25 posts tagged “food and drink”
Crispy breaded shrimp with Audacious Apricot Ale marmalade. Shit’s good.
Beldin: I had Golden Grahams for breakfast. There was a little zebra car toy thingie in the box, a tie-in to Madagascar 2—I opened the box (it was new) and the little toy popped right out, a bit of a surprise for so early of a morn.
Bug: Weird.. you mean they don't bury the toys at the bottom of the box any more? :x
Beldin: Nope. This one was in its own separate little wrapping on the outside of the cereal bag, just inside the box top.
Bug: How.. odd. Takes all the fun out of trying to DIG for the toy. ;x
Beldin: I know! I used to pour the whole damned box into a big mixing bowl to find the toy, and then ladle the cereal back in spoonful by spoonful after. ;D
Bug: ROFL, exactly. ;x
Beers on tap, that is.
In chronological order, though I won’t swear to that—even though I’m a complete time-keeping nerdly, I am a bit more casual about it on the weekends:
- Saw that Vienna Teng added a Seattle stop to her tour schedule. Tickets went on sale at 10:00 and I had mine at 10:35, which was about 3 minutes after I saw the tour posting. Playing Sep 04 at the Mainstage at The Triple Door, which happens to be the first place I ever saw her perform live back in 2005. (Upcoming.org event page)
- Worked the usual shift Friday, off at 20:00. I’d bought a dozen doughnuts from Top Pot for the weekly meeting my team has and ended up taking half a dozen home with me, evil in a box.
- Dinner with my cousin at the downtown Cheesecake Factory. I was out until 01:00 Saturday, getting way too old for that.
- Sleep! Glorious sleep! Saturday morning. I hadn’t slept much Thursday night/Friday morning so it was nice not to wake up with the first light of day just after 04:00.
- Fairly quiet morning, and then beer, nachos, and Shanghai rummy on the big patio at Redhook. Hot and thirsty work, it was.
- Met my friends Derek and Mary Saturday night (at their car, they picked me up) for dinner at Tutta Bella in Wallingford. Delicious pizza, and the salad and flatbread rocked too. We were fighting over the tiramisu at the end, very tasty all around.
- I was home a little after 21:00 Saturday. Normally this would have made me feel old, but this weekend it made me feel wonderful—home after two different social engagements! and with 3 hours remaining in the day!—and I celebrated by moving my wine rack from the living room to the front-hall closet. That closet has never been above the mid-60s even on the days my apartment as a whole has hit the low 80s (no air conditioning), so I’ll have better luck with temperature control. Also I won’t run into the rack anymore when I walk between the living room and the kitchen.
- Quiet Sunday morning. Caught up on the news programs, read the paper online, similar leisure activities. Ran a couple errands too, and then I grilled chicken for dinner once the propane tank was out of direct sunlight so it would stop going FNOOOOOOOOOOD when I opened the valve because the gas was so warmed up. Lemon pepper chicken and a baked potato the size of all Idaho, and I learnt tonight that baked potatoes hold on to their heat for absurdly long periods. Burnt my tongue twice, dammit.
Spent the early afternoon at the Seattle Aquarium with Katharine, Julie Anne, and Julie Anne’s brother, sister-in-law, and 2-year-old nephew.
Adult-beverage time!
Chicken fajita burrito on standard-size paper plate for comparison
Julie Anne's insane holiday dessert concoction with strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, cake, and a cheesecake filling.
Betty Crocker presents....
Beautiful spring evening on the deck
Cinnamon roll at Alki Bakery
