With a 3 day weekend in front of us and Tim jet-lagged, we decided that we weren't going to begin any new project and I had a few chapters to catch up on for my book club.
We are reading The Heretics Daughter by Kathleen Kent. Very good read. We started this online Facebook book club and so far it is working really well. There are a couple of us that are administrators that post questions and take care of next steps but otherwise - no official meeting times and once the questions are posted on a Friday, everyone has the weekend to jump in and read and comment as they deem comfortable for them. It works for everyone's schedule and it gets me reading again.
In the meantime, it has been a disaster trying to book a vacation for Tim's birthday. We would be going next week but it all got cancelled . Originally, we were going to Chile then changed it to Hawaii but then Tim finally decided it was going to be Istanbul. We booked the tickets and that's when everything fell apart. We got my mother's psyhic warning call about Turkey and the next minute there's the bombing at the American Embassy, a government travel warning and then finally the authorities finding the body of a NY woman who was killed while vacationing there. Tim was in India during most of this and I emailed with back up options - Costa Rica, Peru, Ecuador - nothing seemed to work out and we ended up just canceling the entire thing. Very disappointing because I am in the midst of winter depression and could really use a vacation.
Meanwhile, I had already planned a birthday dinner with friends for Saturday night. Jeff, Mike, Marni, Mel, Margie and Alex and myself drove over to Delhi to Quartermoon restaurant. This restaurant has been one of our favorites for a very long time and it's unfortunate that restaurants just can't seem to make it up here. He only opens occasionally and since this was Valentines Day Weekend - we were fortunate to have someplace to take birthday boy out to celebrate. Delicious meal - the salad which was a beet salad with Alfredo sauce was delicious with steak and Jonah made Tim his favorite Duncan Hines yellow sheet cake with chocolate frosting. Marni gave Tim a hard time over that one but it was very nice for Jonah to have made it special for Tim . Tim loved it.
I gave Tim the latest little kitchen gadget - an IPad holder and speaker system. We don't need one more thing in this kitchen but this is actually so useful. There's a holder and screen guide for the IPad which holds it upright so you can cook with recipes from the IPad. The holder sits on top of a speaker system where you can listen to the cooking videos from the IPad or you can also connect your IPod into the base and listen to podcasts or music while you are following recipes on the IPad simultaneously. Tim was in hog heaven while cooking on Sunday.
We spent the rest of the weekend, staying warm with 5 degree weather outside and cooking, reading, napping and spending too much time on Facebook. Very nice weekend.
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