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Time for Wisconsin, and Illinois,  fun.<\/p>\n

I collected my bag and drove home from the Milwaukee airport and was home by 2:00. Plenty of time for unpacking and a dinner of leftovers (Beef enchiladas, Metcalfe’s deli coleslaw, Zatarain’s Spanish rice mix<\/a> with added chicken) followed by Game of Thrones, the Starbucks cup episode. I remain firm in my belief that Jamie is going to have to kill Cersei, because no one else can.<\/p>\n

Did a little grocery shopping in there too.<\/p>\n

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Non-dairy butter for Anna’s new non-dairy diet<\/p><\/div>\n

Monday I went and prepped the pantry breakfast, and then changed into work clothes and drove downtown, where I parked in my campus ramp and walked over to West Washington Ave. to buy our Madison Symphony ticket subscription in person because I was confused by what had  happened when I tried to buy online the night before: My only choice to keep our same seats from this year seemed to be handicapped tickets.<\/p>\n

I bought a cookie and an iced coffee at Casetta Kitchen<\/a>, a little restaurant that does sandwiches and carry out dinners, in the fancy new (or newly remodeled) office building<\/a> where the Symphony’s offices are. They had a cookie in the Culinary Ladies cookie sale for Planned Parenthood<\/a>, that was like the rainbow cookies I (and every good Italian deli) make. But the cookie I bought wasn’t a rainbow cookie, it was salted chocolate chip and it was very, very good. The cookie part was light colored – I guess no brown sugar – and was nicely moist on the inside with a thin crispy crust. The chocolate was kind of flat squares, so the cookie had a geologic, striated look when you bit in. And, salt. Cookie Perfection. The straw they gave me for my iced coffee, made from hay (or dried grass), not so much. After just a few sips, it split and stopped working. I left it in a planter on State Street, figuring it was compostable.<\/p>\n

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Almond rainbow cookies, 2016<\/p><\/div>\n

My schedule was made simpler because Anna decided she didn’t feel well, which meant that she didn’t go to school, or soccer practice. So, instead of trying to get home and take her to practice, getting her there at what she obviously felt was going to be too early, so that I could make my 4:00 haircut, she stayed in bed and I pursued my own schedule.<\/p>\n

Got my haircut, and I think I stopped at the co-op for more fruit, and came home and had another leftovers dinner – this time the coconut rice and chicken<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tuesday Anna was still sick, so I headed off to Goodman to serve the pantry breakfast and called the school to say she’d be out when I got there.<\/p>\n

The menu was:<\/p>\n