Yes, the 'experts' all say that when you are setting at the computer, you need to get up and move around. Generally, I'm up and down for the coffee pot when I'm working at the computer anyway. Come lunch time, I'm up making lunch and putting the dishes away from the dishwasher, too. So, I'm normally not to concerned about not getting up enough.
With the hot weather--it hit 100 again today-- being out when it is that hot does cause me some problems with my meds. One of the warnings on most of the meds all have warnings about being out in the sun, dehydration and a shopping list of other little annoyance things. I don't need that so cutting back when it is hot is top priority. But, as the work gets caught up--I'm highly efficient in that department-- is when usually I am heading out to shoot the next item on the shoot agenda. Alright, the fact of the matter is: I got extremely bored today.
When that happens, it's usually kitchen creative time. That is when the pantry door is opened and I stand in front of the pantry focused on the shelves to see what I can whip up. There is a good history of good things coming out of my kitchen when that happens. Dinnertime really becomes a banquet of sorts. All healthy of course. Sugary things are limited to an occasional bakery buy now and then.Keeping those things in the pantry is pretty much a no no for me.
As with any self-imposed rule, exceptions can be inserted from time-to-time. And, they are. Such an example was the opening and later shuttering of the Fresh Market in the remade shopping center at Gaston and Garland Road. It was a South Carolina market that was popular in the Carolinas and could have been here, but Dallas people don't need to go to South Carolina like the snow birds do. The laid back approach to 'Whole Food' class of shopping was the same except for that overly laid back approach at Fresh Market. In short, while it was open here, of course I shopped there for certain things I could not get here in Dallas that had that South Carolina feel. Keeping in mind that Whole Foods and HEB Central Market have that Gulf of Mexico feel rather than the Carolina one and there is a difference for sure.
At that final week of Fresh, I picked up a box of frosting mix that I had found more close to what I enjoyed as a kid. It went top and back in the pantry until I would discover it serendipitously sometime in the future. A couple of weeks ago while in the grocery store shopping and looking for something that had been moved from the last time I shopped, I ran across a box of dutch chocolate Pillsbury cake mix. One, it was a name out of the past that jumped out at me. Two, it was dutch chocolate. Three, I could not stop it from jumping into my cart!
Today, at the pantry door, it all ganged up on me. As a result, I have a 13x9 sheet pan cake with a tin of 6 cupcakes baked to perfection and iced! Tonight, its french bread pizza with a salad. Somehow, there is a cupcake missing our of the tin already. Dang Hot weather!
With the hot weather--it hit 100 again today-- being out when it is that hot does cause me some problems with my meds. One of the warnings on most of the meds all have warnings about being out in the sun, dehydration and a shopping list of other little annoyance things. I don't need that so cutting back when it is hot is top priority. But, as the work gets caught up--I'm highly efficient in that department-- is when usually I am heading out to shoot the next item on the shoot agenda. Alright, the fact of the matter is: I got extremely bored today.
When that happens, it's usually kitchen creative time. That is when the pantry door is opened and I stand in front of the pantry focused on the shelves to see what I can whip up. There is a good history of good things coming out of my kitchen when that happens. Dinnertime really becomes a banquet of sorts. All healthy of course. Sugary things are limited to an occasional bakery buy now and then.Keeping those things in the pantry is pretty much a no no for me.
As with any self-imposed rule, exceptions can be inserted from time-to-time. And, they are. Such an example was the opening and later shuttering of the Fresh Market in the remade shopping center at Gaston and Garland Road. It was a South Carolina market that was popular in the Carolinas and could have been here, but Dallas people don't need to go to South Carolina like the snow birds do. The laid back approach to 'Whole Food' class of shopping was the same except for that overly laid back approach at Fresh Market. In short, while it was open here, of course I shopped there for certain things I could not get here in Dallas that had that South Carolina feel. Keeping in mind that Whole Foods and HEB Central Market have that Gulf of Mexico feel rather than the Carolina one and there is a difference for sure.
At that final week of Fresh, I picked up a box of frosting mix that I had found more close to what I enjoyed as a kid. It went top and back in the pantry until I would discover it serendipitously sometime in the future. A couple of weeks ago while in the grocery store shopping and looking for something that had been moved from the last time I shopped, I ran across a box of dutch chocolate Pillsbury cake mix. One, it was a name out of the past that jumped out at me. Two, it was dutch chocolate. Three, I could not stop it from jumping into my cart!
Today, at the pantry door, it all ganged up on me. As a result, I have a 13x9 sheet pan cake with a tin of 6 cupcakes baked to perfection and iced! Tonight, its french bread pizza with a salad. Somehow, there is a cupcake missing our of the tin already. Dang Hot weather!
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| That South Carolina Feel Is Unmistakeable. I would have liked to have seen Fresh Market make it here in Dallas. |
