We are back from San Francisco. I've never taken a "red eye" flight - sure, it saves on another hotel night, but at what price? I slept fitfully for the 3.5 hours of the trip, came home, and slept another 4 or so hours. After being up for 3 or 4 hours, I started to fade again - the burning eyes, the klutzy body (yes, even more so than usual, folks), the spaciness. We are trying to tough it out until about 8 or 9 pm, and then we will try to switch to a slacker version of Euro time, in which we get up around 4 or 5 CDT, which is like noonish for Europe. If we can sleep on the flight (I am seriously pushing OTC remedies for this) we should be more acclimated to Europe when we get there on Wednesday morning.
Other casualties: apparently I neatly folded my beautiful French cashmere scarf and set it down somewhere in the Hilton Hotel, SF. I don't have it anymore, which is really a bummer.
One of our shampoos or lotions or whatever ooked out of its ziploc bag onto the antique linen tablecloth and antique dining room table, leaving a stain on the tablecloth and a new blemish on the table. Really, 20th century chemicals are such clear destroyers of our stuff, it's a wonder why we don't get wise and ban them. I mean, who hasn't spilled nail polish or worse, nail polish remover, on something and ruined it? Or perfume? Or bleach on clothing?
In better news, I think I have finally tweaked my mom's recipe for "Beef and RIce Mandarin" to accommodate non Minute Rice and a non-electric skillet method of cooking. I burned the sucker (gotta get an All Clad Dutch oven one of these days) but the skim from the non-burned part was just right. I'll post the recipe later.
Posted by otto0114 at April 22, 2007 07:33 PM