Good Day

I think today is going to be a good day. I just found out Lauren, a friend from my Geo-Marine job in FL last summer, just got rehired by them for a Kansas-Oklahoma pipeline project and will probably be in or near Wichita at some point. How exciting. I hope I'm not in Belize when she comes through.

I am also going to be entertaining people for the first time in the new home. Emily, Jeanette and Erin are coming for lunch on Friday. I think I might make butternut squash soup again and a chicken rice soup. Last time I made butternut squash bisque was a week ago. I only had an hour to do it because I wanted to go to an archaeology society meeting. I thought, "this should be enough time." Well it got down to ten minutes before I needed to leave for the meeting and the soup was just done cooking. I hurriedly poured the boiling hot soup into the blender and pushed "puree." The hot soup made the rubbery blender lid very pliable and it was not sealing well. That combined with the pressure from all the steam pushed the lid off while I was pureeing. The soup did not fly ALL over the room, but some of it got on the counter and my sleeve. Normally, I would have stopped and waited for the soup to cool, but I wanted to eat it before I had to leave so I just kept trying to puree it. Well, the lid flew off a couple more times just adding to the mess. I finally got all the soup pureed and the mess cleaned up, but I didn't have time to eat it or change my shirt. While I was at the meeting, I put my hand on my head and found I had butternut bisque in my hair. Mmm ... snack for later. Now I have learned my lesson and I want to try this again so I can get it right.

The other exciting thing about today is that I am meeting Jeremy for lunch at this hole-in-the-wall Chinese restaurant in Colwich. Jeremy raves about this place all the time. Okay, Colwich is really small and it is hard to believe they have a Chinese restaurant, especially a good one. We tried to go together two other times, but it was closed both times. Hopefully it will be open today. General Tso, get yo chicken ready, here I come.