National Taco Day

So, I get an email yesterday announcing a virtual taco trot in honor of today’s National Taco Day, with a cute medal upon completion.

The cooler weather is just right for a virtual but, preferring the sights and sounds of other walkers and runners competing, I’m not interested in going solo right now.

Funny it is that I’ve never heard of National Taco Day, even though internet research indicates it’s been around for a while and there are freebies and deals associated with the day.

·       Taco Bell is offering a gift set, featuring a choice of four tacos for $5.50.

·       Del Taco and El Pollo Loco have a buy-one, get-one-free deal.

·       Chronic will leak a code word on its social media page that will give you a free taco.

·       And Chuy’s will give a free meal to anyone who dresses up as a taco. Everyone else can get $1 tacos and $1 off Modelo Especial beers.

At any rate, I’ve been craving tacos ever since Food Network’s Chopped had a taco competition the other night, but inasmuch as both corn and flour tortillas will set off a gut episode, I’m going to have to pass.

When I’ve craved tacos in the past, since developing gut issues, I’ve tried different non-flour non-corn recipes I’ve found online.

Evidentially, a lot of people experience gut issues with grains, which makes it easy to find substitution recipes. 

The cassava flour recipe came out looking like a flour tortilla, tasted like one, but the gut had a negative reaction to cassava. I didn’t like the taste of an almond meal/egg recipe I tested out. The five eggs the recipe called for was just too too eggy. I may test out an almond meal/1 egg, baking powder tortilla recipe I ran across yesterday, so I can appease this taco craving.

Eating to maintain a healthy body at this age, and stay out of the hospital -- where others with this condition have landed, is such a chore.

I really miss the carefree eating days of my youth.

Yesterday’s appointment for basic service on the Jeep was a cattle call. Even though, I received numerous text messages reminding me of the appointment, my having an appointment meant nothing at the packed dealership.

I had flashbacks to before I grew braids and would have to spend all day every two weeks in the packed beauty salon for a press and curl.

I’d of course have an appointment, but the beautician would book numerous customers at the same time to make sure she could make that money — be back-to-back busy with a full load, caring nothing for how it inconvenienced us customers.

The dealership was like that.

Plus, with my last car, I was accustomed to pulling up to the service bay and any service advisor available would come out to the car, check me in and escort me to the station of the advisor I was scheduled to meet with.

Not that way at this dealership.

I pulled up, sat in the car like a fool until I saw someone with another customer and asked, “Excuse me. This is my first time here. Am I supposed to go inside?”

Answer was yes.

I walk in, a service advisor asks if I need help, I give the name of the service advisor I was scheduled to meet with and, instead of telling me “I can help you”, as I later learned he was to have done, he leads me to the station of the advisor whose name I’d given him, saying “He’ll be with you shortly”.

“Shortly” didn’t happen, but eventually the service advisor I was scheduled to meet with comes in with another customer, says any of the others can help me, just stand there and someone would, but no one did.

I stood there for quite some time, along with another gentleman who was waiting for this same service advisor to free up, until a friendly face entered the building, asked if I needed help. Turns out he was the boss … the Service Manager.

The Service Manager was just the right person. Made the having to wait around worth it because, when I brought up the issue of only having 2500 miles on the car in 7 months, he advised I really didn’t need a basic service just yet, “Give it a year”.

Fine by me.

The drive and the wait weren’t a total waste, because the Service Manager took the time to answer a few questions I had about the car and I'd observed a few things during the wait -- like it would be better to schedule early, i.e., first appointment of the day. It will probably still be a cattle call, but I think the wait for a service advisor will go much quicker early, when their work day is just starting, rather than later when they're more interested in taking a break to chitchat and coffee, and the line of cars showing up for the cattle call might be shorter. I’ll probably also request a different service advisor, as the one I got stuck with this morning didn’t make a good first impression.

On another note, it's looking like that, come Monday, the Kavanaugh thing will be over and done with. I wish Omarosa will still in the White house, so we could get some intel on what’s going on behind the scene. My prediction is … we’ll not only having an unhinged individual in the White House, but an unhinged individual on the Supreme Court.

I've never wanted to be proven more wrong in my life.