So...whats for dinner?
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Lacey, do you mean Galactobouriko? One of my favorites but since my Grandmother died in 1992, have not had any that are nearly as good. She made the best..sigh. I miss her and her cooking soooo much! I miss her stories and her mischievous blue eyes (yes, Greeks from the part of Greece she came from are light skinned, fair haired and often blue eyed or green (me) but my Dad's side are dark haired with olive skin and brown eyes) Holidays really bring out the "missing family" blues the most. Enjoy the dessert and I hope you feel better Sandy!
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Yes, April, that's the dessert....and how wonderful it must have been to enjoy your grandmother's! You are right. The holidays sure remind us of those we miss....and the nurturance we received from them physically, emotionally, spiritually. We carry them with us....
Believe it or not...turkey sandwiches tonight, with lots of lettuce for me, and brussels sprouts. DH plowed through more stuffing and the rest. Oy! Fortunately we did go to our stretching class, and our zumba class before returning to leftover gobble land. Felt good to move around a lot. My body thanks me, save for the never endingcough.
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Posting may be spotty - got a call in the middle of the night that my FIL had passed away. Not sure about when services may be in SC, should know more by the end of the day. My FIL had a long and wonderful life, and mercifully, a short acute illness that didn't impact him too much until the last couple of months. He served his country during WWII, had a blissful 62 year marriage to my MIL. He put himself through medical school and had a very successful career caring for many patients. Together my in-laws had five children, all are happily married, seven grandchildren, three great grandchildren. Can't ask for more than that.
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Oh Special, I'm so sorry. But you're right it sounds like he had a wonderful life. We should all be so fortunate. Hugs to you and your family.
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Special, I am so sorry for your loss. He sounds like a treasure of a man.
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Condolences to you, your DH, and his family, Special. It sounds like your FIL did have a fulfilling life to celebrate. I hope your MIL is coping well, and am sure she has a lot of family support as she grieves losing the love of her life.
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Special, I am so sorry to hear the news.
((Hugs)))
Eric
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Special - our thoughts will be with you in the days ahead.
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Special, so sorry to hear of your FIL’s passing. Sounds like he had a long & wonderful life that touched so many others. May his memory be for a blessing.
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Thanks everyone - I appreciate the kind thoughts
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having the last of the lasagn
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Special, condolences to you and your family. May your wonderful FIL RIP.
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Thanks all - heading up to SC tomorrow, service and military honors burial on Friday. Had turkey sammies for dinner last night, I did a couple of turkey breasts for sandwich meat over the weekend - froze a bunch and that was the last of it. Trying not to grocery shop since we will be out of town for a few days, so since DH and I both have haircuts scheduled for this afternoon, we will go out for a quick bite. My poor DH - a gentleman that was in his area of supervision (he has 160 people under him - all with immediate supervisors) was diagnosed with a gliablastoma a number of months ago. DH visited him in the hospital and at home several times despite not knowing him beyond a casual acquaintance at work, and definitely did not know him outside of work. This man passed away a few days prior to my FIL and the wife unfortunately expected my DH to help her handle the funeral arrangements and hold her hand throughout, and even speak at the visitation. This man had siblings and children, DH had to gently tell her it was not his role to do this. The service and burial are today, and because the military cemetery are an hour north of here, this will be an all day event. Because DH is a good man he will attend, but I know he will be tired tonight and has to get up at O dark thirty and drive 6 hours to SC for his own dad's witness cremation.
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A friend of ours from hubby's job is sending him home with some chili
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SpecialK - I'm so sorry for your loss. Sounds like he had a well-lived, well-loved life.
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Special, hugs to you and DH as you go through this difficult time. We know DH will be well nurtured by you as he navigates work personnel expectations in addition to family needs. He sounds like a solidly caring boss (of so many) and devoted family guy. Caring thoughts to you as younsupport him through this period
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serenity - thanks!
lacey - DH is a good supervisor - definitely an open-door, how can I help kind of guy. He said today's service and military burial was very well done, and the widow was very appreciative of his presence in light of his dad's so recent passing. I am thankful that DH seems mostly relieved that his dad is no longer sick, and he feels he is resting in peace. His thoughts seem to be more of his childhood and growing up in a tight knit and loving family - at least that is what he has verbalized to me so far. I think he is more worried about his mom, she seems pretty fragile. We will see her tomorrow evening, and can better gauge how she is doing - it is hard to know over the phone.
