Pretty low key night around here. A few camphone photos:

I received my new running shoes in the mail today! This is exciting because it’s the first time I’ve bought myself shoes in over two years (mandatory EMT work boots don’t count). Yay, employment! There seem to be so many “basics” that I scrimped on while unemployed that I almost have a backlog of necessary boring life items to procure. Linus was kind enough to model my new kicks. I’ve been using these Brooks Trance running sneakers for several years. Absolutely love them, tho for a while they kept redesigning them to be more and more ugly. Each year I would buy the new model and they just kept getting worse looking. Was happy to find a model online that wasn’t horrendous- check out the steezy orange! Also, I found them online for $79- and free shipping, whereas normally at the store they run $140ish. Nice.

After his modeling stint (which he clearly didn’t enjoy), Linus got a treated to a nap in the bed (which he enjoyed).

While hounds and nerds slept, I wrassled up a tuna casserole for dinner. This recipe is an oldie, originating from my Aunt’s mother. Pretty basic- tuna, egg noodles, peas, cream of mushroom soup, and some milk. I added celery, mushrooms, a little lemon thyme and two diced hardboiled eggs… stemming off my my (#1FAVORITE MEAL OF ALL TIME) mother’s chicken casserole recipe. The top is a mixture of crushed potato chips and cheese. Not the healthiest meal in the world, but certainly scrumptious comfort food at its finest!

Lucy enjoyed staking out the shoebox as her new snooze spot, with added bonus of being the first to crinkle the sneaker-wrapping paper.

All in all, nothing big to report. I’m working the 6am-6pm shift tomorrow with a really cool partner. I’ve been enjoying the 6-6 shift- you don’t have to get up *too* early (set my alarm for 4:45am, which seems a heck of a lot easier to stomach than 3:45am for the 5-5… must be psychological), but you still get off in time to do stuff at night (gym!). We’ve been having some crazy interesting calls as of late. My Monday shift seemed to be a magnet for cranky patients. Everyone we transported was in a really bad mood!

Other goings ons: taking the Corvette back on Thursday and as a thank-you present to my uncle for letting us borrow it I am taking him out to dinner (Dennys! the man likes what he likes) and a movie of his choice. Apparently he *loves* to go to the movies, although my aunt hates going, so he has no one to go with. Hmm… that is a familiar situation :P We had lots of fun driving the ‘vette this weekend- we took it up Highway 1 and along the coast to Stinson Beach. It was surprising how many people will pull over on a windy road and let a corvette pass! My uncle did give me specific instructions to “drive it like a Corvette is meant to be driven” and we took him up on it. Earl’s head hit the ceiling when he was driving which was mildly amusing for me. Apparently 6’4 people aren’t meant for Corvettes. The Jeep is back from the shop but will be going right back in a few weeks when our budget is ready to dole out for the next round of slated repairs. Blegh.

*yawn* Well I am off to read, write in my journal, and pass out. Horray for not doing the dishes. Corgi BART and Corvette pics to come :)
Yours in casserole fandom,
C