Today marked my first weekend of more doing, less complaining about not doing. I took Friday off to keep a closer eye on Lulu since this week will be the last of the worst. I ran a few errands: went to the dry cleaners for what seemed like the first time this year, picked up some bird seeds at Petco and set up my new bird feeder.
Later that night I drove up to Little Tokyo to meet up with Max, Vina and Henri for dinner. We arrived a little early for our Sushi Gen reservation so we had Happy Hour at Haru Ulala first. This was my first time at Sushi Gen and I was quite impressed. It's been a while since I've had good sushi and this really reminded me again that the sushi/Japanese selection around home is crap.
On Saturday I woke up a little later than I would have liked but was able to make it to the 1PM Hot Yoga class. This was the first time I've done it so early in the day, luckily it wasn't too hot out. After yoga Max and I went to Mimi's Cafe to share a plate of chicken tenders. They weren't as tasty as I remember them to be in high school but it was a nice, quick, light lunch. (Except for the giant French Onion soup with 1000 grams of sodium.) After our lunch outside we went to Trader Joe's to shop for groceries for dinner. We invited Max's mom and Ivan over to finish up the steaks from Robinson's Prime Reserve.
I looked up a couple of recipes online and decided to make white truffle risotto and butterscotch budino. (The recipe was from Pizzeria Mozza) Both dishes came out good but weren't very popular -- the risotto was too heavy and I think everyone thought the budino was too sweet/flavored. Which is how it's supposed to taste but I didn't have any cookies to help balance it out.
Later that night Yona and Aai came over to spend the night. We had our usual 1-hour of bickering about what tv show/ movie/ netflix/ appleTV to watch and then I called it a night.
Today (Sunday) I work up a little earlier (10am) and made omelets for everyone. After breakfast Max made us all coffee. I took a couple of minutes to prune the garden and realized the empty dirt patches in the front really bugged me so Max and I visited Martinez nursery and Home Depot for some plants. I wanted a perennial or evergreen border around our front steps so we wouldn't have to worry about replacing them all the time but we didn't find much selection. We found more flowers to fill out the front, hopefully they're the type that are evergreen in Southern California. I also took all of our dead/dying cosmos out from the front and replanted the ones that were "salvageable" in the back. Seems like I'm starting a little patch of "random flowers" in the back, let's hope it doesn't grow to look too awkward.
After buying plants we went to play tennis at Shadow Park with my sisters. We did an hour of tennis, did a singles tournament, then played basketball. After I stubbed my toe we abandoned the basketball courts and went to the mall to get some cherry lemonade. Walking into the food court got all of us hungry so we headed to The Loft for a proper dinner.
We came home to a messy house -- the plants we bought earlier had to be planted, the dishes from the morning weren't done, the downstairs was a mess from having 4 dogs running around all day. Of course a cluttered house means a cluttered mind for me so I'm doing a little here and there to get the house presentable so I can relax in these last few hours of the weekend. I guess it's time to mop now.
Later that night I drove up to Little Tokyo to meet up with Max, Vina and Henri for dinner. We arrived a little early for our Sushi Gen reservation so we had Happy Hour at Haru Ulala first. This was my first time at Sushi Gen and I was quite impressed. It's been a while since I've had good sushi and this really reminded me again that the sushi/Japanese selection around home is crap.
On Saturday I woke up a little later than I would have liked but was able to make it to the 1PM Hot Yoga class. This was the first time I've done it so early in the day, luckily it wasn't too hot out. After yoga Max and I went to Mimi's Cafe to share a plate of chicken tenders. They weren't as tasty as I remember them to be in high school but it was a nice, quick, light lunch. (Except for the giant French Onion soup with 1000 grams of sodium.) After our lunch outside we went to Trader Joe's to shop for groceries for dinner. We invited Max's mom and Ivan over to finish up the steaks from Robinson's Prime Reserve.
I looked up a couple of recipes online and decided to make white truffle risotto and butterscotch budino. (The recipe was from Pizzeria Mozza) Both dishes came out good but weren't very popular -- the risotto was too heavy and I think everyone thought the budino was too sweet/flavored. Which is how it's supposed to taste but I didn't have any cookies to help balance it out.
Later that night Yona and Aai came over to spend the night. We had our usual 1-hour of bickering about what tv show/ movie/ netflix/ appleTV to watch and then I called it a night.
Today (Sunday) I work up a little earlier (10am) and made omelets for everyone. After breakfast Max made us all coffee. I took a couple of minutes to prune the garden and realized the empty dirt patches in the front really bugged me so Max and I visited Martinez nursery and Home Depot for some plants. I wanted a perennial or evergreen border around our front steps so we wouldn't have to worry about replacing them all the time but we didn't find much selection. We found more flowers to fill out the front, hopefully they're the type that are evergreen in Southern California. I also took all of our dead/dying cosmos out from the front and replanted the ones that were "salvageable" in the back. Seems like I'm starting a little patch of "random flowers" in the back, let's hope it doesn't grow to look too awkward.
After buying plants we went to play tennis at Shadow Park with my sisters. We did an hour of tennis, did a singles tournament, then played basketball. After I stubbed my toe we abandoned the basketball courts and went to the mall to get some cherry lemonade. Walking into the food court got all of us hungry so we headed to The Loft for a proper dinner.
We came home to a messy house -- the plants we bought earlier had to be planted, the dishes from the morning weren't done, the downstairs was a mess from having 4 dogs running around all day. Of course a cluttered house means a cluttered mind for me so I'm doing a little here and there to get the house presentable so I can relax in these last few hours of the weekend. I guess it's time to mop now.
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