Adventures in Gastronomy

I had a pretty good weekend. On Friday night Matt and I went out for dinner then watched “Burnt Money”on DVD.

Yesterday we went to see “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” which, for a Jim Carrey movie, was pretty damn good. Who knew he could under-act?

After the movie, we went to Macy’s and bought new sheets. In the 9 years Matt and I have been together, we have never quite been happy with our bed. It’s either too soft, too hard, sagging in the middle, springs poking at us, smelly, too high off the floor, too close to the floor, the sheets are too crisp, the sheets are too small. After recently purchasing a Select Comfort Sleep Number bed (I’m a 60) and also a new headboard,  I think we heading in the right direction. The one thing that was a problem was our 200 thread-count sheets.

While at Macy’s we found…and purchased…460 threat-count sheets! I didn’t know they came in counts higher than 330! You pay for that extra thread count, though….in terms of hundreds of dollars more than the sheets we had from Target. But they feel soooooo gooooooood!

Anyway, last night we took the train to Salem to meet with our friends Bill and Dan. We ate at the Hawthorne Hotel’s Tavern on the Green (FYI – I had baked scallops with vegetable medley…but forgot my camera). After dinner, we went to their apartment and watched “Under the Tuscan Sun” on DVD. Their apartment building has a private movie theatre in it! Very cool – we all need one of those in our homes. They put out a tremendous spread of food for the movie…but I was so stuffed from my meal that I couldn’t eat another thing.

Today, Matt went to see “Eternal Sunshine…” again with his brother and I ended up going shopping. I went to a store I rarely go to…the Original Filene’s Basement. It was quite exciting. For those of you unfamiliar with the Basement, items are discounted and placed on the rack/shelves/tables with price tages that have dates on the back side. If an item is over a certain number of days old you take an extra 25% off, if it makes it past another date, it’s 50% off. If it remains on the shelf even longer, it’s 75% off. After that, it goes to charity. This concept lured me from rack to rack and table to table until I realized that I was unable to leave the store until I found a bargain. And I did. I managed to get a Kenneth Cole shirt for $9.99 and another trendy-to-me button-down shirt for $12.49.

I want to go back.

I’m being rushed off-line because Matt says I need to watch Barbra Streisand on the Actor’s Studio. He’s so excited about it he’s got diarrhea.

Tonight I made a casserole* (which is NOTresponsible for his diarrhee, I might add). I added marinated chicken, pasta, broccoli, zuchini,carrots and mozzarella.

*The image of the casserole has been removed since it was obscenely large.

March 21st, 2004
Categories: Uncategorized . Author: snarl

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