Friday Randomness

OK, it’s Friday afternoon and I haven’t even been keeping up with my own comments on this blog, let alone coming to your place. I will say that I just went to a couple of blogs, Engie’s and Sarah’s, and I can’t comment there. (Engie, congrats to Dr. BB on his award! Sarah, Minnie’s hair is SO CUTE) I guess it’s a blogger thing? I hope it resolves soon and is simple! Now on to the randomness around here.

I’ve taken to grocery shopping online recently, since my newest credit card gives me 3x points if I purchase online instead of going inside. It’s a win-win, because this way I don’t buy potato chips. Anyway, I was trying to buy limes, which spellcheck kept changing to ‘love’, and look at the top item! Avocados! Yes, I DO love avocados! I don’t know if this means the computer is super smart or super dumb.

Ted went on a business trip this week, and he flew out of our tiny local airport. It’s mostly small individual planes, the kind with 2 or 3 seats, privately owned. We used to go there when Maya was little, because they had an observation deck you could stand on and watch the planes take off and land. Well now we have a hanger (I want to call it an airport, but it’s probably too small for that…it’s called ‘Buchanan Field, not Concord Airport.) It’s very small. This is the brand new TSA area. Before it was built, you didn’t even go through TSA to get on your flight.

The only airline is JSX, and they mostly fly direct to Burbank and Las Vegas from our ‘airport’, which was handy because Ted was going to Burbank. It was really easy to pick him up and drop him off (not in that order). It’s about 10 minutes from our house, and there’s no problem parking. Plus, I could go inside and wait like in the old days of flying. Pretty cool!

This is the plane Ted flew out on on Monday. Sorry for the blurry window blinds in the foreground.

Our kinda fancy suburb has a very fancy new chocolate shop, Läderach. I was downtown picking up some euros to send my sister’s youngest for their birthday, because they are going to college in Ireland and I didn’t know how a check would work and besides, this particular kid takes about 4 months to cash a check at home, talk about overseas, so I figured cash was king. While in the area, I stopped by Läderach to get some fancy chocolates for my FIL’s birthday. Seriously yummy chocolate. I didn’t buy the FrishSchoggi from a big sheet, like you see pictured, but instead bought a little bag of individually wrapped ones. What does one do with a big sheet of chocolate? Maybe break it into artisan looking shards and be all Martha Stewart I guess. I’ll tell you, I felt very fancy buying euros and Swiss chocolates.

We’re celebrating my FIL’s birthday on Monday, and I will be throwing caution to the wind and making a green salad. I will source the lettuce from our local Farmer’s Market, however, so hopefully that will be safe. I’m making my step-mom’s salad, which has lettuce, herbs, avocados, apples, dried cranberries, and feta. It’s delicious.

Calling all Gilmore Girls fans. Our neighboring town is having a GG themed fall festival in October. When I told Ted I didn’t think I want to go, he looked at me like I have 2 heads. I have watched that show SO MANY TIMES, and am currently watching it again. And I adore Kelly Bishop. It just feels like it will be super crowded and I don’t like that. As I think about it more, though, I suspect I will end up going. I’m super predictable. Watching it now, I’m struck by how young Lorelie is. I mean, I’m about a year older than Lauren Graham, so when the show was on and she was in her early 30s, so was I, but that was 26 years ago, and while Lauren and I have aged, Lorelai has not (unless you count the 4 seasons thing on Netflix, which I do, but I’m not currently watching that). Want to come with me?

I like this recycling bin and its message of hope. My town is so fancy, the store across the street on the right is a Tiffany store, and the one on the left is Neiman Marcus, though that building has been empty for a while now. We do not live in this part of town. We live on the opposite side of town.

We had some beautiful rain yesterday! It rarely rains this time of year, and it wasn’t like we got measurable rain, but it was a gentle rain that lasted long enough that I could fall asleep listening to it, and the car in our uncovered spot looked like shit in the morning, so I had to take it for a car wash. Ted usually takes care of such things, but he wasn’t home yet. Gosh, getting your car washed is expensive, and then the dryer doesn’t even dry anything so it’s covered in water stains. Frustrating waste of $17. (I mean, not a total waste, it did look a lot better, just not as good as I thought it should look, which is perfect.)

Wishing you all a wonderful weekend, and I hope your blogs are accepting comments soon, and that your weather is not batshit crazy like I heard from some of my midwestern friends this morning.