footie pajamas
Dec. 11th, 2002 10:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kismet09I had a bizarre evening. Tim came to pick me up at work, and we were all set to go to the choir concert at my school tonight, until we found out it started at 8. Since we're old, we assumed it would start earlier so that we'd get home at a reasonable time and so forth. So, we went out to dinner, without deciding whether we'd make it back for the concert.
Dinner was a Korean/Japanese restaurant to which - in a fit on eBaying - I had a $25 gift certificate (which I purchased for maybe $5). Said restaurant was nowhere near where it should've been according to Mapblast, so we ended up driving around Ellicott City in the dark and the rain (thank goodness I wasn't driving), and after an extra 20 minutes or so of driving, ended up in the correct strip mall (sigh, suburbs), in which almost everything was advertised in Korean.
The restaurant looked innocent enough - the picture on the sign matched the little picture on my gift certificate, so we went in. It was cold. Maybe 60 degrees. Colder than my office, which is hard to do when you're indoors. Server person brought a pitcher or what I assumed was water and filled two water cup-looking cups. Turned out to be green tea, with (I think) toasted rice. Good since I was freezing, sorta weird to get it in big cups, and not get any water. The menu was mostly in Korean, with Chinese, Korean and Japanese entrees that bore descriptors like "vegetable steamed." I know of one Korean food that I like, with its Korean name (bulgogi), so that's what I ordered. Tim - poor vegetarian that he is - had to explain to two or three different people that he needed food with no meat (and no chicken, and no seafood, which is important to distinguish when asking for no meat, especially in our experiences at ethnic restaurants).
We were served about 10 small dishes of random veggie looking things. I identified the kimchee without too much problem, but everything smelled rather pickled, and I'm picky, so Tim got lots of appetizers all to himself. The main course came with miso soup and rice, and was just fine, I suppose, although I'm still not sure what Tim ate.
Left the restaurant, never made it to the concert. Tim fell asleep on the couch about 15 minutes after arriving home, and I changed into my fleece footie pajamas and finished up some Artist Trading Cards that I should've had done about a month ago while watching Buffy. Must teach Tim to correctly use VCR, as he hasn't managed to get both episodes either day, due to both misprogramming the times and the recording speeds.
So all in all, it was a nice, quiet, relaxing evening. I have no desire to go to work tomorrow, but I think it's bad form to take two sick days in one week when you aren't even sick. My carpooler is out of town, and I just don't want to deal with the driving and the winter and such. On the bright side, I get an eye exam and hopefully new glasses tomorrow! Hoorah for new lenses, after having the same ones for 9 years :)
Dinner was a Korean/Japanese restaurant to which - in a fit on eBaying - I had a $25 gift certificate (which I purchased for maybe $5). Said restaurant was nowhere near where it should've been according to Mapblast, so we ended up driving around Ellicott City in the dark and the rain (thank goodness I wasn't driving), and after an extra 20 minutes or so of driving, ended up in the correct strip mall (sigh, suburbs), in which almost everything was advertised in Korean.
The restaurant looked innocent enough - the picture on the sign matched the little picture on my gift certificate, so we went in. It was cold. Maybe 60 degrees. Colder than my office, which is hard to do when you're indoors. Server person brought a pitcher or what I assumed was water and filled two water cup-looking cups. Turned out to be green tea, with (I think) toasted rice. Good since I was freezing, sorta weird to get it in big cups, and not get any water. The menu was mostly in Korean, with Chinese, Korean and Japanese entrees that bore descriptors like "vegetable steamed." I know of one Korean food that I like, with its Korean name (bulgogi), so that's what I ordered. Tim - poor vegetarian that he is - had to explain to two or three different people that he needed food with no meat (and no chicken, and no seafood, which is important to distinguish when asking for no meat, especially in our experiences at ethnic restaurants).
We were served about 10 small dishes of random veggie looking things. I identified the kimchee without too much problem, but everything smelled rather pickled, and I'm picky, so Tim got lots of appetizers all to himself. The main course came with miso soup and rice, and was just fine, I suppose, although I'm still not sure what Tim ate.
Left the restaurant, never made it to the concert. Tim fell asleep on the couch about 15 minutes after arriving home, and I changed into my fleece footie pajamas and finished up some Artist Trading Cards that I should've had done about a month ago while watching Buffy. Must teach Tim to correctly use VCR, as he hasn't managed to get both episodes either day, due to both misprogramming the times and the recording speeds.
So all in all, it was a nice, quiet, relaxing evening. I have no desire to go to work tomorrow, but I think it's bad form to take two sick days in one week when you aren't even sick. My carpooler is out of town, and I just don't want to deal with the driving and the winter and such. On the bright side, I get an eye exam and hopefully new glasses tomorrow! Hoorah for new lenses, after having the same ones for 9 years :)
