I Forgot to Mention

So yesterday in my detailed post about all of the problems my dear car Blue is having I completely forgot to mention that the heater doesn't work. As I was driving in to work this morning, it was raining and there was a chill in the air and I wanted a little heat in the car because I was wearing a skirt and my legs were cold. As I turned it on and it spurted out cold air, I remembered that the heat doesn't work unless you are driving about 80 miles per hour (no joke). A few weeks ago when we had that dogwood or blackberry winter, otherwise known as a cold spell, I had to cover up with a blanket on my way in to work. I've had this same problem with my heater every year for the past four, maybe five winters and I always pay some random amount of money to have the repair man fix it up. This past winter, as you probably recall, was anything but cold and so there was never a dire need in having it repaired, but I sure miss having it on cool rainy mornings. At least it's not the AC that doesn't work, like in my friend Honey's car. If it was the AC, no doubt, I would break down and have it repaired ASAP. I only like to sweat at the gym or when working in the yard; other than that, no thanks and certainly not when I'm driving down the road. Honey, however, has children so she obviously, and rightly so, prioritizes the needs of her children over having the AC in her car repaired. If I had a lot of extra cash lying around I would hook her up with an AC repair, but sadly, I do not have extra cash lying around or swimming around or just around for that matter.

Moving on...

I've recently discovered or come up with, however you want to look at it a great way to cook chicken. Probably everyone already knows that chicken tastes good this way and I'm probably the last one to discover it, but anyway, I'll share it with you here. So, I've eaten Mexican something or another basically every day since Friday. I think I'm finally burnt out, but probably not for long because Mexican food is a real joy I tell ya. Anyway, on Sunday, I had laid out a chicken breast with no real idea of how I wanted to cook it for dinner. I ended up squeezing a lime into the bag the chicken breast was in and then hammered it out thin and cooked it in butter and lime juice with some salt and pepper. It became a golden brown and was probably the best chicken I have ever cooked. I subsequently ended up cooking it the same way on both Monday and Tuesday nights and my stomach is growling as I type this just thinking of the deliciousness. I cooked it on medium heat if you were wondering and I wrapped it in a soft tortilla with guacamole and cheese dip. It tasted very similar to a fajita. I thought it was really good, obviously since I had it three nights in a row!

Not that anyone cares, but the Philadelphia Flyers are out of the Stanley Cup playoffs which caused me for the 35th year in a row to be a little heartbroken. OK, maybe not 35 years because I doubt I cared when I was only a few months old, but still, heartbroken nonetheless. Maybe one day before I die they will win the Cup, but I'm not going to hold my breath.

I'm sure many of you play Words with Friends, it's addictive and fun and I love to play myself, but I was recently introduced to Scramble, which is another word game by Zynga and sweet heavens, I love it even more. I've played about 30 games with my three friends who play and lost every game but one and I still love it! I get a little better each time I play. If you like Words, you will probably like Scramble as well. Give it a try!

Continuing on with completely unrelated subjects, one of my customer's went to the same school as I did growing up. He was five years older than me and I had no idea who he was then and if I saw him on the street now I probably wouldn't recognize him as I have never met him in person. Last week, I brought in the yearbook from 1990 and we looked him up. Then we read his senior saying which was, and I quote, "It ain't nothing but a thang." We had a good laugh about that and now every time we respond to one of his emails, we always want to type, "It ain't nothing but a thang." Obviously we don't but we now say that at least once a day when referring to our customer, who has no idea we looked up him up in his senior yearbook and if we did respond with that line, would probably think we had lost our minds and have no clue as to what we were talking about. It makes for a good laugh, though.

I'm really at a loss for additional words or topics right now - scary, huh? Come back tomorrow for another post about, well, who knows what. Then, stop by on Friday for what I hope to be a book review and a giveaway! Oh yeah! I have a little more reading to do on this particular book, but I've already started the review and with any luck it will be finished and posted on Friday evening. For those of you who read during the day, do not fear because the giveaway will be open for a week. I want to give everyone who wants to enter the chance to do just that. OK, that's it for today.