Friday Was a Good Day Off - Adventures With Food

My intention yesterday, amidst many other things, was to donate to Ukraine by renting an Air B&B rental location for a day or several days. I actually had chosen a place in Irkusk, and way almost finished finishing the paperwork when Air B&B required photo identification - passport, driver's license, or one other item which I'm not remembering. I stopped there, cancelled the reservation, and I'll find a different way to donate to Ukraine. I have no faith or desire to put my personal identification into cyber space. I guess I'm too cynical to have faith, and I just don't want my identification documents in the aether. 

Although I can understand Air B&B wanting photo ID 
for reservations, I'm not going there. I'm not quite that 
trusting. I do need to get a new ID started, I finally have 
all of the documentation needed for one of the fancier 
ID cards that will allow me to fly. Right now, mine is 
good for a few more months, but that's all. 

Etsy did respond to me, and I'll be trying to get some work done on that today between other things at the shop. I really want to get this going, and it's just not clicking into place. I'm sure, if I was just an individual artist wanting to put my goods for sale onto Etsy, it wouldn't be as difficult. But I'm part of a corporation that has a bit of a convoluted corporate structure, and I suspect that's what's tripping things up. 

I'm quite happy with my new mouse, and I love 
the color. Of course, the most important thing is that 
it works, and it seems to work just fine. I was using 
my laptop for most of the day yesterday, and it 
performed well. For $20, it was a worthwhile purchase. 

I bought a new mouse (which works perfectly and is a lovely red color), and I dropped my two boxes of books off at Half-Price Books, receiving $2 for this batch. Huzzah! LOL I got my groceries for my salmon dish and looked at corned beef choices for St Patrick's Day. I'll probably head over to the store tomorrow and buy one - it would be nice to have corned beef on Thursday, I could make it on Wednesday (or maybe DH could make it on Thursday). I'm not doing potatoes, I don't eat them, but the meat would be nice and certainly won't be a problem. 

The salmon was so easy. On aluminum 
foil sprayed with non-stick spray, lay 
several fronds of fresh rosemary and 
slices of lemon. Put the salmon on 
top, with fresh minced garlic on it 
(I forgot the garlic so added minced 
garlic spice half-way through the 
bake). Bake at 375-400 for 15 
minutes or so. Then open up, and put 
under the broiler for an additional 3-4 
minutes. Really excellent! 

The salmon turned out AMAZING and so easy to make. I made enough for two meals and had the second half sitting on the stove while I ate. DH picked at it and tasted a little bit. He declared it "really good. I'd eat this if you made it again," which shocked me since he's not a fan of salmon. And yeah - I'm definitely making it again. I paired it with roasted Brussels sprouts and multi-colored heirloom carrots. It was delightful. I have the leftovers for tonight, and I'm already looking forward to dinner. 

I think I'm going to get a corned beef brisket for St 
Patrick's Day dinner. I won't eat or make the potatoes, 
that'll be up to DH if he wants them. but I have no 
problem with the meat itself. It should be a nice meal. 

So, that's all today - nothing really exciting happened yesterday, but I did get a lot accomplished. I'm looking forward to a productive day at the shop today, and a comfortable Sunday. We'll see - it doesn't take much to ruffle the waters of my life. I hope you have a fabulous weekend and I'll be back on Monday for Pi Day. LOL Peace!