Ooh, I have no plans this weekend, thank goodness, so I could go to TJs!
Let me guess. We're in a hurry.
Inara ,'Serenity'
Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Oct 13, 2022 3:41:19 pm PDT #17987 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
JenP - Oct 13, 2022 3:57:45 pm PDT #17988 of 30000
Which reminds me that I need to stock up on some TJ's pumpkin butter (and the GF pumpkin muffins and pancake mix, apparently.)
-t - Oct 13, 2022 4:08:47 pm PDT #17989 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
pumpkin-spiced pumpkin seeds
Oh, I forgot about those. So good. I have not been to TJ's to load up on pumpkiny goodness yet, I should get on that. The raviolis are a personal favorite.
shrift - Oct 13, 2022 5:06:34 pm PDT #17990 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Happy birthday, Matt!
Consuela - Oct 13, 2022 5:09:04 pm PDT #17991 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Happy birthday, Matt!
I took off work early and got a haircut, and talked to the guys at the bike shop, and walked the dog, and now I am ensconced on the couch with some whiskey-laced chai, doing a speed-run through the final Jan6 committee hearing.
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 13, 2022 9:26:34 pm PDT #17992 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Where are you going to dinner, Matt? I love your dining reports.
Probably just Longhorn Steakhouse this time. Mom had indigestion and heartburn for much of the trip (thanks to a virgin piña colada by the pool), so I want to pick someplace that has standard fare she can safely enjoy rather than getting too fancy or exotic.
It's not particularly a hardship though. The wedding dinner Monday was at the Hawthorn Grill, where we had drinks and appetizers on the patio (cocktail shrimp, herb & parmesan arancini, and mini beef Wellingtons). For the dinner itself I had a filet mignon with red wine jus, caramelized shallots, roasted asparagus, and whipped potatoes. Followed up with a chocolate caramel mousse encased in a hard chocolate dome. No pictures I'm afraid, I was too busy scarfing down everything placed before me.
meara - Oct 13, 2022 9:31:14 pm PDT #17993 of 30000
The pumpkin spiced pumpkin seeds ARE good
I had dinner with a really close friend who moved out of town about a year and a half ago, with two other close friends, and man, I wish she hadn’t moved. Such a bummer. She’s not great at texting and doesn’t do social media so it’s hard.
DavidS - Oct 13, 2022 9:37:25 pm PDT #17994 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I've had no pumpkin items of any stripe this week! I did however, get JZ a tiny pumpkin cheesecake last week, and have been eyeing pumpkin pie for Matilda.
Followed up with a chocolate caramel mousse encased in a hard chocolate dome.
Yummmmmm.
I did discover that the German bakery I frequent makes a flourless cake (chocolate with raspberry mousse) which by virtue of its flourless-ness is gluten free. Which is good because my new friend at the bookstore is gluten free, and I was able to bring her a treat.
(Here's the San Francisco twist on the German bakery...They make traditional German style baked goods but the owner/baker is Vietnamese.)
DavidS - Oct 13, 2022 9:41:57 pm PDT #17995 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I had dinner with a really close friend who moved out of town about a year and a half ago, with two other close friends, and man, I wish she hadn’t moved. Such a bummer.
It is a huge fucking bummer and I'm more convinced than ever that people do not properly value PROXIMITY.
OMG, it makes everything possible. People act like friends moving away is not a death knell - BUT IT IS. Sure you have some contact, periodically, a few times a year. But it's not the same as seeing them several times a week.
People! Please, value proximity in all your life choices.
Similarly, people do not properly mourn the end of work friendships. These are people you see every day! And then suddenly, they are gone. Capitalism. But we're supposed to just act like that's normal and we're okay when our work bestie is disappeared.
JenP - Oct 14, 2022 5:40:44 am PDT #17996 of 30000
OK, we'll, the wedding food sounds amazing, so that fulfills my vicarious dining pleasure needs, thank you.
David, re: work friends. Back when I was a baby working as a legal secretary, we had a foursome of me, the receptionist, the paralegal, and one of the attorneys. We were all roughly the same age. We were TIGHT, and had many traditions, hung out all the time, folded them into my larger friends group, etc.. One thing we did was to go out as a foursome for each other's birthdays for dinner.
We kept it up for years after we all moved on from the firm. Then, once I moved away, we all kind of drifted (proximity!) But stayed in loose touch.
When I moved back in 2018, we revived the birthday dinner tradition -- that first dinner was amazing! So much to catch up on, but it was like nothing had changed.
Hospital and pandemic put the kibosh on things for a while, but we started up again when we could. We just did my birthday dinner last week.
Anyway, I was commenting on how amazing it was that the band was still together these 30+ years later. Now the attorney is a SAHM and the other two are both attorneys, and they all have kids, so, many changes, but still the same core awesomeness in each.
Rambly post! Good morning!