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Feb. 25th, 2015 09:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckYesterday was Scott's birthday. He and I didn't do much during the day. He went out for a little while to run errands and to give me time to wrap his presents. I didn't do a great job with that. There was one where I cut the paper too small and had to tape on leftover scraps in order to cover everything. I think a little bit still showed, but it wasn't too bad.
Scott picked up soup at Zoup. He got the chicken pot pie soup for both of us. That's our fallback option when nothing else sounds safe or interesting. I told him that, if they had a squash soup, I was interested in that, but they didn't. They seldom do.
Cordelia had no homework which was lucky because Scott had picked up Big Hero 6, and we all wanted to see it right away. We enjoyed it. Then Cordelia watched part of The Voice episode she recorded on Monday.
I baked Scott's cake after Cordelia got home from school. That was later than I wanted to do it, but, when I pulled out the mix around 11:00, I discovered that it called for softened butter rather than oil. I put the butter on the counter, but it didn't really soften. I ended up having to microwave it which is always chancy. I wasn't able to frost the dratted thing until after we got back from dinner, right before I served it up. It's a yellow cake with chocolate frosting, exactly what Scott likes.
Scott opened his presents before dinner. Cordelia got him Randal Munroe's book, What If? (She says she wants to read it, too.) I got him four Phineas and Ferb DVDs and a game book based on Stross's Laundry Files. I had ordered a second game book, but Amazon no longer has copies and doesn't know when they will have copies again. I'm considering canceling that order and seeing if I can find a used copy.
Scott chose to go to Blue Nile for dinner. I don't think any of us ate quite as much as we usually do when we go there, but we were all satisfied. We had the vegetarian meal because most of the meat options aren't things we would or could eat (there's spicy beef which, given Scott's allergy, we don't dare have on the plate. There's spicy chicken which none of us like. There's a mild chicken that we all enjoy, but it's not worth the extra money).
Scott picked up soup at Zoup. He got the chicken pot pie soup for both of us. That's our fallback option when nothing else sounds safe or interesting. I told him that, if they had a squash soup, I was interested in that, but they didn't. They seldom do.
Cordelia had no homework which was lucky because Scott had picked up Big Hero 6, and we all wanted to see it right away. We enjoyed it. Then Cordelia watched part of The Voice episode she recorded on Monday.
I baked Scott's cake after Cordelia got home from school. That was later than I wanted to do it, but, when I pulled out the mix around 11:00, I discovered that it called for softened butter rather than oil. I put the butter on the counter, but it didn't really soften. I ended up having to microwave it which is always chancy. I wasn't able to frost the dratted thing until after we got back from dinner, right before I served it up. It's a yellow cake with chocolate frosting, exactly what Scott likes.
Scott opened his presents before dinner. Cordelia got him Randal Munroe's book, What If? (She says she wants to read it, too.) I got him four Phineas and Ferb DVDs and a game book based on Stross's Laundry Files. I had ordered a second game book, but Amazon no longer has copies and doesn't know when they will have copies again. I'm considering canceling that order and seeing if I can find a used copy.
Scott chose to go to Blue Nile for dinner. I don't think any of us ate quite as much as we usually do when we go there, but we were all satisfied. We had the vegetarian meal because most of the meat options aren't things we would or could eat (there's spicy beef which, given Scott's allergy, we don't dare have on the plate. There's spicy chicken which none of us like. There's a mild chicken that we all enjoy, but it's not worth the extra money).
