Blogging

So I do a little bit of blogging here and there. It is true. It is incredibly informal. But do I ever REALLY expect people to read these? It always kinda catches me off guard when someone mentions my blog- "She has a blog" or "I saw that on your blog" or even "He has a link to your blog on his blog." Gotta watch out for these things! Of course, I'm the one who posts the link on my facebook page periodically. Guess I shouldn't be too surprised! If I don't want people to know what I am thinking, I can just quit posting things, right? ;-)

Fish on Friday

This is my first Lent as a Catholic. Giving up meat on Friday seemed like an easy enough task. We don't eat a lot of meat around here anyway, no big deal, right?

WRONG!! I did well the first week or two. Every week I was thinking toward Friday night supper- eat something meatless at home, or go to the Fish Fry at the church. However, breakfast and lunch didn't always come to mind...especially when not at home. Now, I NEVER have meat as part of my breakfast at home. However, one Friday, we needed to take Jill to school. On the way home, we grabbed some McDonalds. My standard McDonalds breakfast, SAUSAGE Egg McMuffin with Cheese. Didn't think about the sausage error until it was totally eaten. The kids had pancakes. They laughed at me once we realized the mistake. Another week we were hungry on the way home from something and picked up Burger King for lunch. Oops.

After that, I've drawn a fish on my hand each Thursday night to remind myself throughout the day on Friday that it is Friday! :-) During our recent band trip, I set my phone to buzz me throughout the day as a reminder to stay away from meat. I figured that if I was away from home, I would be more likely to forget. Thanks to the fish on my hand & the buzzing from my phone, I remembered.

The Friday night of the band trip, the band was taken to a sports bar to watch the
U of L Men's Basketball Game (we were with the Women's Team who is headed to the NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP!!!!). Anyway -- meatless at a sports bar, eh? Hmm...er... I hate onion rings. Potato skins have bacon (not tasty without it, JMHO). No fried mozzerella on the menu. No fish sandwiches either (no surprise there). Lettuce hasn't been nice to me lately so a salad was out of the question. My sister said, "Oh, just forget about it for today." No way. I wasn't going to mess up on purpose!! There was pizza on the menu. It was listed with meat on it, but they gladly left it off for me. :-)

Band trip

I've just come back from my first band trip since 1995. My sister recruited me to be a part of the U of L pep band for the Women's Basketball Sweet Sixteen/Elite Eight games. The Women are headed to the Final Four! Yay! Anyway, I'm not really a U of L fan, but it was a nice trip. At 30, I certainly wasn't the oldest on the trip! I did feel old the first day when we had to show our IDs at the airport. I have a horizontal license = over 21. A bunch of the "kids" had vertical IDs. Hee hee. A fellow named Jim plays the tuba. He's 72.

I'm posting more about this on anotherblogfromjennifer, but thought I'd post SOMETHING here. It just seemed right. Back to the other blog now...

Thoughtless...football...pizza

Seems that I have had somewhat of a drought in my thought postings. That is so sad. I really don't have anything blog-worthy thoughts at the moment either...but maybe this post will develop??

I guess the most "exciting" news of the day is the dream I had last night. I was playing football & scored 3 touchdowns!! Folks kept fumbling near the goal line and I just kept scooping up the ball and running it in. The sad thing was that no one really acknowledged my accomplishments...except the scoreboard. After the game the team was in a huddle and I felt very small. T.O. and other NFL players (whose identities where fuzzier) were giving pep talks. Still...no one acknowledge that I was the one who won the game for us. Oh well.

The next scene in the dream was me trying to cook frozen pizzas at home. We have a few different brands of pizza in our freezer. You would think that you should cook all frozen pizzas the same way. NO! They are all different...this is very annoying.
*One brand is "preheat the oven then come back and set your pizza directly on the rack."
*One brand is "no need to preheat just stick the pizza on the rack."
*Then you have "Preheat and stick the pizza in the oven on a pan."
*My least favorite is "Preheat the oven WITH THE PAN INSIDE, then put the pizza on the preheated pan." This last one often messes me up cause I just turn the oven on and let it preheat (without paying attention to which brand I am fixing). Then I go to put the pizza in and realize that I didn't preheat the pan! SO- often I just go try to find one of the other brands of pizza that doesn't need a preheated pan.
*The other "issue" I have with these pizzas is that they don't all preheat to the same temperature! What is the deal?!?! Isn't frozen pizza...frozen pizza? Why all of the confusion?
*Today we ate little pizzas that can be cooked in the oven...or microwave. We were hungry and opted for the microwave.

Well, this confusion will not deter me from buying frozen pizza though!!

And how does "winning a football game without recognition" relate to "standing in front of my open oven containing two different brands of pizza trying to make sense of it"?? Maybe it represents the life of a mom. Figuring out the pizza puzzle without anyone acknowledging that this is more complicated than it looks! er...maybe they aren't related at all. After that big game, I was hungry. *shrug*

And now I am, again, thoughtless...yet hungry for pizza wishing that it was football season.

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