On Saturday we took the dogs to school and did some boring things: went to pick up my new license plates from the car dealership and went to the grocery store. We had to wait in line outside for a few minutes due to capacity limits, and let me ask you: How is this going to work for holiday food shopping? I have concerns!
Theoretically people should not be having big gatherings this year but I think we all know that many people are going to go ahead and do just that. And even if it is just, say, six or eight people getting together, that is still a lot of shopping! I plan to order a turkey from our CSA and just hope that they don’t accidentally give us a 22-pound tom instead of the 14-pound hen we ordered as they did last time. My turkey attention span is nowhere near long enough for that.
I also signed our snowplowing contract for the year. I missed the deadline for our usual service last year and went with a much less expensive plow guy, but as it turns out you do, in fact, get what you pay for. It seems strange to care about getting the driveway cleared when neither of us will be going into our offices this winter, but *shrug emoji* I suppose we will need to be able to leave the house occasionally (LOL for what though actually?).
FOOD PART. We CSA’d hard this weekend: local chicken sausage and sweet corn on Saturday, local peach-cardamom cobbler and Caprese salad with local heirloom tomatoes on Sunday. We also got kohlrabi, which…you’ll remember my Kohlrabi Probs™ from earlier this summer but I’m just going to make that slaw again to have with trash-person fish tacos (aka fish tacos you make with Sea-Pak Budweiser-battered frozen fish planks, don’t @ me, it works).
This week I will be able to use the oven without wanting to die, so we are going to have the aforementioned fish tacos one night and pizza another night (although we have figured out how to do pizza in the smoker grill, a game-changer if you are pizza4life like we are). I am also going to make soboro donburi, which is a new-to-me recipe. And I have a spaghetti squash still hanging around, speaking of CSA produce, and I suppose we will eat it at some point. (I made it this way last week.)
Our wedding anniversary is Thursday and to celebrate I am taking an investing class online. My sister-in-law is teaching it and since my knowledge of investing (and finance in general) amounts to durrrrrrrrrrrr I expect to learn a great deal. When she settled on the date for the first class it just didn’t occur to me that it was my anniversary, and really, what would we be doing on a Thursday night right now anyway? Plus, my sister-in-law dropped off some class materials over the weekend, one of which is a personal-size bottle of wine (in my opinion “personal” is in the eye of the beholder but YMMV), so it’s going to be that kind of class and I am here for it.
As we get closer to the election and deeper into this hell timeline I am trying mightily to look forward to things and be present which sounds like a load of Brené Brown nonsense (sorry if you like Brené Brown but…don’t) but truly, to quote The Mandalorian, this is the way. It feels like heavy lifting to turn my attention to something creative right now, but literally this is how we make it through this, this is how we save ourselves.