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I finished up the reconstruction of my Fleetwood Mac playlists last night! I had more than I realized. There are fourteen of them! I think Madonna may be the only one for whom I have more than that, and I have 24 separate Madonna playlists.
I then updated my Garbage playlists. There are only two of those (one of overall favorites, one of ballads—I tend to have a ballads playlist for all the bands and artists by whom I have a large number of albums).
Before that, I watched the second episode of the British limited series
Starstruck on HBO Max, which I am very much enjoying.
And before
that, I took Shobhit's suggestion and used two of the four-pack pizza crusts he got from Costco, and made pizza for dinner, using some of the sample hummus from work as the base instead of red tomato sauce. I really thought this was an odd idea when Shobhit texted me the suggestion, but then I found a hummus pizza recipe at AllRecipes.com, and several users posted reviews about their skepticism changed to delight after they made it. Well all right, then!
I actually mixed the hummus with what was left of some pesto we had, and also some bruschetta sauce. On top of that I put chopped onion, bell pepper and mushrooms, plus some veggie pepperoni. And then, yes, shredded cheese. I would never think to combine hummus and cheese; that sounds very weird to me. But, it worked. The pizza was quite good. I made Shobhit's pizza with a little extra cheese, added salt and a bunch of red pepper flakes. To my genuine surprise, once he got home from work he only ate a third of it, and packed the other two thirds into two lunches for future work days. I actually ate half of my pizza, and packed the other half onto a plate to reheat for dinner tonight before I go over to Alexia's for another movie night.
Anyway, after Shobhit got home, he ate his dinner while we watched this week's episode of
Raised by Wolves. The first half of season two was just okay, but the quality seems to have really ramped up in the season's back half. Season one had ten episodes but season two has only six, which means the season finale is already next week. Given all that's happened, I expect the season to end on a bit of a cliffhanger with quite a lot unresolved. But that's okay, it's the nature of TV series.
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As is often typical, I nearly forgot about my virtual lunch with Karen today. I only remembered it when I texted her about something totally unrelated just after 11:00 a.m. And then it was like, oh! Lunch with Karen today!
So, I just finished up with that. It was a lovely one-hour chat as usual. She told me about some of her travel plans through the year she has forming, after she said, "I'm channeling you in another way," which kind of cracked me up. I guess she and her family are likely to be going to Hawaii in October, and they are considering a trip to San Diego in June.
I already told her during our last lunch about my plans for a trip to Louisville at the end of March. I haven't booked that yet but I think I might actually do that this weekend; my decision is pretty set on that now. I had already said I would wait until early March to book, but then Shobhit said I might get better rates if I book earlier. Well, now it's almost March anyway, so I don't know if it will make much difference.
I did tell her about my "trains and railroads" theme for my Birth Week this year. She actually thought of something for me to look into that I hadn't known about yet, so that's cool. Otherwise I'm already getting a tentative plan and schedule in place.
If I can actually get the anniversary tip to Calgary and Edmonton pulled off as hoped, that will mean three pretty major travel diversions within the four months from March to June: Louisvile (and Indianapolis and Cincinnati) in March; my Birth Week in April; and the anniversary trip in June. That's not even to mention a hopeful trip to Denver later in the summer, and the bi-annual Family Vacation in Leavenworth in September, and I'm really looking to that as well.
I'm looking forward to it all, really. I kind of keep wondering how long it will be before the effects of climate change make it impossible to keep traveling with this kind of regularity. Time will tell, but that's also a big part of my desire to get at least one more trip to Australia in, hopefully next year, three years from our last trip. Yesterday, in fact, was the two-year anniversary of our departure to Sydney, so I'm going through my second year of daily scrolling of Facebook Memories from that trip. Which then, of course, will be immediately followed my weeks of posts about the start of the pandemic. Fun!
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