Five on Friday {March 11, 2022}

Happy Friday! I survived my first couple of days at the new job! It’s a new position for me, so there’s a learning curve. It’s been an adjustment since I get home a little later and it’s a longer commute. My son was nominated for Order of the Arrow for Boy Scouts but needed more night of outdoor tent camping to qualify. His troop went cabin camping this past weekend but Friday night he slept outside in 24 degree weather to complete his tent camping requirement. I texted him first thing in the morning to see if he made it through the night and he did. He said it was bad and he didn’t get much sleep, but he survived. I was so proud of him for doing such a hard thing. And then he got to sleep in the cabin on Saturday night.

My kids have the day off of school for a Superintendent’s Conference Day. As of now, our weekend is wide open, which is super rare! We have lots of house stuff that needs to get done….but I hope to get out for a little bit. Here are five from this week:

1.Flowers – My last day of work my colleagues hosted a breakfast in my honor.  I also got these flowers and a small rose bush plant. 

2. New Job – This past Tuesday I started my new position at a new school district.  I was welcomed there with a breakfast as well! I am slowly learning all there is to know about the position, but so far, so good!

3. Eating- I saw Turkey Hill had a mystery ice cream flavor and I had to get it. I usually only buy ice cream, not frozen dairy desserts. But this was an exception. I submitted my guess and I’m curious to find out what the actual flavor is.

While my son was camping this weekend we took our daughter to the Palisade Center mall to get a dress for a Sweet Sixteen party she has coming up. After shopping we had lunch at Blue Alehouse, our first time visiting this restaurant. We ended up ordering a bunch of appetizers as our meal and our favorite were these Mac and Cheese Bites. They were really good!

Monday I was out running errands and got a falafel sandwich from Go to Greek.

4. Reading – This week I finished Burn The Place by Iliana Regan.  She’s a self-taught chef with restaurants in Chicago and this is her memoir.  It’s this month’s pick for a local foodie book club that I’m in.  Otherwise, I hadn’t even heard of this book.

5. Cooking – This week one of our favorite dinners were these Crispy Cheese Poblano Avocado Burritos.

6. Watching – This past weekend was a movie bonanza! A former colleague (it feels so weird to say that!) had a Funko pop on her desk of Michael Bolton and Samir on her desk. She said it was from the movie Office Space and asked if I had seen it. I didn’t think I had so I found it on the Roku channel and watched it Friday night. I realized I had seen it, but just didn’t remember since it was so long ago! 

Saturday I watched CODA on Apple+. This is an Oscar nominated movie about a hearing girl who lives with her deaf parents and brother.  This was an emotional watch but was really good.

Sunday night we had a family movie night and had dinner together while we watched Encanto. It was a good movie and it was even nicer having us all together watching it.

My husband and I also started watching The Dropout on Hulu. We’ve been fascinated with this Elizabeth Holmes story and listened to the podcast. 

7. Listening – in the first episode of The Dropout the song “I’m in a Hurry (And Don’t Know Why)” by Alabama plays.  I had never heard this song before and now I’m playing it all the time! 

ICYMI this week on the blog:

Tuesday I shared my February reads.

Thursday I posted about our winter weekend in Rochester.

Sharing with Friday Favorites!  Have a great weekend!