Almost A Day Off

It’s Sunday!! That’s the first day off of the week. Well, at least the first potential day off of the week. Today I had a few things to do. Like make breakfast for Emily and see her out the door to school. She has work. Then I read the paper. While I read the paper, I started on laundry. 4 loads. Changed the bed and towels. Poop patrol. Ironing. Washed and waxed my car, which looks fantastic. Had lunch. Finally over. Spent some time cruising the real estate sites. Did the dishes. Is all this sounding like a day off? No it’s not.

Emily’s one hour in class turned into three hours. No problem, l had lots to do. When she finally got home we had to go to Michaels, the junk merchant, not the son, to get some crap for her class she could not live without. Then off to the discount grocer for a few items we can’t live without. Sure. Then off to another store for the same. Normal Sunday.

Tonight we are meeting Marika “half way” to her house. We have her cat and a few sundry items of hers that have collected here since the big vacay. So at about 5?we loaded up the cat, in it’s carrier, and the other crap and went off to Sonoma. We are meeting at a Tapas place near the square. Actually, I am the one who picked the place.

We were supposed to meet at 630 but Marika was late. Held up at work. So Em and I went into a store across the street from the restaurant just to kill time. Spent a few minutes in there, found a Christmas gift even. W not back to the restaurant. Ordered a couple glasses of sangria and relaxed. Read through the menu, decided what we wanted, had another drink, waited for Marika. We were sitting at the bar since no tables were available. We waited for Marika so long that a table opened up. We moved to the table. 2 minutes later, the kid arrived.

We ordered cocktails. Yay Sunday night!! They did not have an extensive array of cocktails. Maybe two. We each had an excellent Daiquiri.

Waitress showed up quickly probably cuz she had been by several times for an order. We ordered seven items. Some squid, duck, goat stew, covered toast, etc. food was very good. As was service. And e were all hungry and made short work of it all. No more wine or cocktails, it is a school night. We did have dessert. Marika and I had the rice pudding and Emily had whatever chocolate dessert they had to offer. By the time we were done, all of us were full to the top. So we paid and went for a walk on the plaza to get the food moving through us. Turned out to be too cold for Emily so we decided to call it a noght and we all headed home. We moved Vlad and her crap to her car first, of course.

We drove home directly as did Marika. We unloaded at home after an uneventful drive. Time for an early bedtime. It’s 930. Rich food and booze makes us sleepy.