Well, today we had Maribou’s last post-op doctor’s appointment and they told her “Congrats. You’ve graduated.” We walked out of the doctor’s office on the sunny side of the street and we said “Let’s go to Einstein’s Bagels!” and we drove over and got some breakfast sandwiches and some hash browns and some caffeine.
As we were eating our hash browns, I said something like “these are okay… but I wish that they had alternatives… You know, cheddar hash browns. Oooh! Cheddar *BACON* hash browns!”
Maribou pointed out that these were the only hashbrowns without onions *AND* without black pepper and I thought “man, it’d be awesome to have cheddar, bacon, onion, and black pepper hash browns”. Then she handed me half of my breakfast sandwich (an “All-Nighter“) and we ate and talked and laughed and drove home.
During the second half of the bagel sandwich, I mentioned to Maribou that, yes, this sandwich was good but it wasn’t quite as good as sandwiches that I, myself, have made. And then I realized that some of the best food I’ve ever had was food that *I* have made. And all of that food was food that I made *DURING THE PANDEMIC LOCKDOWN*.
I made a better breakfast sandwich with an English muffin, pepper bacon, and jalapeno cream cheese. Well, until we had a cream cheese shortage anyway.
But I thought about stuff like the most amazing bagel sandwiches that I had made. They involved:
An Everything Bagel
Thick-Cut Pepper Bacon
Jalapeno Cream Cheese
Homemade Scrambled Eggs
Then I started thinking about different meals that I had made. I made a pizza without a fancy pizza stone… then I made a fancy pizza *WITH* a pizza stone.
I made pasta… I made stews…
And then I thought: How horrible it is that the best meals I had ever eaten were due to a pandemic!
And then I finished my personally edited mass-production breakfast sandwich. I don’t want to directly link to much more than the Einstein’s webpage, especially, but I do want to link to my “thinking about what I’ll miss!” column!
So… What’s cooking?
I don’t know. I have to purchase food today, I guess. Tomorrow I don’t want to go out – it’s supposed to be storming, it’s graduation (which I am skipping for Reasons – still having knee pain and faculty parking is pretty far from the graduation site, and I don’t fancy getting dumped on with rain while slow-walking there and back. But also, we had An Incident in my department this past week* and there’s a slim chance the student involved may try something to make a splash. My two most-involved-with-it colleagues are skipping, I decided that since my ability to evacuate if that became necessary would be limited, it’s best to stay home)
I have things to do (preparing a couple sermons for when I come back in June, cleaning my house, planning to pack to go visit my mom) but I am seized with the dunwannas so here it is 10 am and while I have dressed and eaten breakfast and put in a load of laundry, I’ve not done anything else.
(*nothing to do with the protests in many other colleges; this is someone with their own very personal demon that’s coming out in unsettling ways; we’ve had police patrolling the building for the past several weeks and the student’s been escorted off twice but then let back on campus)Report
Eating breakfast and doing laundry is important! “I have accomplished a lot”, you should think as you sit on the couch. “More than most!”Report
Taking Lady Marchmaine to the Alamo (they have passable fish’n’chips believe it or not) to see The Fall Guy … desperately hoping without evidence that it’s something of a dumb action RomCom.
Then our streak of beautiful weather is supposed to turn into cold rain for the weekend… so boo.Report
I asked Maribou if she wanted to go out and see that! She thought for a second and said “Nah.”
So our date tonight involves Everything, Everybody, Something Something. We still haven’t seen it but we’re watching it tonight.Report
I’ll let you know what you missed…
I feel like there’s a Fall Guy / Everythingbodywhere dating meme waiting to happen.Report
EEAAO was a real treat. It felt like a date movie for grown-ups.
I read a whole bunch of essays about it here and twitter wouldn’t shut up about it for half a year or so but I still found myself saying “I have no idea where this is going” every 10 minutes.Report
For about half the movie I was really impressed… felt like a real movie. With people and words and stuff. A plot, a meta-plot, a meta-movie about a movie. Stunts were props to the plot; Stunts were metaphors for love. Foreshadowing about making bad decisions.
Then the writers/movie just started making bad decisions. Where the first half walked the tight-rope of stunts in service to the plot — like a Penn & Teller routine — the second half just said F-it. Stunts for everyone. And wasted a plot that didn’t have to go the way it did.Report
I remember nothing about the television show except that I remember it fondly.
Oh, that’s a bummer. The trailer tickled the heck out of me.Report
Eh… it was still better than another superhero movie. I just could have been tighter. In the end, it was Ken-nough.Report
Forgot to mention that I was thinking during the second half that folks who like pro-wrestling, like JB, would probably enjoy the spectacle of it all. So I wouldn’t advise against seeing it.
But, as a RomCom date movie, no.Report
NOW YOU’RE SPEAKING MY LANGUAGE!
Maribou is well enough to start visiting friends again so she’s going to be out next week.
It’s been a while since I saw a movie in the theater…Report
We are deep into spring sports season for my oldest, meaning I will spend most of the weekend either driving to or at a field somewhere. At least it is supposed to cool down some.
My only hope of anything else is finishing Halo season 2 with my wife. We got sucked into season 1 during a showtime free weekend back in the winter. We waited for all of season 2 to be released and are now trying to binge it before the free week of Paramount+ ends. The show peaks at something like a B-. So enough upside to finish it out but not enough to end up with yet another damn streaming service auto renewing on the credit card.Report
At first I thought your wife was pushing you to get your act together and play Halo 2 on date night… then I realized you meant some sort of TV show. Sad.Report
No, this is the not bad, but also not particularly good tv show. It may not even be as good as the not-a-RomCom-RomCom.
I beat the actual Halo 2 with one of my younger brothers 20 years ago while visiting home for Christmas. No need to waste time doing it again with my wife.Report
My breakfast sandwich is a variation on yours and it’s always a big hit. I’ve even made it as “breakfast for dinner.”Report