I seriously do not know what I do with my hair when I sleep. It will be straight as a board when I go to sleep, but when I wake up it look all curly in the right hand picture. I texted the picture to my sister yeseterday and she was like “did you curl your hair?” She thought I was going to work like that! The hair on the left is much better 
Breakfast was another pita breakfast sammie – sadly my fruit that I had in the fridge from the beginning of the week already started to get moldy.
I had lunch with my friend D yesterday – she’s very private, no pictures of her – but I can show the food we ate!
My dish was the second one – thai curry noodles with veggies and tofu. So good! I was thinking I need to find a recipe to make this at home. As luck would have it, I spent the first ten minutes of this morning lying in bed going through Instagram and saw that Nicole made a very similar dish – a spicy Thai noodles with tofu, that’s going to the very top of my weekly menu planning next week. We talked up a storm and realize we need to meet up more often – our offices are literally five minutes away from a ton of restaurant options. So good to see you D!
So this week I decided to actually use a stop watch to see how much actual work I do in a day. It’s pitiful y’all. The roll of a legal secretary is going extinct. Let’s take my life as a legal secretary where it began 25 years ago. No attorney had a computer in their office. I would walk into work with a dozen dictation tapes to type out letters, 30 page briefs, wills, estate planning, etc. None of the attorneys answered their own phones. Once the attorneys got computers, no lie, I had one attorney who would print out an email, hand write the response, and he’d have me sit at his desk replying to emails.
Now? Technology and young associates who know excel better than I do. My litigation partner has voice recognition software so she does her own dictation. We electronic file so much stuff that unless I have to print a letter on letterhead to be mailed out, there isn’t much for me to do. So going into today – I’ve worked 81 minutes. Yep, an hour and 21 minutes all week. I need to win the lottery, or find some bread bakery that will hire me at my current salary and benefits so I can be happy baking bread all day. A girl can dream, right?
Hannah had to close last night and was going to eat her leftover Chinese food for dinner, so that meant meat for dinner for Jacob and I. Pork chops! I did a quick 15 minute marinade using this Savory House BBQ blend mixed with a bit of olive oil. Then finished them on the grill. OMG, so juicy! I only ate half of this (it was probably a 12-13 ounce chop!) and will somehow repurpose that for breakfast this morning.
I am still coughing a bit, but I have a lot planned for this weekend. I am having a mini field hockey reunion at my high school tomorrow morning, then lunch out with them, then in the afternoon I am going to check out a softball game on my old stomping grounds. I have many many fond memories of playing softball in River Forest. In one game we needed to get a grand slam to win the game and I was up to bat. I remember seeing that ball come towards me and I hit it perfectly – I started running the bases, looking to where the ball was – as I was rounding second I could see that the outfielder hadn’t even gotten to the ball yet, so I kicked it into high gear (I was later a sprinter in track!) and remember touching home plate one step after the girl who was on first base. So exciting! I remember later that night the coach calling me telling me that she was still so excited about the game – that was 35 years ago, but I remember it like it was yesterday. (Side note: D&D – did you know your cousin and uncle will be at that softball game?!)
Then Sunday I am meeting my Mom at church and we are going to one of my bucket list restaurants. Leghorn Chicken. It’s just six miles from my Mom’s church and I talked her into ditching the brunch after church and us getting some friend chicken. You guys – they even sell chicken skin for $4 that’s sprinkled with creole seasoning! And they sell biscuits with blue cheese caramel butter for $2. It’s not even 8 in the morning and I am already drooling thinking about this lunch!
Alright – time to get this show on the road. I’ll probably be meal planning at work today. Have a great weekend – anything fun planned?
I would be so bored if I had so little work. My job has changed a lot too since I started working as a secretary. Luckily my company is big enough and there is always something I can do that replaces work that I don’t have to do anymore.
I do hope for you you find a food-related job that pays enough because it’s something that fits you so well.
They don’t even notice, which is so funny. And only one secretary reads my blog and she and I are in the same boat, so I am not too worried.
Okay Biz, I’ve got to ask – are you worried that they’ll let you go b/c of lack of work? Or are the attorneys so busy they don’t even notice? But hey! I guess you have plenty of time to catch up on blog reading!
I always sleep with my hair in a pony tail! I think you have cute bedhead. Have a fun weekend! I am just hanging out!
Maybe I should have just sprayed it with hair spray and run with it! 😀
That chicken description is just killing me. I want to come!
