6-28-09 Sunday (Whale Sightings)

It’s going to be a relaxing day.  Just over a year ago, Jim finished mentoring Rachel through a management training program.  Rachel was promoted and eventually got her own branch in Georgia. Only a month after her move, CitiFinancial downsized putting Jim, Rachel and a slew of others, out of work.  Rachel has since moved to the Dallas-Fort Worth area and is working for CitiFinancial.  All of that story, just to tell you that Jim had lunch with Rachel today.  I voted to stay home so Jim and Rachel could talk shop, and I could swim.  Swim, I did.  Well, more like soak.  I kinda laid on the steps like a seal, some may even say a beached whale.  I enjoyed the whole 1/2 hour I was out there.  It’s hot.  The pool was nice.  Children everywhere.  I was done.

It’s not that I don’t like children, I just prefer them to be on a different planet, or oh, a different continent is OK too.  There were 8 children, the oldest a 17 year old girl, frolicking in the pool.  After being splashed a dozen or so times, well OK, once, I moved to a different area.  I was eventually used as a guard rail for some small child who need to get to the pool’s edge.  That’s when I moved to the steps, exclaiming “Bah Humbug”.  Well, not really.  The 17 year old did ask me if I want to play their pool game.  I declined – politely (shocking, I know) – and then fantasized that perhaps she thought I was only 20 or something.  Screaming pool children woke me out of that dream world.

Somewhere in the timeline, we went to Camping World to kill some time.  We wanted to get these lamb skin looking pillows that are made to wedge up in the ceiling vents to prevent cold/heat from coming in/out.  While the A/C’s are working well, we’d still like to get it cooler in here than 75-80.  They were out of the pillow thingys so we got these covers that fasten to the vent housings.  We bought 3.

With our vent shades in place, we walked to John and Derek’s for dinner.  We had very tasty enchiladas.  Beef, mushrooms, olives, peppers, tomatoes, all worked in harmony.  I even had seconds.  I know, hard to believe.  We also had corn casserole which was very good.  Here’s the recipe.  I think I’ll make this sometime but I want to play with the ingredients a little.   I want to make it sweeter like that corn mush they serve at Chevy’s.