Grilled Pizza

I love my new work schedule. With mandatory furlough days for town employees falling on many Mondays this year I changed my part-time schedule from Monday, Tuesday, Thursday (days that had been requested by my supervisor when she hired me 6 years ago) to Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, so now I have a 4-day weekend every week. I really love my Mondays. Today I had an 8:30 appointment for routine bloodwork (fasting) after which I took myself out to breakfast at my favorite spot and then went to Wal-Mart to poke around. I guess it's been a couple of weeks since I've been to that Wal-Mart and in that time they've begun a major renovation that has the entire store turned upside down. It was very chaotic and unsettling, which just goes to show that I can be tolerant of chaos of my own making but I am bothered by chaos that I can't control. I was very glad to pay for my purchases and GET OUT OF THERE!

Hooray! My Lia Sophia order has finally shipped. At least I now have a tracking number. I don't know where it ships from but hopefully it will be in my hands by the end of the week.

The rest of my day was spent sorting through stuff in my studio. I literally had about a 2" square work surface to make John's birthday card because things have gotten so out of hand. While I worked I watched disc 2 of Planet Earth from Netflix. I still have a lot more work to do, and I guess it's going to be a neverending project. A few weeks ago I bought a 12 x 12 expanding file with colored tabs. I don't know if they intended it for this, but I have sorted my loose paper into color groups by the tabs. Now I have a place to put those partial sheets of paper after I use my Cricut (or Pazzles Inspiration, which I AM going to start using).

Dinner tonight was a cookout. I made shish kebab and a grilled pizza. I never believed that you could grill pizza dough without making a gawdawful mess, but I stand corrected. The crust got a little charred but the finished pizza was pleasantly crunchy and chewy. I used pizza dough from the grocery store, leftover Classico tomato basil sauce, carmelized onion and mushroom and pizza cheese. The actual grilling time was about 2-3 minutes each side. It was good. I would do it again.

My GPS bit the dust. I have a Nextar X3-02 and it just stopped charging. I'm looking around for a replacement. I've actually been pretty satisfied with the Nextar. It's got the text to speech feature which makes me laugh when the voice gets abbreviations screwed up. Of course, I wasn't too happy when the GPS routed me through the Lincoln Tunnel driving from VA to CT and then lost me in Manhattan because the tall buildings prevented me from getting a satellite signal. It seems that all GPS systems have pros and cons. If anyone is reading this and you have a GPS that you love, I'd like to hear from you.

And what about Kindle...Naturally, my brother has one. He has everything. I've been looking at Kindle and the Sony e-Book (they're now the same price). But then, there's a free Kindle app for my i-touch which I downloaded, along with a few free books. I think the Kindle app is a barebones reader where you miss out on a lot of the features of the regular Kindle (like the dictionary), but using the i-touch version means that I don't have to put yet another device in my purse. I don't find the i-touch screen too small to read comfortably, but it is uncomfortable to have to hold the little device for an extended period. Another difference that I've seen between the Kindle and Sony is that Sony allows you to share your library with up to 5 family members. My house is filled with books. I love books but I'm running out of space to store all the books I have. It sounds incredible to be able to lug around 1,500 volumes in a little device the size of a paperback. But what happens to your "library" when you die? Are you no longer purchasing a book but just a license that allows you, and you alone, to read or use a book for your own enjoyment?