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Ellemeno:
I went out this evening for dinner with my friend G. and four others of her friends. We were celebrating her completion of graduate school. She worked so hard, very disciplined about balancing everything else around studying for two and a half years. It seems like it wasn't that long ago that she was agonizing over whether to go back to school or not, and now she's done.
Her daughter is three weeks younger than my daughter. In the last four years I've raised a daughter. In the same four years, G. has raised a daughter and gotten a master's degree in a field she believes in. Comparison late at night when I am tired is not a good idea.
Tomorrow there will be seven of us here for dinner - a vegan, two vegetarians, one person who doesn't think it's food unless it's meat, two children and one who weighs and measures everything she eats, and requires that nothing (including cooking oil) be mixed with any other category during cooking. So I'm making steamed brown and wild rice, separating some out for the measurer and the vegan, and then mixing melted Cambozola cheese into the rest (becomes like a risotto, without all the stirring), roasted summer vegetables (cooking spray on them doesn't count as oil), a green salad with a variety of optional stuff like cashews for people to put in it, and Rainier cherries if there are any left in the stores, otherwise some other kind of fruit.
When I invited my friends, I had a picture of us all being just in the backyard, but it looks like it's going to be raining and we'll need to be inside. I am going to try to not clean, clean, clean to get ready for them. I'm also going to try not to worry, worry, worry about not cleaning, cleaning, cleaning. :)
I can do most of this very simple dinner before they get here, and I want to just be part of the hanging out once they're here.
I am lucky to have a house, a yard, a family, friends, the money to buy $16 a pound cheese and Rainier cherries, rain that we need, a recliner (that I'm in now), a laptop (that I'm on now), a mother in pretty good health, even though far away, and that I didn't have to be studying relentlessly for the last two and a half years. :)
Shasta542:
--- Quote ---I am lucky to have a house, a yard, a family, friends, the money to buy $16 a pound cheese and Rainier cherries, rain that we need, a recliner (that I'm in now), a laptop (that I'm on now), a mother in pretty good health, even though far away, and that I didn't have to be studying relentlessly for the last two and a half years.
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Good attitude, Elle!! Have a fun dinner party! Sounds delicious! Are ya'll gonna play games afterwards---or just visit?
Ellemeno:
--- Quote from: Shasta542 on July 21, 2007, 12:40:33 pm ---Good attitude, Elle!! Have a fun dinner party! Sounds delicious! Are ya'll gonna play games afterwards---or just visit?
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We talked, and took turns playing with the kids. Also, we moved a couch while we had the extra people. :) Tomorrow we sort of have a repeat going to happen, this time 6 of my husband's family are coming over for the afternoon, age range from 11 to 83. It's still raining, so we'll all be inside, probably. Getting out the games will be a good idea, thanks. :)
injest:
Last night a friend called me and told me she was hauling her horse up to the arena to ride...did I want her to load up one for me. For a change I didn't overthink it and I told her to go ahead....I would meet her up there.
She brought her old mare for me. We rode around the arena....talked, drank sodas sitting on the horses backs. Pretended to have a show and basically acted like a couple of teenagers instead of two forty somethings.
We were the only ones there..and it is out on a backroad so we had privacy. I had such fun.
I am reminded today of the line in the book. Memory of last night and that carefree feeling has suffused my day with a sense of happiness.
having said that...right now...I am REALLY really really missing Roland. Hope he is having a good time!
Shasta542:
I am reminded today of the line in the book. Memory of last night and that carefree feeling has suffused my day with a sense of happiness.
What a great day!
having said that...right now...I am REALLY really really missing Roland. Hope he is having a good time!
From the pictures--it looks like all Brokies are having a good time.
My town has no water today!!!! Those I've called have no idea why, and the water office number has been busy every time I've tried to call. You really miss your water when you can't get it!! :P
OK--after 3-4 hours of no water---we got it back. YAY!! I still don't know what happened---I'm just happy it has been restored. :)
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