Today is the first day in a long time that we actually didn’t do anything at all related to work. We started the day having coffee with the same friends we have coffee with every Sunday. After that, we planned to go to the gym and exercise, but when we got there we realized that we had left our gym clothes in the van. ( The power steering gave out in our van again on Friday and we are borrowing a car until Tuesday.) Yeah, we could’ve gone and picked them up but we basically decided we’d just be lazy. So, instead, we went to pet and feed my daughter’s cat since they are gone.
Then, on to the grocery store to pick up a couple more things so we could make chicken stock. Not as if we don’t already have a truckload of soup, since I made beef mushroom barley soup yesterday. And was that ever tasty. I hope I can remember what I did to it, so I can make it again. I think it was the leeks that made the difference.
The rest of the day, besides making the chicken soup, and in between snacking on the chocolate stash, we did a few things around here, nothing too strenuous. We continued our movie marathon by watching the Woody Allen movie, Scoop, which was not particularly good. Match Point was far better.
Since we had/have nothing planned for Christmas Eve, we didn’t want to get into feeling too sorry for ourselves so we made a nice, if basic, dinner of salmon with a wasabi sauce, sugar snap peas, and wild rice. Then we watched the new Superman movie. Or, rather, C. watched it. I was not that excited about it, so I only listened to it.
Tomorrow, we plan to do Jewish Christmas with friends, which means yet another movie,The Good Shepherd and Chinese Food. Finding a restaurant open on a Christmas which falls on a Monday was not easy. But we are going to Sun Wah, which is totally lacking in ambiance. But it has good food, and that’s what counts, right?
Not a very exciting day, but also not a terrible day because, the relaxing, we really need that.