Up and out
Dec. 19th, 2025 06:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
noadvertising Hubby got up at seven, and I dutifully followed him down to the living room to have breakfast. The desastrous Friday shoppings of the last weeks made us leave early for good old Germany and its lower prices. Unlike last Friday it was not as crowded as I had feared. We got most things hubby had on his list (like beef filet) in the first shopping mall and the rest and a bit more in the second. Also got the bath mat for my friend- same version as mine, only dark grey in colour. Mine is teal- already too much grey in the bathroom. Apropos beef filet: Said friend had an encounter of the third kind with the butcher with the brain cells of a flobberworm. She wanted beef filet, butcher told her he hadn't any. His collegie told him that half a beef was in the next room, so if he maybe'd do his job... My friend was told to come next day for filet. Only that the same game started next morning. No beef here, no filet. My friend almost exploded with rage, and now she has filet worth 90 euro. Not that much meat, because filet is expensive, but way too much for one person. The flobberworm twerp insisted that he could not cut smaller portions. That butchery will see neither my friend nor me for a long time.
Back home a former student of mine called and asked for a visit. I must be some sort of wailing wall for her. I told her she can come tomorrow afternoon, and for coffee and cookies only. Nothing to do at the weekend anyway. Half an hour later daughter made an appearence. Another half an hour later number one showed up to fix Christmas visit date. He wants to avoid a family confluence- thank you very much! So it's number four from 22nd to 29th, daughter
on 24/25th, family two on Christmas Eve, family number one on Christmas Day, number three and family from 26th to 28th plus sis and all of her family sometime in between. I fear I will be a nervous wreck on New Year's Eve. It was so much easier all of them invading our house for Christmas Eve and be gone two days later...
I did not make walnut cookies today, as I had intended. I knitted a lot. A lot because I had to unravel the last third of a sleeve- one stitch had deserted its brethren. So down it was and back up again. In the afternoon hubby showed me how to cure the ham-in-spe. I added cinnamon and cardamom to the salt for a bit of festivity. Will cook the ham on Wednesday and roast and glaze it on Thursday. Stifado will get cooked at the same time, so that I won't have to spend all day in the kitchen. It's bad enough as it is- already told hubby that he will have to cook the next days or eat at a restaurant. At the moment he is off again for a concert. Good for me, I need time to cool down...
Back home a former student of mine called and asked for a visit. I must be some sort of wailing wall for her. I told her she can come tomorrow afternoon, and for coffee and cookies only. Nothing to do at the weekend anyway. Half an hour later daughter made an appearence. Another half an hour later number one showed up to fix Christmas visit date. He wants to avoid a family confluence- thank you very much! So it's number four from 22nd to 29th, daughter
on 24/25th, family two on Christmas Eve, family number one on Christmas Day, number three and family from 26th to 28th plus sis and all of her family sometime in between. I fear I will be a nervous wreck on New Year's Eve. It was so much easier all of them invading our house for Christmas Eve and be gone two days later...
I did not make walnut cookies today, as I had intended. I knitted a lot. A lot because I had to unravel the last third of a sleeve- one stitch had deserted its brethren. So down it was and back up again. In the afternoon hubby showed me how to cure the ham-in-spe. I added cinnamon and cardamom to the salt for a bit of festivity. Will cook the ham on Wednesday and roast and glaze it on Thursday. Stifado will get cooked at the same time, so that I won't have to spend all day in the kitchen. It's bad enough as it is- already told hubby that he will have to cook the next days or eat at a restaurant. At the moment he is off again for a concert. Good for me, I need time to cool down...
