The End of 2024 and the New Year 2025, the Weekly Penelope Blog!

I have been sick for most of the last week. It has been a cold were I am exhausted but can’t sleep, can’t really think, then I suddenly get a bit of energy and start to do something only to find not even halfway through I want to go back to bed. I hate wasting a week of my life but nothing that you can go about it but rest and wait.

Even going to the store, I must have looked like a crazy person as I had to keep saying what I was looking for over and over until I got it into the cart. I only did that because I had to go to the store three different times just to get enough food that went together to eat this last week. Plus I am making TV dinners for my relative so that I can go away and they don’t have to cook for themselves.

Apparently, when I am sick…I like to cook. So, I made about 3 different meatloaf (not these were at least 3 to 4 pounds each), over 15 pounds of mashed potatoes, 8 pounds of sweet potatoes, BQ Ribs, plus a few other things. The upstairs refrigerator freezer areas is almost full and the downstairs one is almost full and I have to make a turkey tomorrow as I took it out to thaw a few days ago.

Oh, and homemade spaghetti sauce with just tomatoes and mushrooms plus spices which were on special, i.e. I was to sick to think that 4 buckets of mushrooms would be to much for a tomatoes spaghetti sauce which was six little cartons of those grape tomatoes. It was good but half way through the pan, I added a few cans of tomato sauce, went back to the store and got 3 pounds of sausage, then throw them all together with some pasta with 2 pounds of mozzarella. Baked it all up. It is now in the TV dinner.

What sucked was that I fell asleep and almost burnt the Meatloaf. But Olive Oil make sure to wake me. She wanted her cut. She always seems to know about 10 mins before something is perfectly done and starts begging for a little bit.

But because I am so tried this is about all I can do because I want to ensure that I have something out every Wednesday.

Happy New Year to all! Try to make at least one of your dreams come true this year even if it is only a small one! Like a banana split with extra whip cream and cherries on top!