Great Sunday

I had a great day yesterday. I woke up at 6:30AM because John was about 3 inches from my nose staring at me. He has jet lag and had already been up for about and hour and a half. "Want to get up and go to Starbucks?" he said with a grin. And we did.

It was really great walking around that early in the morning on a Sunday - the streets were pretty deserted and it was crisply cool (read: cold). We were at Starbucks for about an hour or so before John started making me anxious by describing all of the wonderful food in the new cook book he bought while in England, Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook. So, we made a list, checked it twice, left Starbucks and headed home to check the supplies we had on hand.

John wanted to make stock (as in chicken broth that you use to make other things taste good) and pies. I wanted to make mushroom soup for dinner. We both wanted to drag our snowboards out and get them tuned-up. Down we went to the tiny storage locker we have off of the parking garage to find the large stock pot we once had and our snowboards. We came up empty on the pot, but we did find the snowboards and some accessories and some Christmas stuff.

OK - after the grocery store, I took the snowboards to get tuned-up while John pulled the meat off of all of the chicken drumsticks. Then we made portable sandwiches and headed downtown (on foot of course) to catch an early movie. We saw National Treasure. It wasn't that great. After a quick tour through Urban Outfitters (looking at very cool irreverent X-mas cards and Jesus action figures) we went home.

The cooking commenced to the tune of my mellow Sunday play list. John chopped, mixed, rolled, and simmered while I read for a while. He is trying out different pie crust recipes. After he had 2 pies in the oven, I started the mushroom soup - great stuff. Turns out I was leaning down HARD on the lid to the blender while pureeing the hot mushroom liquid, but not not hard enough; mushroom spewage all over the kitchen. :) It was awfully good soup though.

I don't know how the pies turned out - I resisted and John took all 3 (2 pumpkin and 1 pecan) to work. Mom - if you read this - send me pecans when you find some. They are way expensive up here.

Tonight I have a team meeting at 7 - here - so I need to tidy up a bit. Then I need to work on my paper about the Medico Company who is trying to decide if they should buy a CRM package, or add-ons to their current ERP system, or both, or neither.

TaTa for now.