Weekly Round Up: And Then There Was One

 

A weekly round up: eats, workouts, watches, and reads.  In this week's edition a garden surplus turned into a delicious meal, I've been reading up a storm, and my number of employers has been reduced to one.

Eats

The best thing that I've had to eat recently was c/o my SIL  She has an epic garden and asked if we wanted any cherry tomatoes.  Fresh garden tomatoes?  Oh yes, I wanted some.  Specifically I wanted enough for a salad or two.  Everyone else in the house has a low-to-no tomato consumption.

The blessing and the curse of having a gardening friend is that their food gifts follow the feast and famine cycle.  My SIL didn't need to get rid of a handful of cherry tomatoes, she needed to get rid of a gallon ziplock of cherry tomatoes.  They were beautiful, all shades of red, orange, and yellow, and several different varieties.  I would show you a picture except...um, I didn't think to take one.

I snacked on a handful of the tomatoes and added a few to salads over the next few days, so that left me with most of the gallon ziplock that I needed to do something with pretty soon or by default that beautiful bag was headed to the trash.  What to do...what to do...wait, can't you make pasta sauce out of cherry tomatoes?

I looked at a few recipes, and went with a loose riff of this one.  I didn't have thyme and I used a sprinkling of Italian seasoning in place of basil.  I didn't find it necessary to simmer the sauce since it was already pretty thick.  While I was roasting the tomatoes I sliced up a pack of chicken sausage to roast along with it and then boiled up some pasta and threw in a few handfuls of fresh spinach.  The result was the most divine thing that I have ever eaten.

Workouts

Still running believe it or not!  I haven't gone an further than two miles since that feels like the right amount of time for workouts.

I've fallen off the pushup/hanging on the pull up bar under the delusion that it would ever lead to me being able to do a pull up thing a bit.  But I'm still in the game.  I haven't bothered to do any other strength work for a while.  I'm just not seeing or feeling a benefit to it.  And also, what Kae said about the amount of time that a person spends outside when they have a 14 month old puppy.

Watching

Nada c/o having a puppy and being more interested in reading right now.

Reading

Let's catch up!

• I finished 11/22/63 and oh gawd was it good.  All that I knew going in was that it is a very long book about a man who has a chance to time travel back to 1963 and stop the assassination of JFK, and I think that's about all that I want to say about it since I think that's the right background to have.  I didn't know where the story was going to go at all and it was delightful and amazing to watch it unfold.  I think I would like to watch the TV series so that I can hang out with the story for a little longer.  Ok, I will drop one little deet that amused me.  When the hero first goes back in time, he stops at a bar to get a beer, and has a slip when he orders a Miller Lite, which did not exist back then.  The bartender says "did you mean a Miller High Life?" - I enjoyed that little snippet because it reminded me of the Miller Brewery tour that I did back in May that included samples of both beers.
• I finished I Capture the Castle for The Cool Bloggers Book Club.  The story had started to slow down after the halfway point but the last week's worth of reading brought everything back on track and I got the ending that I wanted, so it was a fun journey.
• And then...I went back to the Linda Castillo Amish Murders!  I read book #8 in the series, Among the Wicked.
• What next?  I find that I can't think about anything else but the Linda Castillo books, so I'm going on a bender.  I've already checked the next two books in the series out on Libby.  Hey, when you've got an itch, ya gotta scratch it.

I found myself putting in some extra reading time for 11/22/63, and now I find that I'm continuing the trend.  Someone has been very happy to join me.

And Then There Was One!

As in one jobby job!  I started my new job in May and ended my old job about two weeks ago.

The good news is that I got a bunch of extra money and perks by double dipping.

The bad news is that...well, as I've been feeling for a while, I'm just not that in to work.  There are parts of the new job that are interesting and the rest of it is...not.  Unless something changes I'm on track to leave next year after I've maxed out my 401k and become eligible for my first round of stock options (in English that means I get something that might or might not be worth money later on).  I'm trying to make it a game but not succeeding very well...the days are all the same and I'm so bored that I'm numb.  Hopefully I just need a little more time to decompress from the old job and then I'll get some kind of a groove back.

And Finally

It's National Dog Day!!!  Ms Doggo is here to represent.