We kicked off the weekend with a most excellent Friday night. We had one of my oldest (and beloved) friend over for dinner and it kicked ass. We drank prosecco with a splash of aperol and some ruby red grapefruit (fresh squoze, natch), feasted upon truly terrible potato hash browns with cheese (no lie, they sucked), the BEST ham quiche I have EVER made, and an arugula, avocado, red onion, and grapefruit salad with a citrus vinaigrette.
Tip for the vinaigrette in our house: we use whatever we have. JMS usually does an olive oil, Dijon mustard, lemon and pickle juice (trust him) slurry. I usually do citrus of some sort, a splash of balsamic, salt, pepper, Dijon, and olive oil. It makes no difference really. Mix with a fork, pour over salad. When I'm feeling really lazy (about 98% of the time) I just drizzle olive oil, balsamic, and lemon juice over our salads. I hate creating extra dishes, ya know?
We played bananagrams, drank a truly awesome pinot noir our friend brought, and had an impromptu dance party to old skool Eve.
Tip from me: bananagrams sounds terrible and is in fact the best. game. ever! It combines speed, spelling, and you play it individually. I am alllllll about no team sports or games. Call me introverted, I am. It makes a great gift. People might not open it and gush that it's what they have always wanted, but come a rainy day or slow Sunday and that shit will consume them with its awesomeness. My goal for 2013 is to play it once a week and become so evangelical about it that our friends happily play with me. Sold yet? Are you? You should be . . . . Also I'm not that good at it, so you stand a good chance of winning. Now are you sold? NOW?!
After our dear friend left John and I danced all over the living room. It sounds so cheesy but it was so much fun I could hardly stand it. Do you ever have those out-of-body moments when you are floating above yourself looking down and thinking "remember this moment, this is what it's all about." I had that all evening. In hind site it's a little effed up to be nostalgic for things as they are happening, but that's how it went down.
Saturday we had brunch (how very middle-class-y and yuppie-ish) and it was pretty good. We went to Lusa's for the third time in our lives. My verdict remains the same: good food, great bread, rather expensive, and terrible terrible cashier. I think it's the owner (gasp, sigh, I am a horrible person) but every time we get overcharged (by a good $5) and when I try to correct her "um, actually the menu said it was $3 . . ." she ignores me, pretends she doesn't understand, or says it's wrong. Not cool. Which is why this is only the third time we have eaten there, and not the sixty-third. Your loss lady. Although, I suppose it also seems as though we are gluttons for punishment.
After brunching we went on a Grand Adventure. We went to Wal-Mart for cat food and a new saucepan! We tried a few other stores before Wally World but they were closed or didn't have what we were looking for. Sigh. First time in a year we have gone, and I still hate it. Mission accomplished we took our dog to bond with the store dogs at Hollywood Feed while we bought him more chow. We then went to Home Depot and found awesome rosemary plants on sale (I killed our rosemary really thoroughly this summer) AND a wee spruce! We returned home and I crashed out because chain stores tend to make me exhausted. Woke up and decided on pizza for dinner so we killed it while watching Freaks and Geeks. It was such a nice day!
Sunday we slept in (glory hallelujah) and I took it upon myself to create a workspace for my love. Thus, it was so. I moved furniture and got that DONE! It was so satisfying and he was thrilled. After moving dressers and stuff (NBD, it's how I roll) I took the pooch for an epic walk and let him chase squirrels. IN the evening we cleaned up and chatted about house stuff and visited with my parents and it was just so lovely!
I am already excited for next weekend!
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