I had a pretty good week overall, despite completely forgetting about the humidity levels in DC and having the worse "hair" week of the last decade. This was my first week of a year-long detail in DC and I'm having the opportunity of experiencing what it is like to have my own office....with a door. No exterior window, so don't get too excited for me. Normally, for work I get to sit at a folding or conference room table in chairs ranging from folding chairs to kitchen chairs to pretty decent office chairs, so a "real" office is a treat. My hotel is about 12 blocks from the office so I did get a lot of walking in....and also more showers. I'm going to have to strategize (is *so* a word!) my day so I don't feel like a wrung-out rag when I arrive for work in the morning. I am such a walking wimp since I really hate being sweaty in work clothes. *whine* On the other hand, I am happy with the exercise I got this week. I've found there is a work-out room in the building so I may be able to include it in my campaign quest to be more fit.
I definitely got behind in personal email answering and blog reading and commenting this week on the road. When flying, I can't carry everything I would normally just chuck into the Jeep, so I'm minus my MacBook. I may be in the market for one of those little net books things but I'm really waiting for the rumored Apple netbook of early 2010. My telephone and some blog comment applications like those for Joan's and Carrie's blogs, to name just a couple, do not play together at all. On top of that I just don't like typing long sentences on a micro-keyboard. Access to blogs via work is just not the thing to do with my employer. So, I'm working on it. Please don't forget about me. :D
Wilson and I don't really have the "yard beautiful" thing going on but sometimes stuff just needs to be trimmed. A new gardening tool arrived this week that I ordered from Amazon and I'm very pleased with it. It is a cordless Black & Decker 18V string trimmer. It is light enough for me to use easily in the yard compared to the stinky gas models. Wilson charged the batteries for me during the week so I could play with it Saturday. I trimmed just about everything using the first battery (it comes with two rechargeables) yesterday afternoon. It also is far less noisy than the gas model. We have an electric model but an extension cord only goes so far around here. On top of it all, this is going to be an excellent upper-body strength builder based on the way my arms feel this morning. Ouch. (I am such a weakling.)
Besides trimming, laundry, and errands, I also cooked! Really. I was browsing in the cookbook bookcase and came across Jane Butel's book and decided pork and green chile enchiladas, New Mexico style sounded great. The recipe was inspired by Jane but isn't in the book, exactly.
Now, I'm just taking Jane's word that this are really New Mexico-style enchiladas since I didn't research them the one time I visited in Roswell. (I'm hoping to amend that this October in Taos.) However, these were yummy even if they were just Angie-style. I also made some tomatillo salsa from last summer's frozen tomatillos. I collapsed in my armchair the rest of the evening. :D
Yum!
Could you walk to work in exercise-type clothes and freshen up and change once you're at work? You don't have a window, so you could even change at your desk. ;^) Just a thought.
Now I want one cordless thingies. I HATE winding 200 yards worth of orange electrical cord. I'm thinking one of those thingies would be cheaper than hiring a yardboy.
xo
Posted by: Cookie | Sunday, May 31, 2009 at 02:08 PM
I'm putting pork and green chiles on the grocery list right now. I'm such a sucker for the power of suggestion.
Nice bluebird of happiness there.
Posted by: Diane | Sunday, May 31, 2009 at 02:12 PM
Ah, the life of an auditor -- never a real office. My most noteworthy assignment was at a sunflower seed processing plant, still under construction, near Velva, ND. I had to wear a hard hat to go to the restroom (which was a Port-a-Potty outdoors). At another audit in Hibbing, the audit team was situated in a back conference room that seemed to have no heat. In January. With outdoor wind chill temps of -80℉ to -100℉. (D'ya think they may have been less than happy to have us there?)
If you are thinking of a netbook, you might want to read this:
http://lifehacker.com/5273096/five-best-netbooks
If you are up to it, there is a link in the Mini to run OSX. You could have the equivalent of a Mac netbook for around $500 instead of the $nnnn+ that Apple will probably charge.
Posted by: kmkat | Sunday, May 31, 2009 at 02:38 PM
You're killing me with those enchiladas. I'm starving.
I feel ya on the humid walks to work - too bad you can't take the Metro and then walk home... Keep some hairspray and witch hazel in that nifty office of yours!!
xo
Posted by: Nora | Sunday, May 31, 2009 at 05:51 PM
Yummy! I was going to say what Cookie said about the changing thing. I heard about those weed whackers and was wondering. Thanks for the review. Think a floppy can handle it?
A year!?!?! With a desk? And knowing exactly where you're going to be? WHOA! Now I understand it all!
Posted by: Stacey | Sunday, May 31, 2009 at 05:52 PM
'sokay, I only really post like once a week anymore anyway. Someday when I have a brain again I'll post more. I don't expect it to be soon.
They look like NM enchiladas to me, except they really need to be SWIMMING in the green chile and cheese. I had green chile machaca enchiladas for breakfast! YUM.
Posted by: Carrie | Sunday, May 31, 2009 at 11:17 PM
A door!! Excellent!
Carrie's right about the green chili. Other than that, looks delicious. I mean, authentic.
Posted by: Carrie K | Monday, June 01, 2009 at 06:33 PM