basket was addressed to, and I’m not the one who accepted it, so I won’t get in trouble. It would be interesting to see if anyone DOES get in trouble for it!
Much to my surprise, I have today off of work! My friends who live a few towns away have invited me to come out to their place for a noon time Memorial Day Barbeque, so I’ll be leaving in a short while to head out. I asked them if I could bring anything and they said no, just to come.
I’m looking forward to grilled steaks, potato salad, devilled eggs and corn on the cob! Yummy!
Today is my 8th wedding anniversary! Happy anniversary “M!” I had to work all day today, so didn’t have time to go out and do something special, we’ll have to catch up on that soon. I’d like to try to eat dinner at a Restaurant called Ben & Mary’s Steakhouse out on RT 17. I’ve heard that they have good steak, and I’ve been wanting to give them a try ever since we moved here.
I must be hungry, I’ve got food on my mind today! Our family LOVES mashed potatoes. I HATE to peel potatoes! In fact, I have carpal tunnel syndrome, and peeling veggies aggravates it, and ten minutes of peeling turns into three weeks of agony, so I just don’t do it anymore. Well, no one else in the family would DREAM of peeling veggies, so when we have mashed potatoes we resort to the “instant” boxed flakes (which isn’t too terrible) but recently we discovered the Bob Evans brand of ready-to-heat-and-eat mashed potatoes in a tub. They are FANTASTIC! They are reasonably priced, and one tub feeds three people with decent portions.
One of my family’s favorite recipes is found right on the back of most Bisquick boxes. It is the recipe for oven-fried chicken. We fix it with chicken thighs, and it is delicious! It tastes very similar to Kentucky Fried Chicken, but is much cheaper! We measure all of the ingredients into a big zipper storage bag, add two chicken thighs at a time and shake it to coat. Pop it in the oven, turn it once. It is delicious! Very very easy to do. I even like it cold, as a lunch the next day, so I try to cook more than we will eat at supper time!