How to spend a raining cold Autumn day
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cornerofmadnessIn a house with friends drinking mimosas. It was my friend, HD's bridal shower and it was at another friend/coworker's house EB (I actually know THREE EB's at work. I should start tagging them by department). I've never been to EB's house and it is stunning, as in Better Homes and Garden/Martha Stewart stunning. I thought MY parents lived on a big damn hill. It was nothing in comparison. It was a ranch and from the outside it had sort of a Western cabin feel but not 'log'. The was a front and back porch and from one you could overlook the Ohio River. 2 car garage with an attached workshop.
The living room/kitchen/bar was all one giant room. I mean giant. as in there were FOUR 10 person round tables in it without having to move the couch. It had four sky lights the size of a window. The inside did have that woody cabin feel and every piece of it exquisite and refined (and you'd never know she had three cats and two dogs, one of which is a black lab/mastiff boy). EB herself is very refined (history prof). She is the one who introduced me to Silver Bridge coffee (a local organic fair trade company). She is retiring this year and selling. OH how I wish I could afford this house. No it's not where I want to be but it's at the top of the biggest damn hill and isolate. The lower portion of the narrow drive is shared and paved. The road to her place is a goat path that's unpaved and her property is too hilly to be anything but left natural. But to be honest, it's not a road I would want to maintain and one slip in the winter and you're rolling down the hill in your car.
Most of the humanities department was there along with HD's family and future mother in law. I couldn't believe the spread EB laid out. Mimosas were a flowing and she had brie with Spanish almonds, brie with raspberry habanero sauce, cheddar smothered under strawberry preserves, a local soft farm cheese (I love these people) under fig preserves, shrimp cocktail, a half dozen more hard cheeses, equal number of cracker types, crab dip, hummus and salsa. She insisted on 2 plates for all of us. Then said lunch is served. I was like I thought that WAS lunch and some older profs laughed and said 'you've never been to one of EB's parties.' So three kinds of crossiant sandwiches, broccoli salad, Asian salad, pasta salad and then for dessert coffee and cupcakes, chocolate with chocolate center, red velvet with cream center and lemon with raspberry center (my choice). This was a gift in and of itself.
I was rather relieved we didn't play games. Just sat, drank, ate and let HD open her gifts. I was at the table with the Welsh exchange student, fielding questions. You know, some how I thought we got the bridal shower tradition from the UK/Europe but apparently not. We were also discussing the Halloween decorations and I'm like I have a lot of them up (not impressing the head of the Madog Center, the one who sent me to Wales. I could see she DID NOT like that). and decided that Americans are decorators for the holidays perhaps moreso than any other culture.
It was a very lovely afternoon. I did end up going into my office when I had no internet at home since I needed to do stuff with lectures and midterms. It's creepy there when you're alone. Then I lost track of time and was there til nearly 8 pm. oops.
I did have to turn the heat on this morning. Kanda greeted me and put ice cold toe beans on my leg and I thought wonder how cold it is? (the one thing with that memory foam bed, I'm WARM like coals) It smelled like I was living in my toaster.
declutter day 152 item tossed -Dreamcatcher wind chime why kept-Sent by St. Jospeh’s on Pine Ridge why tossed -Who wants a windchime with real feathers on it?
The living room/kitchen/bar was all one giant room. I mean giant. as in there were FOUR 10 person round tables in it without having to move the couch. It had four sky lights the size of a window. The inside did have that woody cabin feel and every piece of it exquisite and refined (and you'd never know she had three cats and two dogs, one of which is a black lab/mastiff boy). EB herself is very refined (history prof). She is the one who introduced me to Silver Bridge coffee (a local organic fair trade company). She is retiring this year and selling. OH how I wish I could afford this house. No it's not where I want to be but it's at the top of the biggest damn hill and isolate. The lower portion of the narrow drive is shared and paved. The road to her place is a goat path that's unpaved and her property is too hilly to be anything but left natural. But to be honest, it's not a road I would want to maintain and one slip in the winter and you're rolling down the hill in your car.
Most of the humanities department was there along with HD's family and future mother in law. I couldn't believe the spread EB laid out. Mimosas were a flowing and she had brie with Spanish almonds, brie with raspberry habanero sauce, cheddar smothered under strawberry preserves, a local soft farm cheese (I love these people) under fig preserves, shrimp cocktail, a half dozen more hard cheeses, equal number of cracker types, crab dip, hummus and salsa. She insisted on 2 plates for all of us. Then said lunch is served. I was like I thought that WAS lunch and some older profs laughed and said 'you've never been to one of EB's parties.' So three kinds of crossiant sandwiches, broccoli salad, Asian salad, pasta salad and then for dessert coffee and cupcakes, chocolate with chocolate center, red velvet with cream center and lemon with raspberry center (my choice). This was a gift in and of itself.
I was rather relieved we didn't play games. Just sat, drank, ate and let HD open her gifts. I was at the table with the Welsh exchange student, fielding questions. You know, some how I thought we got the bridal shower tradition from the UK/Europe but apparently not. We were also discussing the Halloween decorations and I'm like I have a lot of them up (not impressing the head of the Madog Center, the one who sent me to Wales. I could see she DID NOT like that). and decided that Americans are decorators for the holidays perhaps moreso than any other culture.
It was a very lovely afternoon. I did end up going into my office when I had no internet at home since I needed to do stuff with lectures and midterms. It's creepy there when you're alone. Then I lost track of time and was there til nearly 8 pm. oops.
I did have to turn the heat on this morning. Kanda greeted me and put ice cold toe beans on my leg and I thought wonder how cold it is? (the one thing with that memory foam bed, I'm WARM like coals) It smelled like I was living in my toaster.
declutter day 152 item tossed -Dreamcatcher wind chime why kept-Sent by St. Jospeh’s on Pine Ridge why tossed -Who wants a windchime with real feathers on it?
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Date: 2013-10-20 03:41 am (UTC)What's wrong with Halloween? C'mon.
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Date: 2013-10-20 03:44 am (UTC)you can almost hear the Christian rant forming
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Date: 2013-10-20 03:54 am (UTC):D
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