May The Stars Light Your Way
Tonight was Wendy’s early night off of work, so she got home around 7:00pm. I’d been home since about 5:30, reading over the Only Revolutions website & forums. Mark Z. Danielewski is one tripped-out author — he’s the same guy that wrote the mammoth House…
Another at-home evening tonight, and it was very nice. Dinner was simple — food we had on hand. I had some ravioli, yogurt, and an orange.
Today we bagged the leaves that Wendy raked up yesterday. We bagged and bagged — over 30 bags (each with a capacity of 39 gallons) of leaves. Oh my aching back. But our yard looks much better, and our neighbors (who take more pride in their yard than we do and have more time to maintain it than we do) are speaking with us again. We’re the most treed lot on our street, so we get LOTS of leaves.
Wendy was going to stay home and eat diet food and I was craving Mexican. I went alone to the Mexican restaurant right up the street from us. It’s currently named El Pueblo, but that will likely change shortly — they seem to change names on it every other week.
I’d sat down and ordered Shrimp Fajitas when in walked … WENDY! Dave & Robin had called her and, since they couldn’t get me on my cell phone (which I’d left at home), they all decided to meet me there. It was a nice surprise — we hadn’t spent much time with Dave & Robin since the holidays.
I worked prep at Jean-Robert at Pigall’s this afternoon, spending time helping out wherever I was useful. My most useful contribution today was that I made a ton of ravioli (brunoise of squash, shrimp, mushroom, and greens) pretty much from start to finish. Also, I hadn’t…
I had today off as part of University of Cincinnati’s Thanksgiving holiday. I got up around 8:00am and worked on a few things (emails, inquiries, adding a feature or two to the Over The Rhine site, etc). I was out the door by 11:30am, expecting…
Like most Americans, we celebrated Thanksgiving today. We were fortunate enough to be Wendy’s family for Thanksgiving, and my parents came along as well. We enjoyed the standard Thanksgiving fare: turkey, dressing, gravy, rolls, salad, sweet potato casserole, cauliflower, green beans, cranberry sauce, and more.
It was a fine evening with great people.
I am thankful.
Wendy made a beautiful cherry-chocolate cake that she decorated with the new-found confidence from her cake decorating class.
Today was Wendy’s day off from work and I got out of the office at 3:00pm (thanks to the administration for letting us go early!), so we had some time at home this evening. Wendy spent most of her time working on a Thanksgiving cake…