The year feels like it's flying by already, weirdly enough. A week into February? Wow. I was doing some travel planning for later this year tonight, and in some ways, that travel will be upon us before we know it. There won't be as much travel this year, by the way, but there will be some,
It's soon bedtime here, tomorrow is the first day of the semester (though I have a light schedule tomorrow). Before I head upstairs, let me recap the weekend that was. The weekend that should have been would have been in Seattle, visiting Natasha and a few other friends. What with Conrad's shoulder still bothering him, it was a pretty low key time of it here. And that was good!
We skipped Maestro this weekend and stayed in. Conrad's shoulder affects things that much, and I know that he would have been uncomfortable in restaurant chairs or bar stools. At his request, I whipped up some pasta with a homemade tomato sauce and some pork meatballs I put together. We started out with Vespers and sat outside,
eventually having dinner and some red wine with it. An easy evening.
Saturday morning we got in a modest walk then made our way over to Amara Cafe for breakfast. A bit of a change from our usuals yesterday morning, and we ended up sharing a breakfast burrito.
Much of the day was spent on household things - I did a few batches of laundry, and then Conrad folded the laundered items. But I did break out the iron and ironing board and began work on the assorted napkins. It's always nice to have crisp, pressed napkins when we eat dinner, and we have a small dinner party planned for later in the month, so it will be good to have some on hand.
Last night we were over at Van's for dinner, but not for overnight - again, Conrad's shoulder. Poor guy. He really is low-level (and occasionally high level) miserable from it all, and it's going to take time and therapy on it. Anyway, we got to Van's late afternoon with the plan for him to grill us burgers. Conrad had picked up some cobbler from a place near his barber's shop, and I made us cocktails to start with. Last Words for the two of them, but I was in the mood for something not citrusy, at least not at first, and I ended up trying a drink called the Sun Stealer.
Not bad. I'll try that one again. Anyway, it was a satisfying dinner, and then we watched an episode of Drag Race with Van (and Olive!) before returning home.
Today we had a lazy start to things and not much of a walk. It's fine. I know I need the exercise and more, but I also need days where I take it a little more easy. We made our coffees, we did some things on line, then I barreled through the ironing most of the rest of the day. Oh, we took a nice amount of time in the afternoon to catch up with Courtney and Robert online, but by gosh I got those napkins done.
Whew! All afternoon long I also had a chicken slowly roasting in the oven,
and it made for a nice, simple dinner served with some broccoli. Lots of leftovers for Conrad on Tuesday as well!
After dinner, some travel planning, as I mentioned. The kitchen is tidied up, Conrad is upstairs, and I shall trek up to join him shortly. Monday will soon be here, but at least it's a short week at work!
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