Silly Lindsey, Haroseth is for Seders...

This weekend my family headed out to Grand Rapids for the annual Seder Meal (Christian Passover celebration). One of the dishes traditionally served is Haroseth.

Now, I love Haroseth. Every year my former housemate Sandy makes it for the Seder, and I would always eat the leftovers in small quantities for dinner around the house. If you visited that link, you saw that for every apple in this recipe you add a cup of red wine. I'm not sure how many apples Sandy put in this year's Haroseth, but let's just say...I shouldn't have brought leftover haroseth to work. For lunch. I am now slightly tipsy and very tired. Silly Lindsey.

Peanuts and small change

I brought leftover asian noodles and chicken for lunch today. As I was heating them up I noticed the salted peanuts in the snack box above the microwave. Sudden, inescapable, overpowering and intense was the craving I then felt for the peanuts to be in my asian noodles. I returned to my desk to get some money (I needed 85 cents) only to find...a mere 35 cents in my purse! But...I needed those peanuts!! Not to worry, I thought, as I spied my receipt from Meijers the other day. I did the Office Creamer Run on monday, Petty Cash owed me $5.38, it was a perfect plan. Receipt in hand, I headed to the Petty Cash box. Upon opening it I discovered to my horror...20 dollar bills! No small bills! Blast! I had nothing to break a 20 with!

I headed back to my desk, morose. I replaced my receipt for $5.38 and noticed a receipt from Staples for $22.24, that's right! I had done the Office Foam Core Run last week! I rushed back to Petty Cash, took out a 20 and then noticed with dismay the enormous lack of quarters (zero) and dimes. I quickly made up one dollar out of the last few dimes and some of the nickels. Naturally, there was no lack of pennies. I used the last 50 cents worth of Nickels and made the rest up in pennies. So, I now had $22.24 in the form of one 20 dollar bill, 5 dimes, 20 nickels, and 74 pennies. Yes. 74 pennies. I headed, not entirely without triumphant feelings, back to the snack box, and put in 10 nickels and 35 pennies (not all 74 because I know that would be a totally depraved act). Then I took my peanuts.

Salted Peanuts have never tasted so good. And now I have 54 coins totaling 1.39 in my purse. Donal, please let me give you exact change for the next year.