Oh Lordy Abbe, it was so worth the calories!
So..I actually think your curly hair looks super cute! When I wake up with “curls” they are wildly sticking up on one side with some weird side part and grease on the other. Fun.
Anyways, the role of a receptionist/secretary is a dying art…that’s kind of why I transitioned into an Office Manager role…you get to fill up your time with more meaningful crap! You should look into the option. All you really need to know outside of the standard receptionist stuff is how to be unbiased with employee issues and maybe some negotiating…easy peasy!
Thanks for the tips Tia! 😀
I bet you would look cute with that wavy curl look! I am an admin assistant and I too find myself being super bored. I love my gig, but when it is slow, it makes me insane. I look at recipes all day and never make them. I have no idea why other than I think I like to have food made for me and have it served to! Last night I did however surprise the husband with ground turkey and summer squash enchiladas. They were delicious. Spicy and not too much cheese to make it high calorie. I don’t work out as much as you do! Enjoy your weekend Biz.
Ha, I am a Pinterest and Instagram whore during the day! I haven’t worked out in three weeks because of my bronchitis, hoping it’s on it’s way out soon – turns out I don’t make the best food choices if I don’t exercise 🙁
Ummmmm I’m drooling over that lunch picture! Can i come LOL!?
Happy FRIDAY! 🙂
Hope you had a great weekend Courtney – loved the picture you posted with the two boys on the front porch 😀
My uncle is a probate attorney( mostly) and is swamped with work. His long term legal secretary is retiring and my uncle is in a panic. He needs someone badly.
If only I lived in California 😀
The secretarial job has really changed, hasn’t it? I was one of three secretaries in an 18 person marketing department back in the mid-80s, and I bet now, they might have one secretary. The business world is so much more efficient, not to mention, self-sufficient. And I feel for you – having a job where you are constantly bored, and not busy, is crummy. Makes it hard to want to go there each day…I hope you can find a new opportunity and use your creativity and passion for work, and soon!
Thanks Shelley – from your typed words to God’s ears! 😀
Accounting, office manager? Our administrative assistants don’t do much filing and such, but the do stuff like FedEx, payroll, dealing with vendors, etc etc.
I spend a lot of time trying to automate my engineering analyses with computers. But then I’m working myself out of a job. Well, not too quickly, because I suck at programming.
We have an office manager that does the payroll, etc. already – and it’s the owners wife and she only works about 15 hours a week – doesn’t take much to keep this small firm chugging along 😀
Sounds like an awesome weekend planned!
I have one, too – but that’s because it’s my birthday weekend! I’m sure I’ll finally get a blog post up about it at some point. 🙂 (Let’s just say the weekend includes beer, food and football!)
I hope you had a wonderful birthday weekend! And any birthday weekend that involves food+beer=perfect 😀
Sounds like a really fun weekend! Enjoy it all! Um – I may want to meet you at the chicken place someday – that sounds awesome 🙂
OMG, yes Lynne! Can you take a train from where you live to Chicago??
My weekend will be filled with excitement! Looking forward to seeing you Saturday, hop to check out the softball event too. And there may be some farmers market donuts in my future too. 🙂
And I can’t wait to give you your pumpkin pie vodka Jacky! 😀
Happy Friday! That chicken place sounds amazeballs. I had lunch at this new Southern chicken ‘n waffles place earlier this week. It was definitely some of the best fried chicken I’ve ever had! I wonder if they have fried chicken skin – that has got to be bomb.com!
Loved, loved the chicken place – I have about 4 others on my list to try, but I’d definitely go back there!
That chicken place sounds awesome! I wish we had something like that where I live. I love fried chicken but rarely eat it because there is nowhere good to get it and I don’t like making it.
It was totally worth the calories Lauren! 😀
Sounds like you have a fun filled weekend planned. I guess the positive side about your work is at least you get paid even if you aren’t really “working”. I know it does make for a long boring day with nothing to keep you busy. Yes, cooking somewhere would be a great job for you. I hope the food truck is getting closer to becoming a reality.
Thanks Kym – I’ve actually been toggling with the idea of working on a food truck to see if I even like it – but since I live in the far suburbs, there aren’t any that are close enough for me to work on – I keep looking though! 😀
That noodle dish looks amazing! Oh gosh- definitely time to find a new gig! You’re too valuable to be so under-utilized. We have a very fun weekend planned! We’re surprising one of Josh’s brothers- cannot wait!!
Hoe the surprise went off without a hitch Erica 😀