Woah...Sunday Night Already??

Hey, you.

I've been slacking a little, haven't I?  This weekend went by way too fast; I kept thinking Saturday night was Friday night, so today I kept thinking it was Saturday. Now it's almost Monday :(

I did get a lot done, though, if that counts for something.  I went to the gym, I cleaned my bathroom, I did all the laundry, went to Costco, and paid some bills.  Friday night, we hung out over at S&T's for a bit after dinner, then went out to dinner with them last night.  I don't know if I told you that T has a newfound half-brother who happens to live about a mile away from here, and they joined us for dinner.  They're kind of still discovering each other so it's cool on one had, weird on the other. The worst part is that J and I don't like them much, so dinner last night was a bit more of a chore than a party.  They're really boring. He's really loud and obnoxious, and drunk, in a boring way. Ugh.  Still, it was fun to go out for a bit and the bartender made a me a killer drink that I named after her.  I'll now have to perfect my Gini-tini, made with lychee (my fav), grapefruit juice and citrus vodka.  Yum!

Speaking of yum, this morning I woke up with some bizarre burst of energy that led me to put together a crockpot of beef stew before 10:00am.  I have to say, I'm not very good with making things up at all, so when I do create something, I'm always a little giddy.  Mind you, this wasn't anything fancy - a flank steak cubed up, carrots, onions, potatoes and a packet of Lipton's onion soup with some water - but really, I was nervous.  I didn't even know if you could use flank steak in stew.

Guess what? You can.  At the six hour mark or so, it was a little bland, so I threw in some salt, steak seasoning (dry) and Lawry's, and by the time I served myself up a big ole' bowl of it, with a crusty baguette, It. Was. Awesome.  I'm so proud of myself! I know, the Lipton's was a total cheat, but I'm good with that.

Now that my day is done, I have no more energy to finish the last load of laundry, and I'm really blase about the football games on. I wanted to curl up with my new book - One Day - that I already LOVE, but I'm also reading the manual for my new camera and playing around with that. I really, really, really don't want to go to work tomorrow. Friday afternoon's arrival of D & M from up north will keep me motivated through the week I suppose ;)

Back to work for you, tomorrow, too? You're probably glad to be done with the snow days by now.

Wishing you a good week and a fun party weekend with J and the fam.

Love you!
A

P.S. Your sushi plate was beautiful!

P.P.S. Spelling gem of the day: INFUSES.  As in, "I think we need to put more infuses on that program in the future."