Jon

Finally, around two in the morning on Friday, I got home. Friday I slept in, and yesterday I even overslept in. Today I dialed it back and hopefully I'll be able to get up on time, or near on time, for work tomorrow.

It's good to be home.

It's also a good week to be shopping at the farmer's markets in Seattle, especially if you like cherries. At the U District Farmer's market yesterday, I saw sour cherries, and said aha! Now there's sour cherry soup cooling in the fridge, for dessert or maybe a light dinner. Yesterday, we also bought Rainier and Van cherries, about two pounds total, almost all of which I munched on while watching movies. There's about a half-pound of Rainiers left that I'm hoping to not eat until at least later tonight. Today, I bought more Van cherries, since they were so sweet, and made spiced brandied cherries, which are currently in the fridge. Sadly, I'll have to wait two days to eat them. I'm not quite sure how I'll manage.

Did lots of other prep cooking this weekend: cleared out scraps from the freezer and made several quarts of veggie stock; made mayonnaise; made zingy cucumber salad (with red onion, rice vinegar, bell pepper, and red pepper flakes). Basically got in a good position for eating well this week.

What else? Not much. Travel for work was tough, but I managed. (Nine days! Five states!) em_yrt was in town for a conference, so ironheadjane and I went out to dinner with her Friday. I'm not quite ready to go back to work, but I know there's more than enough to do... I'm dreading it more than a little, not because I don't want to be there, I just don't want to have to catch up.