Lovely Weekend

Mike and I had a lovely weekend. It was so good that coming to work this morning is extra difficult. I could have just stayed home and kept having a good time. We met up in Newton Corner Friday night and headed into Cambridge for an errand. It was bitingly cold, but good to walk around Harvard Square. Afterwards, we headed into Boston and treated ourselves to dinner at Silvertone. This was our second time to eat at Silvertone. We love the atmosphere (it is crazy busy and very loud) and the food is excellent in both preparation and in price. We both tried the meatloaf. It was good, but not like the one I make...

We got home in time to watch Death at a Funeral (yes, I know we are boring old people who don't stay out all night). It was a dark comedy that was good overall. The characters were funny and the situation was odd. Not a bad way to spend a Friday night.

Saturday was spent wrapping up unfinished projects. We got the trim painted in the media room (we replaced it after wiring in our new speakers months ago), did some drywall work in the bathroom, and replaced the trim around the chimney. The new molding looks very nice thanks to Mike's skill with compound mitering.

We enjoyed a delicious dinner of salad, Ahi tuna steaks, rice, and sugar snap peas. I had a yen for Nutella crepes, so we had those for desert. I didn't use the crepe recipe from that site, I used another one, and they came out great. It was a yummy, easy desert. I haven't had a Nutella crepe since we were in France in 1999!

We attempted to watch Slipstream on Saturday night. Boy, did I hate it. I thought it was just awful, hard to follow, and made me feel creepy. We turned it off after 30 minutes. It has been years since we have stopped a movie and not finished it. Back to Netflix it goes...

Yesterday began with a yummy breakfast (the photo is not mine, but the original cook's). I found a recipe on everybody likes sandwiches for baked eggs in a bun. It took a bit longer to prepare then I anticipated and I would do it a bit different next time, but it was very good. I've learned that part of the difficulty in having a gas stove is that the temperature is never high enough if I follow a recipe. I have to start adjusting for that. I recommend tenting the foil over the buns if you try this recipe (do try it, it was great). Otherwise the gouda just sticks to the foil -- duh, Tracy. We had ham and cream cheese crepes while we waited for the buns to cook, and those were quite good, too. The food day was quite good yesterday. We enjoyed ham and smoked gouda panini's for lunch. I used truffle oil on them which gives a nice flavor.

We ran a few errands, then back home for my pole homework. I seem to have mastered a few moves pretty well. I haven't made a little video yet, but below is one of many about the S Factor, Sheila Kelley's workout that I have been doing.


The rest of the evening was spent in relative relaxation, watching bad TV (Oprah's Big Give and Here Come the Newlyweds)and just hanging out.

Smiles!