no mention of the election here
another week gone by…it’s hard to believe. the trees are now past their peak of color, the nights are consistently chilly and i can see the holidays coming at me like a runaway freight train. next thing you know it will be the first of the year and we can start this whole thing all over again!
this past week was fun, in part because my parents were in town. they came to check on the progress of their house renovations. they seem thrilled with the way things are going along. the contractor is really on top of things. he keeps the work moving right along. my mother said she feels like all the design decisions have been made at this point and that it’s up to the electricians, plumbers, tilers, painters, carpenters, floor finishers, etc., to do their stuff and “make the magic happen.” they have another three weeks before the movers are scheduled to put the furniture in the house. i have some small trepidation about the degree of completion the house will be in when it comes down to that, but they could not face endless postponement of the moving day. they’ve chosen a date and now the clock is ticking. we are supposed to have thanksgiving in their house…we’ll see how that goes.
while they were here, we ate out a couple of times, as well as doing some cooking. my sister had been in boston the weekend before and she brought back some yummy clam chowder from legal seafoods there. we had that with sandwiches and a big salad and it made me look forward to my upcoming trip. we had lunch at sokolowski’s university inn, which is located directly underneath interstate 90 downtown. it’s basically a cafeteria with cheap polish food. this is the kind of cooking i remember from the east village in new york. i had a salisbury steak the size of a grapefruit. it came with mashed potatoes, sauerkraut and a pint of onion mushroom gravy over the whole thing. YUM! i will definitely be going back there in the near future…good winter food.
i cooked for my honey this week, too. we had sausage lasagna and hot fudge pudding cake and boy was it good. he loves that dessert from the buffet, so i had promised him to make it at home. i also made an apple crisp for my sister’s house with the last of the apples from our trip out to lorain county.
my friends from chicago will not be coming this weekend. our schedules just were NOT meshing, so we decided to postpone their visit until i have a bit more flexibility/control over my hours. i still have a bowling party for work that is our staff one-year anniversary celebration. i look forward to it, even though i can’t bowl at all. it should be fun to hang out with these people for a few hours. tony and i will be going out on wednesday night to celebrate OUR anniversary. we’ve agreed on a newish spot across from his house, which is the re-incarnation of the place we had our valentine’s dinner. and then there is my trip to boston the week after that. i will be staying an extra 24 hours so that my friend from nyc can come up for the day. we are planning on going to the museum and having lunch at the fed. i’m sure there will be some sight-seeing in there, as well as some shopping. and maybe even a cocktail!
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this past week was fun, in part because my parents were in town. they came to check on the progress of their house renovations. they seem thrilled with the way things are going along. the contractor is really on top of things. he keeps the work moving right along. my mother said she feels like all the design decisions have been made at this point and that it’s up to the electricians, plumbers, tilers, painters, carpenters, floor finishers, etc., to do their stuff and “make the magic happen.” they have another three weeks before the movers are scheduled to put the furniture in the house. i have some small trepidation about the degree of completion the house will be in when it comes down to that, but they could not face endless postponement of the moving day. they’ve chosen a date and now the clock is ticking. we are supposed to have thanksgiving in their house…we’ll see how that goes.
while they were here, we ate out a couple of times, as well as doing some cooking. my sister had been in boston the weekend before and she brought back some yummy clam chowder from legal seafoods there. we had that with sandwiches and a big salad and it made me look forward to my upcoming trip. we had lunch at sokolowski’s university inn, which is located directly underneath interstate 90 downtown. it’s basically a cafeteria with cheap polish food. this is the kind of cooking i remember from the east village in new york. i had a salisbury steak the size of a grapefruit. it came with mashed potatoes, sauerkraut and a pint of onion mushroom gravy over the whole thing. YUM! i will definitely be going back there in the near future…good winter food.
i cooked for my honey this week, too. we had sausage lasagna and hot fudge pudding cake and boy was it good. he loves that dessert from the buffet, so i had promised him to make it at home. i also made an apple crisp for my sister’s house with the last of the apples from our trip out to lorain county.
my friends from chicago will not be coming this weekend. our schedules just were NOT meshing, so we decided to postpone their visit until i have a bit more flexibility/control over my hours. i still have a bowling party for work that is our staff one-year anniversary celebration. i look forward to it, even though i can’t bowl at all. it should be fun to hang out with these people for a few hours. tony and i will be going out on wednesday night to celebrate OUR anniversary. we’ve agreed on a newish spot across from his house, which is the re-incarnation of the place we had our valentine’s dinner. and then there is my trip to boston the week after that. i will be staying an extra 24 hours so that my friend from nyc can come up for the day. we are planning on going to the museum and having lunch at the fed. i’m sure there will be some sight-seeing in there, as well as some shopping. and maybe even a cocktail!
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