Month: June 2019

It isn’t. It I think you know that already. Slept in till 830. Yes. I am not joking. I am tired. I took melatonin in the middle of the night. Wasn’t sleeping. But it got me to 830. Nice.

Just a few quick chores to finish today. I had to make a marinade for the yellowtail I had in the fridge. That’s done. Needed to eat breakfast and read the Sunday paper. Done and done. Made a rhubarb trifle for our dessert. As mentioned, Emily got me rhubarb and Ed K sent a recipe. Same day. Had to make it.

See not much going. Shower. Got dressed. Then the big chore. Washed my two cars. And Emily’s GLK. That took forever. About 4 hours. Now done. Except for the laundry and changing the cat box. Then I was done. I sat and relaxed.

Emily, during all these chores, was in town She is getting ready for year end of school. This week. So she is not helping out at home. Loser. I do all the work.

At about five I made cocktails. Rye Manhattans for her and me. Mostly me. They were very good. Most drinks I make are. Em brought out the snacks too. I was hungry from all the work I did. And she was reaching for snacks. Whatever.

Drinks done and now I am watching a basketball game I could care less about. Not much less. But it’s on and I’m now sitting. Emily is doing more school crap. Not sure what and really do not care.

Randy is making dinner tonight. Pasta bolognese. Smells good. I am ready. There is a bottle of wine as well. Soon.

Dinner has destroyed my stomach. It was very good. Better. We are stuffed. And we still need to have the rhubarb trifle I made this am. It’s gonna be awesome!!!!!

And it is. First time I made it. Have a few tweaks for next time which should be in Maine next month. I will be seeing Ed Kadunc and he sent me the recipe. So he gets some. Seems fair.

I am in pain from stuffing myself with all this rich food and drink. So is Emily. And Randy. No surprise when you make like a hog.

Bad TV is on. I am not watching. It’s bedtime. Early tonight. I am ready.

Up late today. See, Saturday is not all work. Slept in till 7. Crazy time.

The gd Dog up early many times during the night. How does he know what day it is? Jaxon can be very annoying. Best part, he wakes up Emily and not me to go out. I guess he knows she will be nice to him. I am a little mean if woken.

So, the paper arrived. 2nd day in a row. I am buying a lotto ticket.

Our breakfast, though it’s a weekend, is the same as any weekday. I made gruel for Emily and I made myself nastycakes and out yogurt on top. Sweetened with maple sugar. Same thing I had Friday. Seems like we only have special breakfast when we have guests or go out. Otherwise, feh.

Today is a huge day. Huge. Say it like Trump. We are driving to Petaluma to get the last of Marikas stuff out of Mary’s house where she lived most of last year. I swear this is the last trip for this reason at least. The trip is usually about an hour and thirty or forty five. Today it took 3 hours. That’s right. And I can say the traffic was bad, just very consistently slow. Kinda on the miserable side of trips.

Got there and cleaned out the leftovers in ten minutes. Quick. We hoped the return trip would be faster. Opposite direction and it’s later. Sounds good, right? No. Traffic bad going east.

There were two stops on the way home, scheduled at least. First place was Westerbeke Ranch. That’s Emily’s yoga retreat hang out. She had bought a gift for the master gardener working there. Emily goes so often to the Ranch that she knows everyone. So a pit stop. I got a chance to look around the grounds. Nice place.

The other stop was a fast errand on the way back. A stop at Sams Club for hot dogs and cupcakes. Sounds great. Except, cupcakes were just for the kindergarten class year end party and the dogs were our lunch. And not very good. Costco has far better.

The drive continues. I got a call, Emily’s new watch is ready at the jewelers. Now another stop. Only slightly out of the way. 10 minutes. I have been looking forward to seeing the watch as customized by Sharif. It’s a pre owned Rolex to which they added a jeweled bezel and a red watch face. It is dazzling. She likes it. I think that’s good for an off the cuff purchase. While there the boss made me a couple cups of Turkish coffee. They do an excellent job. Thick black coffee, sweetened strongly too. Very hot in the little tiny cups you would expect. I like it. And I was tired which the clerk noticed. Smart people.

I texted pics of the watch to all who may want to see it. Bob texted back to come by. He and Renee live just a few minutes away, and in our direction of travel. So we stopped off. And did not have a cocktail or wine. Or food. All offered. But the day is long and we is tired. I just wanted to show them what Emily got. Bling bling.

Drive back home. No stops. Direct. It can be done.

Home. Made dinner. Open face sandwiches, meat and cheese on a baguette. Randy joined us. He is our Kato Kaelin. We had dessert too. Left over ice cream cake from Emily’s birthday. It was slightly freezer burned. Ate it anyway. Hey, it’s ice cream.

I watched a little murder porn on tv. I thought Emily was coming back to watch too. Turns out she rudely went to bed. Without me. That’s not nice. It’s not as if I watch any worthless tv. I just go along. So I went to bed too. So there. And gave her shit for not saying anything.

I should mention the weather. We have been getting weird storms. Now the weather service has switched to TV warnings so we can’t ignore the weather. Thunderstorms. Wind. Right outside my door. Kinda crazy. But it’s been on and off a couple days. I ignore it. But it is a nice show.

Bed. Yes I went to bed. In spite of the light show outside. I am tired. As only an all day drive can tire you. I read a little and fell asleep

Finally. I don’t really like Fridays I just like the week coming to an end.

I got my Wednesday workout in today. Remember lousy Wednesday? It sucked. But I have made up for it today. A little bit.

Workout was great and probably better than it would have been on Wednesday. At least it felt good.

Usual crap at home and off to work. I had a normal trip down the hill.

I have found all week I really lack the motivation to do anything. I am bored and will go do anything else instead of my job to keep my interest up. Yesterday I went to the jewelry store which went awry and Emily has a new watch. She went into the jewelers today after work, I met her, and she decided she wanted something different. So Emily. She picked out a watch totally different and more expensive and the jeweler was happy to help.

I had received a text earlier today, around 3, Bob had to leave his house all of a sudden because gf Renee has a house buyer coming over. All of a sudden. The outtake? Renee says get lost for a couple three hours, go have a drink. My treat. Bob called everyone he knows and invited them out “Renee’s treat!”

So after the jewelers excursion we headed to Mikunis for a cocktail. Or two. Most everyone was gone by then except Bob and Renee. She was still buying. So we restarted the party for another hour. Spicy edamame, tempura, margaritas, nice shit. Haven’t seen these two since Monday. You remember the Osso Buco? Those two.

Turns out Bob was driving his new car. A 10 year old Dodge cargo van with very low miles. Got it for a steal. This week. He already has two people who want to buy it and he will profit $3k. Nice. I told him he is not old enough for a totally uncool car. Reselling for profit is ok though.

We headed uphill. Where the air is thinner. And our house is located.

We stopped for dinner at Burger & Cream. Emily had a large choc chip shake, and I a large root beer freeze. No actual food. Just ice cream for dinner. I think this is a vision of the future. At least my future. The ice cream was so large I had to really work at it to finish it. But I managed. Emily was unable to finish hers and was actually complaining. When I was a kid I would have had ice cream for dinner every day if mom let me.

The rest of the evening was the usual. A little TV and off to bed. An exciting Friday night.