This week has been spent eating, eating, eating. I am not, mind you, complaining about this, as I quite enjoy eating, but it has felt like a lag in The 40 Experiment. Hm. Anyway. A list:
Monday: Started off all organized and busy! Went to gym, Krogered, baked a cake, and cleaned house. Sounds v. domestic and mature, no? No. I did all this work in panic mode at breakneck speeds on Monday, mainly because I was the grasshopper who played all last week. I was meant to host Book Club at my house on Monday, and I LOVE hosting things at my house! Giddy at the thought of entertaining, I planned to get the house all dolled up and to bake a cake, and to be showered and polished and fresh just in time to open the door with gracious open arms. This is not *entirely* how it went. First of all, the trip to Kroger is especially irritating (as most trips to the grocery store are) because #1, I was starving--one of EVERYTHING in the basket, please; #2, my Kroger is being renovated, which is a fancy word for egregiously disorganized; #3, I went after the gym, so my sweaty self dried off in the artic blast of the A/C in the store. Hmph. Plus I forgot eggs. Dadgummit. On to unpack and clean house! Easy, but time-consuming. Baking! I had selected a delightful strawberry cake and strawberry frosting to make, and it was deeeelish, if I do say so myself. Ahem. I've been eating it for breakfast ever since then, must admit. :-) Shower! What to wear?? Finally, the hour arrived, and my Book Club arrived... to my locked and unfriendly door. Oopsie. Ah, well. After that, we chatted about the book, and traveling, and husbands, and friends, and the book a little more, and food, and kids, and.... Like we do. :-) Love those ladies!! Good time had by all. And I kept my cake.
Tuesday: Dinner at my friend Jamie's new house! She and her hubby just bought a new home in Carterville, and she invited me over to see. :-) We had chicken tenders and fries, and she let me hold her baby boy and eat as many blueberries as I wanted. We watched The Bachelorette and snarked about all the people on there (as one must), and then her husband, who works at channel 3 came home with three friends in tow--one of whom was Emily from the evening news! With the long blonde hair and big jewelry? She's funny! And she didn't freak out about being vomited on by baby boy (secretly delighted that baby boy chose not to vomit on self and selected Famous Lady instead--not proud, but still delighted)! Fun night.
Wednesday: Today, my first friend Jason (I've had to break him from introducing me as his "oldest friend." *slants eyes in Jason's direction* One would think THAT would be a no-brainer. Oy) and I met at high noon at Panera--our appointed time and place for meet-ups to discuss church, books, comic books, and life in general, but today we had a mission: we were creating curriculum for next year's church camp. It's going to be brilliant, if I do say so myself. But. As it was high noon, and we were at Panera, I had a lovely Caesar salad and ham and swiss sandwich. And a baguette. And hibiscus tea. Then, later that evening, I met up with my friend Tammy, who has the good sense to teach English at Herrin High School (opposed to some other subject or at some other school), at the Frenchman's Widow in Herrin. I like that place! It's small, kind of hole-in-the-wall, the seating is limited, but has delicious food. They do bottomless wings on Wednesdays, and there's a whole menu for other stuff, but you really want the French Dip Sandwich. Do yourself a favor--go on some night that is not Wednesday (hordes of Herrinites--room at the bar only! But I think there might be a garden coming soon), order a refreshing mojito, chat a bit, order a French Dip, and send me a thank-you note.
Nothing New to report this week, sadly, but I surely feel fortified for whatever newnesses I can think of for next week! Today is Be Good Day, so I've had chicken salad and cherries (those Ranier cherries that are yellow and red! LOVE these. Like cherry-flavored candy) and have plans to make some BBQ chicken for supper. With a salad. Because I'm eating my veggies. :-) We won't talk about breakfast....
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