A Fun Weekend Of Getting Nothing Done

This past weekend, there were a few things I had wanted to do. I didn't do a single one of them. Not that it was a bad weekend. Far from it.

Friday we had a friend of Smacky's out for dinner. She brought some lovely wine. We had bosc pears and gorgonzola cheese before dinner. Conversation was fun, and it was nice to see my wife have a good time with her friend.

Dinner was bibimbap. Bibimbap is a wonderful Korean dish; a mish-mash of rice, seasonal vegetables, sometimes meat, and a lovely spicy sauce, topped off with a fried egg. I love bibimbap, it is one of my favorite Korean foods, but I had never made it before. So I looked up recipes online to make sure the dish didn't have any suprises (it didn't), and then as always I promptly ignored all of those recipes and struck out on my own. It was nearly perfect. The only way it could've been better is if I had used a higher quality steak as that night's steak was a little tough. Probably should've tenderized it. Oh well. It was still delightful.

Saturday was meant to be lazy, but we got up early and spent the entire first half of the day going to yard sales. Our neighborhood was having the annual yard-sale day, and we spent most of our time wandering around our neighborhood looking at the wonderful junk people were selling. For a while, I was a little disappointed...all I had gotten was a fifty-cent pocket-knife. But then we stumbled upon a nice older lady who lived a block away.

She mostly had stuff that didn't interest us at all, but then we happened upon three framed pieces of art that really struck us. It turns out, as she explained, they were rubbings she made from temple walls in Thailand when she was there many years ago. The three rubbings were very well done, with starkly defined edges and crisp images. We dithered over the price a little, but talked her down a few dollars to make them more attractive. We were terribly pleased with the purchase. It made the whole dreary day worthwhile. More gang wars in Los Santos filled out the day.

I had hoped Sunday would be a little less busy. I was wrong. We got up early, went to the grocery, bought some food, prepared the food until early afternoon, then went for a reunion hosted by Smacky's chorus. The reunion was nice, inside a lovely home in Old Louisville, but ultimately as I'm not a chorus geek, I again mostly just enjoyed seeing my wife have a nice time with her friends. By the time we got home, there was barely any time to do anything except finish off the gang wars and then go to bed.

Ah well...maybe I can be more productive this coming week.