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Dec. 23rd, 2016 08:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckLast night, Scott decided that we were going out for dinner. At first, Cordelia wanted sushi, but as we pulled into the lot there, she announced that she actually wanted pancakes. Fortunately, Saica is on the way to Bob Evans, so we hadn’t gone out of our way.
The service at Bob Evans was pretty bad. Our waitress was slow. The manager ended up coming by and taking our meal orders because he thought she was taking too long to bring our drinks. The delay in bringing our drinks wouldn’t have been a big deal, but she only had three occupied tables. Something she said when she brought our food led me to believe that the kitchen might have been short staffed. I don’t think it’s normal for the waitress to be the one to put chocolate sauce and whipped cream on someone’s pancakes.
I got annoyed, however, when she started up a long conversation with some folks at another table (at that point, she only had two tables, and we had our food). We finished eating and sat there, waiting for her and hearing her entire conversation. She was talking to the ladies at the other table for at least fifteen minutes, probably more. The only reason she ever came by our table again was that some other Bob Evans employee came by and broke up the conversation. The waitress also didn’t think that, if we were asking for boxes for our leftovers, we probably wanted the bill, too.
We stopped at Plum Market on the way home to get some gluten free pie crusts. We were there at the right time to get half price baked goods, so we got two loaves of bread, some muffins, some bagels, and a couple other things that I can’t remember off the top of my head.
I have washed my dress. It’s hanging in the bathroom to dry. I want to do one more load of laundry, and I must, must, must wrap Scott’s presents today. I’ve also got phone calls and emails to deal with. I think I’ll start out with the (turkey) bacon wrapped dates, though. Those are easy enough, just time consuming. I’m debating, though, whether or not I should add butter or something to the pan to make up for the turkey bacon having so much less fat than normal bacon. Maybe I should divide what I make across two pans and add butter to one and not the other? The main thing that’s keeping me from working on them is that I want to be in the living room. There’s nowhere to do that sort of work in here, and I’m in the middle of a DVD.
Scott’s employer gave us a spiral cut ham. Scott and Cordelia like ham. I can’t generally eat it (ham lunchmeat is sometimes okay. I think it has less fat or something) without reflux. Scott’s trying to figure out what to do with it now. Taking it to Christmas dinner would be pointless because there’s already going to be a lot of food, and it would be… Cordelia has invited her best friend, who is Muslim, to join us. None of us want to have ham on the table while she’s there. Also, for six people, a ham and a turkey would be overkill. I suggested giving it to my parents when we see them next week.
We have reservations to stay at a hotel in Kalamazoo. We decided that was better than trying to get closer. Paw Paw is across 94 from Lawton and has three hotels, but they all had issues we couldn’t or didn’t want to deal with. My parents have said they’ll pay for the hotel; otherwise, we probably would have just done a day trip, given everything else. Being in Kalamazoo will actually give us more options for things to do. It’s only twenty minutes from Lawton, so it’s really not that far, and my brother lives in Kalamazoo.
The service at Bob Evans was pretty bad. Our waitress was slow. The manager ended up coming by and taking our meal orders because he thought she was taking too long to bring our drinks. The delay in bringing our drinks wouldn’t have been a big deal, but she only had three occupied tables. Something she said when she brought our food led me to believe that the kitchen might have been short staffed. I don’t think it’s normal for the waitress to be the one to put chocolate sauce and whipped cream on someone’s pancakes.
I got annoyed, however, when she started up a long conversation with some folks at another table (at that point, she only had two tables, and we had our food). We finished eating and sat there, waiting for her and hearing her entire conversation. She was talking to the ladies at the other table for at least fifteen minutes, probably more. The only reason she ever came by our table again was that some other Bob Evans employee came by and broke up the conversation. The waitress also didn’t think that, if we were asking for boxes for our leftovers, we probably wanted the bill, too.
We stopped at Plum Market on the way home to get some gluten free pie crusts. We were there at the right time to get half price baked goods, so we got two loaves of bread, some muffins, some bagels, and a couple other things that I can’t remember off the top of my head.
I have washed my dress. It’s hanging in the bathroom to dry. I want to do one more load of laundry, and I must, must, must wrap Scott’s presents today. I’ve also got phone calls and emails to deal with. I think I’ll start out with the (turkey) bacon wrapped dates, though. Those are easy enough, just time consuming. I’m debating, though, whether or not I should add butter or something to the pan to make up for the turkey bacon having so much less fat than normal bacon. Maybe I should divide what I make across two pans and add butter to one and not the other? The main thing that’s keeping me from working on them is that I want to be in the living room. There’s nowhere to do that sort of work in here, and I’m in the middle of a DVD.
Scott’s employer gave us a spiral cut ham. Scott and Cordelia like ham. I can’t generally eat it (ham lunchmeat is sometimes okay. I think it has less fat or something) without reflux. Scott’s trying to figure out what to do with it now. Taking it to Christmas dinner would be pointless because there’s already going to be a lot of food, and it would be… Cordelia has invited her best friend, who is Muslim, to join us. None of us want to have ham on the table while she’s there. Also, for six people, a ham and a turkey would be overkill. I suggested giving it to my parents when we see them next week.
We have reservations to stay at a hotel in Kalamazoo. We decided that was better than trying to get closer. Paw Paw is across 94 from Lawton and has three hotels, but they all had issues we couldn’t or didn’t want to deal with. My parents have said they’ll pay for the hotel; otherwise, we probably would have just done a day trip, given everything else. Being in Kalamazoo will actually give us more options for things to do. It’s only twenty minutes from Lawton, so it’s really not that far, and my brother lives in Kalamazoo.
