Today was a productive day. I had no errands to run today and hubby was taking the car and working in Denver, so we didn't have to get up early. We slept in until 830am, then got up, got showers and got dressed. At 930am, hubby left to go to work. He was going to the Colorado Springs office to clock in, gather what he needed to take to the Denver office and then head up. He was going to work until 6pm up there, then drive back down, clock out, and come home. So I wouldn't see him all day. He made a sandwich to take with him but he was going to be gone a long time so I told him to take the last of the Taco Bake with him. It was a week old, or a little older, but it was hamburger and that lasts a long time.
I spent the morning feeding the beasties and then at the computer, writing letters and doing email, catching up on facebook. I was at the craft desk so I had the rattie boys' cage door open for them to be able to come out and have some free time. Because the boys had knocked over my third full glass of tea on the table, I had recently cleaned up the table and gotten some of the stuff put away, so they had more room to roam. Zeke doesn't run away from me slowly reaching over and petting him. Dylan still is rather shy and though he will take food from me and come up to me, doesn't really like being picked up and held, or petted much.
After I ate some lunch, I went upstairs and started sorting and cleaning out my dresser drawers. I got rid of a ton of one-socks, old underwear and scarves that hubby's ex-wife had made and given me for Christmases. I have all of it in a donation bag but am thinking about keeping the socks as rags for dusting and making sock puppets for the granddaughters. I was pretty brutal and got rid of another two big outside garbage bags of clothes. I kept a couple of sentimental tshirts but ended up with lots of room in my dresser. I have one whole drawer just for my two bras. There were a couple of fall shirts that I put in the dirty clothes to be washed since they were so wrinkled. I got rid of all my turtlenecks and ugly sweatshirts. I now have a selection of fall jackets and pullovers hanging in my closet. My closet is still organized with like objects grouped together. I haven't gotten to the point of colorizing it. Yet.
While I was working upstairs doing the clothes thing, we got a tornado watch warning. By now, Frank had come home. The news said to go to a room with no windows and go down to the basement. Well, the only room we had with no windows was the upstairs bathroom, so I thought about grabbing Frank and making us stay in the upstairs bathroom. But it was upstairs, so if the tornado came and ripped off the roof of my house, it would suck us up. But if we went downstairs, there is a big picture window in the family room, a big window in the office and a big window in the downstairs bathroom. The closet in the downstairs bathroom has shelves in it, so that was out. We could crawl into the crawl space, there is a door for that in the family room. I live in a tri-level house so the downstairs is half underground. The crawl space is under the other half of the house, the main floor. It is a dirt floor and we had plumbing issues repaired when we moved in under there. And we bug bombed it afterwards, so it should be pretty clean. But I thought Frank would sort of freak out if I made him crawl under the house and stay with me, so I decided to just stay upstairs and eat chips and salsa, watch the Apprentice UK and hang out. Hubby wasn't any help, his advice was to run naked through the neighborhood with a bag on my head and sneakers on, just in case I stepped on something, waving my arms around.
After my Apprentice UK episode was over, I went downstairs to the kitchen, turned on the tv, spread some newspaper on the table and deboned the chicken I had rotisseried on Saturday. I cooked it for an hour and all it's juices ran clear but it was slightly undercooked. So as I was pulling the meat off of the bones, I was separating the skin, fat and some undesirable meat pieces in a bowl for the dogs, a bowl for the bones and a bowl of meat for dinner.
Because the meat was undercooked, I then got down my deep skillet, added two and a half cups of water and chicken base to the mixture for the dogs. I cooked it simmering for 20 minutes to make sure it was cooked good and through. It made a nice broth for them. I put it in a bowl and set it aside to cool for their dinner. I would get two dinners out of it for them.
Then I took all the meat for dinner and put that in the skillet, added a cup of water and some chicken base, italian seasoning, pepper, a little salt, celery, and chopped onion. I let it simmer for 20 minutes, until almost all the water was absorbed by the chicken meat. It was nice and juicy. Then I chopped up a can of black olives.
I sprayed Pam Canola Oil in a 9x13 pan, torn corn tortillas in fourths, and lined the bottom of the pan. I spread a thin layer of the chicken mixture on that. Then I sprinkled on a handful of black olive pieces. I poured some green enchilada sauce over it and then repeated. Next I covered it with a final layer of corn tortillas, sauce and a layer of Mexican shredded cheese.
I baked it in a 350 degree oven for 45 minutes, until the cheese was a toasty brown crust. Yum! I fed Frank and myself, so Frank could get to bed by 8pm, and put the enchiladas back in the oven to stay warm until hubby was able to get home.
But when hubby got home, he was sick. He had started throwing up at work. Seems he had left the Taco Bake in the car all afternoon, it was a rather warm day, then ate it and gave himself food poisoning. So he was in no shape to eat anything. He spent a good portion of the night in the bathroom either throwing up or in the tub trying to settle his stomach. I offered to take him to the ER but by then he was feeling empty and better.
Tomorrow I have therapy, and I plan on cleaning out the trunk at the foot of the bed that has clothes in it that had been washed, folded and put there because I had no place other to put them. About 2-3 years ago. I'm excited to see what I will find.
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