My Weekend
Jul. 19th, 2010 12:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kaitouBack from Canada. The final presentation only went so-so. Boss is still counting it as a win, even if it wasn't a 'grand slam' but I think it's closer to a walk, or maybe a bunt. I went back to Michigan, which was a little weird because my parents were actually out on vacation, so it was just me and the cat.
I did get to spend the afternoon with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
altodescant, roseinmist and their ridiculously adorable children, toddling around the Japanese shops in the area. So that was a win. Shokupan! bento boxes! green tea ice cream! And we went to the very authentic ramen restaurant where not one of us ordered ramen. I bought a new Japanese cookbook "SUPER Easy Recipes!" the cover says things like 'food in one minute!' 'just mix it!' 'just zap it!' Now that is my kind of cooking.
I noticed my car making a weird noise so the rest of the weekend was spent trying to figure out what it was, and if it meant anything really bad, or just sort of bad. After consulting askMetafilter I've decided to go with 'sort of bad' and it can wait until my next paycheck, or getting reimbursed from the Canada trip, whichever comes first.
The really crummy thing was finding that fruit flies moved in while I was gone. I thought I'd done a decent job of making the house spic and span before I left, but maybe I only got the spic part covered. The weird thing is that the flies tend to cluster where there's no food. Like...my DVD collection. I want to tell them 'Yes, I know that Robert Downey Jr. is delicious. But I don't think that's the kind of delicious you're going for.' Well, I'll show them who's boss. Thank god tomorrow is trash day.
I did get to spend the afternoon with
altodescant, roseinmist and their ridiculously adorable children, toddling around the Japanese shops in the area. So that was a win. Shokupan! bento boxes! green tea ice cream! And we went to the very authentic ramen restaurant where not one of us ordered ramen. I bought a new Japanese cookbook "SUPER Easy Recipes!" the cover says things like 'food in one minute!' 'just mix it!' 'just zap it!' Now that is my kind of cooking. I noticed my car making a weird noise so the rest of the weekend was spent trying to figure out what it was, and if it meant anything really bad, or just sort of bad. After consulting askMetafilter I've decided to go with 'sort of bad' and it can wait until my next paycheck, or getting reimbursed from the Canada trip, whichever comes first.
The really crummy thing was finding that fruit flies moved in while I was gone. I thought I'd done a decent job of making the house spic and span before I left, but maybe I only got the spic part covered. The weird thing is that the flies tend to cluster where there's no food. Like...my DVD collection. I want to tell them 'Yes, I know that Robert Downey Jr. is delicious. But I don't think that's the kind of delicious you're going for.' Well, I'll show them who's boss. Thank god tomorrow is trash day.
