I’ve read on another’s blog that January 23, 2009 has been designated (by whoever it is that designates these things) as National Pie Day.  I’m not usually one for celebrating all the little odds and ends designated days out there, but who can’t wrap their minds around a day for PIE???

Since I could probably live happily for some time on apple pie, I think I will just have to participate in celebrating pie on Friday.  Hmmm, now that I’m thinkin’…I could easily come up with pie for breakfast, dinner and dessert that day!  Dinner is easy…pot pies.  Breakfast though, I’ll have to look some things up and see what I come up with.  And dessert, that’s a no brainer, APPLE PIE!!!

I suppose I could use this opportunity to hone my pie crust making skills, since I don’t have any, but I will probably cheat and buy one of those Pillsbury pre-made refrigerated pie crusts.  Pie crust scares me.  I have made maybe two pie crusts from scratch and they were both awful.  At the very least, Dave & I will eat some previously frozen Mrs. Smith’s apple pie for dessert on Friday evening!

So have a Happy National Pie Day on Friday!!

LAUNDRY!  My laundry situation has gotten outta control so today I’ve been steaming away on getting that stuff all caught up.  If I would get in the habit of putting a load into the washer every night before bed then first thing in the morning putting it in the dryer, my laundry dilemma would be no more.  But I am undisciplined.  There are about 47,000 different aspects of my life that would be a billion times better if I would just be disciplined.  I can come up with these rather brilliant planning ideas (like just putting a load of laundry in the washer every night before bed), but I follow through like 3 times, get sidetracked or offer myself an excuse why it is okay to skip that night and I’m totally off track.  It is so awful.  And it makes me feel like a failure every time it happens.  Drives me nuts.  But does it stop…NOPE!

The other item on the agenda today is a deep cleaning of the kitchen.  It’s surfaces get cleaned daily, but it needs the floor tended too, miscellaneous stuff put away, counter fronts wiped down etc.  So between running between floors doing laundry, I’m working on kitchen chores.

My parents, when they built the house they live in, were brilliant about one particular design element.  They put the laundry facilities on the same living level as the bedrooms…where the laundry goes when finished.  Whatever goober though putting a washer & dryer in the basement and the bedrooms on the second floor was not thinking.  If ever I have the opportunity, some washer & dryer in my future will be on the living floor where the hampers, closets and bedrooms live.  This business of lugging a heavy basket down two flights of stairs, washing them, then lugging them back up two flights of stairs to be put away is really annoying.  It isn’t efficient either.   See I know how to be efficient and I certainly know how to plan & organize…but follow through on a continual basis eludes me.

This evening, I’m trying a new recipe for dinner, something called Shrimp Rolls.  I thought I’d serve it with a salad of quinoa, cucumber, red onion, tomatoes and Italian dressing.  If dinner goes over well with quality control (aka hubbie), I’ll post the recipes below later this evening or tomorrow.

NOTE:  Okay, hubbie liked these, but I don’t think I did.  The recipe was supposed to be a shrimp knock-off of a New England favorite called Lobster Rolls.  Shrimp just doesn’t replace lobster real well in my mind.  So I’ll not post this recipe.