I like to use cracked peppercorns with steak (and salt too) which is perfect for me. Enough meat flavor without other flavors.

For dinner, I made a use up leftovers lasagne (I had noodles already and made a sauce with sausage, mushrooms, cream, tomatoes). It was pretty good, and the noodles were perfectly al dente which I prefer. I assume if I had cooked it another 15 minutes it would have been softer, but everyone was hungry.

Now I'm having skyr which is very tart, but still yummy.

Fantastic women's barbershop quartet doing a medley of love songs. So excellent!

I just bought their album! Thanks for the rec!

I did laundry, culled expired things from the Lazy Susan and removed everything to scrub the shelves, culled expired things from the refrigerator and cleaned some of the shelves, I swept, did dishes, changed the air filter, took out garbage, and went through some lessons in the online course I'm taking

That is LOTS of productivity! Go you!

I...went to Joann Fabrics and managed to only buy the stuff I needed (!!), then got empanadas with my friend who came to the fabric store with me, then we sewed a bit (I mostly ironed stuff to the t-shirts so they'd be stiffer fabric, and then cut them out into the squares for my quilt). Then I worked out, then met up with my sister's friend for dinner, took them to cupcakes, dropped them off, and now am watching Amazing Race. ...not nearly so productive.

This afternoon/evening I attacked all the assorted receipts, pay stubs and other paper littering my desk. In the process I also reorganized my filing cabinets. I have one stack of insurance papers left to be filed, but I need to actually read those first. The cats enjoyed the pile of paper destined for recycling and the emptied portable file box while I worked.

I just received an email with the subject "Getting this email can get you fired in Cincinnati" which probably wasn't supposed to make me laugh, but it did. (NoiseDesign will understand.)

I was not productive today. Well, I flipped the mattress and laundered the sheets, but that was because the dog bled on them after his dental surgery. Poor doggie. But he's feeling much more chipper now.

Go you on the 5k, Suela, that's great!

At least you have a diagnosis, Theo?

We eat a lot of red meat, but it's all game, which has lots of flavor. Not flavor that everyone likes, but I like it, so it works out.

Ooh, I forgot to take out garbage. I probably should. Because I'm still on spring break, and will likely forget tomorrow morning before he comes.

Hmm, Saturday we worked on taxes ALL DAY. Today, I got my car washed, went to get nails done but they were booked, then went to see Bad Words, which was snarkily sweet and lots of fun. Then came home and sexed up my husband and am now slounging in bed. A damn good weekend, I'd say.

The numerous things that can get you in trouble in Cincinnati.

I knew you'd understand.

Travel in Chicago is off to an auspicious start today. A train pulling into O'hare didn't stop. It ended up on the escalator. 32 injured, but it sounds like none are too serious.

Jesus, aurelia! Yikes!

And now part of the red line is shut down (south side) because a car went through a fence and hit a train. CTA chaos.