We had the Easter Bunny for Breakfast
A Complete Breakfast
It was proclaimed that we MUST have something symbolic of Easter for breakfast on Sunday morning. We may be vegetarians, but we can still eat bunnies, well, that is bunny shaped pancakes with chocolate chips (yum yum). And for those curious ones, no, that’s SOY breakfast sausage, not half bad and not nearly as greasy as the pork ones. After breakfast we played UNO by the fireplace. We each won a game, it was a good morning.
Enlightenment at home
For almost every day of the week I have a special ritual. Monday night is Chick Flick Night <see earlier posts>. Tuesdays, aaaahhhhh Tuesdays…. I truly love and do not know what I would do without my special Tuesday nights. Yoga at home with my other half, the cat and our very good friend/yoga teacher. (Yes, she makes house calls, it is called private instruction, thank you!) Since the roof and the chimney have finally been fixed we have taken to having a fire on yoga nights. Good friends together, honoring and nurturing our bodies and minds, stimulating conversation, ambiance…. I am so fortunate to be so spoiled.
View from my yoga mat, we let our “guest” the teacher sit up front on the shaggy tan rug. That is where I like to lay on weekends when I read between loads of laundry. This past weekend we played scrabble in front of the fire, it was so cozy!
First Impressions are Important
Monday, my first day in a new office across town. Leasing space in a 4 story public City operated building, namely the “Senior Center”. It is an active bustling place where not only older folks come to spend their day, but where many agencies and programs that service this population also rent space, like me and the volunteer program that I oversee . Long story short….. 9:30 a.m. I wandered into the break room and placed two apple strudel pop-tarts into the unfamiliar toaster oven, briefly walked away from them to allow them to toast (really, I forgot about them for a few minutes). Wow the fire alarms are going off, flashing lights, loud sirens, announcements to leave the building… OH !#%@#!!! My pop-tarts actually caught fire and were smoking so heavily they set off the fire alarms….. YES, the building was EVACUATED and 3 or 4 Fire Trucks came, the firemen (sexy) came in very serious with full gear and axes in hand. Senior Citizens, Tenants, City Employees all mandated out into the cold of a New England Spring morning. All I can be thankful for is that it was not raining or snowing. Once we were allowed back into the lobby and the alarms were turned off the Chief questioned loudly over the sea of gray heads… “So, who needs a lesson on how to make toast?” And there I stand, hiding in the corner, slowly raising my hand whilst everyone slowly turn to face me, the new girl in the building. I announced my excuse, “It is my first day in the building and I wanted to make sure it is a safe place to work. I am pleased that the alarms work well and that the WFD has an impressive response time.” <<<BLUSH>>> I took the cremains home to document the moment. I am considering shellacking them and mounting them like a trophy to hang in the break room to remind me never to walk away from that *!#@% toaster oven again. Thank goodness I have a good sense of humor and can laugh at myself, I have been teased and razzed all week, in good fun of course. I have taken to eating cold cereal and milk with fruit, far less dangerous for everyone.
