What Would Jen Do

Archive for February, 2009

I’m a superhero

she looks just like me, don’t you think.

I had a very productive day that did not really include doing any of the work I was supposed to be doing.    sshh.

Icey was home most of the day, so that explains that.  and then he brought home in-n-out hamburgers for lunch.  best day ever.

thanks to glitches and things that were corrupted I was charged 2x for a car payment I didn’t need to make.  and when they went to credit me they took another payment!!    I finally got reimbursed those 3 car payments.    If it happens again I’m just going to scream.

I finally called and made an appt to have my bumper repaired.  I found a nice place close to home that has an enterprise car rental right in the building.    I picked it specifically because of their affiliation with a rental car company, which just so happened to be the only approved rental car company of the other guys insurance.  win.

Of course I thought it would be a good idea to make the appt for Tuesday next week.  They said it would take about 2 days. so we’re looking at a thursday finish.   except depending on the time, i’m busy thursday with a wedding rehearsal and friday with a wedding, so hopefully the timing works out for me.   of course i didn’t think of any of this until after i’d set everything up.    weddings sneak up on you.

oh my god, i would love to get married again!!!  when we were picking up my matron of honor dress i was looking at all the pretty dresses and tried to con Icey into having another wedding.  he apparently did not find it as fun and exciting as i did because he said no.   I guess i’ll just settle for going back to vegas and having buffet again.

last night we had fajitas for dinner and i dropped a couple (ok all) of the tortillas on the floor and gave the dogs one.   i had no idea the monster i created in voodoo.   This morning when i was making a breakfast burrito (with different tortillas) he practically attacked me.  that dog loves himself some carbs. tonight we had waffles for dinner and he tackled me when he realized one was for him.    there are so many things he won’t eat, but when he loves something, he REALLY loves it.

I got a check for $3.56 cents for my jury duty services.   That’s not even $1 an hour!!

We (icey) sold the Z yesterday to a very nice young man who came all the way from CA with his brother.   Now we’re back to being a regular old two car family.

Icey pulled some carrots and parsnips from our garden yesterday.    They are carnival carrots, so they aren’t your standard issue orange carrots.    The purple one has purple skin only and when you peel it off, you get an orange carrot.  It’s kind of weird taking a bite of a fresh carrot that’s white.   For some reason my brain does not expect it to TASTE like a carrot.

The two vegs on the far right are the parsnips.

here they are glazing

and glazed.

I used too much brown sugar……….

I’ve been planning a bachelorette party, which in itself isn’t that hard. I can throw a party together in a matter of minutes, which is basically what happened here.  The maddening part is other people not cooperating with me.   Party planning is easy until you have to deal with humans.    And this reminds me why I choose to spend most of my time in my home, not speaking to people.   the biggest stress that I had was lifted from my shoulders last week.   And a party is a party, you throw people together and they create the party themselves.   alcohol + people = party.   I’m confident that everything will be fine.    I have NEVER thrown a bad party.    speaking of alcohol, has anyone else noticed the price hike on alcohol in the past few weeks?

We watched that Zombie TV show friday night, all 2.5 hours of it.   Basically there is a fast zombie outbreak in the UK and the show revolves around the people living in the big brother house.   Icey finally noticed that people in zombie movies have no idea what a zombie is, it’s always annoyed me. i think just once there should be a movie where people are like, ‘oh yeah i see what’s going on here…..’.   The show was good because you really couldnt’ see what the ending was going to be, normally zombie movies are a little more predictable, not that i’m complaining.

I made a lemon bundt cake with lemon glaze.  And apparently I’m not very good at pouring glaze over the top of a cake.    I like this a lot more than Icey does.

Saturday Icey pulled a cabbage the size AND shape of a football and a tiny carrot out of the garden.

here it is with the cake

and with the carrot

I cooked the cabbage  yesterday and it was very tasty!

the garden is doing really well, I think that pretty soon everything we planted will be ready to eat.

We went to Coup Des Tartes on Sunday for our ‘paulandjenaversary’ and I had a mushroom tarte that was so good I nearly fell out of my chair.    Icey got the papas and lox, the same smoked salmon that we had as an appetizer the last time we went for dinner, it was also fantastic.   We spent the rest of the day being really super lazy.

This morning we had some citrus trees delivered to replace the trees we lost in the freeze about a year ago.  We got vodka cocktail, kumquat, tangelo (or is it tangerine?) and blood orange.

I think that if we just get a few chickens and goats we could create our own compound and rarely have to leave home.

I’m sad my long weekend is over.  I just have no desire at all to ever go into the office. If I could work from home 5, even 4 days a week, i’d be very happy.

I can’t seem to accept fact that we’ve put 7 years into this relationship but are expected to start over counting anniversaries based on our wedding date.     Being married  7 months doesn’t sound as awesome as being together 7 years.   And I know that a 7 years is a drop in the bucket to some people, but not to us.  at least not yet.   So we aren’t going to celebrate with gifts anymore, but just acknowledge it with  a date.   so this sunday we are going to Coup Des Tartes.  They do a Sunday Brunch that looks fantastic, and if it’s even half as good as dinner i will be happy.  And then maybe we’ll hit a movie.    I’m also taking monday off because I find it unfair that Icey has the day off for presidents day and my company doesn’t give us that holiday.

I came across a Zombie TV show that was filmed in the UK last year.   And unless I’m retarded, the site wouldn’t let me watch it because i’m not in England.   I was SO SAD and thought I’d have to buy it, but my husband found it for me and not only downloaded it, he downloaded it to our XBox so that I can watch it on the big teevee.   It looks like it’s going to be so good and I can’t wait to start watching it.