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Reclines on both ends

September 15, 2016 Thursday

6:57AM Sassy

Good morning kid!

7:04AM Phil
Good morning!

7:05AM Sassy
Adore the photos you’re posting this week!

[No… I have no clue now what this refers to!  Oops…sorry for the foibles of a blogger who is stuck in the past!]

2:39PM Sassy
The new couch arrived! It’s blue! It reclines on both ends!


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Inflata-Pub

September 14, 2016 Wednesday

7:49AM Sassy
Good morning kid
8:10AM Phil
Good morning!
8:12AM Sassy
You rocking the beach?
8:13AM Phil
Got that interview and then beach
8:13AM Sassy
Aha.  Hope that goes well.
8:15AM Phil
Me too. I’d like the job but won’t be devastated if I don’t get it. It’s going to be a lot more work. My internal drive and pride say go for it, my brain says, you are going to have to work your ass off.
8:16PM Sassy
Ugh…but you adore work
8:23AM Phil
I like a challenge and my current job is no longer challenging. It’s busy but I could do it for the next 7 years without straining my brain. The new job would require me to think and it’s hard when you are the life of the party to put on a more serious hat as every body’s boss
8:29AM Sassy
There could be other challenges – ask questions to see if this is the right one.

8:43AM Sassy
Out with the old couch! Junk King is coming to take it away this morning!
9:00AM Phil
We will see if they make me an offer. 
Interview went well, now just have to wait and see. 
There are many other opportunities
9:22PM Sassy
Bet you know a use for this!
This Inflatable Irish Pub Turns Your Backyard Into a Bar


http://www.foodandwine.com/fwx/drink/inflatable-irish-pub
The traditional Irish pub, whether in America or in the home country, is nothing without the local history
9:25PM Phil
I could indeed find a use for that


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McDreamy Met Hawkeye

September 13, 2016 Tuesday

[I posted a photo of my cat on my desk on Facebook]

9:11PM Phil
Nothing like pussy on the desk
[devil emoticon] 
9:12PM Sassy
Har har.
Concert good?
I’m moving furniture. Whee.  
They’re taking away our 45 yr old couch tomorrow and bringing a new one on Thursday!

9:04PM Sassy
Ultimate crossover of TV doctors times five! Ha!  Cute ad from CIGNA. 
 

When McDreamy met Hawkeye

http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/television/2016/09/11/when-mcdreamy-met-hawkeye/iwlYEuDtzdeEeVc0VbhDTM/story.html?event=event25

9:29 PM Phil
Ahhhhhhhh, great show


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Good and bad news

September 12, 2016 Monday

3:15PM Sassy
Hiya Handsome!  Hope the beach is fun today!
4:22PM Phil
Beach is fun every day 
4:22PM Sassy
I’m having a good news, bad news day.
My uncle died this morning. 
And Hubby’s dad went into hospice last night.
What a year this is turning into.
4:38PM Phil
Oh I’m so sorry. It’s been a tough one.
4:40PM Sassy
But good news – I had a meet… with a cop!
5:09PM Phil
A cop?  Is he new?
5:11PM Phil 
I have a second interview. 
Not sure what to do if they offer me this job. 
Have to wait and see how it goes.
5:13PM Sassy
Started talking to the guy a week ago…  Soooo nice.
Wow!  Listen carefully to the job details, make sure you want it – not just sell yourself.  More money?
5:49PM Phil
Lot more money
Good deal on the cop!
5:50PM Sassy
Damn…would you still be traveling for work?

5:59PM Sassy
Gold fever wings at The Ninety-Nine.  Yum.
So good I forgot to take photos.  Heh.  

6:17PM Phil
Yeah traveling but adding a wad of salary
6:28PM Sassy
Wowzers


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Chinese and Aussie

September 11, 2016 Sunday

2:27PM Sassy
Dim sum Sunday at Mary Chung’s in Central Square Cambridge

 Suan la chow show (hot & sour wonton soup) 
 Hubby’s beef teryiaki and Peking ravioli
 Small steamer buns with ginger sauce
 The Caribbean Islands festival parade 

7:43PM Sassy
Tried new dishes and old favorites at Outback Steakhouse on Assembly Row in Somerville

Cherry limeade, Hubby’s skinny Rita 
and their signature brown bread
New snacks – fried lobster & shrimp, cheese fondue with pretzels
 Mashed potato soup
 Hubby’s french onion soup
Hubby’s steak teriyaki with chili lime corn
My filet mignon 
with crab bearnaise sauce and mashed potatoes with butter
Salted caramel cookie skillet 
with pieces of white chocolate, almond toffee 
and pretzels and vanilla ice cream on top
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Two new restaurants

September 10, 2016 Saturday

8:03AM Sassy
Good morning kid!

10:19AM Phil
Good morning and a pretty beach morning it is!

10:42AM Sassy
Wow!
What a view!
What a place!

