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weekend finally

almost time to call it - twenty fifth of july, 2003

"good times for a change. see, the look i've had can make a good man turn bad...so please please please let me let me let me...let me get what i want this time."~the smiths

finally, the weekend has begun. nacho's breaks are mushy, she says...so there's the prospect of driving to sweet home indiana to pick her up and maybe take her back...i don't even know what's going on.

i woke up earlier than i have all week and sort of just got to doing what i needed to do. we've got this dinner thing with toby's boss and co-worker at his boss's house and so i decided to guinea pig them on this new cheesecake recipe i've got...the first cheesecake i've ever attempted. and i made the shell with some coffee n cream oreos and macadamia nuts last night and chilled it all night and then i made the filling all mocha and macadamia nut and it was thick and rich and all creamy and fluffy and i can only assume i did it right because it baked up right and even came out about an inch above the springform pan and then settled back into itself when i put it in the fridge to chill chill chill. and if it turned out well, i'll make another for sunday at hartwood for leftover salmon....a mandarin cashew parmesan couscous picnic with macadamia mocha cheesecake dessert and then, good bluegrassy roots under the summer sky with the very best company.

is it wrong to secretly hope that grady has other plans, though? its like...i had my fill of him last weekend and i just don't want to be irritated this weekend, too.

did i mention that we finally got some insurance that isn't to the moon high (and thats without me on it...new driver, you know)...through erie insurance. and there was this sweet discount, too, if we got renter's insurance. so between the two of us we've got some forty grand covering our stuff. and i have to wonder if thats truly enough because there are all of those christmas ornaments that are older than me in the basement and then, our respective cd collections and my dishes...

my dishes. when i was baking this morning, i had the glass mixing bowls out that my aunt gave me...bowls that i would not otherwise have...and i have to say, i am eternally grateful because they are the most perfect bowls i have ever had to mix ingredients in. and i'm not even just sucking up, here....they are truly perfect...i have so many dishes and so many things in general that i have to wonder if we'd really be covered...

but my point was that i can drive around and be an independant adult now and i'm loving it. i did some grocery shopping last night and it was just...nice...not to have someone with me while i drove there...i guess it sounds silly...i don't begrudge anyone's company (except grady's? i am starting to give myself a complex) but its just free or something with ani all loud and the sunroof and all of the windows open. and they're thinking of cancelling my bus route...so there's this prospect of actually needing a car of my own....blah, blah, blah. in its own time.

anyway, there's dinner tonight, and the YEP music festival tomorrow with erin mckeown and others and then Salmon on sunday at hartwood acres and good friends and good food and gorgeous weather forcasted...

so yeah....i'm off.

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