Yesterday was my 20th anniversary of moving to this country: 20 years of living every day under the same roof as Kelley.
We spent the entire day eating more than was strictly necessary: a fabulous 3-hour lunch (leek and potato soup with creme fraiche and huckleberry coulis; duck breast with dollops of pureed pickled carrot, faro and other delicious things, some kind of chocolate and tangerine cakeness with a sorbet, and pear and, again, other yumminess), with, naturally, cocktails and a great wine (a 1998 Saint-Estèphe; don't remember the label--but it was a tarry, wild, autumnal kind of wine, very different to the structured hauteur of the Pauillacs we like that are grown a few miles away). Espresso, of course. And hours of conversation.
Yesterday also marked (eh, more or less) the 3-month anniversary of the launch of Sterling Editing. Sterling is doing well, we're helping a lot of people, so we drank a toast, and marvelled at how fast we've established our business routines, how strange--yet how familiar--it is to work with one another this way, how we're getting to use our very different strengths to the fullest in service of a mutual goal.
Basically, we spent the whole day feeling very pleased with ourselves. Life is good.
This morning at breakfast I ate my luxury version of porridge: steelcut oats cooked slowly, oh so slowly, in water, with a smidge of salt added in the bowl, chopped walnuts, and a handful of dried fruit (today all we had were raisins, but anything--apricots, prunes, apples--will work), finished with a big dollop of very fresh, very high-fat cream. Yum.
Now I have to make notes for a board meeting (oh, things are getting exciting at LLF; more on that another time) and then, with luck, I'll get some time to play with Hild this afternoon. Or maybe I'll, y'know, take a nap...
May your Saturday be a fine day.
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Sounds wonderful. Congrats on 20 years and a good first 3 months!
ReplyDeleteYes, congrats on 20 years, and being able to look back and feel quite, quite pleased with yourself. I'm looking forward to that milestone, though I might have a few more years to go.
ReplyDeleteAlso, being a resident of Houston, I didn't even know Annise Parker was a right ol' dyke until I read about it in a local university paper! I mean, I live out in the suburbs so this wasn't an election I had any say/vote in, but her campaign did an amazing job keeping her personal life out of her political life. Amazing!
Cheers to Parker doing a good job so the people of American--and my stepfather--can cease being so leery of "teh gays".
Dianne, thank you.
ReplyDeletevickster, it turns out it did become an issue late in the campaign with a bunch o' preacher wingnuts taking off after her 'sexual behaviour' (by which they always mean 'misbehaviour', tuh). But she won anyway. Yay gay!