I am going to write backwards. You know, from today back?? I know you know what I meant. OK...here goes.
Let's see...what did I do today....oh yeah...almost no work today. Thank God. We did catch up on stuff, though. Started out going to the dollar store for things they didn't have anyway. Only had a couple of 'outs' but caught up on changing out shower curtains, spraying tons of Clorox in showers (we do this all the time...but when no one is coming in...we drench them,) made a few alterations in linens, catch up stuff. And then left. I came home and put up the rain gauge, cleaned up a very little and warmed up leftover Jamaican jerk chicken for supper. I have no plans for the evening except a shower. That was today.
Monday...Day started early with Husband making breakfast for the guests. Texas Toast french toast, sausages, fruit platter...they ate it all! These guys are really great and love all the meals. Makes you feel good. They didn't get gone till after 10.
Had several outs, but I went with Husband to an appointment for benefits for our friend Jack. Husband is doing a great job lining up things for him. Jack is doing better, but has a long healing road ahead of him. We were only gone 45 minutes, then came back to work.
Then...the weather changed. It clouded up, blackened up and tornadoed up! The weather channel was going nuts! Brewster County and the City of Alpine were mentioned by name as 'possible tornadic activity'. We definitely got rain and some hail...but south of us was hammered! As the storm moved south, the hail got bigger!! My friend David called today and said they got smashed. His sweet wife Gwen writes a blog (she is how I got started!) and I need to see if she has posted photos. The hail went from pea sized to marble, quarter, golf ball, base ball and softball. By the time it was 11 miles south of town...it was definitely softball! I can't even imagine!! Rumor has it that a tornado touched down...and I can verify that we had lots of wind and lightning. Quite a day.
The bulk of the bad weather was over by 6. Then, LeAnn, Jake and Martin came over. LeAnn is leaving Wednesday morning at 8:30. I am going to miss her very much. She is also friends with Jake and Martin, so we had a small 'see ya' party with Pizza and beer. Jake brought a chocolate cake and potato salad. Lee Ann is having it for breakfast! We laughed and told lies and hugged. She will be back every month or so to visit her Grandpa so I'll see again soon...and she will be reading this (I hope) on a regular basis...so I will only say nice things about her!! (I miss you LeAnn!!)
Sunday...extremely busy day. 19 rooms of people left. It was so tiring. This job is so tiring. I need to make a life change. I sure didn't move here for this...oh well...anyway. Even though it was a very long day, we were done by 5:00.
I had gotten up at 7 and put breakfast casseroles in the oven and went back over at 8 and made Blueberry Muffins. They all ate and took off for parts unknown. Husband started marinating the Jamaican Jerk Chicken, and I made some Jamaican Rice. It is quite interesting. I used brown rice, kidney beans, coconut milk, finely minced jalapeno and scallions...lots of spices (Thyme and Allspice) some brown sugar. It was actually quite good! It was one of the guys birthday so Husband got a carrot cake (birthday guys favorite) and they had fun. I normally would have made a cake from scratch...but not this time.
Home by 10:00 and asleep by 10:01. Woke up at 4:30 am and couldn't go back to sleep!! I hate that!
Saturday...Fixed biscuits (with left over biscuits from night before!) with sausage gravy, scrambled eggs, fruit platter, juice and coffee fro breakfast. They started out with Bloody Marys. Breakfast was over by 9:00 and I went to work.
Lots of people staying over, lots leaving, lots coming in...Lots of work. Long day. Got home by 4:30 and took a long hot shower. Husband was making them steaks for supper and I fixed baked potatoes with all the fixin's and Wedge salad. Made Brownies for dessert. Triple chocolate chunk brownies....verrrry good!
Friday...Busy. No shit. Made Bourbon Glazed Orange Pork Chops with Rice Pilaf. Very tasty. Peach cobbler for dessert.
It looked like rain...but I can't remember if it did or not. I don't think so. Oh yeah...there were quite a few people staying here for graduation for the weekend. I think that was the past few days in a nutshell.
Now I can try to get back to some 'me time'. Which means that I don't have to cook anything for anybody! I never did make Francine a hat. Need to do that. The movie, The Hangover is coming on tonight. It's supposed to be funny. I hope so! I'm in the mood for a funny movie.
I guess I wrap this up and check email and read some news. Have a nice night!!
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