I went to DI (Deseret Industries) today to look around. It's something fun to do that's always cheap and sometimes gives great results. I found a fun fiction book, a creative food recipe book, and a christmassy candle holder thing that will look great on the table come winter time.
By the time I found the Xmas decoration I was starving and it was time to go home and eat lunch. I walked up to the registers and got into a line where the cashier was inputting the last item into the computer. Short wait, I thought, oh no, this guy couldn't multi-task to save his life and the customer was chatty.
Five minutes later I'm still waiting and now there is a toddler and his mom standing in line behind me. I keep getting pelted by the kid swinging his backpack around and smacking it into my legs. I moved forward a couple times and looked back at the mom with a purposeful expectant look in my eyes, hello!!
But to no avail, finally I turn around and politely but firmly said, "can you please ask your son to stop hitting me in the legs with his backpack?"
"What?" she says with a clueless look in her eyes, "oh, sorry, ok (insert name of kid) tell the lady you are sorry."
Yeah the barely 2 year old is going to tell some stranger sorry, uh no, he looks down at the ground, looks up to briefly meet my eye and then straight back to the ground.
Now it's my turn with the slow employee as he thoroughly examines the $4 decoration with the clearly visible price tag. I'm freakin' hungry, come on!
"It's $4 dollars," I said.
"Oh, I know, I can get you money off if I see any damage," he says.
"Oh ok."
After spinning the thing around a couple more times and seeing NO damage he says, "I can give it to you for $3."
"Ok, sure..," I said thinking, I'm freakin' hungry.
"Unless you want to buy it for $3?"
I slowly shook my head, widened my eyes, and pursed my lips, "whatever," I said, thinking I'm just hungry!
He responded with, "I knew you'd say that."
Ok then.
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I finally get out of there and after running through the rain to hop into my dry car I start the car and look up at the windshield as I turn on the wipers. Who puts a paper ad on a car windshield when it's pouring out?? And no, I'm not getting back out of the car to pull the wet soggy piece of paper off my windshield to put it...in my dry car?
This is what it looked like when I got home, good advertising. Maybe they sell ink cartridges?
On to yummier things....
Yesterday I made barbecue chicken calzones. I put my bread maker and my slow cooker to work kneading dough and simmering chicken. I used the same recipe that I used for the loaf of bread posted earlier on this blog except I added a little extra oil. I threw half frozen chicken breasts in the crock pot on high with salsa, barbecue sauce, hot A1 steak sauce, 3 cloves minced garlic, and some Worcestershire sauce.I played on the computer, did some laundry, went for a bike ride, then came back to pull the dough out.
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| Mr. Crockpot and Mrs. Breadmaker |
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| The big ones are for Brett |
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| Chicken in the crock pot |
I sauteed some onions and bell peppers, chopped up some cilantro, and got out the italian cheese blend and the greek yogurt. I pulled and shaped the dough flat and layed the pieces of dough out on a foil lined baking sheet. Then I simply added a thin layer of greek yogurt, a sprinkle of cilantro leaves, ladles of chicken/sauce, spoonfuls of onions and peppers, small handfuls of cheese, and topped it off with another sprinkle of cilantro. Seal up the edges and then into the oven for a half hour or so.
Tori came over and we had calzones and salad; a healthy and delicious meal, the best kind.
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