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Another quiet evening at home alone last night. I didn't get on FaceTime with Shobhit at any point, he texted that he wasn't able to but didn't say why.
I made myself a stir fried rice, mostly as a way to use up the one bell pepper still hanging out in the refrigerator that would have likely gone bad otherwise. I also added sauteed mushrooms and chopped up a veggie chicken patty. I only just now realized I should have added a chopped onion; I have a whole bag of them I haven't even opened. What a dipshit. Oh well.
Oh, the other big reason for this choice: the leftover peanut sauce from when I got takeout at Mamnoon with Alexia on the 4th. I wasn't going to use it on anything besides rice, so there you have it.
But also! Laney and I had to do some rearranging of our social schedule yesterday after we discovered
September 5 is not opening this weekend after all—they even had scheduled showtimes, and Laney had booked our seats on the AMC Stubbs app, but then they pulled them and canceled our booking. Now it appears to be opening next weekend instead. We therefore have one less movie to go see this week, but since we were already planning to get together, she suggested we meet at the Starbucks in the Sheraton Seattle Hotel lobby and get hot chocolate (or, in her case, maybe a mocha), into which we can pour some peppermint liqueur. It'll be an extra, DIY "Happy Hour." I brought a couple shots of Rumple Minze in my backpack. Laney had gone to the liquor store looking for the same, but they only had the larger size left and it was way too expensive, so she got another brand in a smaller bottle instead.
Anyway, it only hit me while I was making that dinner last night: I can save half of this, bring it to work, heat it up just before leaving, and have that for dinner with my spiked hot chocolate tonight! Perfect!
The stir fried rice with peanut sauce was delicious, by the way, even without the onion I should have added.
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So anyway, I sat down with my rice and tea and watched the season finale of
Skeleton Crew on Disney+. Honestly, now that the season is done, my overall reaction, but especially to the finale, was "meh." It wasn't bad, but it was also certainly nothing special.
I tried to watch the first episode of the Prime Video series
Daisy Jones and the Six, mostly because it was refereced in the book I am reading about Fleetwood Mac, and apparently Stevie Nicks loved it. I have long known the show is inspired by Fleetwood Mac's notorious 1970s romantic drama, but hadn't gotten around to checking it out because of mixed reviews. And, I turned it off after about 15 minutes. It might work better for me later, but the artifice of it all really stood out to me, especially as this watered down and fictionalized tale truly paled in comparison to reading the real story in the book.
I should have spent some time reading the book at home last night. Instead I went a weird amount of time adding Happy Hour web page hyperlinks to the relevant cells in the shared "Matthew and Laney Social Calendar" excel document I maintain. We do Happy Hour officially twice a month, and we now have a location planned for every single one of them through the end of December this year. It's kind of nuts, but part of it is because Laney keeps taking walks and passing places that look cool and have Happy Hour, and emailing me the suggestion. She just did that this week, and that one I had to slot on Saturday, December 13. (We already plan to go back to Christmas Dive Bar on Monday, December 22.)
By the time I was done with that, it was already just about bed time.
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[posted 12:35 pm]
