Mortaine’s Blog

I’m going to make a pizza:

Pizza crust [or use this one]
Crumbled gorgonzola cheese
Grilled chicken breast
Garlic
Tomatoes
Fresh basil
Spices

Last week, I made slow-cook Spaghetti for dinner (on Sunday, I think).

Which means the shopping lis is:
gorgonzola
tomatoes if they’re not too pricey (otherwise canned)
basil
fast-rise yeast (we’re almost out)

I sent an email to Greyhound Friends for Life:

I just wanted to send GFFL a note about Hammer, a former GFFL foster who had been in our home for 6 years. He passed away this weekend at age 13. We put him down because his quality of life had deteriorated due to age, arthritis, and repeated cellulitis infections. It was time to release him from the last of his pain.

We have a lot of Hammer’s things, including the XL crate that GFFL gave us when we started fostering him, which we would like to give back to GFFL sometime in the next few weeks. We are not planning to get another dog at this time, and we think it only fitting that Hammer’s things go to make another retired racing greyhound’s life a little more pampered.

I brought my lunch to work today:

Peanut butter & jelly sandwich on home-made whole wheat bread out of the bread machine 5 minutes before I made the sandwich.
An organic brownie
Water
An apple
A piece of chocolate candy
A chocolate Just-2 bar (Weight Watchers thingy– for the afternoon snackies)

I forgot (again) to bring in the dry soups to leave in my desk.

Registered for some community classes: Scrapbooking (I may never live that one down), Virtues of Veggies (cooking vegetables– I thought it would be a good complement to our CSA subscription this year), and a couple of music workshops for jazz and boogie woogie.

Gamed yesterday. Chris was obliging and gave us many evil things to slay– I needed to get some aggression out.

I’m getting tired of crying myself to sleep, and yet, bedtime and mealtimes are the hardest. Also any time I come into the house. Or move from the kitchen to the den (we’ve had a baby gate up for 7 years and now we don’t need to use it).

Yesterday I asked John to make changes (removal of dog beds and things) slowly, because I wasn’t dealing with it well. Prompted by a couple of things, including the realization Saturday evening that Hammer’s water bowls were already empty and his food dish was clean.

The new bread machine makes bread really well. I am impressed.

I bought the dice and PHB last night. Also ordered a couple of bread making cookbooks from Barnes & Noble, using the gift card Dad gave us for Christmas.

We visited the animal shelter yesterday afternoon, just to look. There was a big, beautiful adult cat, white with a little orange on his face and his whole tail, who was all friendliness and sweet. He wasn’t cute– he was GORGEOUS and nice.

There were no adoptable kittens yesterday, but there were three in the “not ready” area– two grey tabbies and a little black guy who was precious, but had “injured” on his tag. One of the tabbies was very interested in the outside world (most of the cats were sleeping when we stopped by). I’ve decided I want a short-haired cat if I can, and not a black cat for purely stupid reasons of photographic ability. Yes, this probably means I will go home with a black ball of fluff, most likely a persian.

Speaking of persians, if anyone is looking for one, the Santa Cruz animal shelter has a gorgeous silver persian boy up for adoption– I tell ya, they have some lovely cats in there!

That’s pretty much it. I miss Hammer. I can’t tell if Allegro does, too– he certainly realizes the dog is gone, I’m sure, but I don’t know if “miss” is quite the reaction. They weren’t really friends, but they had their moments together. I suspect Allegro is just worried because I’m so sad. We almost fell completely asleep together in the massage chair last night. So I guess he’s taking care of us OK.