Thursday, December 06, 2007

Been sitting on my butt almost ALL DAY...

working! Wow, what a concept! But it's been productive. I've had official verification that I'm not going nuts and that this project is probably one of the most complex of its type. Good one to start with after staying at home for THREE YEARS!!!!

So frankly I'm a little brain dead, since it's been about 9 straight hours of slogging through data and studies. I've got to do another couple hours tonight. We're getting there... I'm just really busting my butt to try to make room for other stuff. Like birthdays and Christmas.

And a Backyardigans edible Christmas decoration cooking lesson with G and her best buddy A and my pal Bec. That's what we did yesterday morning. It was a nice reprieve from the work-filled days just previous. After the class we did some grocery shopping together. It's amazing how two little almost 3 year old girls sitting together in a grocery cart, giggling and tossing tins of guacamole and mexican salsa into the back, can bring a perma-smile to your face. Just before naptime meltdown. It was loads of fun while it lasted! But I did get a surprise tomato out of the deal; G slipped one into my bag of apples when I wasn't looking and I didn't see it until I started putting things away in the fridge!

And the birthday dinner for the man last night. Terra restaurant, a jewel up in our neck of the woods. As expensive as many a jewel, but then not every day is a special birthday. Tomato & boccacini salad before a seafood grill platter for me; wasabi crusted seared tuna and a AAA filet for my guy. Of course, he had to have his Grey Goose Vodka martini, a Niagara Pinot Noir with dinner (which he shared with me), and a Grand Marnier to round it off after the lovely flourless chocolate torte complete with birthday message and candle (but no tacky clap-happy rendition of the Birthday song, thank goodness). That was a nice way to spend yesterday.

So such is my mundane life right now. Squeezing out a pathetic little post, for what it's worth.

8 comments:

Gina said...

Dinner sounds wonderful. What a lucky guy he is. I love the description of Giselle and Abby in the grocery cart. Three year olds are such fun. I miss those years. (not enough to do it again though)

Jocelyn said...

What a great dinner. I was just staring at a bottle of Grand Marnier tonight. But I drank a Cosmo.

Now I have the Backyardigans song in my head. Thanks for that.

Family Adventure said...

Love Terra. Love, love, love tuna, too.

Glad you had a good time. Hang in there!

Heidi :)

Badness Jones said...

Oh! Dinner sounds wonderful...glad you had a good time. Happy Birthday Karen's man!

(Ian, I know, but we get referred to as "the wife" so often, I think a little turnabout is fair play!)

Curiosity Killer said...

Dinner sounds grrrrreat. I'm sure he loved every little bits of it. Happy birthday to Ian!

Anonymous said...

Karen--we had a great day, too. Sent you some pics of our day you described. Glad the rest of the day with Ian's b-day dinner went well. Sounds like y'all had a great time! Mmmm Terra...

Unknown said...

Somehow your blog title "A Day in the Life" seems so à propos!

I love the little slices of life you bring to your blog.

BTW, we're going to try to get to TO again soon. I want to go shopping with you and Little G! ;) LOL!

Don Mills Diva said...

Mmmm - that dinner sounds awesome. Pretty much my perfect meal. Happy birthday to him!

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