Well, this weekend went by really quickly. On Friday I attempted some good old fashioned "cook with what you've got home cooking." This is something I have NEVER been good at. I admit, when I can go online and look at recipes for hours, then find one, then modify, then go buy all the ingredients...I can make something pretty awesome. (My cornish game hens, my thyme and tomato salmon, my wine marinated pot roast.) But when I look through a cupboard and I have hardly anything, it's hard for me to envision a meal out of what I have. However, since Corry worked all week and only had an apple to take to work for lunch, I stepped up my game and made TUNA CASSEROLE! The reason I did this is because we had mostly everything I needed to make it and I was confident that I could modify the recipe with what I had. The other reason I did this is, well, I was trying to be sweet and have dinner ready for Corry when he got home! It wasn't very good. I overseasoned it and my timing was off so the finished tuna casserole sat on the oven for an hour and then went back in before I went to pick him up from work, so the noodles got overdone, I had added a can of mushrooms for extra vegetables and it didn't work...the whole consistency was slimy and mushy. Except for the crackers I mushed up on top, (the recipe I was looking at called for french fried onions...I was improvising!!) So, I am not the comfort food queen. Sue me.
Saturday I woke up and went over to my wonderful Mom's house for a day of, "helping," and, "cleaning." I cleaned a bit, but first I had some burritos. Then we decided to just go finish our Christmas shopping. And that's what we did. So sorry I didn't help soooo much Mommy, we did get something productive done though! On the way home Corry called and told me that we were FINALLY going to get our couch! After a month and a half of sitting on the floor, we were finally going to get something to sit on. So we got that in and since then we've been glued to it when we get home.
Sunday we spent a bit of time with Corry's friend Nate, literally a BIT of time. He called and asked if he could come over and we said, yes but we're leaving at 4 to go have dinner with Corry's dad. He got here at 4:15. So we said hey, we talked for 5 minutes, then we left and went to Cimarolli's. Which has...the best...steak...ever. Corry's Dad and Stepmom were very nice. I enjoyed meeting them and speaking with them, they got me a little wax fragrance melter that looks like a frying pan. It's really adorable. So, we're on the nice list on that side of the family again, which is a relief. Corry was pretty sad when he and his Dad were fighting, and I can tell last night made him pretty happy which made me happy, too.
So that was our weekend, and this week I'm going to be cleaning the crap out of the apartment, then leaving on Friday morning to go to Christmas! I can't wait to see everyone!
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