Sunday Tidbits

 

Well, I've been under the weather. Of course, a lot of sicknesses are going around. I'm glad it wasn't respiratory.  Even so I feel so blah after an upset stomach in the middle of the night. I needed to stay in bed all day. I'm afraid it might be the medication I am taking has finally set in. And this might be the way my holidays go. 

I started to wonder, am I eating what I shouldn't be eating. I had made a cheese soup earlier in the week. It was just with stuff I had on hand. Actually, I thought, "Oh, I'm using my ingenuity!" With a sipping chicken broth, cream of chicken soup and frozen broccoli with carrots and onion. Naturally, a load of sharp cheddar shredded just for good cheesiness. I felt OK after eating it. Really, I don't think it was the problem.

We had a cold front move-in. I was supposed to go to a craft show on Saturday with a friend I hadn't seen in a while. I was leary of it most of the week. Thinking there would be so many people. I didn't want to get sick. But then she never called. And I got sick. So maybe this was supposed to happen.

Oh, friendships... we have been friends for some time. Although, it did take her a good long time to warm up as friends..even at work. And then we would plan once a month to go out. Sometimes, we would get lost in the city, but it was always a nice adventure. But she no longer works where I do. And she kept saying..I'll have loads of time. Although, she doesn't. I do understand that family does come first. It's funny now, she has said she's never been good friends with anyone. She won't take phone calls from someone we used to work with who moved away. Which, I know is understandable. Usually, my P.A. friend is high or drunk when she calls, but not all the time. Maybe, it's because I'm used to odd phone calls from way back in college. Well, even before then. Back when phones were meant for live conversations.

TRUE STORY: Granted, I lived in rural Texas and a school friend couldn't take phone calls from her house because she didn't want her mom to know she was dating this "Senior" so we (he & I) developed quite the phone relationship. Sometimes, we'd forget why he called in the first place. Although, I never dated the guy.  In later years, I would still get phone calls from various people who wanted to talk. But that is the past. You just tune in to podcasts now. (although, I've never made one.)

But back to my friend who wants us still to do things together, we see less and less of each other. I doubt I see her anytime soon.

It's National Cookie day! Yeap, just in time for Christmas. Do you make cookies this early? It's been a while since I've gone to a cookie exchange. Even then  I would make fudge or blondie bars. I just never had the time or patience to go into detail about cookies. I have been known to eat cookie dough too. 

I guess we plan to celebrate Christmas early this year. Have a Saturday brunch on Christmas eve.. Although, I am not sure all the relatives can come to this. Some will be working. One has her dog to worry about. She can't leave him home alone. He has been going to doggie daycare. 

Hopefully, we won't be waiting til noon to eat. Although, someone would rather have smoked meat at these occasions.