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Today was an extremely rare weekend without travel so I’ve tried to make the most of it.
Got up this morning and was treated to a Bagel Jay’s bagel, but soon after hustled Dude out the door for errands before it got busy out there. (Not before a couple of loads of laundry, of course. Can’t let a rainless day go to waste.) We started out at TJ Maxx, and bought packing cubes, and not one but two linen dresses for $20 each in my actual size, so I was kind of excited about that! One is more of a tunic, I’ll have to see how it held up in the wash. And I got a long-sleeved light linen/rayon/etc overshirt for sun protection. Some of this is for the upcoming traveling, but some of it is just in general.
I also bought a couple of plastic cups that look like glass cups, because I like to have that sort of thing. Also I was thinking, since the cat only drinks out of cups, it would be nice to upgrade a little from the decade-old scratched plastic cups she drinks from. Her skin-grandmother, who babysits her while we travel, is sort of not super into the fact that she drinks from a cup and not a bowl, and also prefers the cup to be on the coffee table, coming from a household where cats weren’t allowed on tables, and so I figure the least we can do is have it be a nice cup, if it’s got to be on the coffee table. (Chita won’t drink from it if it’s on the window sill or the floor. Our kitten is a precious princess. We never taught her to keep off the table because we never really cared and now it’s too late.)
She won’t be cat-sat again until September but it’s never too early to think of these things. Also I want to make sure she’ll actually drink out of a nicer plastic cup. Maybe she’s fussy. I don’t know. I mean, she is, but maybe she’s fussy about that. The way to get her to drink from a cup is for you to drink from it first, really, so I should probably do that…
Then we went to the liquor store, and wonder of wonders, they’re carrying Rigas Melnais Balsams (or Black Balsam), which is kind of the national drink of Latvia. So we bought that, with great excitement, because, y’know. You have to. (We bought our last bottle over a decade ago and it’s long gone.)
And then we went to the grocery store. Having done most of our shopping at the co-op already, we didn’t need much. So first, we went to the prepared foods bar, and bought ourselves lunch, and went and sat up on the balcony and scoped out the action below. It’s what Dude does whenever he comes by himself, when I’m out of town. Great people-watching.
It’s more fun to grocery shop with two people because you can laugh at things.
Tonight’s dinner was an impromptu casserole made of leftover mashed potatoes from Monday’s chicken dinner, and a combo of half a pound of bulk breakfast sausage, a big onion, some celery and carrot, and mushrooms bought for the purpose, with some red pepper and salt and paprika, browned together, and then sloshed with leftover chicken stock from Monday as well, boiled up and then topped with the mashed potatoes and baked until hot through, with some Parmesan cheese on top. It’s sort of inappropriate for the season– it’d be a great stick-to-your-ribs winter recipe– but it was a good way to use up those mashed potatoes (there was some celeriac in them too) and make something that can be packaged and frozen to be lunches for work.
It was a fairly perfect day for drying laundry today– the sun almost never came out and there was little wind, but it never rained, not even a drop, so everything dried sort of crisp, and didn’t slide around on the clothesline. I only did three loads of laundry, though, meaning tomorrow I have to do at least two.
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Today was an extremely rare weekend without travel so I’ve tried to make the most of it.
Got up this morning and was treated to a Bagel Jay’s bagel, but soon after hustled Dude out the door for errands before it got busy out there. (Not before a couple of loads of laundry, of course. Can’t let a rainless day go to waste.) We started out at TJ Maxx, and bought packing cubes, and not one but two linen dresses for $20 each in my actual size, so I was kind of excited about that! One is more of a tunic, I’ll have to see how it held up in the wash. And I got a long-sleeved light linen/rayon/etc overshirt for sun protection. Some of this is for the upcoming traveling, but some of it is just in general.
I also bought a couple of plastic cups that look like glass cups, because I like to have that sort of thing. Also I was thinking, since the cat only drinks out of cups, it would be nice to upgrade a little from the decade-old scratched plastic cups she drinks from. Her skin-grandmother, who babysits her while we travel, is sort of not super into the fact that she drinks from a cup and not a bowl, and also prefers the cup to be on the coffee table, coming from a household where cats weren’t allowed on tables, and so I figure the least we can do is have it be a nice cup, if it’s got to be on the coffee table. (Chita won’t drink from it if it’s on the window sill or the floor. Our kitten is a precious princess. We never taught her to keep off the table because we never really cared and now it’s too late.)
She won’t be cat-sat again until September but it’s never too early to think of these things. Also I want to make sure she’ll actually drink out of a nicer plastic cup. Maybe she’s fussy. I don’t know. I mean, she is, but maybe she’s fussy about that. The way to get her to drink from a cup is for you to drink from it first, really, so I should probably do that…
Then we went to the liquor store, and wonder of wonders, they’re carrying Rigas Melnais Balsams (or Black Balsam), which is kind of the national drink of Latvia. So we bought that, with great excitement, because, y’know. You have to. (We bought our last bottle over a decade ago and it’s long gone.)
And then we went to the grocery store. Having done most of our shopping at the co-op already, we didn’t need much. So first, we went to the prepared foods bar, and bought ourselves lunch, and went and sat up on the balcony and scoped out the action below. It’s what Dude does whenever he comes by himself, when I’m out of town. Great people-watching.
It’s more fun to grocery shop with two people because you can laugh at things.
Tonight’s dinner was an impromptu casserole made of leftover mashed potatoes from Monday’s chicken dinner, and a combo of half a pound of bulk breakfast sausage, a big onion, some celery and carrot, and mushrooms bought for the purpose, with some red pepper and salt and paprika, browned together, and then sloshed with leftover chicken stock from Monday as well, boiled up and then topped with the mashed potatoes and baked until hot through, with some Parmesan cheese on top. It’s sort of inappropriate for the season– it’d be a great stick-to-your-ribs winter recipe– but it was a good way to use up those mashed potatoes (there was some celeriac in them too) and make something that can be packaged and frozen to be lunches for work.
It was a fairly perfect day for drying laundry today– the sun almost never came out and there was little wind, but it never rained, not even a drop, so everything dried sort of crisp, and didn’t slide around on the clothesline. I only did three loads of laundry, though, meaning tomorrow I have to do at least two.
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