Wednesday's Working Lunch

On Wednesday, I went to the Burger Bistro.  On the menu my lunch was called "Chinese Chicken Salad", but when the cashier called out the order it was changed to "Asian Chicken Salad."  It was quite tasty and pretty.  After I ate, I finally tackled my taxes.  For the last month I have promised myself every morning that I would gather stuff up that evening.  And every evening, I did not.  I figured the only way I would get it done was to throw it all in a bag and take it to work.  I'm missing a few things, but at least I did enough work that I felt comfortable making my H&R Block appointment next Tuesday.

Thursday's Lunch

stonebender joined me for lunch yesterday.  Since he is such a burger nut, I ended up at the Burger Bistro again.  If you get a window seat, it's a great place to people watch.  The Plaza is always full of people at noon time.  Many of the people are city workers, so I recognized a lot of them and regaledstonebender with little stories of my relationship with them.  One of the people we saw was the fireman who first came to my rescue when I was mugged a few years ago.  He helped me up, called the police and walked me to my building.   

I had the tuna salad complete with little fetal corn.  I can never see those tiny baby ears without remember the scene in Big when Tom Hanks first encounters one of them at a party.  He picks it up and tries to eat it like a regular ear of corn.  It always cracks me up. stonebender had a bacon cheese burger and fries, of course!

 

                

Week O'Lunches

I didn't start out planning to document my lunches, but when serenejournal said I should do it after I photographed my smoothie on Tuesday, I just kept going.  Well, it's Friday and I didn't feel very good today - I've had a headache most of the afternoon.  I wandered over to a pizza place and picked at a Greek Salad and a slice of pizza.  I tracked down all the olives, peperocine, onions and feta cheese, only eating the lettuce stuff when my main quarries were stuck to it.  The pizza wasn't that good, but it was a very, very large slice.  I don't think you can make up for taste by just giving a bigger portion, but they tried.

I spent part of the lunch sitting on a bench in the Plaza waiting for a pigeon to come along so I could feed it some of the pizza, but no one showed up for the party.  When I sat down, there was a man standing near the other end of the bench.  He was talking very loudly on his cell phone complaining about a job.  He showed up, but they didn't pay him the full amount he was promised.  I was resting my head against the cement planter with my eyes closed.  After he finished, he fumbled around in his large bag and pulled out a pack of cigarettes.  He announces "I don't see a sign that says I can't smoke here, so I'm going to.  I was here first.  I hope nobody minds."  I was the only one in earshot, so I guess he was addressing me.  I opened my eyes.  He was lighting up a cigarette and since he was downwind of me I didn't plan to move - it wasn't going to bother me.  As this point, he grabs his bag and storms off.  I have no idea why he did the big announcement and then stomped off before I even said anything.  A proactive touchy smoker?

It's been fun having lunch with ya'll this week!

The Salad                                                               The Peperocine                                                The Goodbye Coke

Magic!

How do you make a bag of syringe needles disappear legally?



With the nifty BD Safe-Clip Needle Clipping & Storage Device.  See that little hole on the end opposite my fingers?

 

Put the needle in that hole and squeeze the end I'm holding.

 

And presto-chango, you have a de-needled syringe!  Since the laws changed  on how to handle needle disposal, I've been collecting them in a zip lock bag and it was overflowing.  Now I can throw the syringes in the garbage - they are only used for insulin and copaxone injections - no blood draws.  The mighty little device will hold 1500 needles before I have to send it to a medical disposal facility. 
And the final best thing about it, I got two of them for $15.00 including shipping.  YAY!