Thanksgiving dinner went well at my mother-in-law’s. I ate so much stuffing.
Yesterday morning I made waffles with our new waffle maker.
It’s a very nice waffle maker (thanks again
The waffles turned out great. I’ll have to pick up some blueberries for next time and start experimenting with different recipes.
Unfortunately I made the mistake of starting to make the waffles before Michael checked his email for the morning (he had to work yesterday). He ended up having to spend a couple hours putting out fires on a server because of a datacenter screwup. No waffles for him :(
Around noon I got some paperwork together and headed over to the local Fast Tags office to file the paperwork to get my name changed on my license. It cost me $17 to do it through them, I’m not sure what the DMV would have charged me (if anything), but it’s worth $17 not to have to go to the DMV. After getting that done, I swung by the bank to change my name there. I then went by the local beer store to pick up a case of Wild Goose: Snow Goose Winter Ale that Michael had reserved earlier in the week.
When I came home Michael made a fire in the fireplace and we decided that we didn’t want to eat dinner at home. Michael called up David and Constance to see if they were interested in going out to dinner. Luckily they were! So we met them at our place and headed out for a fantastic meal at the Parc Bistro in Skippack.
Michael and I had been to the Parc Bistro while on the Skippack Strut this past summer, but never had gone there for a real meal. Their menu has all sorts of fancy dishes, as well as some wood oven pizzas. We all started our meal with some Lobster Bisque, which was good but I think it was a bit too buttery for my tastes. Our drink choices varied a lot more than our appetizer choices though, I really wasn’t in the mood for wine, in spite of their impressive wine list, so I got my hands on a Hopdevil from the tap, yum. David went with a bottle of the Grand Reserve Chimay. Michael started off with the Hopdevil and moved to a nice red wine that Constance also enjoyed. For dinner I couldn’t help but order from their wood oven pizza menu, boy do they make a good Buffalo Chicken Pizza(tangy buffalo sauce with grilled chicken, Longhorn Colby, celery and finished with creamy blue cheese dressing.)! Michael ordered the Day Boat Swordfish and Butter Poached Lobster (over creamy orzo pasta with mascarpone cheese, wild mushrooms, grape tomatoes, spinach and chive oil.), which I had my eye on but held off because we’re going to Maine in a month and I don’t want to spoil my craving for lobster before I get there ;D
By the end of the meal we were all too stuffed to have dessert (which is ashame, their dessert menu was IMPRESSIVE). I was also battling a nasty case of heartburn that snuck up on me, no fun. After dinner we headed back to the house and relaxed in front of the fireplace for a while, Caligula certainly was happy to have some friends over, he wouldn’t leave them alone. I don’t remember exactly when they left, but it was after 10 and I went to bed soon afterwards.
Today. At 9 this morning I called PECO to dispute a crazy natural gas charge on our bill, ten times what it usually is. I’m tempted to blabber on for a huge paragraph about how horrible the hour I spent on the phone with horrible customer service people was, but I’ll spare you. The charge is now “Under Investigation.” I blew off the steam from the lousy experience by helping Michael rake leaves outside this morning.
And now I am sitting on the couch with Caligula enjoying a quiet afternoon. Michael is making chicken and garlic mashed potatoes for dinner %d