15 feb 2010

federal holiday today. everyone calls it "President's Day" so i always assumed it was President's Day. however, the official act establishing the holiday actually designates the day as George Washington's Birthday.

breakfast

toast (2 sl)
coffee
oj
iced tea

got out of the house long enough to go to the pet store and the grocery store.

lunch

chicken sandwich
cheeseburger
iced tea

at Burger King. we eat at home a lot more than we used to. fast food can taste so much saltier now than it used to. the chicken sandwich at BK tastes like someone dumped a whole salt shaker in it. amazing.

snack

snickers bar

haven't had a snickers in a very long time. really tasted good but way too sweet!

it was supposed to snow 1-3 in starting this afternoon and ending about 2-3 in the morning. it started to snow on the way to the store. by the time i came out of the grocery store it was coming down really heavily. by the time i got home and saw about .5 in sticking to Beverly Ct. i was getting pretty bugged at the weather man. then it stopped snowing about the time i got home.

now they say it may snow late over night but it shouldn't be much in the way of accumulation.

dinner

burritos (2)
iced tea

burritos were tasty but, again, the commercial seasoning was too salty. i wish i'd eaten just one meat burrito and maybe had the second with just cheese and veggies and cetera.

dessert

donut
iced tea

we watched the hound group at the westminster kennel club dog show. we've watched at least part of westminster every year since about 85 or 86. when we first started watching we used to stay up late to watch the whole thing.

westminster is one of those harbinger's of spring: westminster, acc men's bball tournament, ncaa men's bball tournament, the master's. once you get to the master's it is really spring. westminster means you are over halfway through winter. acc tourney means it's nearly spring. march madness starts in the dregs of winter and ends in the first days of spring and the master's has those beautiful azaleas at least 2-3 weeks before our azaleas fully bloom.

we switched to the olympics when westminster switched from USA to the other network.