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Weekend Activities and Updates
Jul. 27th, 2015 08:23 pmThere are enough unconnected things from this weekend that I suspect it’s easiest to bullet point them.
- We got take out from Ahri’s Kitchen on Friday. It’s very tasty Korean food, though bimbim rice isn’t anywhere near as much fun without the stone bowl, so you might as well just get the dumbop. (ARR was happy to eat the bulgogi dumbop, though he was fascinated with chopsticks and made Jethrien feed him with them.)
- The other day, we found a purple ¾-size Hannah Montana guitar that someone had put out in a “free” pile. One of the strings was broken and the others were in lousy shape. Jethrien wanted to just remove the broken string and let ARR go to town on it, but I’ve got it in my head that having a real guitar that can actually be tuned and played would be somehow beneficial to our lives. So I dropped it off at the local music shop to have all the strings replaced. Updates to come on what ARR thinks about it in the future.
- Naptime was rough this weekend, but we did make it happen. On both days, we let it go late (2pm+), and then I wrestled ARR into his bed and dealt with a round of wailing before he fell asleep. On Saturday I then went and took a nap myself, and was awoken two hours later when ARR came over to my room, and snoozed another ten minutes in bed with me.
- In random ARR allergy news, his ear swelled up like crazy when he got bitten by a mosquito on Saturday, which was a little disturbing but didn’t seem to bother him much, and looks like it’s getting better today. On the other hand, he ate a few bites of fried egg on Sunday morning and didn’t seem to have any ill effects. Too early to hope on a lot of fronts, but we’ll watch it and test some more.
- Andi and Owen came over for dinner and games on Saturday night. ARR adores Andi (we first met her when we took him to her music classes), and was in full showoff mode with his ukulele.
- Among other things, they brought a bunch of fresh lychees, which ARR was very excited about and ate a ton of. Granted, ARR has yet to meet a fruit he doesn’t like, but Jethrien spent a good chunk of dinnertime peeling and pitting lychees so that ARR could scarf them.
- We played Ugg-Tect for the first time after hearing about it for a while, and discovered that it’s a game that benefits from practice. The gimmick is that you need to direct your partner to build a monument out of various pieces, but can only speak in caveman grunts and gestures from a predetermined set. Jethrien and I were severely slowed by having to look up all of the grunts on the card, but fared better in the second round.
- We also played 7 Wonders, which I had played once before and was new to Jethrien. It’s a fun game with a variety of win conditions and a limited ability to screw yourself early on (which is nice), though I was annoyed at myself for screwing up a military victory and coming in dead last in the points total.
- On Sunday morning, I tried a “weeknight smoking recipe” for pork loin, which involves splitting it in half, pounding it flat, searing it on the grill or in a pan, and then smoking it for a little over an hour. It came out quite nicely, though the commercial Bacon Rub was only okay, and I think my homemade rubs have been better. I also did some chicken breasts with the sweet BBQ rub and a two-hour applewood smoke. They were as good as I expected; and my parents seemed very appreciative.
- I also made some bread in my bread machine, which I really should be doing more of. I can set a bunch of ARR-safe recipes in the morning with the delay timer and have them ready for dinner. (In general, I think baking yeast breads and smoking meat should end up going hand-in-hand, because they both involve a lot of downtime but needing to be home to monitor.)
- Ivy03, Xannoside and M came over on Sunday afternoon to hang out, which was mostly sitting and schmoozing, though they did get exposed to the Blue’s Room episode “Snacktime Playdate” when ARR woke up cranky and wanted to watch it. It’s currently among his favorite videos.
- We got take out from Ahri’s Kitchen on Friday. It’s very tasty Korean food, though bimbim rice isn’t anywhere near as much fun without the stone bowl, so you might as well just get the dumbop. (ARR was happy to eat the bulgogi dumbop, though he was fascinated with chopsticks and made Jethrien feed him with them.)
- The other day, we found a purple ¾-size Hannah Montana guitar that someone had put out in a “free” pile. One of the strings was broken and the others were in lousy shape. Jethrien wanted to just remove the broken string and let ARR go to town on it, but I’ve got it in my head that having a real guitar that can actually be tuned and played would be somehow beneficial to our lives. So I dropped it off at the local music shop to have all the strings replaced. Updates to come on what ARR thinks about it in the future.
- Naptime was rough this weekend, but we did make it happen. On both days, we let it go late (2pm+), and then I wrestled ARR into his bed and dealt with a round of wailing before he fell asleep. On Saturday I then went and took a nap myself, and was awoken two hours later when ARR came over to my room, and snoozed another ten minutes in bed with me.
- In random ARR allergy news, his ear swelled up like crazy when he got bitten by a mosquito on Saturday, which was a little disturbing but didn’t seem to bother him much, and looks like it’s getting better today. On the other hand, he ate a few bites of fried egg on Sunday morning and didn’t seem to have any ill effects. Too early to hope on a lot of fronts, but we’ll watch it and test some more.
- Andi and Owen came over for dinner and games on Saturday night. ARR adores Andi (we first met her when we took him to her music classes), and was in full showoff mode with his ukulele.
- Among other things, they brought a bunch of fresh lychees, which ARR was very excited about and ate a ton of. Granted, ARR has yet to meet a fruit he doesn’t like, but Jethrien spent a good chunk of dinnertime peeling and pitting lychees so that ARR could scarf them.
- We played Ugg-Tect for the first time after hearing about it for a while, and discovered that it’s a game that benefits from practice. The gimmick is that you need to direct your partner to build a monument out of various pieces, but can only speak in caveman grunts and gestures from a predetermined set. Jethrien and I were severely slowed by having to look up all of the grunts on the card, but fared better in the second round.
- We also played 7 Wonders, which I had played once before and was new to Jethrien. It’s a fun game with a variety of win conditions and a limited ability to screw yourself early on (which is nice), though I was annoyed at myself for screwing up a military victory and coming in dead last in the points total.
- On Sunday morning, I tried a “weeknight smoking recipe” for pork loin, which involves splitting it in half, pounding it flat, searing it on the grill or in a pan, and then smoking it for a little over an hour. It came out quite nicely, though the commercial Bacon Rub was only okay, and I think my homemade rubs have been better. I also did some chicken breasts with the sweet BBQ rub and a two-hour applewood smoke. They were as good as I expected; and my parents seemed very appreciative.
- I also made some bread in my bread machine, which I really should be doing more of. I can set a bunch of ARR-safe recipes in the morning with the delay timer and have them ready for dinner. (In general, I think baking yeast breads and smoking meat should end up going hand-in-hand, because they both involve a lot of downtime but needing to be home to monitor.)
- Ivy03, Xannoside and M came over on Sunday afternoon to hang out, which was mostly sitting and schmoozing, though they did get exposed to the Blue’s Room episode “Snacktime Playdate” when ARR woke up cranky and wanted to watch it. It’s currently among his favorite videos.
