Friday night found me at the grocery store. Remind me never to go food shopping on Friday night again. It was a mob scene. I only needed a few things because I went to Trader Joe’s earlier in the week, but of course I got more than I needed because I love food and was hungry when I was shopping. It’s true that one should never grocery shop on an empty stomach. After food shopping, went to the liquor store for wine for my dinner party, and then to the produce stand for the veggies for my dinner party meal. I collapsed after putting everything away. I woke up about 6 times that night with explosive diarrhea cause I wasn’t suffering enough with my cold.
Got up yesterday morning at 7:30 AM with my ass on fire (but my stomach was better) and started cleaning. You know, the nooks and crannies kind of cleaning. I organized my shelves and cabinets. It took me 4 hours to get through my whole place. And when I was finished, it was awesome. I started cooking dinner at 4 PM and my guests arrived at 5 PM. The dinner was being served early because there was a small child coming and it wouldn’t be right to keep a 5 year old waiting until 6 or 7 to eat. The dinner was everything I love about dinner parties…everyone talking at once, sounds of hmmmm coming from people’s mouths, lots of wine consumed, and people rubbing their tummies from being full. I can honestly say that my dinner kicked ass. After dinner, we set the child up with a movie and toys in my living room while we adults played poker in my kitchen. They ended up bringing dessert, as I was in no mood to bake yesterday. We had cheesecake and it was yummy. I ended up winning most of the poker hands, even though I’m totally rubbish at bluffing or anything like that. I just had good cards. Everyone left around 9:30 and I cleaned up.
I didn’t do anything today. I didn’t even cook. I was going to make lasagna, but my couch was so comfortable. I feel like it’s midnight and it’s only 7:30. One of those days, huh?
I’m so glad this week is a short work week. I wish I had more fun stuff to talk about but my energy is sapped. I did post the recipe for the dish I served at my dinner party on The Home Cook. And I offered some tips on handjobs at Coquettishly if you’re more in the mood for sexual instruction talk. Sorry for shamelessly plugging my other blogs, but not sorry enough to never do it again. Oh, I need to shut up before I ramble on and kill you all with boredom.
Sheesh, this post sucks big time. I know it. I’ll do better next time.
Fresh Air Lover 
I grew up in New Jersey but have not lived there for many, many years. Nice to hear they have Trader Joe’s now.
Rhea
The Boomer Chronicles
Sounds like your dinner party was a success! I love those types of dinners.
Your dinner party sounds like it was lovely! I love it when people make yummy noises 😀
Oh, and Fresh, never go food shopping on a friday night again. 😉
I heart Trader Joe’s, they have a fantastic Barolo for the next time you make Italian. I’ll get the name for you next time I am in.
Please dont apologize for ramblin some of us love rambles…..
your dinner party sounds great
Great post Deb, don’t knock it, it’s the music of ordinary life.
the scribe: Love Trader Joe’s.
yllwdaisies: I love those kinds of dinners too. It was lots of fun.
HDD: Yummy noises are the best. No, I’ll never do it again. It was horrible.
lily: Oh, yes get the name of it.
RR: And I can ramble…
conan: Stress on the word ordinary.
They have a Trader Joe’s in the city now too.
I want to have a dinner party. All I need to do first is get a couch, a table, some more plates and glasses, more than one pot and learn how to cook. Yup.
Sounds like a faboo weekend, dahlink! (except for the exploding poo)
Don’t apologize for the plugs. Look at it as keeping us informed.
Hope your tummy’s all better!
We have all been there!!! I need a good on the couch just watching the DVR day 🙂 I kind of think we all need to recharge sometime!!!
Hope your tummy and your cold are better!!!!
I’m glad to hear your dinner party went well. Poker – love Texas hold’em.
HD and I went shopping on Thursday when both of us were hungry. It’s bad enough when you go alone but to have another person there with you is even worse. We went in to get some Coke Zero, milk and cheese, that’s it, didn’t need anything else at all. We came out with over 100 bucks worth of food. Unreal!! But we’re set for a long time to come at least.
Reminder: Don’t ever go shopping on Friday or Saturday either or on an empty stomach.
Dull post, my ass. Once I hit the Coquettishly link, my interest level went to 11. Nicely done.
S: It’ll all come together for you.
mg: Yeah, that exploding poo wasn’t fun.
katrice: I do try my best to keep everyone informed.
history: Yeah, but I think I could have at least worked out yesterday. I haven’t worked out in over a week.
katrina: I can’t play Texas Hold’em because I’m not good at bluffing. Everything I think is on my face.
DD: Well, this post was dull. I figured that I could do the men in the world a service by giving some handjob pointers from a woman’s perspective. I’m all about the lovin’.
(Could someone maybe show me where the cold showers are? No, I mean the ice cold showers. Thank you.)
Trader Joe’s is this california store, that when I was down there or everytime I’m out there, I love going there for only a box of cereal that I can’t get out here in NY. But now there is a trader’s spot in downtown union square. So I was happy. But now I found my favorite cereal somewhere else. So now why would I like trader joe’s now? I need a donut.
um, I had fire butt Saturday night. It wasn’t fun. Damn that hotdog at the Hockey game!
There was nowt dull about this post Debbie. Splendid.
Oh, and my day got much better when I clicked the Coquettishly link.
I love dinner parties! Lasagna was my mom’s favorite meal to cook for non-holiday parties. On the holidays we either had ham or turkey with mashed potatoes, gravy, dinner rolls, and fruit salad.