Back in the Saddle_2009 restart

You know what, I have been itching to jump back on the horse and make some new blogs. Why not! Although I am sure most that may have checked this are long gone by now especially with the poor content that has been filtered into this. So here we’ll start by doing a daily update and just and over all.

This week’s been a bit better than most. Its warming up and my workload is deal-able. Its been a bit overwhelming after the cut backs and having to take on quiet a few more responsibilities. Just getting through it and enjoying the spring like weather that we’ve been having. It keeps getting me more and more excited for the final count down to Eric and I going to Belize in April (yup its official)! Here is a teaser for where we’ll be staying. I really can’t wait.I’ve read through about 10 travel books wanting to get the best out of the week we’ll be there.

But we’ll start out the resurgence of the blog in 2009 slowly, we don’t want to get ahead of ourselves and then flustered and then loose it all over again. I think I tend to do that, either than or just ramble through so much information that none of it makes sense or really had any good content.

Last weekend was a good escape from an insane workweek (you know it is what it is, and a always best not to discuss work on a public forum). Friday wrapped up just in time for me to submit myself to probably the worst type of torture for about 2 hours of please give me my money I can’t believe I paid to watch that:

Saturday I kept myself busy running errands while Eric was working and in the evening had a wonderful invitation to my good friend Hilde’s first supper club. It was a small showing but you know it was nice to have an opportunity to meet new people and just relax over a home-prepared meal. Less having to count your pennies and ration out what you will eat and drink and much more enjoying the company of others. She prepared a main of braised beef shank and oxtail with white beans and pomegranates (but was kind enough to include my fish only diet and prepared some salmon for me). It was just one of those awesome evening when you have good food and great company, we both agreed that we are perpetually wanting to be a hostess in order to have those experiences. I’ve been to a few supper clubs in my time, but although this one is in its early stages I appreciated the lack of official-ness to it. Just gave it a nice personal feeling to it. I’m joining her for dinner again tonight. Its nice to have a someone to spend evenings with when Eric is working nights Tuesday – Saturday and her boyfriend is in Panama on some work projects. Plus she is an incredible cook I am constantly floored with her ability and asking her for pointers for my slow moving self-education on the kitchen.


Sunday consisted of doing anything humanly possible to spend time outside. We took Murphy to the dog park and he was wonderful and playful and had a great time, luckily the lady who owned the dog he decided to keep humping understood it and let me know it was more to determine dominance and anything to be embarrassed about. We walked to lunch and just strolled down smith street. Over all it was an amazing day brought on by some much needed reminders that yes spring will actually happen again sometime.


Monday pretty quiet, just some spinning class and take out Indian with Eric after work. Nothing really to write home about.

And yesterday I found myself at dinner with Cate and Becky at Bar Tano on 3 ave in Brooklyn (south Slope/Gawanus/ Carroll gardens…whatever neighborhood you would like to reference). It was actually a great quiet little tucked away place. Quintessential Brooklyn bistro, under the F train on a quiet street. I think its definitely a place I would like to go back to . I had a lighter fare due to the even lighter mass of my wallet and bank account. But the salad was very good and filling. The only real complaint was the Bruchettes was over done, too much paste or tamponade or filling depending on what you ordered. But I mean hey come on, if you biggest complaint is that there was too much of something it cant be all that bad. Afterward, we stopped by to wish well to Sara while she packed to spend the next week in Africa.

There we go caught up to continue on a good resolution to keep this up (especially after I saw it was linked to on Kristen’s blog)