Shrimp for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner

So where are we? Its 11:30 and I’m still kind of punchy. All the adrenaline I guess. But I can tell I’m tired, I just can’t sleep. It’s the wait. It’s raining. I need to get used to that.

It’s calmed down here. Everything is closing, I was in Publix…again (more on that) and hardly anyone was there as opposed to earlier where there weren’t any shopping carts.

Earlier in the day I had e-mailed Contagion saying, “I know I’m forgetting something!” Sure enough. I realized I had forgotten anything for us to eat over the next couple days! The boys are home from school, I have no luncheon meat as Thursday is pizza day at school. I had given NO thought to dinner for tonight or tomorrow, just focusing on what we would eat without power and protecting ourselves. I suddenly realize if I don’t get to Publix, we’re eating canned beanie weanies for dinner. Bleh. That’s hurricane food, not real food!

I decide to go through the freezer to figure out what needed to be dumped now. I found two Florida Lobster tails a friend had given us and we were saving for a special occasion. That day was today. Can’t let something as great as that go to waste. Then I found a bag of Gulf Coast Shrimp a friend of mine had brought down… her Mama had even taken the heads off for us! So then I knew we had dinner all set. Then I found two more bags of shrimp! (We eat a lot of shrimp.) Holy Cow! That won’t keep! To make matters worse, I thought I found a 3rd tail and after I defrosted the bag, we opened it and it was more daggum shrimp! Now my husband is laughing. Does this not remind me of my pantry Post? In my Pantry I have too much ketchup and Prego. In my freezer I have too much shrimp. So tomorrow for lunch, I will eat shrimp. For dinner, we’re having shrimp stir fry. And tonight of course, we had FL lobster tail and shrimp.

So I keep going to Publix, not for hurricane supplies, but for regular stuff… like milk. (And yes, Contagion, I did buy my dark chocolate. I am a very happy girl.) I’m very focused and organized on getting us through this hurricane situation; I just keep forgetting that we still have a day to day living situation. Bummer. I’ve got to stay away from that store. I keep bringing home more food I don’t need. We now have some lunchbox kit where you decorate your own cookies. The boys always ask for them and I always say, “Hell no! That’s nothing but chemicals!” (I saved it as a surprise for a day they are sick of eating spaghetti O’s or Chef Boyardee Ravioli.) I now have chocolate muffins we did not need. I bought more juice boxes than they will ever be able to drink along with some Sunny D stuff I’d never heard of. It’s like I’m in this mode, “Oh! Buy this! I might need it! We may actually starve to death and this is better than nothing!” As if anyone I know is going to let us starve. Please. My folks would drive down 9 hours and bring us food before we starved. For some reason that rationale leaves me every time I walk through those supermarket doors.

We’re hanging tight and a Big THANK YOU to all of those who have commented and e-mailed that we’re in your thoughts and prayers. Keep prayin’ for those folks in the Bahamas.