Saturday, January 19, 2008

cooking, buying, brunching

It's the weekend and I'm actually home. Well, not only that but I'm watching christina cooks - not my wife, christina, cooking but a show on one of our local pbs affiliates called 'christina cooks.' It's a vegan cooking show in which christina's husband (again, not me) performs folk music on the intro and outro to the show. I've decided that I'd like to learn how to play the slide guitar. I'll try and take lessons from an alt-country musician friend of ours and perhaps, in time, I'll be able to play transition music while my wife, christina, cooks.

As already stated, I'm home on the weekend. Many of you don't know this but I recently got a promotion at work which gives me a much better schedule and rate of pay in return for worrying about stuff and trying hard. I'm now a buyer which means I, solely, determine my own product mix and interact with our vendors ordering and receiving product. Naturally, this occurs on weekdays so I'll get at least one weekend day off every week. Nice, I know. Hopefully I can use these skills I've gained to eventually do this type of work for a locally owned business; at which point I can cut some of the overwhelming cognitive dissonance.

In other news, xtina is leaving our store this week for the downtown location. She's bummed about saying goodbye to all her coworker friends but she knows she'll be treated better at a different store. She's giving some consideration into going back to school these days so she may not have to worry about it for too long.

Today, on our quest to conquer every vegetarian restaurant in the city, we 'brunched' at Victory's Banner, a brunch place dedicated to studying the Indian Spiritual Master Sri Chinmoy. The flavors were on the okay side but everything had serious textural problems. Despite the choices we have in vegetarian dining, it seems when we visit a new place we spend the meal talking about how much we love Marie Catribs. Oh how I miss Marie's.

Well, I smell cookies in the kitchen. It appears 'christina cooks' has inspired christina to cook.