Shanghai Gate

Wednesday, July 2, 2014
8:15am
Good morning! Another scorching day.  Here’s to a wonderful Wednesday!   My guy is visiting tonight.

12:58pm Phil 
Scorcher here too! Enjoy the day and the dude.

6:16pm
Yummy Chinese dinner @Shanghai Gate, Allston

 Cheese rolls with duck sauce 
 Beef dumplings and Lions Head meatball
Spicy Mountain Chicken and 
Yu Shiang Pork with Chinese bread

Dinners

July 2014
Tuesday, July 1, 2014
     
8:05am
Good morning Philip!  Hope you have a terrific Tuesday! 
We’re headed to the 90s!  It’s July for sure!

8:06am Phil 
Us too! Good morning! Long days for me but long weekend coming!

6:29pm
Dinner with Mom at Pizzeria Uno’s in Burlington.  Their chicken parm is pretty good.  

9:10pm Phil 
Dinner, drunken noodles
9:34pm 
Ooh! That seafood looks delicious!

9:43pm Phil 
Was wonderful!

9:44pm 
That on Uncle Sam?

9:44pm Phil 

Yeah man! Uncle Sugar

10:01pm 
Where are you tonight?

10:27pm Phil
Away for work

My rock

Monday, June 30, 2014
8:10am
Good morning kid!  Thanks for calling!  And for the tips for Kris.
You are my rock. 
Have a marvelous Monday!

10:55am Phil 

You too!
4:35pm
Amazing Italian lunch with my sister and one of her best pals from college @Toscano in Harvard Square

 Pasta e fagioli soup
 Caprese salad with local burrata, Beefsteak tomatoes and basil
 Rigatoni Toscano with 
double-smoked bacon and tomato cream sauce 
6:39pm
Tried another new restaurant with Hubby – Dumpling House.  Tasty – not as good as Mary Chung’s but they have dim sum every day!  
 Mini soup dumplings and a spring roll 
 Peking ravioli
Yu shiang pork

The last letter

Sunday, June 29, 2014
9:37am
Good morning kid!  Another bunch of great photos yesterday!  I had a fun lunch with Mom and my niece. Then my guy came over and hung out.  He makes me smile. Have a great Sunday!

9:38am Phil 

He doing ok? I know how hard that is
Glad you are having a good weekend

9:41am 

He is doing incredibly well.  He got a text saying “check your mailbox” so he’s thinking that can’t be good.  Trying to decide if I can go with him to find out.  Hubby is being a great sport about having him around.

Amazing to have a guy around who picks up after himself and does stuff around my place!  And touches me…

9:42am Phil 
Hubby has his girl around there so you should be able to have your guy, right? 
I’m guessing the mailbox contains divorce papers

Nice when it’s a partnership.

9:45am
If she went right to that without ever talking to him?  Wow…

9:47am Phil 

Some women are like that.  She doesn’t sound like a real stable one

9:48am 

I dunno.  I can understand.  
If her son handed her a pile of our email?  ugh.

9:50am Phil 
That would be all she needs to make a case. Kids always pick a side but expect you to remain neutral where they are concerned.
 9:53am 
*sigh  I am so lucky to have friends like you who get it…

10:04am Phil 

I’m the last person to be judgmental. 
Too many people trapped in marriages they no longer enjoy

10:07am 
He loves her, wants to stay with her… figures he’s the one who gets caught.  Most of my online pals wouldn’t mind getting out.

10:16am Phil 
That sucks

10:39am Phil 
Never go to the house

12:02pm 

I learned that lesson last weekend!
No more closets!

1:05pm Phil 
There you go. Learn lessons along the way.

1:06pm

We’re driving to NH. Think good thoughts for him and me.

7:42pm Phil 
How did it go?

7:42pm
Mailbox had letter from wife. She’s moving far away to live with daughter, filing for legal separation, wants no contact.

He stayed calm, took me out for supper on Lake Winnipesaukee.  

He has some big decisions to make.

7:47pm Phil 

That’s what I thought. Sorry it worked out that way

7:50pm
Tough to know what to do.  He let me read it.

Definitely busted

Saturday, June 28, 2014
       
8:11am
Whoa… that’s a bunch of beer!  You had fun?  How’s your pal down there?  Is he retired too now?

My guy is definitely busted – his son hacked his Yahoo account.  Ugh.  Told his entire family!

Have a great Saturday!

12:45pm
Had a great lunch at McDonald’s with Mom and my niece.  She adores the playground there.  And McNuggets.  Heh.

Friday lily

Friday, June 27, 2014
7:16am
Good morning!  TGIF!

Been busy listening to Kris – looks like his wife found out.  Ugh.

8:13am Phil 
Good morning. Oh boy, that’s not such a bad thing if he’s prepared to leave. Not good if he’s not. You doing ok? 

I’m very happy to be back near the beach this week for work.  Just glad it’s Friday. 12-14 hour days wear me out! Have a great Friday!

8:39am
Here’s a lily for your Friday!  Stunning color!

10:53pm Phil 
Just a small beer
[photo of him with a HUGE beer stein]

Beer and tequila

Wednesday, June 25, 2014

8:01am Phil 

Had a wonderful evening of beer and tequila on the beach. 
Have a great day Sass!

 8:16am

Good morning!  I adored those photos – looked like a perfect Philip night!

