Tom is officially in California. And as much as I hate going to sleep in an empty house (guess who's going to be sleeping with headphones still in, so she doesn't hear all the weird noises the house makes??), there are a few up-sides.

I can play music. As much as I want. And whatever music I want - all the jpop and girly country music I can eat.

COOKING. I love cooking for just me. While at work I accidentally started looking forward to the Subway pizza sub (with ranch and jalapenos) Tom usually brings me, my stomach is going to be MUCH happier about the little stir-fry I made myself. This is how complex a Melissa-meal is:

A splash of veggie oil in the littlest frying pan I own. Shook out some frozen veggie mix into pan. Threw some zahtar blend over it. Dug out some previously-cooked rice (a mix of regular and purple rice), threw that in. Nice big heap of pre-sliced ginger. (I LOVE GINGER.) Splash of soy sauce.

Eating it out of the pan it was cooked in.

I cannot even tell you how delicious this tastes. I love little meals like this. Don't get me wrong, I love my big cheesy casseroles too, but, this makes me just feel so much lighter and better through and through. There is no way Tom is weaseling his way out of taking me farmer's market/fruit stand shopping when the season happens. Noooo way.

I should invent a good default sauce for him, that I can whip up a bit of to drown his portion in when I make little things like this. I'm currently on a veggie binge.

...I am also tooootally going to make a second batch of that garam masala tofu scramble I linked two posts ago. If I'm ambitious, maybe I'll ride over to Tops and try to find some actual fennel tomorrow.


But for now, I am pooped. It was *crazy* busy in the store tonight. Balloon orders have seriously picked up now that the weather's nicer, and we're going through stacks of cards and bunches of gifts (nearly all of which need wrapped) for Mother's Day. But! We still have left-over $1 Webkinz from last weekend - we're trying like crazy to get them out of the store, since they have to be registered on the website by the end of the month. And Ann let me pick out one for free, since I "did so much" for the whole shindig. Yaaaaaaay I have awesome bosses. :)

I haven't been on the Webkinz site in mooonths. I'm going to go adopt my new black poodle now, and see what kind of extra goodies I get. \0/