Met a deadline yesterday, early in the day, even. Back home, I'd have celebrated with a treat or walk or entertainment or bar, with that giddy, sleep-deprived, floating feeling.
Here -- as soon as I looked available, the Mom had several tizzies and fits and pleas for sympathy. So, hours of attention and work on her stuff and an expensive Uber trip to a drugstore and checkbook wrangling.
BUT: great dinner last night (a thick steak, perfectly medium rare, smothered in caramelized onions, plus J Pepin smashed baby potatoes, and green beans vinaigrette. AND I finally perfected an imitation of one of my favorite drinks from the Mermaid, where Olya and I used to eat oysters, blissfully (see celebration, treat) in winter months. Oysters, hot 'n' dirty martinis, and crunchy sesame flatbread. I found a very good Martini and Rossi dry vermouth in the liquor cabinet, so -- very refined vodka (chilled, in a chilled glass), a splash of vermouth, brine from green olives, a squirt of Sriracha, a squeeze of lemon, and a small pepperdaw pepper in the bottom of the glass -- one of the Plated boxes had included them, and I hoarded two.
I don't like to drink alone, but I was so tickled that the martini tasted exactly right, finally, that I had two! And so, the AARP Movies for Grownups Awards show, and so to bed.
The Mom calling for me now, because I said we'd go for a walk through the neighborhood yard sale. Door is closed...
On my needles now, and about to be frogged:
This is from a very fine, discontinued yarn -- American cashmere, in a natural color. No dye or color is listed on the wrapper. There are only 437 yards in the skein, which I bought in a thrift shop for $1, with a pair of needles. This is a very narrow scarf using a motif from a book on knitted Estonian lace. I think I'm going to frog it and start again on a wider, more lacy scarf. I love the Estonian patterns, though. Except for the nupps, they're very intuitive and easy to knit.
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Here -- as soon as I looked available, the Mom had several tizzies and fits and pleas for sympathy. So, hours of attention and work on her stuff and an expensive Uber trip to a drugstore and checkbook wrangling.
BUT: great dinner last night (a thick steak, perfectly medium rare, smothered in caramelized onions, plus J Pepin smashed baby potatoes, and green beans vinaigrette. AND I finally perfected an imitation of one of my favorite drinks from the Mermaid, where Olya and I used to eat oysters, blissfully (see celebration, treat) in winter months. Oysters, hot 'n' dirty martinis, and crunchy sesame flatbread. I found a very good Martini and Rossi dry vermouth in the liquor cabinet, so -- very refined vodka (chilled, in a chilled glass), a splash of vermouth, brine from green olives, a squirt of Sriracha, a squeeze of lemon, and a small pepperdaw pepper in the bottom of the glass -- one of the Plated boxes had included them, and I hoarded two.
I don't like to drink alone, but I was so tickled that the martini tasted exactly right, finally, that I had two! And so, the AARP Movies for Grownups Awards show, and so to bed.
The Mom calling for me now, because I said we'd go for a walk through the neighborhood yard sale. Door is closed...
On my needles now, and about to be frogged:
This is from a very fine, discontinued yarn -- American cashmere, in a natural color. No dye or color is listed on the wrapper. There are only 437 yards in the skein, which I bought in a thrift shop for $1, with a pair of needles. This is a very narrow scarf using a motif from a book on knitted Estonian lace. I think I'm going to frog it and start again on a wider, more lacy scarf. I love the Estonian patterns, though. Except for the nupps, they're very intuitive and easy to knit.
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