Friday Randomness
Mother’s Day is coming up this weekend, and I wish you all joy. If you have kids, I hope you have a good relationship with them and are able to celebrate in some way. If you still have your mom, I hope you have a good relationship with her, and are able to celebrate in some way. If you have a bad relationship with your mother or your child(ren), I wish you peace. If you no longer have your mother or your child(ren), I wish you peace. Mother’s Day can be a complicated and difficult day. Ever since my mom died in 2008, it has been a complicated and difficult day for me. And yet, I am a mom, and there is joy in celebrating the relationship that Maya and I have. I’m not sure what we will do this year, probably we will have danishes for breakfast, as is our tradition.
In other news, this is our old sofa, which is going away today. Like our last sofa, it has ‘bottomed out’ and is uncomfortable for us. I’m giving it a new home via our local Buy Nothing group, and I hope they have better luck with it than we did. Perhaps they can put some plywood under the cushions. Our new sofa is being delivered this afternoon, I’ll post a picture for you next week.
The other morning on my walk, I passed an office building with jasmine bushes in front, and they smelled heavenly. A couple of blocks later, I passed a gas station with rose bushes in front, and they smelled heavenly as well. I came home and gave the little flowers on my clementine tree a sniff. You guessed it, heavenly.
Speaking of plants, a month or so ago I took a Meyer lemon seed and covered it with some potting soil, and put it on my kitchen window shelf. I had doubts as to whether it would grow or not, but something is popping up! Think good thoughts, I would love to have a little lemon tree. My avocado tree is doing very well, my plumeria, not so much. You win some you lose some around here.
We had a lovely time celebrating Ted’s birthday last weekend. We grilled lamb ribs, chicken thighs, and lobster tails (lobster was for Ted’s mom, who is pescatarian and loves lobster…I only bought enough for her, it’s spendy.) We had lots of delicious sides and appetizers, a delicious cake, and a lot of wine. Like me, many of Ted’s close friends no longer live in the area, but the ones who live nearby were able to come, and his family who lives almost 2 hours away came too, so that was really nice. We had a lot of fun.
I didn’t go to my local weekly protest last week, because it was on Ted’s birthday. They had a great turnout, and I’ll be back at it tomorrow.
What else. Based on comments I keep seeing, we’ve been watching The Pitt on HBO/Max. The first episode was so/so for me, but we watched two more episodes last night, and I’m getting into it. I am generally not a big fan of hospital shows, I never watched more than an episode or two of ER or Grey’s Anatomy. I can’t look when they show close up scenes of a scalpel cutting into someone (gross!) though I did turn back and look at the beating heart in one episode. I think we may stick with it.
Has anyone watched The Four Seasons on Netflix? I haven’t given it a try yet, but I probably will. I remember watching the original film with my mom way back when. We’re also watching The Last of Us, The Handmaid’s Tale, Hacks, and Friends and Neighbors. Ted is watching The Studio on Apple TV. I kind of watch but not really.
This week’s dinners included crab cakes, chicken Milanese, and salmon with mustardy French lentils. Tonight we’ll probably go out for dinner.
OK, you’re all caught up. What’s new with you? Anything exciting? Is your weather crazy like here (mid to high 80s yesterday and today, mid to low 60s by Monday.) I hope my sinuses survive.
7 Comments
Nicole MacPherson
J, I’m watching The Four Seasons right now and really enjoying it! I can’t believe I’m on the cutting edge of pop culture, generally I’m behind everyone by several years. I didn’t realize it was actually a film though – there’s my “behind everyone” moment.
The flowers! It’s such a great, fragrant time of the year!
nance
Rick and I just started The Four Seasons last night. I remember the original film. I was stunned when I saw Alan Alda’s guest appearance. After years of watching MASH reruns, my brain could not accept that he had aged. Anyway, we’re enjoying it, and I think this updated version is pretty good.
I LOVED The Pitt–every single moment of it. Not just because Noah Wyle is wonderful, either. Every character is so darn good. The writing is stellar in that series. And we are both enjoying Hacks. I’ve loved Jean Smart since Designing Women. The Last of Us is starting to annoy me because it’s visually so dark, and I miss a Certain Character, so it seems almost directionless to me right now. But we’re sticking with it.
Your old couch looks eerily similar to the one we have at the lakehouse, except for the legs. Sort of a terracotta colour and a soft, velour/microfiber upholstery? Anyway.
The squirrels have overtaken my front porch peanut feeder intended for my blue jays. I tried sprinkling cayenne on the peanuts, and it has zero effect. I could not be more annoyed and the cats are outraged.
Ally Bean
I want to try to grow a lemon or an orange from a seed. Now that it is warmer and sunnier here I’m going to. Thanks for the idea.
Couches just give up the ghost, don’t they? Good that you can move it along to someone who’ll still get some use out of it. I enjoy donating furniture in okay shape to organizations for resale. I’ve never investigated a Buy Nothing group.
AC
We are watching Dublin Morders on Prime. It’s pretty good although my old brain tends to lose track of the characters, espoecially their names. Who the heck is Jonathan? We also watched Safe House recently, not sure on what app but possibly Acorn.I hope the next protest goes well.
Alexandra
We watched The Four Seasons and, for the most part, enjoyed it. I remember the film with Alan Alad from way back, and remember liking it back then. We too just finished watcing Safe House on Acorn last night and, well, to start out it was okay but, by the end? It kind of went off the deep end and was kind of weird.
I wish I could grow more plants. I have a big balcony (we live in an apartment) so can only do pot stuff, hopefully, this year, I might try more herbs and veggies too. Or, maybe just stick to my happy flowers.
Margaret
Taunting me with your meals! Yummy! Mother’s Day is a complicated holiday for sure. Sometimes I wish we could ignore it completely. (but that said, I do have expectations of being somewhat recognized, shallow person that I am!)
Rebecca Jo
Mother’s Day sure can be tricky…. hope everyone just has a nice Sunday – gets treated well, even if its a TREAT YO SELF!
I need to catch up on Handmaids Tale. I’m like 2 episodes behind.