Sunday Dinner, October 7, 2007

Now y'all try to contain your excitement, but I'm actually cooking Sunday Dinner again this week! Nothing elaborate, but I am cooking.

My menu, you ask? Spaghetti with meat sauce. I'll make the sauce and let it simmer as the spaghetti cooks. And no, I don't usually make homemade spaghetti sauce. I buy canned or bottled sauce and add browned hamburger to it for meat sauce.

I don't like leftover spaghetti so I'll cook the spaghetti and sauce after I get home from church. I thought about making some homemade Italian garlic bread or breadsticks but I've talked myself out of that. I just got through cooking supper and I'm too lazy to make bread now that I've got supper done.

So what's on the menu for your Sunday Dinner? Just share your plans in the comments.As a footnote to my Sunday Dinner, after I'd already called my sister, Ducky, to ask if spaghetti sounded good to her, I realized I wasn't sure how much spaghetti I had on hand. A search of my pantry yielded mixed results. I have about 1 oz. of dry spaghetti in a box, and about 4 oz. of dry angel hair pasta. Not enough of either. I've already called Cecil to ask if she happened to have any spaghetti on hand and struck out.

I just found out that Jessica and Jason will be here for Sunday Dinner so I've asked them to stop and buy some spaghetti on their way here for dinner. If they forget I guess we'll eat spaghetti sauce on elbow macaroni. I found 3½ boxes of that while I was looking for spaghetti.As for my supper tonight, I had canned mixed greens, salt meat (or salt pork to those who ain't from the South, y'all) and cream gravy made from some of the salt meat drippings. I also cooked some white rice for Lamar because he likes rice and gravy together. I know it wasn't the healthiest meal, but I tell myself the greens balance out the salt meat and the gravy.

I like Glo*ry brand greens. I really like the way they're seasoned, though I do add some salt and some sugar and a little bacon grease to them as I heat them up. Dang, I guess I can forget the greens balancing out the meat and gravy!Due to some office politics Jessica and several others in the office where she worked are now searching for new jobs. We're not sure where all this is going because Jessica was one of the last ones hired but they're also getting rid of people who've been there for years.

If you'll remember she had just passed part of the test for her real estate license and was about to take the state portion of the test. Since she's not working for a real estate broker right now, she's not eligible to take the second portion of her test. But, she's obligated to pay for the test! So she's scrambling to find a job in real estate so she'll have a broker to sponsor her. If she doesn't find a sponsor in time she'll have to pay for the first test, then have to pay to take it again when she does get another job in real estate.

It's just a big mess, plus the bills are still rolling in regular as clockwork while she's without a job.

If you're a praying person, I and Jessica and Jason would appreciate your prayers that Jessica would find the right job, and soon if it's the Lord's will!(Double click on the Emmy pics to enlarge them.)

Thanks to all of you who've asked about and prayed for Emmy. Miss Emmy is slowly improving, but still not well by any means. She's still running fever off and on and doesn't have much of an appetite. Her eye is better but not completely well and she's still cranky and grumpy at times.

I took a few pictures Friday when Jessica, Jason and Emmy were here. You can tell her eye is red and runny, but it's much better than Monday when she went to the doctor. It was matted shut, bless her little heart. We had to put warm wet compresses on it to soften the gunk so we could clean her eye. Emmy didn't particularly care for us messing with her eye, plus did I mention she was cranky?

Hopefully Emmy will keep feeling better and be able to return to daycare on Monday as scheduled.To all my Canadian friends: Happy Thanksgiving! Enjoy the good food and time with friends and family.

Our American Thanksgiving is still over a month away, but it's not as far off as you might think.I think that's all for this evening, so I'll wish everyone a blessed weekend. May God bless you with all you need, and enough to share.