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We had a weekend of food! On Friday we had made some crock-pot chilli for dinner, but at around 9:00 had a craving for sugar. Low and behold, Whole Foods doesn't close until 10:00, and we went out for some silly cupcakes http://www.flickr.com/photos/tk7602/5477534163/in/contacts/ . You can guess what I chose and what Brian chose, I'm sure.
On Saturday I had ballet class, and our plan was to check out the New England Home Show at the Seaport Trade Center. Lame! We were there less than an hour and other than bringing home some business cards for people to potentially fix our leaky chimney (and a green building materials vendor, and a celtic potter), it was not worth the money. I think it was more geared to folks that pay people to fix everything and less to the DIY crowd.
Ah well, it freed up the day to work on other things at home. I started reading http://www.amazon.com/Tree-Grows-Brooklyn-Betty-Smith/dp/006092988X and I can't believe it has taken me so long to get to it! It is beautifully written and an account of tennement living in pre-depression Brooklyn, NY. It is no wonder this book is frequently mentioned on financial planning and frugality related blogs. It makes sense that it is required reading for some high school students (though I'm not sure how I managed to avoid having to read it). I loved her comment about Sicilians "And all the world knew that the Sicilians belonged to the Black Hand and that the Black Hand Society always kidnapped little children and held them for ransom. They took the child and left a note saying to leave a hundred dollars in the cemetery and signed it with a black imprint of a hand. That's what mamma said about those organ grinders"
We didn't have anything to cook for dinner that wasn't still frozen, so we checked out http://www.vecchia-roma.com/. It was only 5:30 and we were in the mood for Italian, so we had attempted to get into http://www.fiorellasnewton.com/, but the doorway was already stuffed with waiting diners and the valets were out in full force. We've driven by Vecchia Roma down the street hundreds of times, and I'm so glad that we gave it a try! Our options for Italian in our area seem to be higher end, takeout or cheap townie, with not much in the middle. Vecchia Roma definitely fit the bill for a nice but casual meal.
The gluttony would continue on Sunday where we met friends for brunch at Boston's only Scottish Pub, http://thehavenjp.com/ . It was great food and traditional, with the heaviness we experienced when we were in Scotland in 2005. It makes sense that Scotland has the heighest incidence of cardiac-related issues if you are to sample an average breakfast! It took us a while to order for some reason and we had a large group (or rather, our group had a large amount of food), and so by the time we got out of there it was pushing 4:00, making this our meal of the day. That is some all day brunch!
Here's hoping this full week doesn't drag as much as the 4-day one did last week. To start off on a good foot and make up for the weekend eating, I did get my butt to the gym today, despite rain.
On Saturday I had ballet class, and our plan was to check out the New England Home Show at the Seaport Trade Center. Lame! We were there less than an hour and other than bringing home some business cards for people to potentially fix our leaky chimney (and a green building materials vendor, and a celtic potter), it was not worth the money. I think it was more geared to folks that pay people to fix everything and less to the DIY crowd.
Ah well, it freed up the day to work on other things at home. I started reading http://www.amazon.com/Tree-Grows-Brooklyn-Betty-Smith/dp/006092988X and I can't believe it has taken me so long to get to it! It is beautifully written and an account of tennement living in pre-depression Brooklyn, NY. It is no wonder this book is frequently mentioned on financial planning and frugality related blogs. It makes sense that it is required reading for some high school students (though I'm not sure how I managed to avoid having to read it). I loved her comment about Sicilians "And all the world knew that the Sicilians belonged to the Black Hand and that the Black Hand Society always kidnapped little children and held them for ransom. They took the child and left a note saying to leave a hundred dollars in the cemetery and signed it with a black imprint of a hand. That's what mamma said about those organ grinders"
We didn't have anything to cook for dinner that wasn't still frozen, so we checked out http://www.vecchia-roma.com/. It was only 5:30 and we were in the mood for Italian, so we had attempted to get into http://www.fiorellasnewton.com/, but the doorway was already stuffed with waiting diners and the valets were out in full force. We've driven by Vecchia Roma down the street hundreds of times, and I'm so glad that we gave it a try! Our options for Italian in our area seem to be higher end, takeout or cheap townie, with not much in the middle. Vecchia Roma definitely fit the bill for a nice but casual meal.
The gluttony would continue on Sunday where we met friends for brunch at Boston's only Scottish Pub, http://thehavenjp.com/ . It was great food and traditional, with the heaviness we experienced when we were in Scotland in 2005. It makes sense that Scotland has the heighest incidence of cardiac-related issues if you are to sample an average breakfast! It took us a while to order for some reason and we had a large group (or rather, our group had a large amount of food), and so by the time we got out of there it was pushing 4:00, making this our meal of the day. That is some all day brunch!
Here's hoping this full week doesn't drag as much as the 4-day one did last week. To start off on a good foot and make up for the weekend eating, I did get my butt to the gym today, despite rain.
