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I locked myself out of my apartment (keys and phone inside) and walked for about a mile before I could get to a 7-11 that had payphones - 75 cents a call - with special rates to Mexico. I'm really glad it was there.

Moved the aloe from the window box to a large pot. Moved the basil and cilantro into small herb pots. Filled windowboxes with orange asiatic lilies and lemon zest petunias.

Ziplock soup is awesome. I've got what looks like a bookshelf of soup in the freezer.

That said, Pre-prep meals. Sunday night is my kitchen night - I get out all the food containers I picked up at Target and make a batch of steel-cut oats that provides 4 breakfasts. Perhaps a batch of lentils that provides for a few meals. Cook up a pound of chicken or buy a whole rotisserie at the carneceria - perfect for tacos. Make a big salad and divide into portions. At the end of the evening, I have breakfast and lunch for the week, ready to go, and all I have to worry about is dinner. It all takes about 2 hours on a Sunday night and saves me from blowing $5-$10 on lunch each day. The oats for breakfast comes out to less than one dollar per meal, including dried cranberries and almonds. Throw in eggs for one day or pancakes on the weekend. Oh... and I stopped paying $80 some odd a month (that's one quad grande americano a day) for someone to pour me a cup of coffee.

I was "Uncle of the Century" a few years back when I fashioned a few clementine candles at the Thanksgiving table. My nieces were awestruck. I'll be making gluten free, casein free clementine clafoutis next week.

**cue Napoleon Dynamite soundboard**

"I want that."

I remember selling these in the 80's when I worked summers at the Pottery Shack in Laguna Beach. Invariably, I would drop one here and there and, most of the time, they would bounce instead of break.

Y'know... when I installed electrical outlets on the ceiling, everyone was laughing. Well... look now. (Yeah, some are still laughing.)

I did a gluten free casein free version of Faith's "Moist and Tender" recipe above with rice flour, garbanzo bean flour, cumin, cayenne pepper, s&p and grapeseed oil. It was really good and had a light crispiness... and yes, the chicken was juicy.

My favorite thing about O's Favorite Things is watching the audience FUH-REEK out when they find out what edition of the show they are attending. After that, the rest of the show is a let down. BTW, those turtleneck/pants combos? WHOA! Second funniest part of the show.

I'll take the red pill! Down the rabbit hole I go...