Aside from the choices made to elect the next POTUS, I'm extra nervous and on tenterhooks today on account of the fact that my outlaw bro will find out whether he gets elected to be District Attorney. It's nerve-racking! I semi-strongly believe that the differences between Obama and Romney are largely negligible and I'm worried about what the Republican party is likely to do in the wake of a loss (whether they're likely to go more far right and abandon the moderate centre), but my investment in this election is mostly from the perspective of wanting Uncle Rico to win.
Go go Uncle Rico!
At the very least, I'm happy that my lovely sister and her family no longer have to participate in the absurd farce that is US electoral politics and campaigning.
Yesterday I had a terrible, awful, no good very bad day. I came home and dinner wasn't ready and so we ate late and I was crochety. As an attempt to re-align the family, I started the "What was your favorite part of the day?" round.
Me: "Big Yam, what was your favorite part of the day?"
Big Yam: *not missing a beat* "Meatballs."
LOL! He looked right into my eyes, too. He believed it. So funny! He's a bit of an unreliable witness - I'm not sure that he actually had meatballs or came in contact with meatballs yesterday.
In other funny news. I was emailing my sis to find out what I should get for Little Big Cuz's 2nd birthday. She emailed me back, "I just asked him and, no joke, he said 'Big Yam' and when I asked him if he wanted to SEE the Big Yam, he said yes." !!!!! So cute! I love that the two cousins love each other so darned hard.
This weekend was legit. Friday night was Ladies' Night on my street. We went to the Riverside Public House. It was pretty good! I ordered the burger but I should have ordered the fried chicken. You get two drumsticks and a thigh (I tried my neighbour's) and it's perfect, crunchy, juicy fried chicken served with a heap of mashed potatoes and kale with gravy. All this for $14, which I think is a great price. I highly recommend it and wished I had ordered it instead of what I did get. I ordered the burger, which was fine - delicious, juicy, with skinny salty fries, but the fried chicken was much better. I split some appetizers with my neighbour as well - a mussel and lobster chowder and chanterelles on toast. I love love love chanterelles - what's not to love about a pile of buttery, rich, gorgeous sautéed mushrooms piled on toast? Absolutely nothing, that's what.
Saturday was Lolly's wedding - it was a beautiful affair in a beautiful space with amazing food. We sat at a table with the full slew of kdubsguelph crew and it was one of the few times we've ever had to sit at a table at a wedding without the (seemingly) obligatory random couple shoe-horned in. It was great! Uncle Jesse made this video that they screened during the reception - it's adorable. He's so talented.
Then SMckay slept over and we woke up the next morning and gave the Big Yam a haircut and she bought us McDonald's and we gossiped. Maybe it's a by-product of being raised by super-strict Asian parents who were always like, "why would you ever want to sleep somewhere OTHER than your own bed?" but I don't think I'll ever get tired of friend sleepovers. I've said it before and I'll say it again: I'm particularly well suited to communal living. I just think it's the funnest to come home to your besties! I would happily lose the ability to walk around the house naked for living with friends again. I'm a big proponent of it taking a village. Which is all to say that I love it when SMckay sleeps over.
Anyway, I drove her home and picked up Momma D, who had extensive hand surgery last Tuesday, which means that she's not really equipped to be on her own for long stretches until she gets the hang of doing everything one-handed. She came over and we napped and snoozed and watched movies and ate pizza. It was lovely. I banged off another batch of cookies (hazelnut thumbprints) and made hot chocolate and we were cozy on the couch. I didn't feel like I particularly got the benefit of the extra hour, but we made up for it that night by going to bed at 8:30pm and not waking until 6am the next morning. Bliss!
Anyway, I drove her home and picked up Momma D, who had extensive hand surgery last Tuesday, which means that she's not really equipped to be on her own for long stretches until she gets the hang of doing everything one-handed. She came over and we napped and snoozed and watched movies and ate pizza. It was lovely. I banged off another batch of cookies (hazelnut thumbprints) and made hot chocolate and we were cozy on the couch. I didn't feel like I particularly got the benefit of the extra hour, but we made up for it that night by going to bed at 8:30pm and not waking until 6am the next morning. Bliss!
Last night's (rescued) dinner: sunchoke soup with bacon, cheddar cheese, and chives. This was soooo good! I love Jerusalem artichokes so much. The flavour is so unique. I had wanted to smoke the sunchokes but didn't get around to it on Sunday.
Tonight we had the roomie and T over for dinner. We had a baked pasta with ricotta, mozzarella, and a turkey tomato sauce. With an arugala & radicchio salad with parm and lemon juice. I also made us ginger molasses cookies. That up there is the PERFECT blanket of cheese with the PERFECT amount of browning for chew/goo.
We got our MPAC assessment in the mail today. Ugh. It's so bittersweet. The good news is: according to MPAC, our house has increased 135% in value since we bought it (and actually, the appraised price then was more than we paid for the house). The bad news is that our property tax rates will go up accordingly.
Fin.
