Let's see, why haven't I updated? Yesterday there was the day off that made me
want to go back to work for a rest. Up only slightly later than usual, erg 10K,
shower, breakfast, off to the mall to buy holiday music at B&N and return a
sweater. (I love that I can mail-order clothes from J. Crew and then return them
to the store if they don't fit. Shorter line and closer than the post orifice
and no shipping charge.) Over to the bank to get in my safe deposit box,
which would have worked better if I had remembered that you need a key, then to
pick up some more glowsticks for Rudder's art project. (Actually, decorating a
four-man shell for the lake's Christmas Boat Parade. It's not easy to light up an
unpowered boat that's extremely fragile and only about a foot wide. That will need
to be a whole 'nother entry, probably.) Then to the library for audiobooks to erg
to. (Score! Elizabeth Peter's latest Amelia Peabody, which I couldn't decide
whether to buy.) Then to another store to get Rudder's birthday gift, then the
supermarket for ingredients. Home again, to make the World's Easiest Potluck
dishes, a Mexican Layer Dip and an Eggnog Pie. The pie was a new recipe someone on
an email list had posted and it is stupidly easy: mix eggnog, cream, sugar, eggs
and brandy. Pour in piecrust - storebought, of course. I don't *do* piecrust.
Bake. Ta-dah! Tasted good, too, though I certainly should have been a tiny bit
less lazy and beaten the eggs first.
Only problem was that the pie
took longer than expected to bake (My oven's fault, I think) leaving me nearly no
time to nap with Rudder before leaving for the work Christmas party, at my
regrettably-soon-to-be-ex-boss's incredible house way out in the desert. That was
fun, since I like my coworkers. Food, bonfires, and even Frosty and Rudolph
projected onto a sheet for the kids.
This morning we slept
wonderfully, luxuriously late and then stayed in bed even later -- I'm talking
normal non-rower weekend hours, ten 10AM. Good thing, because then I had to erg a
half marathon, 21097 meters, which I did in five minutes less than the last time.
Then I'd have updated but my fingers weren't working so well, and when they'd
rested I had to do all the rest of my Christmas cards. Which brings us down to
now.
And now I'm hungry.
Posted by dichroic at December 6, 2002 04:59 PM