A few highlights from the weekend!
Thursday
- Starting my 100th book of the year!
- Sleeping in (ha, after being up for a few hours in the early am).
- Breakfast sandwiches by Steven.
- A very cold and windy rock-hiding walk with Steven. Oops. We picked a bad time to go with snow and high winds. Brrr. I bought a Starbucks chai to “warm me up” but my hands just felt cold from holding it (rather than having them tucked in to my coat)!
- Trying a new pumpkin pie recipe (link here for future reference, thanks, Amy!).
- A charcuterie board.
- Talking with my Grandmas on the phone.
Friday
- The cats loving their stocking. It was so cute – I said “kitties, come open your stocking!” and Starbuck came right away and Apollo and Khali were right behind her.
- A yummy indulgent breakfast.
- Presents! Steven got me a graphic poster of all the different pasta types and I can’t wait to hang it up! He also got me a travel case for our knives (if I’m going to be cooking, I always travel with them)!
- Feeling great on my run. I was worried about the cold but the sun was out and it felt good!
- The new pumpkin pie recipe turning out amazing. Gah, I want to make it to eat every week.
- FaceTiming with Gina and fam.
- Watching Wonder Woman 1984. It wasn’t great, but it was fun to watch (I thought there would be more 80s music – what a missed opportunity!).
- A Zoom call to open gifts with Steven’s fam.
- Organizing my paint markers into my new case from Steven’s dad.
Saturday
- Using my Christmas Amazon gift cards.
- Walking in a new-to-me park and hiding my last batch of holiday rocks.
- Getting some cleaning done. Andrew got me a fabric defuzzer for Christmas and it was so satisfying (even though it took a loooooooong time) to defuzz the couch. Our couch is so old and needs to be replaced but defuzzing it made it look a lot nicer.
- Listening to the top 40 2020 pop songs while cleaning.
- Doing Sunday pasta night on Saturday so we could have our late Christmas meal Sunday.
- Watching I Love You, Man with Steven. That movie is so awkward and always makes us laugh!
Sunday
- Feeling really fast on my run.
- Starbucks and a hot bath.
- Trying a new style for rock photos.
- Getting a Sip & Purr shelter monthly donor letter.
- Working on some NYE party animal rocks.
- Doing a Facebook video call with our nephew William to confirm he could tell what the animals were on the rocks (he could!).
- Our late holiday meal.
- Watching Zoolander – another film that always makes us laugh.
- Submitting a zillion questions on my snister’s “show me a pic of” in her Instagram stories.
Lowlights
- Looking for a donation link on a no-kill shelter page on Christmas Day and seeing a really sad cartoon that made me cry.
- Not having scheduled times for video calls on Christmas. I wasn’t expecting any other than with Gina and fam so I didn’t plan ahead (like I normally would), then we were kind of waiting around for the one with Steven’s family. (Not that we were doing much – but we wanted to watch the movie uninterrupted so we felt bad to decline them during that time but that was our plan for the day – to watch that movie without distractions, which we never do (but did!).)
- Skidding out on black ice as I pulled into the forest preserve to run Sunday. Um, that was scary, and unexpected. I seriously thought something was wrong with my brakes because I could not see the ice at all (but later confirmed it was there). Yay, winter!
Wonder Woman 1984 needed about 30 mins shaved off the running time and a better plot.
I Love You, Man is a funny movie. The Rush references are so great (including Rush the band in the movie)
Yes, it definitely needed both of those!
Ha, yes! I heard a Rush song in the car after we watched it and it made me smile. We always say “slapping the bass” in his Irish accent.
Sounds like a good weekend! Congratulations on 100 books in 2020!!! I counted mine up in my book journal yesterday and I am now reading number 48 for the year. I was kind of surprised that it wasn’t more, because I felt like I read a lot this year, but I do tend to read long books. The longest one was 882 pages and it took me most of the first lockdown to finish it!
Thank you! 48 is a lot, and yeah, an average long page count will do that to you! Goodreads told me my average page count is around 340 or something. That is definitely my sweet spot! I will read longer books but hate how much they slow me down!
Wow, 100 books! Impressive. I’m assuming that all the “meat” on your charcuterie board is vegan, right? Are they from Steven’s company? Just curious as I’m always searching for good replacements. 🙂
And, sorry about the unscheduled Zoom with Gina and fam… that’s one thing that drives me a bit bonkers (well, among many OTHER things…) – the “we’ll talk ‘sometime on x day'” connection. I much prefer to have a time so I’m not on a walk, in the shower, in the middle of something else, etc. etc. etc.
Finally, super-impressed with your movie-watching. I am not, shall we say, a movie aficionado. About the furthest thing from it, actually. (You don’t want to know the last time I saw a movie in a theater!)
Happy new year (almost)!
Thanks! And yes, vegan meats, both from Fake Meats – https://www.fakemeats.com/Yves-Plant-Based-Veggie-Pepperoni-p/yvc-0-60822-00116-6.htm and https://www.fakemeats.com/Beyond-Meat-Sausage-Hot-Italian-p/bym-8-52629-00475-0.htm (we had cooked the sausage a few days before and had it leftover). I really like the Tofurky ham and bologna deli slices. Steven does not sell those (yet?) but he sells the Yves versions!
Ha, I just realize the way I wrote this made it sound like we were waiting around for Gina & fam when it was actually Steven’s fam. Thanks for pointing that out! But yes, I am the exact same way and like an exact time, or at least a “let’s text between 2-3 and start sometime around then.” Sigh. Some people don’t care about having a schedule. Hee hee.
Now I do want to know the last movie you saw in a theater!!!!
Happy New Year to you too!
We were just talking about “I love you man.” (We prefer “Forgetting Sarah Marshall,” but I love the dog named Anwar Sadat.)
100 books this year is incredible! Do you think you’ll try to beat that next year?
What kind of knives do you like to use? And what is your system for sharpening them? I’ve never learned to sharpen my own knives, so I just send them to a hipster-run knife shop here for sharpening like the bougie a$$hole that I am.
Ha! Yes! Somehow I always forget his name!
Thanks! No, I don’t think so. It was a total fluke and I felt rushed once I set the goal to 100. I think I will aim for 65-75!
I have Wusthof chef and santoku knives of different length that Steven hones at home. LOL! I think that is awesome you can do that and I wonder if we should to tune them up. Plus you are supporting a small business, so yay!
Woohoo – 100 books! What a major accomplishment. I just finished book 153. I need to go check out my Goodreads infographic now. They always try to get me to look at it around Christmas and, come on, Goodreads, you know me by now! I’m going to read at least a few more books by the end of the year!
I’m glad you got so many great gifts for Christmas! And had a nice relaxing day with Steven (minus all the crazy Zoom scheduling).
Thank you! And congrats on your 153!!! That’s so awesome! Yeah, when they sent me the link I was like, aykm? I am going to read 2-3 more books, dofuses 😉
Thanks, me too! I am so excited about all my fun paint stuff, and everything else! We need to plan better next time, even if it’s painful to plan 😉
100 books! That’s impressive. My reading was all over the place in 2020 and I didn’t even hit 30. I just couldn’t focus on books most of the time.
Ugh, so sorry to hear about the black ice spin-out. That’s scary. I am glad we don’t get snow/ice where I live (although I am just an hour drive away from the snowy mountains.
I totally get that. I started quite a few where I read a few pages and decided I was not in the mood. I didn’t even count those as DNFs!
I am glad you don’t too! I was seriously freaked out since I had no idea the ice was there!