Friday, December 12, 2008
I had sardines for breakfast again, but I was still craving salt cod and daydreaming about fish. Then Dean called me from MMK and asked if I'd meet him at our hangar to help put Tango away after his treatments, and we could have dinner somewhere near there afterward. So I suggested Tango restaurant, this new place in Glastonbury. They now have a website, so I finally got to quickly check the menu and see if they have any vegetarian stuff. Driving to Hartford, I twice saw Tango up in the air flying low above me: once when I was about to turn onto Rt. 9 South from 372, and again when I was on 91 driving past the Glastonbury exit on the way to Brainard. He looked black and shiny up there with the dark cloudy sky and big white full moon.
Posted at 8:34:00 PM by Laura W. Petix.
When we got to Tango restaurant, guess what was Friday's special dish??? Bacalao Arostido, aka baccala, aka salt cod!!!!! Obviously, I ordered it. It was great, with delicious wide homemade pasta. (I think Tango should have a squid ink pasta dish, because they'd do a good job!) Everything we got was really good. I also got the Ensalada Tango, and we shared a raspberry tiramisu for dessert. It was the best tiramisu, really light and fluffy! (The raspberry element was small; it didn't mess up the fundamental nature of the tiramisu.) We like Tango!!!
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Ak. I love LOVE "The Friendly Beasts." (Which I had never heard of before this year!) I keep playing it a million times on my iPod. My favorite verse is the sheep one.
Posted at 10:08:00 PM by Laura W. Petix.
Update: so far I'm still leading in the Christmas Card Competition, 5-0! I forgot to include Susie's beautiful advent calendar card in my previous count, because I had it on the shelf above my monitor, rather than downstairs with the other ones. And then a new card came each day, both today and yesterday.
Posted at 9:49:00 PM by Laura W. Petix.
It's raining tonight, but I think it's too warm for ice. Rain yesterday, too. It was warm. Good for our long drive. Today I stayed home and Thursdayed and paper-cuttered and wrapped and wrote cards and hemmed Dean's Christmas PJs. He's getting two new pairs this year because both the travel and home ones are worn out, but when I went to hem the second pair, it didn't need hemming! It was already the exact right length. Bizarre. They're the same kind and everything, too, and I always have to hem them. Good thing some tall dude didn't get that pair!
I didn't eat any ackee & cod today (unfortunately), but I did have Brunswick sardines with lots of bones for breakfast, since it was the closest thing in my possession.
Wow, I dreamed that I really really wanted some Ackee & Cod, so I asked this guy to make it for me, and he started to do so but then I realized he didn't have any salt cod. But I had my own fish, so I spent ages tearing it into strips and pouring salt all over it. Most of the dream was just me tearing the fish meat into a big pile of super-long strips, like a newspaper.
Posted at 1:23:00 PM by Laura W. Petix.
Tuesday, December 09, 2008
I utterly failed to meet my deadline to catch up on my trip posts (and I didn't put any ornaments on my tree), but I finished almost all my Christmas cards and almost all my Christmas shopping, well ahead of schedule! Today I went shopping with Dean's mom at Evergreen Walk, and it was pretty fun. I managed to find out something nice she wanted at L.L. Bean & I snagged it and bought it, so now I won't have to get her a gift card. And, she bought something pleasantly weird for me at Anthropologie, and it's actually a clothing item that actually fits. Most of of their clothes, which look very cool and unique on the hanger, look completely awful on me. You need curves to pull them off. Also, I think Anthropologie has trick mirrors in the dressing room (I hate that), because they make me look like an animated skeleton and the lighting was also death-warmed-overesque. Shudder. I know I'm scrawny, but not that bad!
Posted at 9:18:00 PM by Laura W. Petix.
We only got two Christmas cards so far, but both of them were for me! Dean tried to make up ridiculous stipulations about the second one, like "cards that smell like grapes don't count," and "Prince cards don't count" (he claims the front of the card has Prince on it, and I'm not talking about the Prince of Peace) but I ignored him, of course.
Sunday, December 07, 2008
It's snowing!
Posted at 12:31:00 AM by Laura W. Petix.
