lazy day...

On the plus side, Dan is home early, so I can run more errands. On the down side, he's terribly sick with probably some norovirus thing (though he's not throwing up yet, knock on wood)--and I'm feeling nauseous by association. Some norovirus strain has been rampaging west Michigan for a little while now, actually. A lot of people assume it's "just the stomach flu" or "food poisoning" and don't really get how serious it is. Only bleach kills it, it can live up to three weeks on objects like doorknobs and switches and other things that don't get religiously washed, you can still pass it on for up to three days after your symptoms are gone, and it has shut down a small handful of restaurants for thorough cleaning after one sick employee ended up affecting literally hundreds of people each in the midwest over the past year. I don't worry too terribly much because I'm rather obsessive about washing my hands, actually. Habit from working in restaurants for four years...but I know people who work in restaurants and really don't do it like they should. hmph.

Also, as our MP emailed the home office when asking if we could do some sort of benefit...our fire chief's house burned down. Look up "irony" in the dictionary.

*laughs* I actually did just look it up for the hell of it and found this:
"consisting of, containing, or resembling iron"

I never would have imagined that I could use "That metal is so irony" and be correct.

I obviously didn't get enough sleep last night :-P

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Apparently Hestia got bored and decided to have a way with me today. I actually accomplished doing dishes, going grocery shopping, and now I'm just finishing up dinner (with a small handful of modifications...acorn squash just sounded amazing to me today when I went shopping), and will be enjoying a nice glass of light red wine with it (pinot noir...red for the richness of the squash, but light enough for the fruit and sweet). Too bad Dan's sick and asleep and can't enjoy it with me.

Wow...really...I never cook. Apparently twelve hour days cooking at work make me want to cook on my days off? Strange.

Oh...modifications...like no mushrooms, no apricot because I didn't want to buy something I wouldn't eat later, added more cider than it said to and added brown sugar when I combined everything, plus added a bit to the tops before baking. It actually could probably have used a splash of cider in each half (or drizzled over the toppings before baking) and a layer of brown sugar inside the half before filling. It's not bad, but I think I prefer regular old acorn squash with lots of butter and salt and pepper.