Sunday, as Jay was leaving for work, he called me.  That's right, he was in the driveway and he called me on his cell phone.  Hey, it was cold out, he didn't want to get out of the car.

"How about lasagna?"  He said instead of "hello".  I think that's a much better greeting, don't you?  Try it.  Call someone right now and instead of "hello", say "How about lasanga?"  I predict it will sweep the nation!
Hey, it's no more far fetched that catastrophic climate change due to human behavior and apparently a lot of people are falling for that one.

Jay just wanted lasagna for dinner.  Most of the time on Sundays, he cooks.  But his team had just lost to their arch rivals on Saturday so he had a lot of work to do, a lot on his mind and by asking me to cook one of the few dishes I do well, he was telling me he wasn't going to be home in time to make dinner himself.

That's what "how about lasanga" meant to me.  We've been married a long time.  Of course, I hadn't made dinner in a long time so I didn't mind making lasagna at all, and besides, I love the stuff. 

Actually, this week I did cook a few meals.  I felt like I had to because last week we pretty much grazed like cattle.  It's really hard to plan meals during the basketball season, because no one is ever here to eat.  Most nights it winds up being just me and Josie and we don't get to sit down until her bedtime adn who wants to eat a big heavy meal at eight o'clock on a wednesday night?  But around the middle of last week, after two full weeks of eating on the run, when I picked Josie up from school the first words out of her mouth were

"What's for dinner?  Please tell me you're cooking dinner."

So I did.  In the last few nights I've made beef stew, which is really perfect for the season, as I can start up the pot at noon and it just gets tastier all day long, and people can eat it whenever they happen to get home.  I also made chicken scallopini in mustard sauce, which we call smashed chicken.  You flatten the meat, fry it and cover it in a dijon sauce that makes my mouth water just thinking about it.  Then I made steak and veggie stir fry.  Then Sunday, lasagna.  We also have a glazed ham in the fridge that we've been working on for a week.

The problem is no one but me will ever touch the leftovers.  We ate about two thirds of each of those meals and the rest went in the fridge.  There's no room left in the fridge, so I'm not making anything new until they eat this stuff!  I told them that yesterday and you know what they did?

They cooked their own dinner!  Zack pulled some Hamburger helper out, took the pound of ground beef that I hadn't put in the lasagna (I was going to do sloppy joes) and he cooked them a hotdish.

I'm glad my kids are self sufficient and can cook but WHO'S GOING TO EAT ALL THE LEFT OVERS?

And now there's lasagna, as well.

Back on Sunday, it actually got really warm out.  It had been below zero for the better part of the last two weeks so when I saw the thermometer reading 27 above, I got excited and decided I would go for a run.  I've only run twice in the last three weeks and my underwear doesn't fit anymore.  That's never good.  I had  a ton of work to do, so I painted all afternoon, made the lasagna sauce and figured I'd run while the lasagna baked.  That's when Jay came home and told me he'd invited guests for dinner.  In less than an hour.  No time to run.  (Yay!) I'll just buy new underwear.  Jay told the kids to tidy up the house for company. 

"Do the Curry's really count as guests?" Josie grumped.  She just didn't want to clean the porch.

Shortly before dinner, MJ called Josie with important news; an old movie was going to be on later that Muzz was convinced Josie would enjoy.  So after dinner, while the rest of us were drinking wine, listening to cd's that Andrea had brought back from Austin and laughing alot, Josie retired to the porch to watch Fred MacMurray in the Absent Minded Professor.  We could hear her laughing over the music and through the closed door.  It is a very funny movie!  After the Curry's went home to watch the Grammy's, I watched the rest of Flubber (the movie's unofficial title) with her.  It was a good way to end a fun weekend. 

I had taken Josie and Meg skating at a park in Edina on Saturday.  There's a rink across the street, but they wanted to go to this place that has several connected rinks, bridges and two fireplaces in the warming house.  It was six degrees.  I figured the girls would be good for a half an hour, maybe.  They skated for two hours.  I needlepointed till my hand ached and the light got bad.  I'm almost done with the piece I'm working on; a purse for MJ that's the cover art of The Sting, which is her favorite movie.  I'm down to just background.

Gotta go; lot's of work to do, appointments to keep and The Departed came out today on dvd!

 

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