What's on your Monday Menu, RNYers?

Good morning!

The weekend was good. I worked on my garage and a few odd jobs all day on Saturday and got so much done I ran out of the things to do. So I put up a lawn chair, made a coffee and sat there with my garage door open and watched it rain. Sunday my wife and I got up and went for a drive. We wound up in the US so we did a little retail therapy (rare for me to actually enjoy it) before grabbing groceries and gas, and came home. It was a nice way to spend the day, having farmed the kids out to grandparents. They had more fun than if they'd come with us (swimming, lunch out, etc.).

Menu: I bought some "Chocolate Peanut butter cup" k-cup pods on our excursion yesterday. I've had that with my usual protein bar breakfast. I may actually be in heaven, if not for seeing my surroundings. Lunch will be a shake. Snacks are these really small apples (smaller than a tennis ball) and a meat stick. Supper I'm not sure but not much.

QOTD: I like my job now well enough, but the best job I had wasn't the one that paid the most. I was a long-haul driver and I loved dragging that trailer all over hell's half-acre. I had an old, but one of the more powerful tractors with HUGE fuel tanks on it (a road truck for sure) and it didn't even blink at mountains. I met a lot of cool people (and some not-so-cool) before I made the move to local fuel delivery, also a cool job (which paid diddly sadly). As far as hardest job (but the one that was most peaceful, oddly enough), I was a manual grave digger for a couple of years while I was working pizza delivery at night. The grave digging had to be done by hand because the back-hoe kept collapsing the old graves. It was brutal work but the 2 of us with the shovels were very close buddies and it was always a good day, even in the rain. It actually paid fairly well, but you paid for it in other ways when you went home at night. I always joked that one of those holes I was in was going to be my own.

Good morning! Had a great weekend--did a lot of things Saturday and yesterday I ran a few errands then worked on laundry and picking up the house. We're leaving for Denver tomorrow and I hate coming home to a messy house. Then I feel like I have to clean it, when all I want to do after a long road trip is be lazy!

Due to the vibrant purple color of my new hairdo (pics on yesterday's thread), I was told not to wa**** for 48 hours. Normally that's fine, except she used products to style it, the style no longer looks fresh and my head feels itchy from the two-day old product, so I used dry shampoo and attempted to straighten it, but I feel like I look kind of like a hot mess today.

Qotd: honest to god my favorite job was my first job at Taco John's, mostly because of the people I worked with, who became like family. I lived with several of them at one point, and we still get together for a "Friendsgiving" the night before thanksgiving day every year. The job itself was NOT glamorous but it brought me to these people.

Breakfast: coffee and Premier

lunch: buffalo tuna creations on a bed of spinach, string cheese

dinner: again, something probably easy to throw on the grill. Leaving tomorrow and I don't want to have to do many dishes or have leftovers in the fridge.

I HAVE to clean the house before we go away also! It drives DH nuts or he thinks I'm nuts, not sure which?

Haha DH always teases me, "I've done the dusting and vacuuming, in case the queen drops in while we're away."

I'm with you on the house cleaning before vacation. Idcyou come home to a messy house, you just want to turn around at the door. Plus in my mind I think, what if something happens to us and someone has to come to our house? Crazy I know.

My mother was an immaculate housekeeper. She drove me crazy cleaning. I swore when I had my own house I would never clean, but fortunately I do like a clean house. Before we went on vacation, we cleaned house and as soon as we got back, we cleaned house.

Good morning Jb and menu crew - Happy Belated to Grim- box of meat from Katz deli - it does not get better than that. I have not had a Pastrami from NYC, but have had smoked meat from Montreal and I hear they are similar. My weekend was great as well, busy around the house and Garden and also included a trip to Burlington Vt to go to Costco, Trader Joes and the Christmas Tree shop.

Accountability was good.

QOTD - I have moved up the ladder per say, I am hoping my next job is my favorite. the Job I have now allows me to have alot of control over what I do, I travel and go to China/Hong Kong and am evolving, when hired I was told there would be opportunity to eventually become the plant manager, I am not sure if I have the people skills for it, but am working on it...LOL.

B - premier protein shake

S - Glazier Hot dog - ( like garlic bologna)

L - Chicken salad

S - cheese stick

D - grilled ribeye and asparagus

E - Gym night

Calories - 1,010, Carbs - 16, Protein - 96

Stay healthy my friends, Mike

How is it that you live in NY and have not had NYC pastrami? I went to sarges deli when we were there in january. it was sooo goood, but expensive and they must have brought a pound of meat or more. it was insane.

I am about 6.5 hours North of the City and have never been there. I am hoping to get to the city this fall.

oh you MUST go. Everyone should see NYC at least once - and you're only six hours away!!