Out of the House!

In a desperate attempt to break out of my self imposed year + long isolation (I'm coming out of this really long depression/anxiety cycle), I went and hung out with friends! Out of the house! Without Jack and Z-bean! Just friends, and me! It was amazing.

I hung out with L. and Rebex. They are both friends with this dude, C (who I am becoming friends with as well -- he's awesome, a foodie with a 130$ bottle of balsamic vinegar -- who would turn down that friendship??), who works at a swwwaaaannnnky restaurant in a swwwaaaannnky hotel here. He's a politically progressive, foodie, really kind, just all around good guy.

He invited us down, so we went. He let us sit in this private room full of gangster style booths -- brown leather, huge, almost circular, with little round tables in the middle. Then he gave us the menu and said, "Order anything!" So, we did! Mmm... we had phillo covered Bree; a salmon plate with smoked salmon, with dill mustard, hard boiled egg, olives, onions, and capers; and an artichoke dip with a crusty bread. Then he brought us desserts -- home made vanilla ice cream (made with real vanilla beans!) over grilled pineapple; ice cream over a chocolate bunt cake filled with a chocolate liquor; and ice cream over a peach dish covered in home made, organic oatmeal. We decided that is where we needed to go to make our plans to overthrow the Patriarchy.

We hung out, talked, helped Luci with her math homework, and finally stumbled out with a food hangover, just a bit to late at night. Wonderful!

I got home and Jack has made a lot of progress painting the walls! They are going to be really nice when they are done. I'm super excited to have color in our house again. The things I really do miss about the condo are the nice floors and my beautiful ceiling. Hopefully we will be able to get the floors redone in this place -- but probably not for a year or so. I think we need to prove to the land-lady that we're not going to just paint the place and take off! The living room is going to be a reddish on two walls and a yellowish on two walls (trust me, this does not actually look like ketchup and mustard -- we were super careful about that!), the kitchen is going to be a sunny yellow color, Zoe's room is going to be light blue, and our room is going to be a pretty greenish. I will post photos when we are done!

Went to bed, talked with Jack for a long time and finally crashed out.
Now, off to work after swigging my coffee.