Monday Morning This and That

Good morning.  I had a great weekend.  Did you?  Hubby is feeling better and was finally able to go back to work.  He drives a cab at night.  I wasn't for it, thought it was dangerous, but it makes him happy, and he feels productive.  Unlike me, he wasn't ready to retire, but with funding cuts his job closed, and then with his emphysema, he just didn't have it in him to start over elsewhere, so he retired.  But, where I was always looking for classes to take and things to day, he sat around becoming depressed.  So finally I found a free class that really interested him, getting his CDL license, and he enjoyed it.  After completion, though, they told him with his health condition it would be difficult for him to find work driving a big rig.  So then he went for his TLC and has been driving ever since.  And him being back to work meant that I FINALLY managed to get a decent night's rest.

Hubby and I went out to dinner at Applebees and then onto a movie.  Although I like their steaks and grilled chicken, I LOVE their Chicken Wonton Stir Fry, but after checking on the amount of sodium in it, I decided to go for something different.  Almost 3,000 mg is a bit much so I settled for this delicious Southwestern Steak Salad.

Chimichurri smothered steak, mixed greens *lots of different ones), black bean corn salsa, a blend of Cheddar cheeses, tortilla strips with cilantro ranch dressing. Oh my!!! It was super delicious. I can't say enough about it.

Afterwards we saw Mission Impossible.  Fantastic, action filled movie.   I missed that familiar music.

The other day I looked out my window, and what did I see?  One lone sunflower in the lot next door where the houses were torn down.  Have no idea where how that seed got there. Sunflowers are one of my favorite flowers,  and they have such beautiful meaning--healing, warmth, loyalty, and constancy.  A Greek myth relates the tale of  a beautiful water nymph who fell in love with the sun god, Apollo.  In her love of Apollo, she would sit on the earth and gaze at the sun day after day. While Apollo took no notice of the nymph, the other gods felt compassion for her and turned her into a sunflower. This explains sunflower buds always follow the sun.

Got my looms for the knitting class I plan on starting in September.  I know how to crochet, but have never been able to learn how to knit.  They use these looms in the class so maybe I can learn to make some nice hats.  No overspending for Christmas this year.  I learned my lesson last year.  Still playing catch up...and gifts still sit unwrapped.