I went to the supermarket for many things, including for a holiday treat I was going to make my family. They didn't have ground pork! It "didn't come today"! What the eff is that? I guess I could have bought a piece of pork and ground it myself, but I didn't think of that until just now.

I went to the grocery store too, mostly to get gas but also to make sure the car got started at least once this cold weekend (it did not enjoy it). As I went through the grocery store, I kept telling myself, "You're only thinking of buying that because you're bored. Safe it for Christmas/New Year's. Put down the cookie dough designed for eating raw--oh, all right, but eat it slowly when it gets home."

I would have commented on the bad theater, but I just spent the last hour on hold with United. I had to hang up to get on the plane. My connecting flight just got delayed, so maybe I'll make it. Who knows?

Flight to Chicago delayed again.

Booooo.

Remind me not to fly United if at all possible.

I have the feeling that I will be stuck in O'Hare's airport Hilton without my checked baggage or toiletries tonight. Why didn't I just assume this would happen and wear my glasses?

Is it weather in between you and Chicago? I mean, not that it matters.

Is there a way to get the yolks more centered inside the egg?

I know I've read tips that are supposed to help with that, but I haven't tested any to know if they work.

I checked off "trim" after cutting the branches off, which was not correct!

This delights me. I am just delighted.

That sounds pretty appalling, Debet. Have I told you about my worst theater-going experience? It was a production of Antigone in which the titular character spoke only French but the rest of the characters spoke English, the acting was wooden, and the space it was presented in was arranged so the action was between the audience and the door, so we couldn't leave. And at the intermission the cast all wanted to talk to us about what we thought of their labor of love. But at least it wasn't 3 hours long.

Sympathies on the delays, shrift. Best wishes for getting where you are going.

I made three meals and packed portions of them into my new lunch bag to take to work (we are supposedly getting lunch bought for us by Sales tomorrow as a thank you for getting those orders processed last week like the champions we are, but I don't want to be without food if that doesn't happen) and the rest into the fridge for dinners. Kinda running out of steam now, though. Maybe I will get a second wind if I rest a bit...

I am exhausted from this weekend, between running around for my mother and the nursing home holiday party I wasn't expecting to go to. Hilariously, all of the food at the party was either traditional Jewish or serious treyf. Maybe the pigs-in-a-blanket were beef franks, but other than that it was bagels and lox, latkes, blintzes, and shrimp, bacon-wrapped scallops, ham. Made me laugh, anyway.