Aaaaaaaaand, it's over. Well, almost anyway. Blake's mom went to stay with her mom Friday afternoon to give us a little time to ourselves for our eagerly awaited 4-day weekend. The gesture became gloriously pointless when Friday night, directly after work, we headed to my mom's house for, I thought, a short stay. I didn't see my house again until very late Sunday night. Blake's car restoration took precedence for at least the first half of this weekend. It's partly my fault. I insisted that rather than hoisting the body of the car onto a hastily made support of cinder blocks and posts, that he build some sort of proper structure so that I wouldn't come out to the shop one day and find him crushed beneath it like the Wicked Witch of the West. So he and his best friend (who also happens to be my cousin, and who also happens to live next door to my mom) spent the better part of the next two days constructing four towers of masterfully engineered two-by-fours, which should (safely) hold many, many times the weight of the car.
It wasn't all unpleasantness while at my mom's, of course. She was working most of the time, but I got some quality time in the country. It's where I grew up, and with any luck, someday it's where I'll finish up my life (in a hundred years or so). It is my mission to have a huge vegetable garden and chickens one of these days. I'm a bit upset because I didn't bring my camera (again, I wasn't expecting to be there for an extended period of time), and there were some beautiful shots of the countryside which made themselves evident while on any one of my many leisurely walks. Sunday my mom was off, so she and I spent most of the morning in the kitchen, and we all had a very pleasant Sunday lunch/early dinner with my brother and his family. Blake and I made it home sometime before midnight Sunday night, so at least I got to wake up in my house on Monday morning. I got the house cleaned, and then Blake and I went to this resale shop down the street called The Walk-In Closet. I was on a mission to find cheap jeans, but I ended up walking out with three new shirts for like $15. Not bad. Then we stopped for lunch at Husky's (I had the black bean burger); also not bad. When we got home I threw together a banana bread as a treat for Blake's dad who just quit smoking over the weekend. As soon as it was out of the oven we delivered it, and then stopped at the mall where Blake got some new clothes of his own. Finally we hit the grocery store for a couple of things we needed to get us through the week, and got home sometime after 8 o'clock. The rest of the evening was quite pleasant. Easy salad for supper and then a glass of wine while we watched an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (Blake's gently trying to ease me into an appreciation for sci-fi; it's very slow-going). Early night for me; I was asleep not long after midnight (sci-fi and wine is apparently akin to a tranquilizer).
Dreary day today, but at least it's warmer than the last few days have been. I'm having a Nigella Lawson-a-thon. I've got a bunch of episodes of "Nigella Kitchen" on the DVR. I love her. I'm thinking of doing some sort of homage to her, a la "Julie & Julia" maybe, but most of her recipes, of course, involve meat or at least some sort of animal product. All well and good, but I'm desperately trying to stick to the vegan thing for now. I imagine I could dig through her cookbook ("How to Eat") and find some vegan friendly dishes. I think I'll try and line up a week's worth of dishes and do one each day or something. Sounds like a project. We'll see.
Finally got my haircut. I am not digging it so far. I think I got it cut way too short. It's not really that short (about shoulder length), but it's particularly poofy right now. I'll have to work on it a bit, I guess. Well, not too much else to report. No pics for this post. I'll try to have some next time! :)
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