Life Isn't A Musical

I am continuing my plan to listen to music I do not normally choose for my listening entertainment. This week was Broadway musicals I have never  heard of before*. I have to admit I really did enjoy them.

I have seen Spamalot a couple of times but thought this was the perfect introduction for this week's post.

Monday: I hung around the house all day. I would like to say I was a cleaning whiz, but that would be a bold faced lie. I did plan our meals for the week including whatever I needed to buy to make said meals (nothing really) and did just enough housework to keep from being a health hazard, but did absolutely nothing that I should have done. I am blaming it on being tired from Easter, but that also would be a bold faced lie. I just took a day to do whatever I wanted.

Listened to: Anyone Can Whistle. The only song I think I have ever heard before from this play was Everybody Says Don't

What I learned: My cousin's son is remarrying after losing his first wife to cancer at a very young age. 

They want a small intimate wedding but have invited people to watch it online as it happens. 

Dinner: Oven baked chicken with bbq sauce, great northern beans, coleslaw, toast

Tuesday: I had a couple of errands to run and a bookcase to buy. I can't stand going into a Walmart SuperCenter anymore. There is a Walmart Everyday Market near me, but it is only good for traditional grocery store items and pharmaceuticals. No bookcases would be found there, so I ordered it for pickup. I also added a couple of groceries to bring the total over 35 bucks to avoid the pick up fee.We grabbed the items then headed home just in time to see Bama softball beat South Alabama. 

After the game TheHub put the new bookcase together and took it into the laundry room for me. I could have done both, but I am not stupid and if it was something he wanted to do it was fine by me.

 Our food storage was out of control and needed better organization and containment, and the bookcase was quickly filled with canned foods.

And, as we all know. once you start organizing, one thing leads to another and before I knew it I had jars of colored pencils organized by type and color family. What? You mean some of you don't have hundreds of colored pencils of every type and shade possible?

Next up is to tackle all my paints.

After spending a couple of hours in the laundry room things looked so much better, and now I can find some things much easier.

Listened to: Philemon  I listened to it once, and I never have to again. I am just glad I was listening to it while working in the laundry room, so it was not a compete waste of my time. Perhaps if I saw the play while listening I might feel differently because I do love musical theater. Who knows?

What I learned: Walmart pick up is the bomb!

Dinner: Pizza in a bowl, broccoli/kale coleslaw

Wednesday: My Wednesday class was meeting again after a break for a couple of weeks. I came home, ate lunch with TheHub, then headed out to run a few errands. It was a regular run of the mill day.

Listened to: Death Becomes Her Loved it!

What I learned: About the Habsburg empire

Dinner:  Ham steak, squash, green beans, coleslaw

Thursday: I cleaned and reorganized the butler's pantry. Though I do store crystal and barware in it, we actually use it as a storage for snacks, crackers, nuts and the like. With TheHub's change in diet I wanted to get rid of things he no longer needs to eat, as well as making space for things he can have.

After getting it cleaned out, I moved to getting the house company ready. Our neighbors who moved a couple of weeks ago were back in town for the second part of their move, so we had a little impromptu dinner for them, including another couple in the neighborhood we are all friends with. 

We told them whoever bought their house has a high water mark for being good neighbors. We will miss them but wish them every good thing.

Listened to: Shout! The Mod Musical  This was really easy to listen to since I was familiar with most of the songs, which were mostly female  hits in the 60's. I think based on the music it might be fun to see.

What I learned: Our neighbor who is moving is a pilot for Delta, but at one time he worked for a private charter company and transported all kinds of folks who had the cash to spend for a private plane. If a client was late for his appointed time, the flight crew just had to wait. The longest delay he said they ever had was 4 days. I can't imagine having so much money that I would ever pay a flight crew four days salaries just so I could continue having a good time. (OK in reality I can't imagine I would ever hire a charter flight, even if money were no object)

Dinner: Pulled pork, smoked chicken, turnip greens, potato salad, baked beans, buns

Friday: I woke with a very sore throat and cough**. A few years ago maebemylife mentioned Buckley's*** Cough and Congestion magic elixir (the magic elixir is just what we call it, not part of the products name) and it's wonderful properties for a cough and cold. 

