I enjoyed a nice weekend. On Saturday, my friend from girlhood, Theresa Jacobi, and I met downtown and queued up at noon to take advantage of free tickets to a new play, Expecting Isabel, that was scheduled at 3:00. Since we had a lot of time, we then walked to Miller's Pub on Wabash and enjoyed a really nice and reasonable lunch......and several drinks a piece. The play, about a Catholic couple in pursuit of pregnancy, was hilarious - maybe it was the drinks but laughter reigned from all corners of the audience, and from the middle, too.
On Sunday, I drove through a gray, misty day to Lisle, IL - about 35 miles. For the past two years, my college classmate's husband has been preparing my income taxes and it is that time, again. We had a lovely wine, delicious hot brie with crackers and wafers, and great conversation. John suggested that I have another glass of wine with the bad news that I owe Uncle Sam over eight hundred dollars. Apparently, DFAS is not withholding enough $$$ for taxes from my Naval Reserve retirement checks. So, I will wait until mid-April to complete the annual obligation to file my tax return.
I have also started to get ready for Cynthia's visit, and the opera, Tosca, next weekend. When she was here for our opera earlier this month, snowy conditions and changed schedules conspired to limit my usually energetic preparations. I never made it to the store but, fortunately, had two nice bottles of wine on hand. We had especially "dirty" martinis made with olive juice - the olives were all gone - and Gordon's gin - Ugh!! I don't know what Cynthia was thinking but, as usual, she was a most gracious guest. My young friend, Noel (deceased Virgil's daughter of 17 eyars), made a batch of her special lasanga. I hope that Cynthia really likes lasanga because we had some before and after the opera and then again the following day before starting our trip to O'Hare Airport for Cynthia's flight home. There will be no repeat of that even though the lasanga (spinach) was excellent and Noel has promised me her special recipe.
Posted by leah at February 21, 2005 10:04 AMStepan and I saw Tosca last year and enjoyed it greatly. He wrote a brief review on his blog. As usual, I didn't get around to posting anything about that particular opera, but we always have a nice time.
Posted by: Jenny on February 21, 2005 05:18 PMThe "snowy conditions" is a huge understatement - the snow storm would have kept anybody indoors. Noel's lasagne was delicious; can't say much for Gilbey's gin however. I'm looking forward to Tosca - one of the grand old dames of opera.
Posted by: Cynthia on February 22, 2005 06:40 AMGlad to see a post from you! Hope that extra glass of wine softened the blow.
You know, I thought it was a typo but you did it three times--it's "lasagna", not "lasanga". Oh wait, I see Mom ended it with an "e". Hmmm...maybe either is okay, as Epicurious has recipes with it spelled with either an -a or an -e on the end. But they all are "gn" rather than "ng".
Must go fix Kayleigh's lunch. Too bad about the taxes! We find out our blow in a couple of weeks from Dale's brother.
Posted by: Elizabeth on February 22, 2005 11:55 AMI know just what you mean about the taxes! Normally, I would have already prepared mine and sent it off in the mail, but since we are filing together this year, the thought of actually doing the taxes is like a cobweb in the corner of the ceiling. You know that cobweb needs to be knocked down, but it is just a fleeting thing running in and out of your brain.
Speaking of wine, when I arrived Monday to clean Mother's house, she had a note propped up on the kitchen table.
"I knocked over a glass of wine near my chair and put salt on it."
Well, you know how well her eyesight isn't. To say the least she might have used one, whole, conservative tablespoon of salt for the entire glass of wine spilt on the carpet. By the way, the RED wine stains reached all the way into the living room! Anyhow, Mother arrives home and gives me a bottle of 'Clear Magic' to spray on the spots. I then got down on my hands and knees with a tire brush and commenced to scrubbing. The carpet had to dry and be vacuumed, so I didn't get to see my handiwork until the next day. I was amazed! All of the wine stains were gone!
Posted by: Theresa on February 22, 2005 10:08 PMThank you, Elizabeth!
Posted by: I2Noticed on February 25, 2005 12:34 PMI thought Mother gave up wine for lent?
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