This morning the rain came down pretty hard and I still had the task of walking the dog. It was the perfect opportunity to test out my new rain boots!!!
I bought them on sale at Sports Basement and they’re awesome! Here’s a link to them if you wanted details.
I took the dog and the waterproof camera outside for some rainy day fun. I guess I was the only one actually having fun. Dog was super confused by all the jumping and wading through the deep puddles.
After a long hiatus, Sunday Supper was reinstated last night with short ribs and German chocolate cake.
The Sokol-Juns came over and Koa got an automatic carrot dispenser for the evening.
The short ribs were flavorful but could have used one more hour in the oven.
Michelle made a German chocolate cake and it was scrumptious.
Oh yeah, I just discovered that Jack actually knows Jes’ name. He was sitting at the dining table taunting him with “Uncle Jesse Uncle Jesse!” This kid is the only one not scared of the husband.
Jesse had sailing lessons on Saturday so I took a walk down to the Ferry Plaza. It’s still one of my favorite places in the city. The Farmers’ Market on Saturdays makes it even more exciting.
Did you know that brussel sprouts grow on a big stalk?!
And check out this bouquet of mushrooms!
Outside there was a kid who looked to be about 9 years old playing his trumpet. The sign in the box says, “Thank you for helping me to take lessons and develop myself as a musician. Gabriel Angelo.” Remember that name. He might be famous in 10-15 years.
On my way home, I went on a mini photo safari and then plopped myself down on one of the piers overlooking the bay for a snack.
I had my favorite potato croquette and watched the sailboats go by in hopes that Jes and his crew would sail by. No such luck but I had a tasty treat.
This has been a wacky week and there was a lot of vomit involved. I was already dealing with a cold that started last Friday but went to work on Monday feeling much better. Tuesday came along and 3 out of my 3 patients puked at least twice each that day. One of them was so huge that I was elbow deep in vomit in the cleaning process while Teresa had to borrow my scrubs since some of it landed on her lap. Gross. One of our kids was looking worse in the afternoon but we tried to do therapy with him anyway. All of a sudden he puked on himself, picked up a chunky piece of it, and put it back in his mouth. Then he puked it back up! THAT is grosser than gross. Seriously!? What is going on here?!
So, on Wednesday morning, I woke up to my alarm at 6 am and ran to the bathroom to puke. Oh crap. I laid on the bathroom floor for 10 minutes and then threw up again. As I sat there on the floor, I texted my boss to tell her I wasn’t going to work that day. Thank goodness for the day off because I was a hot mess.
On Thursday, I went back to work and apparently there were no more puke episodes while I was away. Unfortunately, one of our kids threw up one more time for good measure. Aw man!
To round out the week, I went over to the Sokol-Juns’ to babysit Little J who was also sick. He had puked in the morning and was running a fever that evening. Poor guy was so slow and bummed out. He hardly ate dinner and we just sat on the couch watching tv until it was time for bed.
It was so cute to see him clutching Pony the whole time in complete silence with the occasional outburst of “Mr. Noodle” or “F!” Can you tell we were watching Sesame Street and Elmo’s World? Well, that was an easy babysitting gig and I ended up taking a quick snooze before the parents returned.
What a week.
Last night we went to the Bangs’ for a tasting of high-end vodka from Poland and Russia. We all had individual shot glasses labeled with a famous person’s name. Mine was Pavlov. Heh heh.
There were 10 different vodkas and Vyl made a card of tasting notes and sheets for us to write down our thoughts and guesses of which was which.
I just enjoyed tasting them and had no idea what a Polish or Russian vodka was supposed to taste like. I DID, however, pick out the Stoli. Haha. My #1 favorite of the 10 was Chopin. It was creamier than the others and a little sweet.
Vyl also picked up food from a Russian deli. I tried a perogi that looked totally like a potsticker. And surprisingly, I really liked this dish that had beets, potato, onions, salmon, and herring at the bottom (the bright pink one). Sounds disgusting but it was pretty tasty!
Here are the rest of the photos.
Last month at work, we were all feeling burnt out and needed a big attitude change for the sake of our patients. So, we decided to kick off the new year last Saturday with a slumber party at Steph’s house in Livermore. We cheesed it up even more by calling it our “Zen in 2010 Party”.
The grown-ups joined us in the evening for a buffet of appetizers and drinks and a very entertaining board game. Sue, my manager, even brought a handy-dandy s’mores maker and whipped up some cocktails for us.
After the grown-ups went home, we finished up the wine, played MASH, made some friendly crank calls to our friends, and fell asleep to “The Little Mermaid”. There were definitely a lot of laughs and hijinks that night. We all slept in the livingroom in sleeping bags and woke up to a scrumptious breakfast that Stephanie prepared for all of us.
I hadn’t been to a sleep-over in a VERY long time and I think it was more fun than any teeny-bopper party that I had ever been to. Here are the photos.
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