December 3, 2024 Lunch - Lime Dinner - Turkey and Orzo Soup

 December 3, 2024 Lunch - Lime  Dinner - Turkey and Orzo Soup

I woke up and worked from 5:30 to 9:30 on my Objection in the LRGA case.

Then I ate a chocolate croissant with a cup of chai for breakfast and got dressed.

I worked on other matters until 12:00 when Aaron called to announce he and Monica were ready to go to lunch. We met at Lime Vietnamese Restaurant on Montgomery at Eubank.

Monica ordered her favorite dish, Salt and Pepper Stir Fried Shrimp. Aaron and I ordered Pho soup with rice noodles. I ordered mine with raw beef.

                                              The Salt and Pepper Shrimp 

The service was wonderful. The waiter brought whatever we asked for, such as extra lettuce leaves for our double order of fried egg rolls and a small ramekin of the pure salty fish sauce for the pho.

Lime is Monica’s favorite Vietnamese Restaurant. I liked the Pho  and look forward to ordering different dishes in the future. 

We discussed Earn business. It was fun.

I stopped a Alquds Middle Eastern Restaurant and Grocery at the corner of San Pedro and Montgomery on the way home and bought yogurt, pitas, frozen lamb chunks, and a frozen package of 2 lamb shanks.

I then made my way through the construction labyrinth of I-25 from Montgomery to the Big I and arrived at home at 3:00, just in time to watch the last 15 minutes of Leicester City beating West Ham 3 to 1. It was the first win for Leicester in the last 6 matches, but it put them clear of the relegation zone. I loved it and celebrated with a Vietnamese iced coffee as a fabulous finish to my Vietnamese lunch.

Suzette came home just as the match ended.

I went back to my desk to revise a contract for a client and check my portfolio. I had not gotten much chance to check during the day, so I was pleasantly surprised that the NASDAQ, my portfolio, and the S & P all set new record highs today. 

After I sent out the revised contract I listened to the afternoon stock trading show and they explained why Apple continues to go up. The reason Apple keeps going up is because lots of money is flowing into the market since Trump’s election through purchases of stock funds that must buy the basket of stocks in their portfolio and if, for example, Apple is 5% of their portfolio, the fund will buy enough Apple to equal 5% of the newly invested funds. Apple’s fundamentals have not changed only the demand for its stock. Apple was up $3.08/share today to $242.65 and is trading up $.29 in after hours trading. Lots of the other high tech stocks went up today, so it was a good day.

I did not get a chance to walk today so at 5:00 I rode a mile on the therapeutic bike. Suzette made Turkey and Orzo soup with the turkey broth we made from the Thanksgiving turkey carcass and a mirepoix. Tomorrow I might add carrots, celery, and spinach to the soup.

After dinner we watched an old but wonderful 2003 movie, Love Actually, a Christmas romantic comedy with an all star cast and then went to bed at 9:30

It was a very productive day, except I got busy and forgot to meditate.

Bon Appetit