Leftovers!

I has discovered something important: if I put out one or two freshly cooked dishes, and one or two leftovers, the leftovers get shunned by the crew. I can't say I blame them -- I'd do exactly the same thing. So I had their number today for lunch: I put out ALL leftovers. cream of broccoli soup, mashed potatoes, stir fry, chili, green curry, baked pasta, and applesauce. Oh, and rice, which wasn't a leftover.

Dinner was more leftovers, of a sort: fresh bread popovers, filled with the stir fry vegetables and chili, and some with rice and curry, and some with just curry. Also salad, and banana peanut butter cream pie, and banana oatmeal chocolate chip cookies.

Yesterday lunch was wraps with roasted and sauteed vegetables, veggies, and spinach salad. Dinner was stir fry with TVP, rice, and salad.

Alaska looms large on the horizon, and much travel is ahead. I was granted MVP status on Alaska Airlines due to my status with United, and now I have to fly 20k miles this year to maintain it for next year. A vicious cycle, indeed. Of course, it's well worth it to be able to pre-book exit row seats on Alaska, which I'll be flying a lot in and out of ANC.

We're looking for housing options for ANC for when we arrive (around July 27.) The rough plan is to sublet or arrange something temporary while we look to buy. I guess we didn't learn our lesson about home ownership. I think we did, however, learn our lesson about old houses. Fortunately, relatively little housing in Anchorage is 95 years old (at least housing we'd seriously consider.)

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