Weekend
Good fun weekend.
Friday I drove out to my parents' place. I had big plans to cook dinner for them. Note, I use the word 'cook' in the loosest sense of the word. My brother and I drove to the food store and picked up: a box with a mix for popovers, ground beef, one can tomatoes, one can kidney beans, and a pouch of spices for chilli. Brother assured me that we had plenty of frozen veggies. Dinner consisted of making the popovers (mix ingredients together, leave for a half-hour, stick in over), defrosting the frozen veggies, and making the chilli (brown meat, add tomatoe sauce and beans and spices, cook for 10 minutes).
They thought it was the best meal they'd had in a really long time. The entire thing (minus the popovers, which had to sit for a while but took only a half-hour to cook) took less than 20 minutes. Sometime my family's approach to food makes me sad.
D then attempted to surprise me by driving down to see me Friday night, which would have worked out well, except that I was at my parents' house, since I wasn't expecting him until later. He figured I'd be there, but thought one of my roommates would be home to let him in. Unfortunately, roommates were not there. Oops. He ended up sitting outside listening to music for a half-hour until I got home (luckily I decided to go home earlier than I usually do).
Most of the weekend involved reading books and sitting around watching TV (or occasionally getting up to watch D play a computer game that he was massively entertained by and I didn't get the point of). Nice relaxation.
Friday I drove out to my parents' place. I had big plans to cook dinner for them. Note, I use the word 'cook' in the loosest sense of the word. My brother and I drove to the food store and picked up: a box with a mix for popovers, ground beef, one can tomatoes, one can kidney beans, and a pouch of spices for chilli. Brother assured me that we had plenty of frozen veggies. Dinner consisted of making the popovers (mix ingredients together, leave for a half-hour, stick in over), defrosting the frozen veggies, and making the chilli (brown meat, add tomatoe sauce and beans and spices, cook for 10 minutes).
They thought it was the best meal they'd had in a really long time. The entire thing (minus the popovers, which had to sit for a while but took only a half-hour to cook) took less than 20 minutes. Sometime my family's approach to food makes me sad.
D then attempted to surprise me by driving down to see me Friday night, which would have worked out well, except that I was at my parents' house, since I wasn't expecting him until later. He figured I'd be there, but thought one of my roommates would be home to let him in. Unfortunately, roommates were not there. Oops. He ended up sitting outside listening to music for a half-hour until I got home (luckily I decided to go home earlier than I usually do).
Most of the weekend involved reading books and sitting around watching TV (or occasionally getting up to watch D play a computer game that he was massively entertained by and I didn't get the point of). Nice relaxation.