1. I left the house today!
I went on a road trip all the way uptown to Beach Bum Bakery where I bought a delicious apple fritter and three Everything bagels. My odyssey continued when I survived the grueling drive to Smelterville for a 20 oz latte to enjoy with the fritter I bought.
I returned home, enjoyed my sweet breakfast, and then girded my loins and went on another journey all the way to Yoke's and bought a few staples and managed to complete the circle of my journey by returning home again.
2. Christy planned and hosted a superb dinner tonight. Paul, Carol, and I arrived at Christy's around 5:30. The family members not taking immunosuppressive drugs enjoyed a great cocktail, the Dark and Stormy. I, too, enjoyed my potable, a bottle of ginger beer.
We snacked on vegetables and with two dips, Original Bitchin' Sauce and a spinach artichoke dip.
Before long, it was time for the main event -- one of my favorite meals ever since I stopped eating jars of Gerber's.
Christy fixed Swiss Steak using a sirloin tip and fixed mashed potatoes. Carol baked and toasted really satisfying homemade buttermilk bread, and I brought a mess of green beans seasoned with crispy bacon, roasted almond slivers, Everything But the Bagel seasoning, and a light coat of bacon grease.
For dessert, Christy fixed a wonderful rice pudding. Not only did I thoroughly enjoy it, I've been thinking that with all the rice I prepare during any given week, I ought to start making rice pudding. Mostly, I tend to use leftover rice to make a rice and egg scramble. I am kind of crazy about dried fruit, though, and the prospect of fixing rice pudding with raisins or dried apricots or other dried fruits has me kind of excited.
3. Once Carol mentioned that she had just watched a documentary movie about Paul Simon, our dinner conversation became focused on Simon's long music career, Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians, my confusion about Natalie Merchant and the 10,000 Maniacs, Mumford and Son and Jerry Douglas, the making of "We Are the World", the movie The Graduate, ABA/NBA legend Connie Hawkins, Graceland, the thorny question of cultural appropriation, and any number of other topics inspired by the mere mention of Paul Simon.
We did not, however, talk about any ways to leave your lover nor did we discuss how we are always slip sliding away.
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