1:54PM Sassy
BBQ breakfast at the new Smoke Shop in One Kendall Cambridge

Open kitchen 
Sauces
Hot link sausage and pimento cheese starter
Hubby’s fried chicken with 2 sides – corn bread and pit beans
My pulled pork plate with 2 sides – corn bread and cole slaw

8:10 PM
My birthday dinner with my other sister and beau at Puritan & Co in Inman Square Cambridge

 Long narrow interior

 Bar and kitchen on the right

 Burrata with heirloom tomatoes
chicken liver pate
My scallop ceviche

 Mushroom pasta

 My baked stuffed lobster

 Creme brulee
A dessert called s’mores that wasn’t that 
but chocolate goodness anyway


9:13PM Phil
[photo of his brother with a wild face at night holding a phone in one hand (for light) and a crab in the other]

Nite creatures

9:45PM Sassy
Yikes. You guys…

So glad you’re having fun.

I can think of one more thing that would make your evening even better… But I’m too shy to say.

9:51PM Phil
Absolutely

9:53PM Sassy
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Defying Gravity

September 9, 2016 Friday

9:52AM Sassy
Happy Friday kid!

10:08AM Phil
Thank you! You too! Interviewing for a job today. I don’t believe I have a shot at it but what the hells

10:11AM Sassy
Wow! Still in DC?

11:53AM Phil
Yea, time to look at options.

I like it here but don’t want to become so entrenched I never want to leave. Same building

12:12PM Sassy
Nice!

12:14PM Phil
Yeah, we will see

1:50PM Phil
Interview went well. 

I was very comfortable

2:10PM Sassy
Hooray!

I just had lunch with The Northerner, going for “dessert” now.
: )

2:55PM Phil
Ah, ooooooooh

5:07PM Sassy
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7:04PM Sassy

Delightful dinner of Asian delicacies! Hubby talked me into going out to Malden to All Seasons Table!

The perfect wonton soup for a wanton woman!  
 Crispy Honey Ribs & Crab Rangoons
The seafood scallion pancake I dream about. Yum!
10:31PM Sassy

A 12 year old… with a VOICE! Wowzers..Simon is SMILING!  

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Make it special

September 8, 2016 Thursday



10:11AM Phil
Happy Birthday sweet girl! Hope your day is extra special!

10:12 AM Sassy
Thanks! Your message helps make it special.

10:13AM Phil
🙂

10:19AM Sassy
I’m still in bed.

10:41AM Phil
Geez, I’ve been working for almost 5 hours. Only time I will be in bed at 1100 ever is if I’m getting lucky or it’s a hospital bed and they have me tied in

10:42AM Sassy
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11:49AM Sassy

I voted! #189 at our precinct for the primary. Whee!

[photo of me with the “I Voted” sticker on my shirt]
2:09PM Sassy

Birthday lunch at a new spot with Sis – Little Donkey in Central Square Cambridge

 Lunch menu
Oysters – rocky neck on the left, kibbo on the right
Spicy ceviche
Mexican corn – this was the best dish by far!
Pickle brined fried chicken sandwich
Lintzer cookies
Open kitchen

9:24PM Sassy
Birthday dinner at Southern Kin on Assembly Row in Somerville

Side of farmhouse buttermilk biscuits with honey butter and jam
Bayou tacos with gater tail, smoked tomato vinaigrette, 
black bean and corn salsa, pickled fresno chili peppers 
in a flour tortilla
Devish eggs with Creole mustard, cayenne and truffle eggs, 
with trout pearls, pickled shallot and Benton’s country ham
Herbed butter basted sirloin with stewed okra, 
tomatoes, hominy and smoked ham hocks, 
and a side of parmesan smokey potato wedges
Fried chicken with fresno pepper maple syrup 
and Louisiana honey hot pepper sauce 
and a side of chipotle creamed corn with famers cheese
Open kitchen
Brown butter bourbon pecan pie 
with chocolate ganache sauce
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Different timelines

September 7, 2016 Wednesday

8:27AM Sassy
Good morning kid!
8:58AM Phil
Good morning!
11:02AM Sassy
Please use your time-speeding-upper doohicky to make this day fly?  I’m off work tomorrow and Friday, so this is my Friday, so I want to be done and outta here!
11:05AM Phil
Ha!  I need it to slow down, I have too much to do and off all of next week
11:06AM Sassy
It’s possible to have different timelines… I think I saw that in a movie somewhere?  
12:49PM Phil
I could use a handful of 16 hour days to work
1:21PM Sassy
Yuck


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Both awesome

September 6, 2016 Tuesday
7:44AM Sassy
Good morning kid
11:13AM Phil
Good morning! 
Back home for a few days 
enjoying the day!
11:27AM Sassy
How was the concert?
11:28PM Phil
Amazing. 
4th time I have seen them, best show yet
11:29AM Sassy
How does he compare to McCartney?
11:34AM Phil
Both awesome but Bruce is such a high energy show and the place just jumps all night long. Everyone knows the lyrics, lot of jumping and arm waving and singing. Fun night. McCartney much more mellow show but warm and friendly and so familiar. Both very engaging with the audience