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This week was good, but unreasonably busy, so I didn’t post. Here’s what went on (for those of you who like the long rambly bits):
Monday was our 13th dating anniversary and we’re too busy to do it up right, so we went to lunch at a new local Italian place (we now have three Italian places within 5 blocks of each other & within a half mile of our house). This one is called, inauspiciously, Coolie J’s. I have no words. Anyway, their food was reasonably good for the price, but served on foam plates with plastic forks. I was less than impressed, but they were good for a quick lunch, I guess. I changed the setup on my computer so now we stand up to use it. More details here.
Tuesday I spent all of my MDO time fiddling with getting new phones for Nick and I. Our last update was two years ago and our phones were going out (his screen, my battery). I, of course, got a trainee helping me and there was another trainee in back doing the actual phone number switching stuff, so hijinks ensued. I did eventually get to have lunch with my lovely friend E (her daughter declined to eat & instead read books on my couch) and my husband. I spent the evening out at Ladies Club at church, learning paper embelishing techniques (painting, oil pastels, chalks, etc)& then came home and watched an episode of Corner Gas (which I find hysterical and Nick not so much).
Wednesday I woke up completely and totally dead. I wrote about it on my RA blog, but the long and short of it was that I went to MOPS anyway, set up as best I could with the help of the lovely coordinator, and made it through the afternoon by reclining in her LaZboy while the kids jumped on the trampoline with popcorn (my kid was miraculously the one that didn’t shove a popcorn kernel in his ear). I spent the evening reading while Nick watched Good Eats perched on a pillow on top of a chair (he was watching on the aforementioned moved computer).
Thursday I spent all day up at the kids school helping Ben’s teacher purge her files so she could fit her current 10 file drawers into the three that she had over at the new building. The upshot of all this is that I got to take a tour of the new building early with the kids and hear all the details about everything. The PTA Open House tour in the evening was less of a tour and more of a "Go, look around" suggestion. I did get to met David’s other teacher (they started joint teaching just before the semester break, but I was too sick to go meet her during the conference days in January) and she turned out to be an Aggie, Class of 99! 🙂 We spent the rest of the evening watching the Chuck’s pilot episode.
Today I thought I’d spend cleaning for our dinner guests that are coming over tonight, but instead I’m running around bringing things to people that forgot them and buying some necessary items at the store (shampoo! deodorant!). Fortunately, I’m really excited about dinner tonight. 🙂
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1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari
12. Pho
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart
16. Epoisses
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans25. Brawn, or head cheese26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O
39. Gumbo40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects
43. Phaal
44. Goat’s milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more46. Fugu
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone
54. Paneer
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin (If you had a McDonald’s milkshake before about 1990, you’ve had kaolinite. They used to use it for a thickener.)
64. Currywurst
65. Durian
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain70. Chitterlings, or andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost75. Roadkill
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
78. Snail
79. Lapsang souchong
80. Bellini
81. Tom yum
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant.
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab
93. Rose harissa
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee 100. Snake
The weekend was good. We spent a lot of time with my parents. I finally went back to church for the first time in a month and wow, it was good to be back. I also got to go to an Avon/Scentsy/Housewarming party for David’s best friends family, wherein I came home with one free perfect lipstick (and catalogs & order forms for later). I got to taste peanut butter from that famous peanut butter place in Grand Saline (the name escapes me) and discovered to my surprise that I prefer honey roasted peanut butter to white chocolate. Also discovered that Scentsy is not as pricey as I’d expected. Then went to Nick’s parents house for a big family dinner (where one family member was absent owing to job *sigh*) and the kids got to run around and around and around. Also found out this weekend that Nick is, in fact, not a robot, but human and can be physically hurt (knee to the wall; the wall won).
Got up today to rain, rain, rain. It was very pleasant to sit and read with the husband while kids practiced piano & gentle rain fell. I totally didn’t remember that it was our 13 Years of Dating anniversary today until far later in the day than I care to admit. (We’re going to lunch at at little local Italian place – just like our first date – in a few minutes and I am almost ready, really I am.)
Something else I totally forgot about today was how hard it is to do rain day activities so many days in a row, especially when you’ve spent all month with the TV blaring on and on. Things that I mentally budgeted 10 to 15 minutes for were done in less than 5. We finished a whole mental mornings worth of craft & music & games in about an hour of real time.
At 10:30 I said “To heck with the rain, we’re going out!” and we went outside to look for signs of spring. We walked a block or two in the gentle rain before coming back home. We discovered that throwing spiky balls into the rain-drop-made targets was a really fun game. We saw that not only are our hyacinths blooming, but our hydrangeas, fig tree, rose bush, & other bush (another name that escapes me) are all starting to bud. It was all very diverting.
Then, of course, we came back inside and turned on the TV while we drank hot chocolate & hid under the blankets. *sigh* But as soon as that show was over, we turned it back off & did some activities quickly thrown together that played off of what was taught on the show (Team Umizoomi does math type stuff for preschoolers and features the voice of Joe from Blues Clues)
And now I must really be off or I’ll not only be guilty of forgetting our anniversary, but late as well. Greg already has his backpack on and is waiting by the door, saying “IT’S TIME TO GO!” 🙂
Lisa Holcomb 