Three Beautiful Things 02-12-2025: (A Blogging Milestone Yesterday), Fun with Cardboard, Fun with Espresso Coffee Drinks, Fun with Pinwheel Salmon

I just noticed that my 3BTs for Feb 11th was my 6700th post on kelloggbloggin. 

I'm about four months into my 19th year of keeping this blog. 

1. It never gets old. The feeling never changes. I feel significant relief and a peculiar happiness when I clear the cardboard boxes out of our garage. Today, I determined it was time to load up the Sube and take the cardboard to the transfer station and throw boxes into the cardboard.recycling bin. 

Good lord. 

That felt really good. 

2. Nurse Jenn responded to my note telling her that as a way to cut back on calcium that I would be cutting  back on drinking so many lattes. Nurse Jenn is a jolly and positive minded advocate for transplant patients returning to living a normal life as soon as possible. She told me not to quit doing something I enjoyed so much.  I appreciated her note a lot. At the same time, I had to face the fact that I was drinking as many as three, four, sometimes five 16 oz lattes a day. 

So I'll obey Nurse Jenn. I won't stop drinking my homemade lattes. I will, however,  moderate my consumption. 

In fact, I've started fixing myself strong cups of Americano coffee with a small amount of half and half. This coffee drink is more bitter and coming to enjoy these more bitter Americano drinks mug by mug reminds me of how I came to enjoy, as I drank them pint by pint, the bitter qualities of India Pale Ale and other hoppier ales back in my glorious craft beer heyday. 

3. Yes, I buy some practical products at Trader Joe's like plain sparkling water and Thai Wheat Noodles and chicken tenders and cheese. 

At the same time, I have a blast being guided by one simple principle: if it looks fun, buy it. 

Well, Monday, for the first time, I finally noticed that Trader Joe's sells these Mediterranean Salmon Pinwheels. It features a long strip of salmon with feta cheese and spinach rolled in the fish. It looks like a pink and green and white cinnamon roll. 

They come two in a pack and I bought a pack.

Tonight I baked the pinwheels and served them with two sides: Trader Joe's Greek chickpeas with parsley and cumin (a can of these looked fun to me) and a warmed up packet of brown rice and lentils. 

Unreal. 

Sometimes buying fun looking food turns out to be delicious and nutritious along with being fun. 

What a fun day:  fun with cardboard recycling, fun with making espresso coffee drinks at home, and fun with Mediterranean salmon pinwheels.

Sometimes being easy to please is, indeed, everything I crack it up to be!