Gen Y

A topic that I believe in completely is a work/life balance.  Now I work with mostly the baby boomer generation.  Their motto, in general, is live to work.  I’m considered Gen Y and our motto is work to live.  I’m a total believer in this philosophy and I have a discussion with someone up where I work at quite regularly on this topic.  We don’t debate the topic, we both see the differences in the generations and just discuss it because it is so easy to observe in the work place.  I work with someone (late 60s) who works almost every weekend and I feel sorry for him.  We are paid salary, he isn’t getting compensated for his time.  Nor is he getting ahead, it just takes that much longer to do the same tasks that it takes for me to get done in ¼ of the time.  So I drove by the office last Saturday and saw his car at our office building.  He was the only person from our company working.  I hope in my later stages of life my work isn’t my only outlet to occupy my time.

Cartoon on Gen Y, but not me.

So we decided to stay in for Valentine’s Day this year.  Do dinner was on me.  We had received some back strap from a deer a couple weeks ago from Matt Postel and the back strap is suppose to be the best part.  Bambi likes steaks and she was on board for having back strap for dinner (her real name is Bambi so of course she likes steaks and deer).  Haha.  I got home and marinated the meat, milk and hot sauce and let it soak for an hour.  From there I lightly battered the meat and fried in hot vegetable oil.  It only took about 10 mins and it was done.  We had sweet potatoes as well to go with the meal.  The back strap turned out great, it was a glorified chicken fried steak.  We didn’t have a Netflix movie in so I found a movie (The Man in the Moon) on the TV in which Reece Witherspoon was the leading actress.  She was very young in the movie; I looked it up & she happened to 15 years old when the movie was made.  It was a very simple movie, but still good and sad. 

The way I prepared the back strap.