BASEBALL SIZE LUMP

Yup!  I have a very painful baseball, well maybe golf ball size lump under my left ear past the end of my jaw.  It hurts like hell.  Actually its bringing back memories of the mumps I had when I was around six.  You can't open your mouth very wide!  Maybe thats a good thing!  I'd go to the doctor but its such an ordeal I think I will try waiting it out.  If it gets really ugly and more painful I will go in.

I went to the Kiwanis meeting at lunch yesterday.  Yesterday was an eating day.  We hold our meetings in a meeting room just next to the little cafe in the bottom floor of a senior home.  You order your food at a window by the kitchen and they take your name and bring it in to you in the meeting.

This lunch counter is run by very old ladies.  Their cook is much younger and I honestly can't tell if he is a he or a she.  A really nice person.  So yesterday the daily changed menu had egg salad sandwiches for five bucks plus their daily soup and daily special etc.   You can always get a full salad for five bucks too.  I ordered the full salad and I asked for the egg sandwich, but without the bread.  I asked if he/she could just put the egg part on the salad and I would pay ten dollars for the two.  Oh yes he/she said, no problem.  And then the old lady taking the order only charged me five bucks!  I tried to get her to take the extra five but she simply wouldn't.

When another old lady brought it in to me, it was a huge plate of salad and mounds and mounds of egg salad.  I could not believe my eyes...and it was beyond delicious!  Their egg salad is to die for!  So on the way out I dropped five bucks into the tip jar.  I will be having that again!!

Tonight is the Kiwanis Scrabble night.  For 25 bucks you play scrabble with about thirty people.  I think there are prizes for the highest score and for the lowest.  I am going to go down early and help get it all set up and then play.  This should be fun!  Everybody is always so happy and funny.

Last night Monte's band that he is now playing in came here to rehearse.  They have a gig on Friday night in Vernon.  I was upstairs here watching tv when they began their first song.  Within a minute I turned off the tv to listen...it was so fantastic.  I couldn't believe my ears!!!  I was expecting your typical basement sound from band wannabes but this was way way above that, in fact extraordinary.  I went downstairs after that first incredible song and told them I couldn't believe my ears.  The main singer, actually the only one that sings, is unbelievable.  And he writes all the songs.  The band is drums, bass guitar, guitar, slide guitar and keyboards (Monte's part).  No wonder they get gigs everywhere...they are amazing!

I hopped up in the late afternoon and made a giant pot of dahl.  I can't help it.  I can go only so long not making something.   The trouble is Monte hates dahl and I can't eat it!  So I shall bag it and freeze it.  I have changed from using Patak's
 Byriani  to Patak's Tikka.  Its so much more delicious.  I had a tiny bowl with butter floating on it.  Mmmmmmmmm

Okay enough rambling.  I must get on with my day.  TTYL