Paige Wakefield » Food

Huge gift basket

Paige — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:57:15 +0000

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!

A good visit

Paige — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 03:09:13 +0000

Andrew dropped into the store today to say hello. He brought a couple of pizzas from Domino’s with him, and we had the chance to visit for a bit in between customers. We haven’t seen him since he left for school a year and a half ago. I can still remember the last time we saw him, right before he left; he was so excited! He is well on his way now to his final semester and is getting ready to take his gp exam. He was talking about how his univeristy had sponsored a job fair and there was a booth of information about gp recruitment and filling out the gp application.

Andrew has been working long and hard to pursue his dream, and he is a wonderful young man. I hope he does well. I have to admit that I miss seeing his smiling face here at work, and as nice as his replacement is here at work, it’s just not the same since he left to finish his schooling.

Enter the brownie-pops

Paige — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 23:44:05 +0000

Seems to me that a lot of my friends on Facebook have been posting photographs of the newest food craze since the cupcake – the cake-pops and the brownie-pops. I guess that these snacks are on the cutting edge of culinary cool! One of my sister-in-laws made a batch of cake-pops and gave them as Christmas gifts to the family this year.

I’m not completely sure, but it seems to me that they bake a cake (or brownies) then use a melon baller to scoop out balls of cake (or brownie) and then poke them with a skewer and drizzle icing over them. They are cute and tasty. Have you made any of them yourself?

Family drama

Paige — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 23:35:23 +0000

Why do you suppose that when families get together, there is a lot of unnecessary bickering and drama? People in my family are always asking me to hold the big family holiday dinners at my house, and it never fails, someone almost always ends up yelling at someone else. For Thanksgiving I threatened everyone with being squirted with squirt guns if anyone started anything, and that dinner went very well. But for Christmas, there was miscommunication and misunderstandings and hurt feelings, shouting, and people leaving in tears. I really hate it when people leave my house in tears.

Warehouse shopping

Paige — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 21:27:38 +0000

Today my hubby and I went to the local warehouse club to pick up a few things. A pair of spiky shoe cleats for my son (he walks to work) for a Christmas present, a pumpkin pie and an apple pie. The size of the pies and cakes at the warehouse club are HUGE and the prices are quite small, compared to the prices at the regular grocery store that we do our weekly shopping at. If there was a warehouse club store nearer to our house we would shop there more often; we could save a lot of money. The price of milk was amazingly low. And much to my surprise the store is now carrying my favorite breakfast cereal – Multi-grain Cheerios! I bought two boxes of those.

Perhaps we should take a hard look at working in a once-a-month trip there to stock up on some of the items.

Spray Salad Dressing

Paige — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 01:53:20 +0000

Sometimes I get in the mood for a good healthy salad. A good bountiful salad can make for a great meal. Right now people’s gardens are producing and folks are giving away produce like crazy, which is awesome for folks like me that don’t have a garden but enjoy the harvesting of others.

I like the spray salad dressing that they have available. You can really control the amount of the dressing this way. There is nothing worse that putting way too much dressing on your salad and then it becomes a soggy mess. A nice find spray is perfect!

Cookie recall

Paige — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 18:29:49 +0000

We got a notice in the mail that there was a recall on the cookies that we bought a couple of weeks ago, warning us that we might have purchased a contaminated tin of cookies. Although I was a little bit upset about the recall (since my hubby had already eaten all of the cookies!) I was impressed with the fact that the company used the information from the loyalty card usage to determine which customers bought the product so that they could be alerted to the recall! That is a very good reason to go ahead and sign up for company loyalty cards that I had not considered in the past!

My favorite

Paige — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 01:02:26 +0000

Instead of battling the big crowds at the malls yesterday I decided to take my guests to the Grey Ghost vineyards. They were having free wine tasting and live music for entertainment, and they have an interesting display of Christmas decorations made out of wine corks to look at. Their gift shop is really interesting, too. The employee that was performing the wine tasting server duties was very nice, and we bought some of the Adieu wine from her. The Adieu wine is my favorite. It is a white dessert wine that has no bite to it at all. The wine goes down so smooth, and it is so sweet. White chocolate candies are the perfect complement to go with that wine.

I’ve never tried cheesecake with the wine, but I think that would be awesome as well. Next time I go grocery shopping I think I’ll have to buy an individual slice of cheesecake to bring home and give that a try. I have to be really careful, though, I don’t want to gain any extra weight!

Being a red hatter

Paige — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 18:43:22 +0000

One of the things that I enjoy about being a member of a Red Hatter Club is the opportunity that I have to expand my horizons. By that I mean that I get to go places and do things that I would not have normally done on my own. And when I do these things, I learn some tidbits here and there and I often realize that I’m not quite as smart as I’d like to think I am!

One thing that I’ve learned about this group of women is that they like to drink wine. Some of them like it so much that they even have vino temp wine coolers in their garages to keep their wine chilled. Normally they would keep something like that in the kitchen or basement, but they have a small house and so they decided to keep it in the garage. Since the garage is attached to the house, it is only about fifteen paces from the kitchen, and that is a convenient place for their vinotemp wine cooler to be stored.

Last summer we went on a picnic and a drive down Skyline Drive together, and Karen even brought some wine in one of those vino temp beverage coolers that plugs into a cigarette lighter to keep the beverages cold without needing ice! I’m glad I was the designated driver that day!

Wonder if

Paige — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 23:59:04 +0000

I have put on my winter weight two months early this year! I’m not quite sure why that happened, I am thinking that my metabolism has slowed down recently, and that could be part of the problem. Of course, the ice cream for a before bed snack might have something to do with it as well! I never used to eat dessert at all, ever, but my hubby has been buying ice cream lately and it is hard to decline a bowl of ice cream while watching television at night. (Note to self: stop buying ice cream!)

I noticed that the local formalwear store has decided to go out of business; they have big signs all over their windows that all of their plus size formal dresses are 75% off. Maybe I should stop in and take a look and see if they have anything my size. I know for a fact that I don’t have nice dresses that fit me nowadays.