#452

Weekend Round-Up

Being a fourth year is nice because Tom and I have been able to see each other just about every other weekend. So Tom being Tom was able to fly Upstate Friday night and land half an hour early (!) in the middle of the "snowicaine." He sneezed at our 2 feet of snow, finding it unimpressive compared to NYC. (But I did hear him complain on Sunday that it was still snowing. So I think Upstate won. Huzzah.)

The downside to being early was that I had not yet finished my apartment-wide spit and shine and there was the niggling matter of the garbage to take out and the shower curtain to re-hang. I made it in the snow, and home we went to a comforting dinner of shrimp scampi and Caesar salad. Tom's been complaining about feeling full lately and wanting to eat better, and I managed to send him to bed hungry. Huzzah times two.

On Saturday we ate tuna with lime and horseradish sandwiches, carrot sticks, and an apple for lunch, and Tom was again hungry. We made our way in the snow to our favorite mid-century modern furniture store and wound up buying a lot of stuff (to be cataloged in an upcoming post). Saturday night was the medical school "prom," and we had a great time even if we were an hour late - de rigueur in NYC, a huge no-no Upstate. It was "lady in red" night, so my raspberry Anthropolige-cum-rehearsal dinner dress fit right in, even if I tarted it up with a brown belt, fake enamel earrings, and my wedding shoes.

Don't you just love ugly party photos? And yes, you really do get fat after the wedding.

On Sunday, we played old people and watched "CBS Sunday Morning," which was quite good and devoted to personal finance. We watched a couple of tv shows on Hulu before Tom convinced me to finally sate his hunger at a fast food joint that shall remain nameless. We picked up these two books at the local Barnes & Noble, and then closed out our wedding registry at Williams-Sonoma with a frying pan, a 3 qt sauce pan, pie weights, biscuit cutters, and a cake pan. The sun poked through the clouds - Tom even declared Upstate beautiful - and we drove home. Dinner was a Smitten Kitchen night with chana masala, cumin-spiced vegetables, raita, and apricot and blackberry hamantaschen in honor of Purim.





Tom was surprisingly complimentary towards my cooking, but it may have been the red wine, the beer, and his new favorite show, "Undercover Boss." (Yes, we skipped the closing ceremonies.) Huzzah times three.

Off to bed at 1 AM, up at 4 for Tom's flight home. Emergency medicine started today, I have my first shift doing procedures tomorrow. Here's hoping I sew and puncture and cut with steady hands.