Weekend update.

A nice, lovely weekend with Jeremy back in the fold. I had a great day on Saturday – Edda and I had the house to ourselves and I baked, lifted, cooked, bathed, guitared and laundered while waiting for Jeremy to come home. I went at 5:30 pm to game night at church which was filled with flowers for the ordination the next day.

This time, at this potluck, the food was the opposite direction than on Wed night, too much for the folks that gathered and lots of dishes, and so this time, I got to bring my chick pea salad (so unitaritan) home with me and eat it for the rest of the weekend. Edda came with me and we did the eating part of game night and not really the game part of game night.

I understand there is a “game night” culture that involve interesting, unusual games like this game which involves a small plastic tree that you are supposed to nurture into flowering buds, etc, but I also like playing games like pictionary, spot it and uno. We’ll have to see how it goes with this…game nite…basically, I don’t want to think too hard on game night and I would mostly like to laugh and have a hidden cup of wine in my mug so the kids can’t see that I’m drinking wine.

I drove to dulles and picked up Jeremy and waited in the cell lot and then I found him and he picked me up and swung me around in a circle and I was delighted and happy. I’m super impressed with myself while he was gone this time – the house is always bustling at dinner time, we have Felix and Ginny and company around 6 pm and I cooked dinner every night (obv, Jeremy does almost 100% of the daily cooking in the house) – only once resorting to chicken patties and tater tots (choir night) and managed mostly to keep the house clean and in order. I remember in times past, I would not know what to cook for dinner, but now I lean into things to make everything easier – precut/prewashed veggies, pre marinated meats, and then rice as simple starch. And that’s pretty much it. Also a curry with premade curry sauce, some chicken, carrots/potatoes and onions. Jeremy is really good at prepping the week for me – so I know I still get help. I’m not too bad at this now. I told Jeremy I used to cringe at the extra expense of buying pre-cut pre-washed broccoli, but now I feel like if it can shave off any barrier to actually doing it, it’s ok to pay twice as much for broccoli. (Jeremy, I think, does not buy the preprepared veggies, preferring to do it himself, but he does it for me. – he does help set me up for a good week food-wise). And that no matter how expensive the broccoli is, it’s so much cheaper than doing takeout for 5 people which, I feel like, these days runs into at least $100. So hooray me!

After I dropped Jeremy off at home, I went to see some kitties to do some pet sitting duties. Purrrrr.. purrr…. kitties seem good.

Sunday, I was busy with singing in the morning, singing in the afternoon, mid-day kitty check and the day ended with Sunday night dinner at Riderwood. Gene is in the rehab location so we moved dinner to him. This was takeout – were I ordered a mysterious roll called “caught in a bad romance” which was pretty good.

Megan, the kitty owner, gifted me one of her Stanley cups (she has many) – so I feel so lovingly compensated for petsitting. I’ve never had one of these and now that they are out of style, I have one and enjoying it quite a bit. I can see how people like them. But they are ENORMOUS. But the ice that I put in last night IS STILL THERE. Thermodynamic miracle.