The Sun Dried Tomato Pesto Mix Up

On Wednesday after Kids Kabin I went to the grocery store as I normally do on Wednesday evenings. When I got back Melissa and Abby had already eaten (we make our own dinner on Wednesdays - every other day of the week one of us cooks dinner for all three) and told me there was some pasta left on the stove and Sun Dried Tomato Pesto in the fridge. I was super excited because I was starving and it sounded really tasty! So I took a jar of "Sun Dried Tomato Pesto" out of the fridge, put some pasta in a bowl and put two nice big scoops of "pesto" on it and heated it up. I got myself a cup of water and sat down in the living room to enjoy some tv with my dinner. I took a nice big bite of the pasta and to my surprise found my mouth was on fire! I was shocked! How could Sun Dried Tomato Pesto be hot?!? As I quickly drank all my water I realized that the last time Melissa got some of Bruce's Hot Sauce it was in a Sun Dried Tomato Pesto jar (as you can see from the picture the two jars look pretty darn similar and even the colors of their contents look very very similar)! And he said this was the hottest batch he had made (Bruce works at Kids Kabin with us)! Yikes! After eating a banana to cool the fire in my mouth I told Abby and Melissa what I had just done and they practically fell off their chairs they were laughing so hard! I have to admit, it was pretty funny! Even though I do not like wasting food there was no way I was going to eat that bowl of pasta and I made myself a new bowl of pasta - this time I actually put Sun Dried Tomato Pesto on it and it was very tasty!

Melissa and I have been struggling the last few weeks since the sun rises at 4:30 am and our really nice new windows do not have any blinds! We were going to buy some blinds and put them up but Sr. Sylvia said they would buy them for us but would have to get approval from the London office that handles the money for home repairs, etc. However, the lady was on holiday and then Sylvia was going on holiday for two weeks so it would take awhile to get the approval. After a few weeks of waking up way way too early only to toss and turn until my alarm went off I came up with the idea of cutting cardboard to fit into my window frame. So Monday night I had a half hour battle with two big pieces of cardboard and transformed my room into the "Laura Cave" as Abby now calls it. The great thing is I can take the cardboard out in the morning and put it back when I go to bed so that it is still light in my room during the day. I had tried taping things over the windows before but it didn't work well and then I wouldn't take it down and have a darker room all day or it would fall down half way through the night and I would have to use more tape to put it back. It is amazing how much of a difference the cardboard makes and honestly the cardboard is probably better than any blinds we would find! Now I can sleep past 5:30 am with not problems at all! In fact, it is pretty much completely dark even at 8:30 am when I normally get up :)