Since we last met . . .

Last week I wrote my blog about working with the first graders, clicked on the facebook button to post it there, and damn!  I was notified I was reported as spam and abusive.  I don't know what happened.  A friend told me she had 4 other friends who had the same thing happen.  One was a blogger with 30, 000 followers, not a person who should be blocked.  I appealed twice, heard nothing from facebook and became hurt and mad about the block.  Today, I was allowed to post.  Yippee!!!

In spite of the above we are having a wonderful weekend. On Friday Marty and I celebrated our 44th wedding anniversary.  We saw a movie, The Adjustment Bureau, which we really liked.  Makes you think.  Then we went to the Berkeley Bowl, our all time favorite grocery.  We bought crab rolls, a chopped marinated tuna bowl, and live lobster. 

You will notice there are no veggies in the meal we were going to have.  The crab rolls had pickled ginger and the tuna bowl had avocado, julienned cucumbers and rice. That was all the veggies we needed. The lobster only needed melted butter and lemons from our tree.  We drank Maker's Mark to toast 44 years, and white wine with dinner.  A perfect meal.

Yesterday it just got better and better.  Our nephew and his family came for brunch.  This is a brave couple.  Get three little kids up on Saturday morning, gather toys,(toys are a must, they are coming to a home with nothing for little ones other than a DVD player)  and drive an hour to arrive before 10:30.  We had fun with the kids, aged 7, almost 4, and 7 months.  The parents were fun too.

I served marinated vegetables, dried fruit, chicken salad, doughnuts, a spicy cheese frittata, baked French Toast, bacon, and lots of mimosas. Mimosas were just for the adults.  The kids had juice.  My thought was with that much variety there would be something besides doughnuts the kids would like.  And I was right.

Tonight, we have company coming.  Hey, the house is clean, I have all the people I can on the clean cycle.  I have made a shrimp salad and I'm getting ready to make a tortilla soup.

Good Times!

April 8, 2009: Lunch and Monsters

Today we celebrated 42 years of marriage. Most of it has been very good, even excellent in some cases. Marty's brother asked us one time how we had made it this long. Our answer was we had never been mad at the same time and lots of luck. Marriage is not easy, but well worth the trouble, heartache, and work. I am a very lucky woman. And Marty is a lucky man.

Today we went into San Francisco for lunch and whatever else we found to do. We ate at Foley's an old time SF bar. We like the food, love the Bloody Mary's, and hate the noise. Liquor and food always wins out.

We then went to see Monsters vs Aliens. It was 3D on an IMAX screen. This movie is way too good for children. The animation is fabulous. The lines in it are laugh out loud. It pays tribute to lots of movies: Dr. Strangelove, ET, Attack of the 50 foot Woman, The Blob, Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Many others were there in music, jokes, fleeting scenes. Lots of fun things. One character was named General W.A.R. Monger. This is very cleverly written.

We checked out the spa in the Hilton. I had a gift certificate for a Swedish massage. I wanted to find out details, are appointments required etc. Thanks Luis and Richard. We then walked down to the Golden Gate Theatre to use a gift certificate to buy tickets for Spamalot. Thank you Phil and Lee.

We finally walked to BART (train system) and headed home. We got back to the car and Marty headed to the Berkeley Bowl to buy seafood for supper. He bought oysters, prawns, and scallops. We had a lovely meal.

As we were cleaning up we realized we had forgotten to do the ONE thing we wanted to do. We had such a fun day we forgot to go to Macy's to see the flower exhibit. I guess we will have to go back into the city and see the flowers.

It was a lovely 42nd anniversary.