Friday Fives and Tommy Womack

Five reasons I was ridiculously furious at the world last night:

1.  I had a work/protocol kind of question and Judi was always the one I would turn to for things like that.  And damn it....she's not here.

2.  A certain 9 year old likes to be defiant and then try to palm it off as a joke.

3.  Reason #2 led to dinner being eaten by myself as I listened to someone yelling WHY, WHY, WHY when they damned well knew why.

4.  I made what I thought was going to be a really good dinner and even followed the fucking recipe.  Me!  Follow the recipe exactly!  And the shrimp ended up being so spicy that all I could taste was cayenne....the lemon, garlic, cilantro and turmeric?  Not so much.

5.  I worry about the future.

Five reasons I feel better today:

1.  It's Friday.

2.  The 9 year old is pretty wonderful despite himself.

3.  The WHY, WHY, WHYs finally lessened and turned into remorse and apologies.

4.  The rest of the meal was pretty great.  The spinach we got from Blue Moon last weekend was AMAZING and I made shrimp stock out of the shells and cooked it way down and added it to the leftover mashed potatoes.  Pretty damn wonderful.

5.  I get to hear music this weekend.  I might only make the Saturday night Martrys show...not sure if I can do tonight too...BUT it will do me good, one  night or two....

And here's a song by my beloved Tommy Womack that just seems right to me today.....