Day 332: Home on the range
Aug. 11th, 2006 01:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nagi_schwarzSo I went home on Tuesday after I woke up. It was good to see my family again. Dinner was a fairly simple affair, and as dad was home we all ate together. Shaz got off work a little late, but after dinner I went over to her place and checked out her brand spankin' new Xbox 360. We played a co-op game of Kameo and sucked miserably, but it was a lot of fun anyway, and then I tried out her new Tomb Raider game, which was also fun and which I caught onto a lot faster. After Sid came home I went back to mom and dad's house and stayed up playing with my shiny new Mac. That's right, I've joined the Mac cult. In fact, I'm updating again, right now, on said Mac, from, work, with the help of wireless, that Josh showed me how to use. It makes me very happy indeed. The next day Mom and I went shopping. Del's old rice cooker is kind of beat up, and I think the teflon on it is gone, because the rice always sticks to the inside pretty badly, even for sticky rice. This new rice cooker is also a steamer. One can steam vegetables at the same time as one cooks rice. A whole meal in 20 minutes. Of course, that means I'll have to buy real vegetables. I also got a new pair of jeans, because more and more pairs of old jeans are wearing holes in awkward spots, and I got a couple of nice new shirts, too. I got the outside of my car washed, though the inside is still a bit grimy, and rented the second star wars movie. Not entirely sure why I did that to myself, other than the fact that Ewan MacGregor is very, very hot.
On Wednesday night we took Shaz out to a fancy restaurant downtown called La Soiree. Very swanky indeed. We started off the meal with cheese fondue, and I haven't had gruyere in a long time, so it was good. (This is the best meal I've had in a long time.) Dinner was steak on a rock, which some of my friends will remember, involves cooking raw meat on a heated rock so you can cook it yourself. Dad had a salad because he didn't feel like meat. Shaz had a steak. Mom and Sid were adventurous with the buffalo. I was most adventurous of all with the alligator. It had the texture and general appearance of chicken but tasted like fish. Mom said it tasted like swordfish. Dessert was an absolutely succulent chocolate fondue. It was especially great for a chocolate addict like me. This week has been a night of kickass meals. On Monday night we girls went out and bought us some lovely desserts - baclava, tiramisu, cheesecake - to go with a viewing of V for Vendetta. I love the movie, and I love the graphic novel, but I take them as two separate entities, because at heart the two works have very different themes.
When I was a kid we had homemade pizza all the time, and as a preceding punishment, we had to eat French onion soup. Tonight we made pizza again, two crusts, each of us decorating half - except mom who just supervised - and then we cooked them. There was a bit of tension making sure everything went right, but in the end it was a fantastic meal. Mom was nervous about it, be I loved it, as much as for the memories as for how good the pizza was. Our family never cooks small.
Right now I'm talking to three other friends online, two of whom are also on shift in the next house over. It's fun and a bit weird.
On Wednesday night we took Shaz out to a fancy restaurant downtown called La Soiree. Very swanky indeed. We started off the meal with cheese fondue, and I haven't had gruyere in a long time, so it was good. (This is the best meal I've had in a long time.) Dinner was steak on a rock, which some of my friends will remember, involves cooking raw meat on a heated rock so you can cook it yourself. Dad had a salad because he didn't feel like meat. Shaz had a steak. Mom and Sid were adventurous with the buffalo. I was most adventurous of all with the alligator. It had the texture and general appearance of chicken but tasted like fish. Mom said it tasted like swordfish. Dessert was an absolutely succulent chocolate fondue. It was especially great for a chocolate addict like me. This week has been a night of kickass meals. On Monday night we girls went out and bought us some lovely desserts - baclava, tiramisu, cheesecake - to go with a viewing of V for Vendetta. I love the movie, and I love the graphic novel, but I take them as two separate entities, because at heart the two works have very different themes.
When I was a kid we had homemade pizza all the time, and as a preceding punishment, we had to eat French onion soup. Tonight we made pizza again, two crusts, each of us decorating half - except mom who just supervised - and then we cooked them. There was a bit of tension making sure everything went right, but in the end it was a fantastic meal. Mom was nervous about it, be I loved it, as much as for the memories as for how good the pizza was. Our family never cooks small.
Right now I'm talking to three other friends online, two of whom are also on shift in the next house over. It's fun and a bit weird.
