Shopping With Cee

Cee and I went shopping together today.  Had a heck of a time finding some things since it was a store I was unfamiliar with.  Along with a few grocery items, I picked up a little something for both Chewlee and Gunner.  It may not be much but I hope they like it.  

I picked up some shrimp, a green pepper and some okra for shrimp creole.  I knew we had everything else so that is what is on the menu for tomorrow's dinner.  I double-checked my recipe and I was right so I will put it on to cook around noon.  The shrimp isn't added until last and the rice isn't added until the end.  Some recipes have it served seperately but this recipe I have is an old one and I've made it many times before (and like it).  I was actually surprised that modern recipes for the dish does not contain any okra.  It's not that I am a fan of it but it has always been a staple addition to most Southern recipes for a couple hundred years.  Like I said, it was the way I learned to make it years ago so I will continue to make it the way I know best.

The Beast wants me to make a cherry pie tomorrow, too, and since the cherries are the canned ones, it's nice and simple.  I can do that easily.  It makes him happy and I don't mind a slice either.  I just make mine a lot smaller than his...LOL.

It was another nice day today.  I think it got up to 62 again.  Even the Beast took Baron on a run and Baron was so very happy.  You could see it on the grin the dog gets when he makes that final run back to the house and beats the scooter.  

I had something happen yesterday that blew my mind.  I had bought a 3 wick candle.  It was in a glass container...a short one...and when it got down to about an inch of the melted wax, the bottom actually broke and all that wax poured out over my desk and onto the rug next to it.  What a mess it made!  I couldn't believe it did that.  Guess you have to be careful and not buy something that is cheap because you don't know where they cut corners.  My desk still smells like pine...LOL.  And I am still cleaning the wax out of the rug.  I used the ice hint on it but, trust me, it doesn't apply when the wax is THICK.  You just have to keep shaving the wax down until you can get it to where you can actually clean it up.

We had a decent dinner tonight.  Meat loaf, mashed potatoes and gravy and some creamed corn.  It filled the hole and not much left over but it wasn't like it was made for a crowd, either.  I try, just not always successfully, not to make so much that I could feed six people well.  I do have mashed potatoes left over but I can use them at lunch for us.  I have two thick slices of meat loaf left and will just add some green beans to it.

I think Chewlee gets off school for the *Winter Break* ... I hate all this *politically correct* crap...it's the Christmas Break for cryin' out loud!  Anyway, I think it starts after next week, Friday.  I have no idea when her paternal grandfather will be here (she said he was coming up from Florida) but I thought I would ask the Princess if she could spend Friday night with me.  It may be the only time during the two weeks she will be off that I can do that.  We can stay up late and camp out on the floor and watch movies.  We haven't done that in a while and it will be fun.  My back may not appreciate it but I'll get over it.  LOL!  She's getting older, bigger and I won't have many of those kind of days with her soon.  *Sigh*  I hate that she's growing up in many ways.  Even her mom does per her FB page.

Well, time to post this.  Love you all.  Be good.  Be kind.  ***Hugs***