Recent Things
I haven't posted in a while, I know. I've been sort of busy and sort of enjoying the weather and sort of lazy. Dangerous combination, yes.
So what's gone on in the past few days?
Well, to start with we sort of have a surplus of caviar. I know that sounds sort of obnoxious, and it sort of is, but it was also, hmm... not so much a mistake as, hmm, a misjudgement. We went out to J. Sheekey recently (very good seafood place) and James (enabler that he is) suggested very strongly that I try caviar. He also rationalised that if I was going to do it, I should try the good stuff because then I'd really get a good sense of it.
I was powerless to his logic. And, of course, I loved it. James sometimes says if you put a bunch of food in front of me (or clothes, or gadgets or whatever) and tell me to arrange them in order of preference, I will always like them in price order. This has been true since I was like five. Just ask my mom. Anyway, caviar good. Price of caviar bad.
James has a Russian co-worker who was going to be in Moscow last week so he gave him some money to get me some caviar (note: without me knowing). Judging by what 35g cost at J. Sheekey (and the fact that they mark that up), I think he was expecting probably about 200g worth. Ish.
Except that actually, the money he gave his co-worker bought 600g. Yes. I was surprised by more than half a kilo of caviar. Whoops. Or, really, not whoops. Yum. Just... it's a lot. Like, really a lot.
So we had a caviar party. A champagne and caviar party. A champagne, caviar and Settlers of Catan party, even. I guess that last means we're big geeks... which we are, but whatever. There are some pictures here with some other pictures of Cori &Ash, who have been in town for the last week and who we have had the pleasure of visiting with a couple of times. Which is another thing I've been up to.
Last weekend saw a 29-hour workday for James, which was sort of excessive (he came home at 8AM on Sunday morning to shower, then went back to work - BAH!), so Matt and I went to Hugo's and hung out for a while. The camera was brought there, too.
James did join us after a while. This is my favourite picture that was taken that afternoon. Woohoo, go Matt!
The camera comes a lot of places recently, because it's new and I'm trying to get used to it. We got a nifty digital SLR in preparation for our trip to he US (a trip whose itinerary does not include Chicago, for once). We'll be leaving in a month. WOO!
Vacation. Nice.
3 Comments
Hey betheroo. Your bro, here. Caviar, huh? That's just plain bizarre. James, how did you convince her to try it? I can't even get Shannon to try fish or duck!
We'll be up in Michigan for a few days to see grandparents, then it's off to Denver for convertible rental and a drive through the Rockies to Bryce Canyon and the Grand Canyon, then down to LA for a few days of visiting, fun and Disney, then up to Yosemite, then over to SF for more visiting and fun.
It's an American road trip!!!
As for the caviar, Neil, yummmmmm. My only reservation was the price. :)
Profile
Beth Ballingall
food lover : world traveller : gamer : New Yorker : twenty-something : former Londoner : handbag lover : erstwhile soprano : geek
Where are you travelling in the US?