Fan Girl Wannabe

We had a lovely 4-day weekend.  I banked some extra hours so I could take Fri off too.  

Wed. night we made the cranberry jello mold, and prepped pie crust and ate chinese food.

Thursday we lounged around in jammies all day, reading and playing dominoes, watching parades and football, cooking and eating.  There were lots of yummy things from the eggnog pancakes and bacon for breakfast, to 5 kinds of cheese, pate de foie gras, grapes, pistachios, and a fancy relish tray from Whole Food's olive bar for snacks, to Turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, oyster dressing, cranberry relish and asparagus for dinner, and finally cherry and pumpkin pies for dessert.  There were also interesting beverages - sparkly juices and Jones soda and wine.  Survivor and CSI were fun things to watch in the evening.  That Hodges is such a geek.

Friday I cleaned and organized a chunk of the basement.  DH and I went to "The Garage Project" on University to see the latest and greatest in organizational systems for your garage and/or basement.  I'm interested in the basement applications.  DH wants to adapt a few items to the kitchen, specifically to his baking center he's dreaming about.  For dinner, we met up with 

bzdchris and busman1994 at the Dane.  I had 2 strongbow ciders and split the mac n cheese with DH, in addition to sampling some appetizers.  Then we went home just in time to learn Stargate:Atlantis was not airing.  Poo.  Watched half of a SG-1 episode and then retired to the romantically lit bedroom.  The candles cast cool shadows on the ceiling of the leaves of the two trees that are wintering at the foot of our bed.  I could just lie there and stare at the shifting patterns for hours.

Saturday was another relaxing day.  We lounged around all day, with bzdchris and busman1994 arriving about 2.  We watched music documentaries, played dominoes and snacked like divas.  We also sampled some "Demolition Ale" from Goose Island - really yum with the Styrian Goldings and Saaz hops. :;sigh::  The boy had a music lesson, so I left the house for exactly one hour on Sat.

Sunday was still pretty quiet, with DH and I discussing plans for rearranging the living room/dining room, and what furniture purchases the plan would require.  We discussed the overall look some more and agreed in principle on many things. :)  Then we headed out for an afternoon of errands and grocery shopping. Heh.  First stop was a furniture store "to get an idea" of what "may be available when we're ready." We ended up purchasing a contemporary Lane recliner with cream leather upholstery for nearly half price.  We didn't want leather.  We didn't want a recliner.  But this was the nicest, most comfortable chair in the store and it was HALF price!  So we sheepishly put the hold on it so we could go swap cars (it wouldn't fit in the Subaru) and pick it up later.  Then we dropped by the mall to redeem our See's candies gift certificates (free chocolate!), and did a light run at the grocery store.  Finally, we took the groceries home and headed back to the store to claim our chair.  While I deboned the leftover turkey, and determined there was enough for my creamed turkey and DH's pot pie cravings, DH spent most of the evening reclining in splendor ;) the rest, he spent petting me.  I was a happy happy girl by the time I closed my eyes for good last night.  There's just something about creamed turkey with peas, a couple of glasses of wine and rampant consumerism, ya know?

This morning started with me realizing that I could easily spend $2000 on furniture at American TV and receive a free 32" Toshiba LCD HDTV.  No one told us about this promotion while we were at the store, which is probably a good thing.  I just have to continue resisting until Saturday when the sale ends.  I don't need to spend $2000 on furniture.  I really really don't.  Yes, I would like to have another one of those chairs, and a set of matching dining room chairs to boot.  But I have other things that are much higher on the priority list.  I am strong. I will resist.