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...and an ordinary, if pleasant, weekend. Except that I really missed ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
therealjae, who's been busy all weekend. I get lonely when she's not around in IM.
wcg came over at noon on Saturday to go hiking with me in Patapsco Valley State Park. We took the Cascade Trail, a 2.2-mile loop that climbs a steep ridge and meanders through the woods for a while, crossing and re-crossing a pretty little stream. There's not much cascade to speak of, after the drought we've been having, but it was a lovely day for hiking. Afterward we had lunch and went shopping for hiking boots for me, although I didn't buy them right away because I'd forgotten my wallet. I had fun looking at the camping gear in the sporting goods store - I love ingenious little folding implements and so forth. (It was probably just as well that I didn't have my wallet, in retrospect.) Bill and I discovered that we'd once owned matching Coleman mess kits, his with the Boy Scout logo and mine with the Girl Scout logo.
A really good dinner, Saturday night. I marinated some boneless chicken breasts in a mixture of olive oil, lemon juice, dijon mustard, thyme, salt and pepper, and copious amounts of minced garlic, and cooked them on the outdoor grill. While they were grilling, I thinned the remaining marinade with chicken broth and boiled it down into an intensely piquant sauce. We also had corn on the cob, steamed broccoli, rosemary-olive oil bread with butter, and one of my favorite local beers.
Bill went home Sunday morning. I went into Misha's and my bedroom intending to cuddle him for just a minute and then shower, and ended up getting two more hours of sleep. We dragged ourselves out of bed around noon (church? Oh yeah, I remember something about how we used to go to church), went back to the sporting goods store for a shoe-buying spree (I got the hiking boots, he got sneakers and water shoes), hit the mall for haircuts (aaahhhhh, short hair), and went out to Centennial Park to end the afternoon in a kayak. Misha had taken a course in kayaking basics there, and wanted to show me some of the strokes he'd learned. There's not much to the lake there, at Centennial Park, but it was nice to be out on the water anyway.
Home. Staring blankly at our computer screens. Playing catch-up in rasseff and alt.poly, vaguely wondering when the last time was that I felt moved to post. A West Wing episode. A seriously mismatched ballgame, allowing me to direct most of my attention to my cross stitch work in progress. Three hands of Chez Geek, which was more fun than I expected it to be, and would probably be even more fun with more than two players.
All in all, a pleasant weekend. I felt kind of lonely, at times, but that wasn't the fault of the men in my life, who went out of their ways to entertain me. For some reason, I just felt at loose ends.
Now, a shortened work week. Wednesday afternoon, we fly to Edmonton. Yay!
therealjae, who's been busy all weekend. I get lonely when she's not around in IM.wcg came over at noon on Saturday to go hiking with me in Patapsco Valley State Park. We took the Cascade Trail, a 2.2-mile loop that climbs a steep ridge and meanders through the woods for a while, crossing and re-crossing a pretty little stream. There's not much cascade to speak of, after the drought we've been having, but it was a lovely day for hiking. Afterward we had lunch and went shopping for hiking boots for me, although I didn't buy them right away because I'd forgotten my wallet. I had fun looking at the camping gear in the sporting goods store - I love ingenious little folding implements and so forth. (It was probably just as well that I didn't have my wallet, in retrospect.) Bill and I discovered that we'd once owned matching Coleman mess kits, his with the Boy Scout logo and mine with the Girl Scout logo.A really good dinner, Saturday night. I marinated some boneless chicken breasts in a mixture of olive oil, lemon juice, dijon mustard, thyme, salt and pepper, and copious amounts of minced garlic, and cooked them on the outdoor grill. While they were grilling, I thinned the remaining marinade with chicken broth and boiled it down into an intensely piquant sauce. We also had corn on the cob, steamed broccoli, rosemary-olive oil bread with butter, and one of my favorite local beers.
Bill went home Sunday morning. I went into Misha's and my bedroom intending to cuddle him for just a minute and then shower, and ended up getting two more hours of sleep. We dragged ourselves out of bed around noon (church? Oh yeah, I remember something about how we used to go to church), went back to the sporting goods store for a shoe-buying spree (I got the hiking boots, he got sneakers and water shoes), hit the mall for haircuts (aaahhhhh, short hair), and went out to Centennial Park to end the afternoon in a kayak. Misha had taken a course in kayaking basics there, and wanted to show me some of the strokes he'd learned. There's not much to the lake there, at Centennial Park, but it was nice to be out on the water anyway.
Home. Staring blankly at our computer screens. Playing catch-up in rasseff and alt.poly, vaguely wondering when the last time was that I felt moved to post. A West Wing episode. A seriously mismatched ballgame, allowing me to direct most of my attention to my cross stitch work in progress. Three hands of Chez Geek, which was more fun than I expected it to be, and would probably be even more fun with more than two players.
All in all, a pleasant weekend. I felt kind of lonely, at times, but that wasn't the fault of the men in my life, who went out of their ways to entertain me. For some reason, I just felt at loose ends.
Now, a shortened work week. Wednesday afternoon, we fly to Edmonton. Yay!
Yay short hair!
I'm so glad your paperwork worked out.
Re: Yay short hair!
Hee. Do you have to ask? The same thing that there is about Australia, apparently!
I'm so glad your paperwork worked out.
Until the birth certificate is in my hot little hand, there's still time for something to go wrong. It's supposed to arrive today. *fingers crossed*
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Eep, well I guess that answers my pending question as to whether y'all were interested in having dinner Wednesday evening with me, Brian and Chris. =) Have a wonderful trip!