Cocktails, lovely cocktails
Feb. 13th, 2012 11:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sienamysticBusy weekend, in a very nice way. On Saturday, we headed over to the kitchen of the people who used to operate my favorite coffee house and cupcakery, and picked up a quart of their absolutely awesome Hungarian Mushroom soup, plus four cupcakes (Bemo picked mocha and coffee, because he's a doofus, and I went with red velvet and chocolate ganache). I would have gotten some macaroons, but they were gone, alas. I then toddled over to my eye doctor to have a check of my new contact lenses. The right one is sitting beautifully, but the left one turns a bit, so he gave me a new one and I'll have to have it looked at in another week. I think not wearing my glasses makes my face a bit more potato-like, but oh, well. I also got to sigh over the nice pair of Ray Ban glasses I almost got, which looked great and would have fit a trifle better, but were fifty bucks pricier than the ones I went with.
Then off to the coffeehouse for some warmth (it was frigid out) and to the local cool used bookstore (they have a handsome pair of cats patrolling, or, more likely, asleep in the shop window) for the owner's annual 29th birthday sale, although I didn't end up buying anything. Which is probably for the best, because I have a big backlog that I'm not getting to.
That night, we went off to a show I had gotten some discounted tickets for a ways back. It's a one-man show the comedian Larry Miller is doing, Cocktails with Larry Miller. It was a fun, low-key, charming show with a lot of laughs. I used to listen to him on the Adam Carolla podcast, but gave it up a while back and haven't missed it, so it was nice to see him even if he wasn't playing Imaginary Road Trip. I would bet the bulk of the audience there doesn't know him from the Carolla podcast - we were among the younger attendees there - but they might be like my mom-in-law, who remembers his slightly older bits like "The Five Stages of Drinking." Actually, she would have enjoyed the show a great deal as well.
Then on Sunday, we went to Omaha to attend a concert of German Baroque lute music, which was lovely, lovely. And after we got home, I made a giant pot of turkey chili which came out really well, so we can fend off the continuing cold weather. What's this with the winter, all of a sudden? I have been spoiled by the unseasonable warmth and feel like I deserve to grumble about it actually being, you know, cold in February. We got more snow today, too.
Next weekend will be equally busy, and it's nice to look forward to fun things on the weekends.
Then off to the coffeehouse for some warmth (it was frigid out) and to the local cool used bookstore (they have a handsome pair of cats patrolling, or, more likely, asleep in the shop window) for the owner's annual 29th birthday sale, although I didn't end up buying anything. Which is probably for the best, because I have a big backlog that I'm not getting to.
That night, we went off to a show I had gotten some discounted tickets for a ways back. It's a one-man show the comedian Larry Miller is doing, Cocktails with Larry Miller. It was a fun, low-key, charming show with a lot of laughs. I used to listen to him on the Adam Carolla podcast, but gave it up a while back and haven't missed it, so it was nice to see him even if he wasn't playing Imaginary Road Trip. I would bet the bulk of the audience there doesn't know him from the Carolla podcast - we were among the younger attendees there - but they might be like my mom-in-law, who remembers his slightly older bits like "The Five Stages of Drinking." Actually, she would have enjoyed the show a great deal as well.
Then on Sunday, we went to Omaha to attend a concert of German Baroque lute music, which was lovely, lovely. And after we got home, I made a giant pot of turkey chili which came out really well, so we can fend off the continuing cold weather. What's this with the winter, all of a sudden? I have been spoiled by the unseasonable warmth and feel like I deserve to grumble about it actually being, you know, cold in February. We got more snow today, too.
Next weekend will be equally busy, and it's nice to look forward to fun things on the weekends.
