Does everyone know about this? I looked it up and it's not a new thing, but totally never noticed it before. Yesterday my sisters and I went to help at a soup kitchen in the morning. It was really funny - more than half the other volunteers who didn't work there were here from another country. Danielle had a long talk with a Canadian girl who's a scientist. Alex entertained a little girl who was there with her Korean mother. We were there when they were prepping food. It was nice to work with genuinely kind people. They were totally cool with sneaking food to people who showed up early, and still told them to come back later for the full meal.
When we went to Laurie and John's, I brought flowers because when Josh called Laurie to ask, she said that's what her table was missing. It was a little weird being at a dinner with my boss, but Arnie was pretty cool about it. We played Kinect on Xbox while we were there - that was really funny. My face hurt from laughing so much.
John and I had a long talk about the traveling thing. He suggested I go with the scanner, saying even if it's more radiation than an hour of flying or whatever, since I've barely been exposed to any radiation aside from a cell phone this won't cause me cancer. "Plus I pity anyone who touches you when you don't want to be touched, and I don't want to have to bail you out of jail." So yeah.
Laurie pulled me aside to say she overheard Alex talking to one of her friends about the soup kitchen experience. Apparently Alex told the woman, "Canadian people are so adorable; they like to pretend they're from a whole other country!"*
During dinner people were talking about Black Friday and how they hoped there wasn't such big crowds that anyone would die from being trampled this year. Danielle and Alex decided they wanted to go and talked me into being crazy on the way home. We looked up a whole bunch of deals online, and then I set my alarm for 3:30 in the morning. I now have four dresses - two for warm weather and two for cold weather. I got gray ones, figuring if they fade they won't look weird. Going into stores you've never been in before is a little overwhelming on a Black Friday. I had no idea Espirit had dresses before yesterday.
Alex got three new pairs of jeans at Old Navy. We all got the same sweater, but in different colors. Josh was so excited that I got brown instead of black. Dani got the black one - we may wind up trading, so he shouldn't get too excited. We wear the same size shoe so we each got a pair of flats, and I am really pleased with our purchases. Alex doesn't know it but Danielle got her Christmas present today.
When we got home I made caponata soup and polenta. Then I took a nap because getting up in the middle of the night from a dead sleep is really harsh. Josh asked me to make a fancy meal tonight so I sent him food shopping and served soup and then cornish game hens. I'm not sure if that really goes together, but oh well. It tasted good and that's what matters.
*Yes, Alex knows Canada is technically another country. But it was agreed long ago among the three of us that if you can drive there and they speak English, that doesn't really count.
4 comments:
Just recently started reading your blog. You are adorable.
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You ARE adorable, and you sound like a terrific cook! It's a wonderful thing to cook a real meal "at your age." When I was late teens/early twenties I was the only one in my group of friends who actually cooked dinner-everyone else went for fast food all the time. Now, 35 years later, I'm still cooking all the time.
glad you found some dresses!! Totally agree with the Canada thing lol brilliant logic!!
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