welcome to the new world

blogs are everywhere. i click here; i click there; i click everywhere. blogs.

…& here i am. iteration number XXXXX, kicking this next phase off with today:

a good day, by any measure. i enjoyed a leisurely morning/afternoon watching netflix deliveries, listened to the soundtrack for the day (johnny cash & the shins – i know, slightly odd mix), cleaned the home (aka basement dungeon), & prepared for the evening.

for the evening, i ate dinner with my step-brother, his girlfriend, & e at belga cafe. eating a pot full of mussels mariniere is always good, especially when there’s a side of pommes frites with some mayonnaise. why do pommes frites taste so damn good with mayonnaise? so much for the waist line i’m still trying to preserve… the belgian waffle with vanilla ice cream for dessert also probably doesn’t help the cause of “operation jelly roll”. but on that note, the belgian waffle was really good, but a tad too much vanilla was on the plate. i think they must add vanilla to the batter of the waffle and that, coupled with the ice cream, seemed a bit much. the little sauce bowl of hot fudge on the side, however, did create the balance that still made it a very fulfilling order.

after, we went to marty’s for drinks. kind of an odd place to go, after our fun little dinner, but it was convenient (right across the street) & it wasn’t crowded. the perfect place to just catch up with jb… i actually had a fascinating conversation with ae, his girlfriend. she fox hunts – i didn’t even know people still did that. so we talked about the culture of fox hunting which was really quite mind-blowing for me. the special outfits, the garb you buy for the horse, the pomp & circumstance… honestly, i felt like i was hearing about some sort of secret old aristocratic tradition that i shouldn’t know about.

anyhow, i seem obsessed with projects these days & most of the evening, admittedly, i spent thinking about what food to prepare tomorrow for dinner, that would also feed me for the following week; creative ideas to promote stswi; nso playing gershwin tunes; & what movies to update my netflix queue with.

this is the life…