Celebrations
Dec. 25th, 2009 09:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
multipurposegoddessMerry christmas to everyone who celebrates Christmas and Happy Friday to everyone who celebrates Fridays!
Good day yesterday. I slept in a bit, had a nice soak in the tub (I meant to use a Bubble Melt but by the time I got the box o' Lush goodies unpacked enough to find the Melt, the tub was full, puttered around the house, and watched Death at a Funeral. What a strange little movie. Funny, but odd.
Headed over to my parents' in the afternoon and helped my mom finish up making dinner. We had a vegetarian "Winter Solstice Pie", which was delicious - a wintry mix of vegetables (turnips, sweet potatoes, brussel sprouts, mushrooms, I think some other things) in what turned ot to be a tasty vegan crust. Said crust didn't really have any structural integrity, but it sure tasted good, and we ended up just using it for the bottom of the pie so by the time we were scooping out the slices and eating it the lack of structural integrity did not matter at all. Also a fruit salad (didn't notice when we were discussing the menu beforehand that we were having veggie pie and fruit salad...) that my mom always makes for occasions - simple but yummy. Then my dad made a fire since it was NOT a Spare the Air day quite yet (today is), and we sat in front of the fire and chatted and they gave me some little gifts and my mom opened one of hers that was a collection of blooming teas - those ones that open up into a flower shape when you add hot water. So she got out a see-through teapot and we made a pot of that - white tea with peach flavor, mostly tastes like peaches but by the bottom of the pot got some tannins and tea-flavor. I had previously given my mom a train-shaped muffin tin, so she had used that to make a chocolate cupcake train, which was very cute and also tasty. Also lime pudding, made of the limes from her backyard, so good.
Henry's flight was delayed a bit by weather, not as bad as it might have been, but we had some extra time before I needed to leave to pick him up. So we played a few rounds of Geographic Pursuit, which sounded cumbersome and comlicated when we read through the rules, but was actually quite fun. Mom won by a lot.
I went and picked up Henry, leaving the airport with him and his bags around 11:30. Traffic was not bad getting home, but we were both hungry so we went in search of an open fast-food restaurant. Poor guy at Jack-in-the-Box was still working and provided us with sustenance, which we brought home and ate while watching the season premiere of Scrubs (my DVR is quite full...), and then blessed sleep.
We'll be off to see Sherlock Holmes pretty soon, and then Avatar the IMAX 3D Adventure this afternoon. With luck, there will be someplace handy to the theater to have lunch at in between (how's that for ending with prepositions?)
It is nice to have the Henry home. Now I have to adjust to sharing the comforter again, but my breakfast and coffee just appeared for me this morning, and that's always nice. I've gotten some good leads on working through our Stuff - Behavioral Couples Therapy and Interpersonal Neurobiology both sound excellent. I hope we can find practitioners that are not too far away. After the holidays, no doubt.
Walter is very happy to have both his monkeys back. The cats seem pleased as well, though they are less demonstrative about it.
Good day yesterday. I slept in a bit, had a nice soak in the tub (I meant to use a Bubble Melt but by the time I got the box o' Lush goodies unpacked enough to find the Melt, the tub was full, puttered around the house, and watched Death at a Funeral. What a strange little movie. Funny, but odd.
Headed over to my parents' in the afternoon and helped my mom finish up making dinner. We had a vegetarian "Winter Solstice Pie", which was delicious - a wintry mix of vegetables (turnips, sweet potatoes, brussel sprouts, mushrooms, I think some other things) in what turned ot to be a tasty vegan crust. Said crust didn't really have any structural integrity, but it sure tasted good, and we ended up just using it for the bottom of the pie so by the time we were scooping out the slices and eating it the lack of structural integrity did not matter at all. Also a fruit salad (didn't notice when we were discussing the menu beforehand that we were having veggie pie and fruit salad...) that my mom always makes for occasions - simple but yummy. Then my dad made a fire since it was NOT a Spare the Air day quite yet (today is), and we sat in front of the fire and chatted and they gave me some little gifts and my mom opened one of hers that was a collection of blooming teas - those ones that open up into a flower shape when you add hot water. So she got out a see-through teapot and we made a pot of that - white tea with peach flavor, mostly tastes like peaches but by the bottom of the pot got some tannins and tea-flavor. I had previously given my mom a train-shaped muffin tin, so she had used that to make a chocolate cupcake train, which was very cute and also tasty. Also lime pudding, made of the limes from her backyard, so good.
Henry's flight was delayed a bit by weather, not as bad as it might have been, but we had some extra time before I needed to leave to pick him up. So we played a few rounds of Geographic Pursuit, which sounded cumbersome and comlicated when we read through the rules, but was actually quite fun. Mom won by a lot.
I went and picked up Henry, leaving the airport with him and his bags around 11:30. Traffic was not bad getting home, but we were both hungry so we went in search of an open fast-food restaurant. Poor guy at Jack-in-the-Box was still working and provided us with sustenance, which we brought home and ate while watching the season premiere of Scrubs (my DVR is quite full...), and then blessed sleep.
We'll be off to see Sherlock Holmes pretty soon, and then Avatar the IMAX 3D Adventure this afternoon. With luck, there will be someplace handy to the theater to have lunch at in between (how's that for ending with prepositions?)
It is nice to have the Henry home. Now I have to adjust to sharing the comforter again, but my breakfast and coffee just appeared for me this morning, and that's always nice. I've gotten some good leads on working through our Stuff - Behavioral Couples Therapy and Interpersonal Neurobiology both sound excellent. I hope we can find practitioners that are not too far away. After the holidays, no doubt.
Walter is very happy to have both his monkeys back. The cats seem pleased as well, though they are less demonstrative about it.
