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Working 7 hours today...I even get a half hour break! So really 6.5 hours. One of the other office people is off today, so I get extra hours. Yay! :)
Weekend...was. Didn't make it to the fair. Ended up sleeping most of Saturday. Damned fatigue. But I did make a couple killer stirfrys this weekend! Forgot how yummy the smell of freshly-chopped scallions was. Had to chop, sit down for a while, then go back and cook...but I still did it. Jarred chopped garlic and chopped ginger are definitely my friends. :) Bok choy, canned straw mushrooms and sliced water chestnuts, a little oil, soy sauce and fish sauce, and a little tapioca starch disolved in water to thicken. It's a lot stronger than cornstarch...first time I used it I didn't have sauce...I had jelly! :D
But it did prove that I am capable sometimes of really cooking. Now, I only had to chop 2 things, neither of them hard...but still. I can still do it.
Another coworker, Steve, one of the sweetest men in the world, left about an hour ago because his daughter got rushed to Children's Hospital because someone gave her some pills and she overdosed. He's lost one daughter already. He was in the lobby crying, waiting for the boss to come back so he could tell him what was going on. I never thought to EVER see him cry. I just put my arm around him and held him until the boss got here and he left. He insisted on driving himself. My heart hurts for him.
Weekend...was. Didn't make it to the fair. Ended up sleeping most of Saturday. Damned fatigue. But I did make a couple killer stirfrys this weekend! Forgot how yummy the smell of freshly-chopped scallions was. Had to chop, sit down for a while, then go back and cook...but I still did it. Jarred chopped garlic and chopped ginger are definitely my friends. :) Bok choy, canned straw mushrooms and sliced water chestnuts, a little oil, soy sauce and fish sauce, and a little tapioca starch disolved in water to thicken. It's a lot stronger than cornstarch...first time I used it I didn't have sauce...I had jelly! :D
But it did prove that I am capable sometimes of really cooking. Now, I only had to chop 2 things, neither of them hard...but still. I can still do it.
Another coworker, Steve, one of the sweetest men in the world, left about an hour ago because his daughter got rushed to Children's Hospital because someone gave her some pills and she overdosed. He's lost one daughter already. He was in the lobby crying, waiting for the boss to come back so he could tell him what was going on. I never thought to EVER see him cry. I just put my arm around him and held him until the boss got here and he left. He insisted on driving himself. My heart hurts for him.