A wacky day off

The holidays can be stressful so we took a day off to try and spend some nice time together.  Sunday night we baked cookies...or actually Abe baked cookies and I just jumped in here and there.  It wasn't until the cookies were done that he said: I've never actually baked cookies before, not even the pre-made kind.  His methods made a lot more sense once he told me that, I just thought he was being a little strange.  I've never seen packed brown suger dropped into a bowl that was that super packed down!  His butter softening methods were also a little different than I've seen most people do.  It was all a little wacky, but they came out just fine just a little on the super sweet side.

He asked me if I wanted to bake more cookies today and I said no.  Wacky cookie baking is fine in moderation...

This morning we woke up with a purpose!  To get out of the house and enjoy our day off.  I'm obviously ready to battle for a good time.  Our first stop was The Friendly Toast in Kendall Square near MIT.  Everything started out so well!  We were seated immediately, the coffee was nice and strong, and they took our orders promptly.  What happened after that was kind of a disaster.  My breakfast was on the cold side, and after three bites I had consumed something crunchy.  On the fourth bite I realized I was eating egg shells and right there in my huevos rancheros were big white broken pieces.  It's not that hard to crack and egg without dropping shell everywhere, but it happens.

After I ate half this moderately Ok breakfast we really had to get going.  We had plans to see "Up in the Air" very soon so we were really trying to get out of there, but nobody would come get our check.  After being ignored for 10 minutes, Abe just got up and gave his credit card with the check to a host there.  Then what happened?  The waitress came back with our credit card and goes "I'll run this when the credit card machine is free."  It was kind of strange, so after 25 minutes of really bizarre behavior, we finally got out of there and got to our movie just barely in time.  I mean it's a Monday late morning, I hate to see how frazzled they get on the weekends.  The food wasn't good enough for me to even consider going there on a busier day.  It actually wasn't even that good to be quite honest.  Today was the first time that we've gone out to breakfast together in at least 1 year so my expectations were probably on the higher side to be fair. 

We go across the street to the movie theater, buy our tickets, and find our seats.  We're thinking how great it is to be there with only 8 other people: mostly people who are retired or singles.  The movie gets started, we're talking like the actual movie, not the previews or anything - and some lady two seats down starts talking on her cell phone!  I mean really now, who would talk on their cell phone in the movies and she's doing it like it's no big thing....so Abe semi-politely asked her to stop.  It was rude with a capital R!  So how was the movie?  It was completely unexpected, I felt that it was not as the previews portrayed at all.  I liked it and I think most other people will like it too, It didn't entertain my pants off but it was a nice movie.  Next up, I really want to see The Road.  I really love movies that depict the end of the world as we know it...there might be something psychologically wrong with me.

We ended our day of adventures by roasting a nice big chicken.  This sucker was awesome, and now Abe is prepping chicken soup for tomorrow night.  Two nights in a row off from cooking!  It feels like I died and went to husband-cooking-heaven.  I don't think that this long weekend was enough to really perk me up tomorrow, but it was nice to sleep till 10:30 today!