2014.11.11 – All Around the Town

Today I was going to breakfast with my friend Shanna. We decided on one of my favorite breakfast places, Junior’s Cafe. They have a ton of vegan options and pretty decent vegan French Toast. We drove over and it wasn’t busy at all which is pretty rare. I got tea and she had coffee. We both ordered the French Toast, mine with a side of potatoes and her’s with vegan sausage and braised greens. The French Toast was extra good this time. Really better than ever.

We sat and talked about all kinds of stuff for a really long time and I had just started to tell her my crazy fake friend story but people had come in and were waiting for a table. We both knew this story would take a while so we went out to the car. We sat there while I told her the short, but still really long, version and then she told me the story of her sociopathic friend while I drove over to Food Fight and Sweet Pea Baking. Wow we do have some stories. We sat in the parking lot for quite some time talking and then went to the bakery so I could get John a cake for his birthday. It was dinner night so they would be over and we could celebrate! We wandered over to Food Fight and both got some things. They carry these vegan Snicker-ish bars that are really good so I got some of those. One for Lauren since she is having a stressful time lately.

I needed to stop by Homegrown Smoker and prepay for a Thanksgiving Hyam, a yam infused smoked seitan roast. We sat in the car talking some more. It was great! After the hyam was ordered we headed home. I dropped her off and wanted to stay and talk more but I had the cake in the trunk. It was probably cold enough though. Brrr! That winter storm was even more intense. The wind was blowing like mad, trees were falling all over the place, power was out in various areas. I got home and all was well at our house.

I kissed my guys hello and then started to declutter the entry table. I am horrible about filling up flat surfaces. So many papers. Wayne got a fire going so I made sure to stop and stand in front of it whenever I had the chance. I got some feedback from Peter about the PR I submitted the day before. It seems I used some extra parenthesis but other than that he was happy with it so it got merged in. I forgot to ask if he wanted me to fix the parenthesis issue though. Hmmm. I thanked him for the merge though and he sent another bug my way.

People would be showing up soon for dinner night so I started making the hoisin sauce for the spicy noodles we were having. Wayne did all of the chopping of the vegetables thank goodness. This is one of my favorite meals. It’s an improved version of a dish served at PF Changs. Everyone loves it when we make it and John requested it for his birthday dinner. Jason and Alice were both sick so they wouldn’t be joining us but I told them I would pack up and bring over noodles and cake.  Tonight we had the five of us, John, Spencer, Glenn and Roger.

Once we were sufficiently stuffed it was of course time for cake and ice cream. Natale and Andrew handled the candle lighting and we all sang happy birthday. Cake was cut and served all around. I could barely eat mine but it was very tasty.

Today I learned that Tesla is offering a self driving car. Sort of.