“Mailbag Day, Mailbag Day, hey everybody it’s Mailbag Day!” Um, no cool points for knowing that reference, but maybe 10 lashes for not knowing it. Ok? I kid, I kid. It’s Brak, from Space Ghost Coast to Coast - when it was funny, anyway. So I thought I would write a quick thank you to the people who made this week amazing from far, far away.
I got two, count ‘em, TWO packages in the post this week. One was from Mrs. Newman, who, bless her soul, sent me 3 packages of Taco Seasoning!! I already used one. I have 2 left. We can fight about who I will share it with. I’m willing to trade it for the price of a PS3 on eBay. Anyway, it was amazing. Made a little bowl of rice, added some browned ground beef (seasoned, of course), and enjoyed. It’s too bad we don’t have access to tortillas or decent cheese, cilantro, or lime and Coronas. But hey - that taco seasoning went a long way in warming up my over-blanded soul. Thanks, Mrs. Newman! 
My family also sent me a package, which I have almost finished off. It had my winter stuff - jackets, gloves, hats, etc. I’ll have you know that I wore the scarf and the gloves every day this week on the way to and from school on my bike. I also wore the hat once on an extra nippy morning. Also included was a container of gummy worms, which I think were gone about 30 minutes after I received the box from the post guy. Whoops. I missed them, ok? Um, then there was some Kool-Aid singles (which are a great idea!), pretzel sticks (oh yes oh yes oh yes), Chex Mix (heaven), and a wonderful 12 pack of granola bars, that might as well have been made of gold. Basically, I really really enjoyed this stuff. You have no idea how much you miss things like this until you get them after a few months of lacking them. I was looking at the prices on the boxes, you know, $2.99 or $1.99, and I was thinking, shoot, I would pay $15 for that and $10 for that. Ha ha. THANKS.
Also got a few emails, ecards and greeting cards, and they make the winter less cold. Thanks everyone. Yay!
In slightly sad news which will make you want to patronizingly pat me on the back, I created 2 new strange dishes today. Mom sometimes calls me Chef-Boy-R-Deas (instead of Chef Boyardee). Today, I failed that title. Ha ha. It was rainy and gross outside, so I didn’t want to walk to the store. Unfortunately, I had no real breakfast stuff - or anything else, really, to make a coherent meal. My 3 slices of crustless bread (which I bought 2 days ago) had mold on it. So that got tossed. No toast for me. I’d eaten most of the other stuff yesterday. So, I created 2 new takes on grits. Neither will become standard fare, but one might be repeated in times of desperation.
I made Orange Grits by adding orange marmalade to a bowl of original grits and stirring. That was actually quite nice. It was just a hint of orange - sort of like drinking an orange tea, except a lot closer to porridge. The mistake was when I decided to take the remaining smidgen of hot cocoa powder to create Chocolate Grits. It was chocolicious, sure enough, but was really not for me. Here’s an image. This dish will never be made again by Deas, and he apologizes to planet earth for having introduced it in a moment of weakness. Ha ha. Yup. I don’t know what I was thinking. But at least you can learn from my errors.
Here is a BIG video of my apartment, around 8 minutes and 35 seconds long. I finally got a flash player plugin working, so this is stored on my own server. Cool, huh? Hope you enjoy it. By the way, for those of you who laugh at me because I tell you it’s a door, gimme a break. Not everyone knows about sliding doors inside houses, ok? (I know that is a weak defense, but it’s all I’ve got. Let me save SOME face. Please.)
