What's on your Menu today (Wednesday) RNYers?

Good morning,

I'm not so far from Daisy, so with the exception that she may have more snow than me, for the most part her weather is my weather.  It is beautifully sunny today. I really don't like winter, but living where I do, that's not a great way to be- so my goal this winter is to try to embrace it a little more.  Hopefully I will be off work recovering from surgery for a few weeks - hope that will help.

I had a protein shake for breakfast, and 2 hard boiled eggs that I haven't eaten yet.  The protein shake was good. It was vanilla powder, and I added a little cocoa powder, coffee and milk as well as a bit of peppermint extract.  Peppermint mocha is one of my favourites.

I have some chicken and mashed potatoes for lunch. Hubby made it for me from leftovers the other night. I may or may not eat the potatoes. :)

I wasn't sure what to have for supper but someone mentioned chilli, and since I can have delicious chilli in 20 minutes in the instant pot I think that's what it will be.

QOTD - I hate spelling mistakes - especially on signs and menus. It boggles my mind that people pay money to publish something and don't proof read it first.  I have a thing about grammar - using the wrong their, there or they're drives me crazy, using plural and possessive s the wrong way - that kind of thing.  I hate being tapped or poked.  My kids know this - and love to annoy me occasionally. Actually I think my husband enjoys it more- but he is my biggest child at times. I also hate to have my hair played with. My best friend loves it- she could go to sleep with someone brushing her hair.

I have a lot of quirks but sadly very few around organization - I hate that my house is kind of cluttery - but on a positive note, we've spent the last few weeks doing some serious purging, and it's really starting to look better.  In my defense- 5 people in a 1200 square foot house is tough.  For instance, our hall closet- we've had some warmer temps, so all the fall coats are still in the closet, and now we have winter so all the winter coats are too - the closet is jammed and bursting at the seams. It drives me crazy- but I can close the door and forget about it until the next time I need to get something.

Another one!!! IRREGARDLESS - I hate that word.  It basically means nothing. The entire word cancels itself out.  I also hate when people use big words in the wrong context. :)

We invented IRREGARDLESS here in Boston. Stupid word but super funny to hear drunk guys with Boston accents saying it. You'd think you were watching an SNL skit.

And insisting on proper grammar and spelling should not be a "quirk". #teacherrant

I agree! You would love my daughter JB -I've definitely rubbed off on her, and she really can't stand improper grammar- spoken or written.  She's in tenth grade - and will even tell me when her teachers make errors.  She makes me so proud.  All 3 know the your, you're, their, there and they're...  Now if my oldest would only try to spell correctly.

Amen.  I tend to be slightly more relaxed here with grammar, but it drives me insane when I see a legal document served with grammatical errors.  

At least as  you lose weight it will be easier to move around in the snow and cold. 

I'm a grammar Nazi too... and it drives me nuts even worse, because with my phone, and the swipe text on the Samsung, I swipe and just expect it to know what I'm swiping... then I get in a rush and post something on FB that makes NO sense and has the weirdest typos in it! Both of my kids know too, to, and two, their there and they're, where and wear... and the list goes on. I have drilled that into their little brains since birth! LOL (and we already know my big mouth in correcting words people say incorrectly gets me in trouble)

Around here people pronounce the Greek sandwich gyro (Jy-ro)... DRIVES ME BONKERS! (I have quit correcting, and just shudder inside when I hear it). I've lived in a lot of places, and have never heard that until I moved to OK.

I may not feel your pain with the vaccuuming  but in this - we are completely on the same page! In my house - the sound of the vaccuum running is music to my ears- and I don't care who's doing it. Now the dishwasher is another story- I am sure I reload that thing for almost every wash.

For many years near my town, you had to drive past a small dam.  Painted on the concrete, someone had put in big letters:

NO SWIMING!!

Underneath that, in smaller letters, someone had added:

'or swimming'

It made me laugh every single time.  What is "swiming" anyway?  And, the person who added the correct spelling.  I love them, whoever they are.

YES!!!