Wow, I had quite a streak of 3-day weekends lately.  Now they are over though…  Back to the real schedule for a while.  In retrospect I should have moved my day off from last Friday to today so at least I’d have a short week to buffer things.  Oh well, hind sight.

We actually didn’t do much over the weekend so the best I can come up with is an exhaustive list of what I had for dinner last week.  Exhaustive and boring, all right here in one posting.  We went out every single night though;  Maybe that’s why I sort of shut down Saturday & Sunday.  Monday night we went over to our neighbor Brooke’s house.  She cooked up some homemade chorizo sausage for tacos.  We were quite excited about this.  Not only did I not know you could make your own chorizo, it’s not even that hard.  We buy it quite a bit at the store, but have always found the ingredient list a bit “unsettling,” shall we say.  So, just mix it up yourself at home and you’re a little clearer about what’s going in your gullet.  So tasty was it, as a matter of fact, we had her over for dinner the next night.  We made some stuffed peppers with the left-over chorizo, which came out well.

Wednesday we went across the street to Bill & Trish’s house for corned beef & cabbage.  Little early in the season perhaps, but I like that meal a lot so the “standard date” isn’t too important.  Thursday we actually took things out of the neighborhood, and met some friends down at the Flying Saucer for happy hour.  We hung out there for a few hours, but when they went to the UMKC game we scurried back to our circle of safety.  Our plan was to have dinner at 75th Street, but that got derailed when we showed up and they had no water.  They were unphased by my perfectly logical train of thought that I didn’t want water, I wanted dinner.  We ended up just crossing the street to Chipotle and going home.

Friday night we went to an auction event at Donette’s school.  It was catered by B.B.’s Lawnside, so we totally gorged ourselves on ‘que.  I really just went for dinner, but we were having a good time so we ended up staying until the very end, which was sometime around way-too-late.  What can I say, I sort of like auctions.  What I found interesting is that every now and then they would break into rounds of auctioning off just donations.  Nothing in your hand, just a “donation.”  I saw several people put out rather large sums of money on the donations parts and never bid on a single item.  What’s the fun in that??!!  To each their own I suppose.  Crazy do-gooders, I say.  We didn’t go in for the live auction, but did score a backpack and a SWEET disco light out of the silent auction.  We absolutely stole the light for a mere $7.50;  A bargain at three times the price.  While her co-workers may have questioned her judgement, they obviously know nothing of interior decorating.  The Rock Band game room has just received a key upgrade.  For our part, we donated a BBQ brisket dinner, and I was pleased when it brought in $250.  Didn’t hold a candle to the $400 fried chicken dinner though;  Dang, that must be some good fried chicken.

Saturday and Sunday, well, not much to tell.  We had a nice little Rock Band session Saturday night, and Donette made some awesome mac ‘n cheese for lunch…  That about covers Saturday.  We did go on a city-wide search for a cast iron griddle, but couldn’t find exactly what I was looking for.  Sunday brought even less activity.  Poor Gabe was so bored he was about 1/2 crazy all day, but aside from a few games of “tug of war” he didn’t get much entertainment.  Donette went to an Oscars party last night over at her friend Susan’s, but (thankfully) guys weren’t invited.  So, for my part I stayed home and worked on my solo career in Rock Band.  I feel the new disco light adds mightily to my already prodigious skills.