I’m going to go perform in public so of course I have butterflies… Peggy has decided to come as well (separate conveyances) and so I asked my folks if she could crash there rather than at Pondside and my folks said yes. (Lots of room at Pondside, but I volunteered to crawl out of bed early to get her to the bus.) Pondside, in case you need to know, is where Dr Filk and his madly filking&recording landpeers live.
Last night I went to Superstore and did a small shop. Forgot bread and cheese. Duh. Jeff picked me up and then I cooked salmon steaks, corn and bok choi, with strawberries, bananas and cream for dessert. Yeah, I got my cooking mojo back after a slack couple of days. Jeff has acquired a barbeque (Paul has kindly agreed to help him fetch it as the MR2 is a tad parsimonious of cartage room) and we are now looking forward to seared meat on the back deck in the hottest days of the year when you don’t want to be cooking indoors anyway – and believe me Vancouver gets smoking hot in the summertime.
I have just finished the first bake and slice of the biscotti I have been requested to bring to Victoria. The ones on the top rack are almost but not burnt – the bottom rack biscuits are pretty close to perfect. I guess I am still not one hundred percent with this stove.
Neglected to mention that Jeff and Mike were much amused, last Friday, that they both liked the MR2 and were making tentative plans for a car swap and drive up to Pemberton or some such place…. hope I can come for the ride! It’s such beautiful country up there.
I was supposed to go with Katie and Suzanne to a comedy show last night in New West, but I was bagged from an emotionally draining day at work (good emotions are draining, too) and knew I had to do a shop and some cooking. Alas that I canna be in three places at once – I wouldn’t have minded seeing Glenn, either.
Watched a good chunk of Movies 101 last night which is essentially a very long and extremely sympathetic interview with Martin Scorcese. Jeff and I kept looking at each other and saying, “Scorcese directed that??” or mentioning the Scorcese movies we’d seen that the other hadn’t. I LOVED the Last Temptation of Christ and Raging Bull. Jeff hasn’t seen either of them, but he has seen New York New York and Gangs of New York. I haven’t seen Taxi Driver. Okay, I guess I have a lot of those movies in my future. Boxcar Bertha is inbound from zip….. Barbara Hershey and David Carradine??? mmmm’kay.
Then some Deadwood. We got up to the part where Woolcott does his nasty deed and Cy bails him out.
Time to get biscotti out of the oven…
the house smells heavenly.
Time to pack…. and feed some butterflies.
