This Weekend... Very Busy

[gnomi]

So, here's how the weekend happened:

Friday

-- Worked from home
-- Had morning doctor's appointment
-- After work, finished food for dinner (did most of cooking on Thursday, but was afraid there wasn't enough food, so added a dish at almost the last minute)*
-- Set up for Shabbat dinner and Shabbat in general
-- Sent mabfan off to shul (he had yahrtzeit for his mother on Shabbat) about 10 minutes after he got home from work
-- Lit candles just a few minutes into the 18 minutes
-- Set table and then read and waited for guests to arrive
-- Guests came in waves, until all eight of us (including mabfan and the two friends meeting him at shul) had arrived
-- Dinner filled with fun conversation and followed by Settlers of Catan
-- Eventually, sleep

Saturday

-- Up early for shul
-- Really enjoying shorter walk (with significantly less hill) to shul
-- mabfan and I sponsored kiddush in honor of his mother's yahrtzeit, and people thanked us for the extras (red peppers and clementines) we had
-- Home for lunch after shul
-- Very brief nap
-- Back to shul for Mincha and Shalosh Seudot and Ma'ariv because mabfan was the speaker at Shalosh Seudot
-- Home after Ma'ariv, with two potential events to attend
-- In the end, decided to attend neither event. Instead, unpacked some more boxes of books and relaxed.
-- Sleep relatively early for a Saturday night, but we needed it.

Sunday

-- Up around 8:30
-- Unpacked more boxes of books. We most likely need additional bookcases (this is not particularly a surprise)
-- Out to Harvard St. to do errands and then meet a friend for lunch
-- Birthday party for friends' one-year-old daughter
-- Out to Lexington for dinner with relatives. Discovered on way from Alewife to house in Lexington that there had been illness in house earlier that day. Decided to not have dinner in Lexington.
-- Returned to Brookline and had dinner at Rubins, as mabfan was in the mood for chicken, and our place is set up milchig.
-- Home after dinner
-- Got things ready for going to work on Monday
-- Watched some TV
-- Cursorily watched Superbowl (mostly for commercials)
-- Sleep after end of game

*Final menu for Friday night dinner was: roasted garlic to go on challah; starter of black bean and chocolate chili from Moosewood; main course of Mexican Lasagna, introverte's cheese kugel, and vegetable stew from Moosewood; dessert of chocolate chip cookie bars and vanilla ice cream.

Comments

[beadattitude.livejournal.com]

Oh honey. I keep forgetting you've moved. ::pats your weary head::

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

We're doing pretty well with the unpacking. The kitchen, living room, dining room, and our bedroom are all usable (and mostly unpacked; some stray boxes remaining and art to hang, but otherwise in good shape). The other two rooms, however... box city. But we unpack a couple of boxes every day, and that makes me feel like there's progress.

[530nm330hz.livejournal.com]

So do I need to learn to play Settlers of Catan to be one of the cool kids?

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Nah; I don't actually play. We have a semi-regular Settlers Shabbat dinner group, and the others play while I shmooze.

[aunt-becca.livejournal.com]

I played it once. It was fun, but I liked the shmoozing better :)

[eireangus.livejournal.com]

Wow, I love the level of detail! :-)

I am glad all went well this weekend. I am looking forward to seeing you guys soon! :)

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Because I'd talked about the menu last week, I thought it was only nice to post what I ended up going with. And I feel like I've barely said anything of substance here for a while, so I figured I'd be thorough. :-)

When are you coming next to Boston? I know it's sometime in February, but I forget when.

[eireangus.livejournal.com]

Hi Nomi,

I am the same way, as I really would like to post more but I just don't seem to find the time. I will be in Boston from February 13 (arrive in the morning) until Tuesday, February 17th. I will give more details later, but I am hoping that maybe we can get together. It's a quick trip, but I will be back for a longer visit in April.

[malkaesther.livejournal.com]

Wow, that is busy.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

::nods:: We've had a number of very busy weekends recently.

With luck, we'll be able to be less busy soon.

[sorek.livejournal.com]

"-- Dinner filled with fun conversation and followed by Settlers of Catan


Yay Settlers!

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

I'm not the biggest fan, but some of our friends are, and I like the congenial atmosphere.

[violetcheetah.livejournal.com]

i somehow pictured the settlers of catan being>/i> dinner.

"donner, party of 80."

[arib.livejournal.com]

Well, there's all of those sheep...

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Baaaa! (Humbug)

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

I'm not so sure they're overly tasty...

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

"set up for milchig" permanently, or temporarily?

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

For now. We unpacked the milchig dishes first, and in general I cook more milchigs than fleishigs. But we have fleishig dishes/pots and pans, and I cook fleishigs every couple of months or so.

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

Wow. I admire your ingenuity... the only time I do milchigs on Shabbos is if there's a 3-day yontif combo, to mix things up a bit. My milchig repertoire is pretty limited.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

I have a number of fancier milchig dishes that I use for Shabbat and yom tov. It started the year mabfan was writing his novel, and we found we liked being mostly milchig.

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

Feel like throwing me some ideas? Maybe I'll be inspired.