8:19am Phil 

It certainly was!

Instacart

Tuesday, June 24, 2014
7:43am
Good morning!   Yesterday was CALM!  Thank goodness.   
I had enough drama Sunday to last me at least a year!

11:20pm
I may never go to a grocery store again!  You know how I hate shopping.  I found a grocery delivery service – they’re offering free delivery to new customers and it’s only $3.99 after that. The web site is easy – lots of stores to choose from (Shaw’s, Market Basket, Whole Foods, Harvest Co-op and Costco), lots of products (or you can type in others), then a very personable personal shopper goes and brings it to you within a couple of hours. What a concept!  I’ve tried Peapod and Roche Brothers but they’re both next day and that never seems to work with my schedule.   This may be really useful for events at work too.

It’s a huge time saver!  I can say “load in what I bought last time,” tweak it and hit send!

So instead of touching groceries six times and lugging them around (into the cart, onto the conveyor, into bags, into the car, out of the car, into the house), they put them in my kitchen and I put them away!  You should see if they have them in your area.

https://www.instacart.com



Fun while working

Monday, June 23, 2014
6:20am Phil 
Hope everything worked out ok last night

7:57am

Good morning kid. He brought me home at 2 am. 
Where I found Hubby’s gf!  He took her home.  
What a weird night!  
Thanks again for listening!

7:57pm Phil 

Geez. What a nite

7:58pm 

You full of beer and brats?
7:59pm Phil 
Yup!
[mouthwatering photo of German food – brats, potato salad, sauerkraut!]
 7:59pm Phil
[photo of him toasting me with a big beer sitting outside at a restaurant]
8:56pm
Oh my!  Looks so delicious!  (and the food looks good too) 
8:57pm Phil 
[photo of him with a co-worker at the restaurant]
8:58pm Phil 
Ha, you kill me. 
Trying to have some fun while working

9:25pm

I believe that is not allowed! 
9:28pm Phil 
That’s what they tell me. Fuck em

Hiding in the closet

Sunday, June 22, 2014
10:07am
Good morning from NH!  Another gorgeous day!  I woke Kris up the right way.   Hope it’s a lovely Sunday for you!
11:08am Phil 
Good morning! Awesome! Glad you are having a great weekend. Driving to the beach

11:12am 

Well…his W just showed up!  They let her out to go to church and she stopped by.
I am hiding in the closet!!!!
11:15am Phil 
That’s funny as hell!

11:15am
Arrgh!
Thank goodness I had cleaned up and stowed all my stuff

11:17am Phil 
I am literally laughing my ass off
been bad with toys everywhere

11:18am 
don’t even think that! !

11:19am Phil 
I’m still laughing

11:19am
Yeah, bad luck that she arrived but he had a good plan 
and we were lucky it wasn’t worse
We had gone over where to go etc
Ugh. Never a dull moment with this guy!

11:21am Phil 

This stuff happens, at least you weren’t out on a window ledge

11:21am 

My mom liked him.  He charmed her at lunch yesterday. 
She told him “secrets” about me when I went to the bathroom!

11:22am Phil 

Always a good thing

11:23am
Thanks for listening.   Wife left and we’re off to the boat!

Oh… he told her about the Harley.  She was screaming at him. So hard to have to listen to that!

11:24am Phil 

Have fun! Oysters and beer for me
Great!!!!

11:26am

Yum.  I’m hoping for lobster tonight,  pull up to a river side place in Essex

11:27am Phil 
Awesome!  
I’m a simple boy. Oysters, some shrimp and a cold one on the beach
Enjoy the lobster!

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11:24pm 

I am such a mess.

11:29pm Phil 

What’s up?

11:30pm 
We had a wonderful day on his boat, then dinner, went to his place and…
 his wife was there!

11:31pm Phil 
Oh boy. Bad scene?

11:31pm 

He drove past and pulled over down the road.  
She drove out and saw him

11:32pm Phil 
You ok girl?

11:32pm
I’m alone at Applebee’s waiting for him

He drove off.  She followed him, beeping her horn
I ducked down

11:33pm Phil 

Does not sound like a good thing
11:33pm 
She pulled along side, screaming at him to pull over

11:34pm Phil 
Oh boy

11:35pm 

He sped up and lost her, high speed chase with the boat attached!
He dropped me off at the closest restaurant

11:36pm Phil 

At least you did not get caught in the middle of sex

11:36pm 

True!
11:36pm Phil 
That would have been bad

11:39pm 

Applebees closes at 12… 
not sure what to do if he doesn’t return by then

11:40pm Phil 
Where is your car?
Take a cab to your car

11:41pm

at home in Boston an hour away – I’m in NH… no cabs
I can call Hubby I guess

11:42pm Phil 
Oh shit
May be your only option

11:43pm

Ugh.  Why is there always a catch?

11:44pm Phil 

That’s life! What makes it interesting

11:51pm

Ha ha.  I hope this night gets dull soon!
The 25 year old waiter is hitting on me.  Sigh

12:01am Phil 

Just hope you get home ok

12:03am 

He just texted.  he is returning for me.
The waiter said I can stay for at least an hour while they clean up.
I may ask to go home.
Thanks kid.

12:04am Phil 

Awesome

12:04am 

Guys come and go, but you’re always here to listen! Whee!

12:05am Phil 

Good luck Sass