I can't find it here, but through the magic of Amazon I could purchase it and have it delivered to my door. I bought it and have reordered it a couple of times over the last few years. 

Imagine my horror when I was looking through the medicine cabinet and found only enough for one dose. After taking it, my first stop of the morning was to the computer to order 2 additional bottles (delivery between 4 and 8 am Saturday)

It is pricy, but works so much better than anything I can find locally.

By noon I felt much better. Continuous cups of hot tea helped the throat, and Buckley's calmed the cough and made breathing easier.

Unfortunately looking for the Buckley's made a mess on the counter and forced me to clean out the medicine cabinet, which then made me clean out the spice cabinet, (beside the medicine cabinet) and next made me start searching for recipes using some of the odd herbs and spices I have. ADD at its finest!

We asked My Beloved Sister , Dil2 and Son2 to come eat the bbq leftovers, so one meal turned into 2.

We enjoyed eating, and talking with them.

After dinner we watched Bama softball. They beat Auburn with is always good, though it was a very close game.

Unfortunately for me, the later the night went on the worse I felt.

Listened to: The Band's Visit. I had never heard of this musical but after listening to the cast recording and reading a synopsis of the play, I think I would like to see it.

What I learned: The employees of High End Moving Company wear tee shirts that look like tuxedos

Dinner: Repeats of Thursday's meal with the addition of coleslaw.

Saturday: I did not sleep much at all Friday night because of a persistent cough and runny nose. I got up well before dawn and started drinking coffee, which felt great on my throat, and just as promised, Amazon delivered the Buckley's cough syrup a little before 7.  Perfect, because I had no more and really needed it.

I did very little other than cough, drink hot tea and doze off, until it was time for the Alabama softball game, and even watching it, I would doze off between innings. I guess you would say I had a very unproductive day other than the couple of loads of laundry I did early in the day.

What I learned: Nothing because I felt like learning nothing at all.

Listened to: Nothing because I felt bad and would just have slept through it anyway.

Dinner: I also did not feel like cooking

Tossed salad

Sunday: I got up in the middle of the night and finished sleeping in the recliner. Being prone did nothing to help the cough and sneezing. I skipped church to avoid sharing whatever this is with others, took a long steamy shower took medicine and began day two of nothing but reading and watching both Bama softball and The Master's. 

As is our tradition, we had a pimento cheese sandwich for our Master's Sunday lunch. Even if we can't be there in person we can eat what the crowds there eat.

Bama won, as did Rory Mcillroy.

What I learned: I was thinking about one of my great aunts and could not remember which of my grandfather's brothers she married. I texted one of my cousins, who knows everything about the family to find out. Not only did she tell me who WM was married to, but she also told me about a different set of relatives (great aunt and uncle also) who had a shotgun wedding. I had never heard that before!

Listened to: It Shoulda Been You. Judging by the songs this is a comedy about a wedding, overbearing mother of the bride, and an ex-boyfriend. The songs are funny on their own. I think I might like seeing this.

Dinner: Planned and reformatted leftovers

Lamb stew, cucumber tomato salad

What we might eat this week:

1. Meatloaf, mashed potatoes, green beans, coleslaw

2. Grilled salmon, asparagus, rice pilaf, tossed salad

3. Meal from St.Elias Lebanese festival (we do this every year)

4. Sausage dogs, coleslaw

5. Thai chicken salad

6. Veggie meal TBD

7. Chicken, Moroccan roasted cauliflower, dinner rolls

Read this week: Theo of Golden

Have a great week staying on plan, going off plan, or with no plan at all.

May all your weeds be wildflowers.

Anne

* I have had this site bookmarked for quite a while so it is very easy for me to find musicals I have never seen or known about before   https://www.mtishows.com/shows/all 

It provides a little synopsis of each show, then all I have to do is find the broadway cast recording on Spotify and listen to it. 

** I thought this was just a pollen and allergy issue but it turned out to be a little more.

***The magic of Buckley's comes at a cost. It is very pricy so you take a financial hit for the incredible benefits. But there is also an price to be paid when taking it. I swear it tastes like a combination of turpentine, skunk and licking an pine tree.