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Special, it sounds to me like your husband has earned that D you put in front of his H!
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red - right you are, he is a keeper for sure!
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Hugs for you and your dh and his family, SpecialK. How wonderful for all of you to have had such a fine man in your lives. Now he lives on as a memory.
DH and I returned to Louisiana from our Thanksgiving journey on Tuesday. We stopped off in Hammond at the hospital where my mother (94 on Dec. 27) was in a room in Same Day Surgery, following a laser procedure to pulverize a kidney stone. She was in the midst of what was apparently a reaction to the anesthesia and gave us quite a scare. She ended up being moved to a hospital room and stayed the night. I spent much of the day with her yesterday and she was VERY glad to be sent back to the nursing home where she lives. She now considers it home.
We had Thanksgiving day dinner at a niece's home in Indiana. The house is not large and we had wondered how in the world she could seat 25 people. She had transformed their garage into a dining room. She strung wire around the top of the walls and hung a white plastic sheeting to conceal garage shelves, etc, borrowed tables from their church and set up a long table with more of the white draping for a table cloth. There were giant dispenser jars of water and other beverage on a side table, a big cooler of canned sodas and a side table buffet for serving the dinner. She had attractive sturdy paper platters as a substitute for china plates. Electric heaters provided heating to a comfortable temperature.
There were three turkeys--roasted, deep fried, and smoked and three dressings, including oyster dressing. Plus all the other typical foods. Apple pies for dessert and a delicious chocolate pie (my choice).
One of their daughters was home from the Navy Academy and this daughter's twin brother was home from his university, Butler. It was fun to catch up on their experiences as college freshmen.
From small town Indiana, we drove to the Chicago area and spent a couple of days with dh's nephew and his young family. We had dinner with him and some other relatives at an expensive restaurant that featured seafood. The nephew picked up the check, which must have been a big number.
On the drive north and the drive south, dh and I ate fast food lunches and hotel breakfasts. Nothing worth mentioning.
It's good to be home. Today we're going to the race track in New Orleans with a YMCA group. The cost includes lunch in the club house.
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Thinking of having ham steaks, rice and a veggie
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Last night after rehearsal, was going to pick up some wings at Wing Stop before getting on the L to go home, but a wonderful friend in the cast drove me all the way home. Bob finished all the food at his drug company dinner and wasn’t going to bring home leftovers, so I made myself a panino: low-carb whole-grain bread with slices of red onion, poblano chile, homegrown tomato & rosemary leaves, bresaola, prosciutto, salami, & provolone. Had a little Nectarouge Beaujolais Nouveau (abt. 2 oz.) to wash it down, then lots of herb tea & honey. Dinner tonight will probably be pizza & finger food at the opening night after-show cast party. Hoping my voice is on the upswing from laryngitis!
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ChiSandy---I hope you "break a leg" as actors say. I love Bar Revue .s. I was in ours a couple of years and it was tons of fun.
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Red, where did you go to law school? Did you practice in IL, and if so, downstate or the Chicago area? Are you retired or still active?
But this isn't just an intramural law school “Bar Revue" (I went to law school in WA and we didn't have one—though I did co-write my husband’s “Boards Revue” when he was a resident at UIC Medical Center). It's the 93d annual production of the Chicago Bar Assn.'s annual musical satirical revue, and it’s open to the public. It used to be called “Christmas Spirits" but the only thing it had to do with the holidays was that it took place before Christmas (and we used to end it with “Jingle Bells" or the E Street Band arrangement of “Santa Claus is Coming to Town," along with a cast member as Santa throwing foam snowballs to the audience—but it made the show run too long, the theater complained about cleaning up the snowballs that didn't get caught, and we lost several Santas to both the "march of time" and schedule conflicts); and newer and younger audiences wanted it to be a bit more inclusive with more modern songs. So about three years ago it just became known as “the Bar Show," which was always its shorthand name anyway.
