We had a couple of days off together last week and it was a really nice break from Joy’s erratic work hours and the usual busy-ness here. Only problem is that I got very used to it and am having trouble adapting back to the ‘real’ world. Maybe we just need to play the lottery more often…

Out of the huge list of things we’d thought of to go out and do, we ended up just spending a lot of time unwinding and relaxing. We did go out to the movies one day — saw Fahrenheit 9.11 which just made me mad, as I knew it would. We also made homemade Sangria from a recipe we found on the Internet and adapted a bit, and also Jamaican ‘beef’ patties which turned out pretty good. Growing up in Toronto, these little curry-pastry half moons were something available from little heated ovens at just about any convenience store and I loved them. I always said I’d try to find a recipe and make them myself, with veggie burger since I no longer eat meat. The recipe worked out well except I think there was a typo for the amount of water in the pastry dough - it said 5 teaspoonfuls? and the first batch was a disaster. Tried again with 1/3 cup of water and it came out great. We just ate the last of them yesterday. Mmmmmmm…

A few other interesting things happened, like the doggie houseguest we had for a day and the ‘ant incident’ but I’ll save for separate entries later.