It's Monday night, and this is usually the night I have to prepare the menu for next week's food shopping and make out the shopping list. I try to get it done early, but usually, I don't get it done until 10:30 or 11:00 at night. I've got a whole stack of recipes that I go through, and pick six menus for the week. Now and winter, it's a little quicker because I pick out at least one soup that will last for 2 days. We don't need it day after day; instead, I alternate the second helping for a second or third day of the menu. I don't like eating the same thing two nights in a row, nor does John.
Our Christmas tree is already decorated, has been for the last week. It's the same tree we've been using for several years because it's a plastic tree. I gave up buying a real tree because it makes more sense to use the plastic one and save the life of at least one tree.
They added a new person to my conversation list, the brother of my friend me how. He would like some help with his English, and so we will talk on Mondays and Wednesdays at 11:00 for 1 hour each time. Today was our first meeting.
In the afternoon, John and I watched NFL football highlights, and then, because she hasn't been outside of the house for 3 days, we went to Kandulskis for Costco and coffee. It's the same place that Zbyszek introduced us to many years ago. For several years, we used to meet there at 3:00 in the afternoon and have some conversation for about an hour or two. Unfortunately, he died 3 years ago this past November, and so we no longer meet.
Christmas is only nine days away, but I have no presents to buy, so it's not a problem of rushing around trying to find presents. Joan and I stopped buying presents for each other several years ago. It was sad to read the news that Rob Reiner and his wife were killed yesterday. Of course, I didn't know either of them personally, but we've enjoyed his talents in movies and the old TV series where he was called Meathead.