It runs for four performances at the Merle Reskin (formerly Blackstone) Theatre in the S. Loop just of Michigan Ave. Years ago, it ran for two weeks (!) in the Grand Ballroom of the Hilton & Towers across the street, with dinner and open bar included; not only the audience but the cast & band tended to get increasingly sloshed as the evening wore on. The stage was an improvised one, and things came to a head when one night one of the sets collapsed and several cast members were seriously injured (there was no shortage of lawyers in the audience willing to represent them, but “assumption of risk" put the kibosh on that). So it moved across the street to the theatre (with a pre-show dinner available at the Hilton), reduced to 10, then 6, then 5, and this year (due to budget constraints) 4 performances. Conversely, the talent level has skyrocketed. The show used to be all male lawyers, with the writing far outstripping the quality of the performers—which was mediocre at best but it was fun and it was for charity. It had been the social event of the year for the city's legal community—firms would buy several tables, important clients and even officials (at least the thick-skinned ones) were given tickets as holiday gifts and a good time was had by all. In 1972, a woman lawyer successfully sued to be admitted to the cast and suddenly there were men & women who could really sing & dance, with real choreography. Our choreographer (who is also our director) is a Jeff Award winner. When I first joined the cast, my voice was among the stronger ones. But nowadays about half the cast majored in drama, dance, music or musical theater as undergrads before law school—and we have operatically-trained sopranos, tenors & baritones in leading roles. Many of them do community or semi-pro theater the rest of the year. Several even became lawyers in order to be eligible for the Bar Show (the theater holds almost 1000, so for most of the cast it’s the biggest audience to whom they’d ever played). And the year the movie version of Chicago came out, Roger Ebert’s review contended that the movie’s dancing was the equal of that in the Chicago Bar Show. (Some may say that’s a slam at the movie, but…..)
Every year, the show is loosely based on a hit Broadway musical, movie, or TV show, with an appropriate parody title (this year is “This case is a (S)hamilton,” loosely based on and featuring parodies of songs from Hamilton; e.g., past shows have been Young, Frank, & Stein; Lawlawpalooza; Plea—a pun on Glee; Bar Wars II: Attack of the Clients; King Tort; I’m a Lawyer, Get Me Out of Here; Scamalot; Hearsay; and The Associate—a spoof of a familiar TV show helmed by a certain orange-skinned you-know-who). Parodying “Hamilton” had seemed to be a huge challenge, but we found talented cast members who were taught to rap, and we learned various hip-hop dance moves. Of course, there are numbers based on other songs—the one I’m featured in is “Food, Curious Food,” a parody of “Food, Glorious Food” from “Oliver.” (I play an exhausted, starving post-workout klutz dismayed to find that the health club’s cafe is healthier than it is palatable—and immediately after the number I get to show off my chops as a spectacularly inept gym rat).
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Oh, and one year, after we wished each other to “break a leg” at dress rehearsal, en route to the cast party one of the dancers tripped on a broken, uneven and icy sidewalk….and fractured her tibial plateau. (And after having been given the same wish before going on at the Indiana Jones Stunt Spectacular at Disney MGM Studios in Orlando, while pretending to walk on hot coals—by running in place—my left knee gave way and I tore both an ACL and medial meniscus).
The origin of the term comes from Elizabethan theater—the way one bowed back then involved crossing one leg behind the other and bending the front knee, which was called “breaking a leg.” (Similar to a debutante’s cotillion curtsy). Wishing an actor to “break a leg” was wishing them to perform well enough and be so well-received that they'd get a curtain call.
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Special.. so sorry to hear of your FIL's passing. Prayers are with you and your fsmily.
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ChiSandy, interesting background info on the Bar Show. Sounds like quite a performance.
Tonight's dinner comes under the heading EASY. I took out a package of pasta sauce (tomato base with Italian sausage) and will cook some linguine and toss some salad ingredients into a bowl. And grate some cheese for the pasta. Da DAH! Dinner.
I cancelled out on golf this morning and have been luxuriating in having a couple of hours to putter around the house before I drive to the nursing home. It does get tiresome being "busy."
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Tonight is chicken parm with some fresh linguini that I made and froze last time I made pasta. I took home made sauce out of the freezer and I bought some nice fresh mozzarella yesterday. Hubby is picking up a nice loaf of crusty bread (my downfall for sure) and will make a salad. Calorie heavy but hey, it is Friday, right? LOL
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Planning on having the last of the lasagna unless hubby throws me a curveball and decides he wants something els
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Crab cakes last night. Tapas tonight.
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