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Jun. 18th, 2007 12:21 pmThis weekend I had an ambitious program: I wanted to read, and I wanted to cook, and I wanted to give myself a pedicure. Success! I accomplished ALL these things, plus some furniture moving and throwing out of stuff. And a very short swim (it's still a little chilly, and I hadn't been moving around enough for that to be pleasant).
It was Jen's birthday Saturday so we went up to the cottage.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
crankygrrl provided lunch -- cheese and baguette and salad and good things like that. I'd volunteered for dinner, which turned out to be asparagus; roast chicken with German potato salad (although in Granny's Joy of Cooking it is not called this); Greek salad; and chocolate cake and vanilla Swiss almond ice cream.
It was good. Although one day I will figure out how to make cakes that don't rise too high in the middle and crack. We ate a lot.
Sunday after breakfast provided by Jen (pancakes, bacon, scrambled eggs) I finally revolted against the chest of drawers in my room that's been trying and failing to be a bedside table for however many years, and put it into the closet which I don't use much anyway. Stole one of the coffee tables from the living room and put it into my room instead. Instant improvement -- it's the same height as the beds and has a shelf for books. Jen tossed the magazines that had been in it (only one was less than a year old). We're still trying to absorb the remaining stuff that came from Granny's apartment. Things go to the cottage, but they rarely leave, and this is a problem.
Also spent some time doing Kakuro and watching the goose and duck families. Incredibly cute, and luckily (I almost wrote "cluckily") the geese don't nest near our cottage, so we can enjoy them without cursing them. Oh, and there were four huge (in my experience anyway) fish wandering around near our dock on Saturday -- I couldn't tell what they were, possibly catfish, but they were each about 18" long. Suddenly all those fishing boats make more sense.
Reading: gave up on River of Darkness by Rennie Airth, which wasn't working for me, but adored The New Moon's Arms by Nalo Hopkinson. Magic in the Caribbean and a deeply difficult but awesome middle-aged heroine. And seals.
How were your weekends?
It was Jen's birthday Saturday so we went up to the cottage.
crankygrrl provided lunch -- cheese and baguette and salad and good things like that. I'd volunteered for dinner, which turned out to be asparagus; roast chicken with German potato salad (although in Granny's Joy of Cooking it is not called this); Greek salad; and chocolate cake and vanilla Swiss almond ice cream.It was good. Although one day I will figure out how to make cakes that don't rise too high in the middle and crack. We ate a lot.
Sunday after breakfast provided by Jen (pancakes, bacon, scrambled eggs) I finally revolted against the chest of drawers in my room that's been trying and failing to be a bedside table for however many years, and put it into the closet which I don't use much anyway. Stole one of the coffee tables from the living room and put it into my room instead. Instant improvement -- it's the same height as the beds and has a shelf for books. Jen tossed the magazines that had been in it (only one was less than a year old). We're still trying to absorb the remaining stuff that came from Granny's apartment. Things go to the cottage, but they rarely leave, and this is a problem.
Also spent some time doing Kakuro and watching the goose and duck families. Incredibly cute, and luckily (I almost wrote "cluckily") the geese don't nest near our cottage, so we can enjoy them without cursing them. Oh, and there were four huge (in my experience anyway) fish wandering around near our dock on Saturday -- I couldn't tell what they were, possibly catfish, but they were each about 18" long. Suddenly all those fishing boats make more sense.
Reading: gave up on River of Darkness by Rennie Airth, which wasn't working for me, but adored The New Moon's Arms by Nalo Hopkinson. Magic in the Caribbean and a deeply difficult but awesome middle-aged heroine. And seals.
How were your weekends?
